THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1960.
WEEK-END
WOMANSENSE
*Page 7
STOP PRESS FROM PARIS LADY LUCK
Dor
Parla, Jan. 8.
brand now and Danielle
with
them to use. She arranged ex-
PARISIENNES
their from dresses
worn by
famous
film stars.
Young
worch
who
approximately
the
measurement
certain
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bad this original idea of putting
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Kumo
By
PEGGY MASSIN
A
champagne tastes and clusive contracts with the stars, American ambagsadress who paychological reaction is that
Are many of whom have become
a large most women refuse to buy a purchinson habitually shoe string budgets
friends, And personal
of wardrobes her
Michelloo Freak's dress which has belonged to an making
wardrobe. Inaugurated the shop to serve Dart
The ambasadresa actresa they dislike, even if the previously
as an outlet for their clothes,
has almeat identically the model is wonderfully becoming boars French
The little shop which
measurements
the end a perfect ft. her name, opened last February
actress, and has subiclent con- have In
Bolle homes in Miss Dor's Hasto tu fashionablo same district of Parts, Miss Dor dots order the dresses to be shipped
business to DET her not pubilciso
without ever having actresses con now purchase, but word has gone round about
ceen them. of expensive cheaply, clothes this new source relatively
Prices are extremely resátn- the which have belonged
clothes to and glamorous
able by Paris standards, with Brigitte Bardot, Martins Carol majority of which were made
top Paris aimple day dresses beginning and other Jending stage and
for the stare by
francs at 25,000 (old)
(abou like Some of couture
Dior, boures
rule average £10), The cinema personalities. the dresses have been worn by Balenciaga, and Balmain,
resold for about 40,000 (old) the stars in privale life, while
rancs (about £34), while Use other ensembles were designed
lavish especially
for appearances in the theatre or films.
Denielle Dor, the young and attractive daughter of a well
Fronch known
doctor great nieco of the writer Jules Verne, has recently founded a to fall mall shop specifically these luxurious and Jille worn clothes.
arxt
in
an en-
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most
229
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Win shopping spree
trequently relations with the stars. choose overal, for themselves, ever she goes to obo Enroots Miss Dor' best
of actrend) home to pick up the supply for neckties is the actor, clothes, for instance, she is re- Jean Marais, who owns about quired to take off her shots nf door and walic in 300 Ues and consently the froos
stockingod feet to avoid solling replenishing his stock
her the mowy white cupois,
Miss Dor, whose friends have pleknamed her "D.D.", tells 1x eming stories about "B.3." (Brigitte Bardot).
Min Dor never pressce customers. "The clothes really sell themselves," the way Micheline Presle, Dora Dell, "Anyone is welcome to come in
every and browse to try on Vernen are the and Anne
loave are thing in the shop, and actresses whowo
average without buying anyung. They most similar to the
come Parisienne's measurements and usually
back though.
A young Parislan working girl and an thesu
else can you stars Where
became engaged consequently clothes have the quickest resale, authentie Christian Dior dress who recently Curiously, although nearly for about 83,000 (old) franes and is one of her fow customer bo "B.B.'s" clothes di, Lain- (less than £80)7"* on Brickto every client tries
founding this re-sale phoned to reserve the wedding Bardot's
Before they are ex- gowns,
Dor was a radia own worn by Brigitte Bardot tremely Lifficult to sell, France's shop, Mias fumour pin-up giri bas a speaker and an interior decora in the film "La Barice Est Trop smaller waistline and a larger for. She was commissioned by Belle" (The bride is too beau bosom than most of her fans. the French Government to del). Unfortunately, when the corate the private apartments of lovely gown created specially by General Norad, present chlet Pierre Balmain arrived, it turned Treaty put to be a sharp and unbocom- of the North Atlante
able for a church wedding. The Organisation forces, when the ina shade of bluo, totally unsUN-` General's
were headquarters
had picture In spite of her close friendship technicolor, and the dress had be situated at Fontainebleau.
bo mlade in blue in order to ap- and personal conine's many of France's top stars, Ma pear really while on the crear
Miss Dor's shop was broken and beautiful Dor, a vivacious blinde, has never had any Into one night early lost sun- ambitions tersall mer, but the only thing taken theatrical
a set of ethereal black The closest I ever came to it was
when I was 10 years old tingerie once worn by Brigitte was chos
portray Bardot Beside the empty car- Jeanne d'Arc in a clty pageant ton was found a note from the at Orleans. I nearly fell off the burglar. It rond: "I am a mar embarrassed to horse and was scared to death," and much too
come in and by this Hingerie in she recalls.
daylight." China
the stars'
**
with
JU
The idea of re-selling haute evening gowns or fur trimmed
(old) 75,000 coate cost about models made for the couture
bi-annual trans (chout £64). Marto Carol's white satin kmil gown mannequins in the collections or ordered and worn
season by wealthy from Pierre Balmain whits she
Miss Doy also has contracts hor pro- wore in London for for one
is not
millinery, clients,
Elizabeth, for private new one in Paria Anna Lowe sentation to Queen
Arms do was recently sold to one of her accessories, lingerie and shoes,
(old) The latter are sold almost fur 70,000 and other reputable
in admirers turnover a large annual
soon as they arrive in the shop. couture clothes franca (nearly £00).
Brigitte the Hore.
Bardot and Miss Dor states that second-hand
of Lancus the label
Michelle Morgan lead the list bearing
fashion of "best sellers". Miss Morgan Paris dresamaking houses, But rajurity of her clients are mere Miss Dor deals excludvely with interested in straight
pairs value than
reflected keeps an average of 50 la the
shoes in her personal actresses, and each garment me
glory of wearing a film star's of sells la accompanied by a cer-
clothes. Husbands, on the other wardrobe, and as fast as she be buys new ones, last season's reported to Ano tillate of authenticity, guor-
to along sent their aniteing that the dress, coat. hand,
wives footwear is pleased to accessory, or fur was worn by
dressed in the identical costume Danielle Dor.
have a Men's neckties niso such and such a star.
which a favourite actress may fth-
Miss Dor has to be extremely broad foot rapid turnover, and husbands before the have worn
tactful and Alplomatic In her Special lights
the
A accompanying their wives on a
It is rare that a well-known star appears in the same outft more than once or twice public. In the films, Remble which may have cast hundreds of thousands
for a short worn franca is
cameras before the Bequenco
formerly 109
the studio relegated wardrobe department, probably
and then
to
Mins Dor also has an never to be used again. Thus, portant roster of foreign ellents, well-known South il the clothes are practically including a
AND BY WAY OF
SEEING CHRISTMAS OUT
HER P.S. TO FRUIT-JUICE DRINKERS
By ANTHONY LEJEUNE DBARBARA MOORE Ard that's why you di
the pillows in her cubicle
"And that's why you did this "TO prove your dietetic theories?"
"Look, I tell you," she said.
st Paddington General "I was born 56 years ago near
Hospital. She wore a scar- Jet bed-jacket and lip- stick to match; and a small metal brooch bearing the figure 18.
Creat
mound of
вер
camera.
Dx, BARBARA MOORE
was a good friend of mine. Churchill, Or Khrushchev, Nehru for the Indians.
Was anch
been
Bloed i
Saturday night at the Palais
London. TEENAGERS have never
Tad such a good time. They have plenty of money to spend and they spend it on themselves. No wonder the top twenty records in the hit parade are all about or teenage love. No wonder crammed or the shops aro
will help me.
Perhaps the Soviet Union will
In my invite me
Stalingrad, I become a doctor, an engineer, a lawyer. geantry you can have 15 profes glons. But none of them quite what I wanted,
back. Give Inc д
| with clothes for the under-
"I could give them another twentles. And no wonder 50, 60 years of useful life."
that fashion changes at She looked sad.
such A dizzy speed-the "But no ong
teenagers want something new all the time, and they can afford to pay for it.
Yet what does a London giri wear when ohe Even dancing
A silver- spaltfled cocktail dress? Full-
I
laboratory in the Caucasus. Was
I would would come running. make them a race of giants.
"But I would rather stay in England.”
"I was o Soviet sportswoman, Then all-round sportswoman, There waswell, trouble in the sporting world. In 1934 I came to Eriand
-For the past 20 years 1 have studied and experimented on myself, like a guinea-pig, to find
A
bed. clothes showed where her feel were protected by a cuge.
While the rest of us were writing Christmas cards or going ot parties, she was marching, marching, marching down the long road from Edinburgh to out what causes old age, how to arrest the process, and therefore how to rejuvenate. While the rest of
and swigging "I have found out but it Bcoding turkey drinks on Christmas Day, she requires great mental discipline, sternly refused anything more It is not just dict--but we are is obvious, substantial than frät-juice.
London.
wero
THE TEST
for post- WHAT better cure
Christmas calle, I thought, than to visit this remarkable woman?
We shook hands and her grip was like a vice.
And what a woman she is! No ordinary fruit-juice drinker, .this.
bo vegetarian, nothing," sho said scornfully
To
It is
accent.
what we eat; that surely,
"Not to eat meat is good, man be, but not enough. One must cat nothing made from animals. "Christmas puddings, for in- stance. There is fruit in them, yes, but it too.
"Every year I go to Switzer land, to the mountains, and I cat nothing at all. First for two weeks, then for four weeks, now I can do it for alɔu"
EXTRA LIFE
waste. Ant Bernard Shaw--he
I asked if people were kind to with her boyfriend? her on the march.
"Very kind. They gave meskled separates? One of those
Itile jars of houry. Everyone pretty party gowns designed is interested, perhaps because specially for her? Not a bit ok. 正 To standard uniforto at everyone walks.
"had troubles, mind you the Palais Danse, whether for an ordinary nightly hop or
Until I got near London, there was no car with me and I had to carry my bags.
WHY 137
a New Years Eve ball, is the same-a dull grey suit,
THEN there ጌሇን። Bom.cone
talloned They wear syvegały who tried to sy I had been given a lift, It was another fackola, short tight skirts. And
stark white Laces to be woman pretending
me, with
heavily underlined eyes shey dressed the same
Look just ko zombies.
and
"The Edgware Road," she said
Their hair is dressed in giant meditatively, "I think it is the most unpleasant road in the puffed-up coiffures that threaten beads any whole world. But perhaps that to fly off their 13 just because it came at the minute
end."
The bays wear the
finest
By HAZEL MEYRICK
gang hipp
They'll be wearing gingham this year:
A checked gingham shirt is partnered by con- tinental style shorts in drip-dry cotton. By Loodonne.
sa the shoes themselves. The Car Cha “It tells me to keep on going." | wearers look as though they are
-London Exorem Bervice),
sporting false fest.
CUT THOSE
THOSE KITCHEN COSTS
the
old-
and baseball
up
1 asked her, as I got up to 20, | fenthers -- expensive Italian
Things have changed since 1 with the separates look. A store why she wore a bisige marked cut milta in pastels with short,
The buyer bac from the Slates last glided at the Palais. 13, and if she thought it was a wide-shouldered Jackets and quickstep, the foxtrot and the showed me a cotton dress with lucky number."
marrow troŁASKET. Tueir shoes waltz beva faded away, It's a vale lavender top, a lavender She looked at it and smiled are straight out of Grimm's rock all the time. They rock to and white striped idri ASKED her what she wanted
fairy tales fantastic cobblers anything even
At Abdiball with a stro Rusands of them I to do next. "It is my dreams "No, no. It is a difficult num-nightmares which button at the tone . Now, docere guties theyre anen around in It reminds side, and have toe-caps a long, has invented the rock Toll Little Red Riding Hood capes of all over the world. They grow to help the world's great men ber, I know that.
brianha crlandon cotton. Fiared, old, they die like anyone else. prolong their lives. Look at De not to do bad. My regimen is much more. It is Enstein, for instance. Such a
They do it in pairs, they do thigh-length and ripped up the special.”
strange solemn faced front, they are work over black quartets, or in long lines, cat-uits or tighia. facing one another. The boya In staly - they're buying hop around in strange bird- plein linen dresɛsON and paint- katifuudes while the girls ing surrealist figures on them epin first one way than the with a special dye. A typical other. Dancina is conducted dres micht bare a man eland- with funered polamonády, Faces log the right way up on the remain strictly deed-gila
front, upside down on the back, Who go to the Palais those with the aring forming the belt. tablespoonsful milk, 6-0 rashers bacon finely dr Shop gels and shorthand mainly, and factory chopped, 114 teaspoonitul chop. pod mixed berta, four, -1 egg, hunda What other fashione do
In Austria where the teenage Krown 'bawadersarta,
they gicht
In Laution they're begging fashion industry is just getting a most inexpensive ingre- you can go all Italian and tomato soup.. 1 teaspoonful
zoon's fannel ibirte, and wear under ·way, they've CODING AD dient and turned out some if not, settle for
perve Sea-Tang Lumachini: salt.
Drop the ditalind or macaroni jg them with the fate berging with na foon that is bound to our old Drop the hamnactilal, or macn
and maide their
They set-the window skirt. Dach wonderful dishes.
Either ron sto bolling salted water, kuko balźlung waliod, water
Just', tender. Dona Cut the a made the aldo wie higher at han terma E MALA So over to you with the way your grocer's bills will Ball for B-se until Sure all for out to thought the Chinese chocogeer, skirt, made from barked colous
render. Douin, avium to par choses zalo smell glom and whees mum wastet koolding. Now, troldery,
apophet of It's spaghettil Did go down with a bang, and and one side bet man smell vory ay in the mill they are buying checked and transparent plastic into this you know that in the your family will sit down to in the qugge of buoy Be at once into the macaron hand-eyard of the cotton your legs patronpa of your spaghetti family there a tasty meal.
Add the dress with the old-fashioned fro
often! But I'm pleased
to say that I've been experi-
menting in my kitchen with
news.
were members called maca-
humachini, twistetti, dita-
ron), noodles, vermicelli,
Hind?
Whether you did or not, It
By GLORIA GORDON
friend macaroni.
SEA-TANG LUMACHINI
one jacks oksad pisons, My the ordon in the shortening until goldenbroen. Blend in the
Camargo pa
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Timp on to hot dies has and mix thoroughly skin the filets and cut dots into bacon and berba and iceme until, jooks. They a mom mixing a friend for all the world to see. Aim star pe boy-
ogld.
and large chacks together, varied premor the Younger of all (for 4 people)
Torm into goings spherem skirta. Ingredients: 8 oz. lume. fb cover the sodbout the sap of a gali bail,
@nokly › for 7-8 godzsaber Pour roll in jenenud dog doesn't really matter, for chini or elbow macaroni, 1 lb. over the uncarock and serve at beaten cm; and fasily in bread.
crumbs. Drop kata hot dirup It's all in the family, and cod filista, 1 oz. butter, 4 oz. once. they all taste' similar, which pooled and sileed onions,
is grand, provided they're KALOK
MAC ONE PYRAMID:
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CHINA MAIL
horoscope
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1950
AQUARIUS (January 21- February 19): Called upon
·to support a good cause, you should make an contribute towards it, no matter how modestly.
discussion. Tact you farther.
VIRGO effort to
PISCES (February 20-March 20): After all the spending you must now retrench and remember that something should be held ready for a rainy day.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Having found a full and happy life, don't neglect to sive A thought to those who live by the generosity of others. TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Increased
social activity may tax your energy but the stimulus provided will be ample compensation. GEMINI · (May 21-June 21): You ought to resume your musical studies If you have Istely neglected them. Much plessure will come of it. CANCER (June 22-July 21); Owing to the appearance of an unexpected guest you may have to
postpone a previous engagement,
LEO
(July 22-August 21): Curb your impulse to be too outapokon la
2 business
will get
(August 22-Septem- ber 22): Don't succumb to a sudden impulse to do something completely out of your sphere. Better stick to your, usual routine.
LIBBA (September 22-Octo- ber 22): Some money which you had counted on may be delayed in coming, but it will turn up when you most need it,
SCORPIO (October 23-Nov-
ember 21); At your social evening try and bring people of similar interests -together; otherwise a clash
is inevitable. SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21): of two equally attractive invita tions you should choose the one which
promises to be more stimulating. CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): A letter from abroad will bring you wel- como nowB of the visit of some dear friends in the Kummer. LUCKY ENCOUNTER:
this is your birthday, meeting with a man named ADRIAN may have Both special significance.
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