THE CHINA MAIL, 'FRIDAY, JANUARY 22,* 1960.
WOMANSENSE
FASHION NEWS-FOCUS by BARBARA GRIGGS
Stop being snobbish
ANY woman's ap-
proach to fashion is - riddfed with prejudice: ranging from the idio- syncratic ("I always wear plain fabrics there is something so vulgar about prints") to those with
faint
a
basis of reasoning ("I never wear white shoes
in town").
pra-
But there is one more Judice that is still more deeply
Ingrained than most.
about synthetics
a
MAN-MADE BONUS FOR A YOUNG GIRL: Nylon organza shaped into 'mid-winter dream of a dress that will dance till dawn without crushing and Tackled with care, it will be literally as new then go into the tub for a wash. for the next dance. The shape: defiant simplicity. A low square neckline, filmy above-elbow sleeves, a skirt buoyed out from a tiny waist by yards of built-in petticoats. Made by Victor Jesselyn.
Dead look
on
11d. a yard.
In America they're getting all worked up about Orton Contrace
fabrics was used by a couture Nylon and silk between them to the shops next month at 12s.
Now nylon and wool pulled that one off. house. against mixtures, It is the prejudica
nylon and mohair, Acetale man-made fibres, coupled Terylene brocades, and
conviction with the
that slik rayons are commonplace. and cotton
and and wool
Lubrica that London couturier Charles 1. are
synthetics FINALLY, instance will Creed
their own aro getting Three-quarters of enthusiast.
farther und farther away all the collection will his coming nade either in synthetic fabrics time from the hard, dead look and the unsympathetic airless natural or In mixed.
any woman
the
of 1ste
planp for Toaving synthetics
to the common herd.
More
kudos
--
prejudice hos
for
ди
be
and synthetic feel.
New in London is Courtelle's And at the ready to wear level latest: called Mousseline, It feels the Jaeger, once a ward practically te a soft featherweight wool- weight of a delicate BOG- synonymous with wool, will be but bery on its side; the mere fact using synthetic tabrics Hike stretch or shrink.
dress collection,
washes and won't crease,
that silk, velvet and chilton and Terylene, nylon and Courtelle This is being nude up in 12 wool aren't washable at all, and for third of Its summer different designs and lots of
colours.
been used by lende them
It ha That Buen creases,
arverul Added kudos even in the eyes of
wholesale houses for who can't afford
their spring collections. For women ladies' mald.
homo dressmakers it is going in-
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Second, the sheer nastiness of Put some the earlier synthetics women off for life those first instance, dresses, for nylon which were clammily uncom fortable, hung badly and had a cold, feless look to them.
Mixtures
MIXTURES of fabrics are per- haps the most successful way of using synthetics--and these are improving oil the time. Biggest will be the story this summer new Terylene and cotton fabrics with all the coolness and bright- But, given that natural fabrics ness of cotton-and tho have qualifies which the best credible synthetics in the world cannot Terylene. initate, I believe that even the most prejudiced woman is going to have to think again in 1966. I am convinced of it for all the following reasons:
crease-resistance
-
of
All
Ascher has one version with a thick woven flower-printed look, 80 per cent Terylene and 20 per cent cotton, which is being used by several wholesale houses for The fashion establishment, their summer collections. in the form of ecuture houses travelling women will be raving and the grandest. mast about them. Later on It will be established shops and dress on sale by the yard. houses. who held aloof for a long time, are now coming round to them strongly.
And Miki
Seckers hag one sure sueces up his sleeve for the
couture cultection
chiffon
the look
and the
Even two years ago it was a matelasse, which has seven days' wonder for the man- of a heavy brocade mude bre- boys if one or their weight of a handful of feathers.
due in England by the year's end. It looks 50 much like knitted silk that it's made fools of several grade A experis; but It's washable,
Ali thugs considered, there- fore, any woman bent on hang- ing on to her prejudices in 1960 is going to have to pay for them.
Picture by JOHN GOLE
LADY ✪
your
AQUARIUS
LUCK-
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
FRIDAY, JANUARY 22
21- (January February 19) Plan a little vating off the beaten track over the weekend, and you the will find it will blow cobwebs away.
PISCES (February 20-March 20): As you are so quick in the uptake, you will have little difficulty in handling your assignment.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
You will have to suppress your jealousy when your opposite number easionally praiseń body
Home
elae. It doesn't do to be too posscasive.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Since you want to achieve a personal success, it would bo wrong of you to delegate too much of your work to others.
NOW THEY ALL WANT THESE OLD Although you do not feel
THE other week I reported my the fabric conviction that
Back people would be delving
to the late 19th century for their inspiration.
HOUSEHOLD
HINTS
Jiffy cheese cake is made by stirring drained crushed pine- apple and chopped walnuts to taste luto softened cream cheese. Spread on graham crackers, stack them three deep and chill until serving time.
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Frozen concentrated fruit juice, defrosted to the mushy stage, makes a tarl, 'lasty topping for lee cream.
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Vary omelettes by substituting whipped cream for the liquid -about one pint for every tix eggs. Prepare as for Buffy omelettes and serve with Parmesan cheese topping as an entree or with
rich fruit aance for dessert.
Sausage which is high in fat generally costs less but will shrink in cooking. Lean sausage costs more per pound but is a better buy.
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Visit. With King Nep
--Kuarf And Hanid See His Winter Garden-
By MAX TRELL
THE LITTLE
THE
magic tele- phone started ringing.
tune, Ruler of the Seven Seas, He was big and strong then.
But hardly anyone remem¬ bered him these days, So he Knarf and Hanid. the Shadow had become smaller and smaller Children with the Turned-About unlli now he was no their than a roasted peanut,
Names, both jumped to
feet and ran behind the book-
case to answer it.
They both could answer it at the same time. That's what was
shid
so magic about it.
"Hello!" Hanid together,
Knari
An Old Friend
bigger
tele-
willow tree on the far side of
the pond.
saw no den of
At first they Ulle King Nep. Then suddenly they heard him chuckling and there he was, standing by a tiny open door is the trunk of the willow.
"Come in, my dear friends, come right in."
Knart and Hand had to do quite a bit of squeezing to get inside the door. Fortunately, Shadows, unlike Children, can make
any themselves almost Come And Soo "What pond am I in?" King size they please.
"Now," said King Nep, when inside Knorf and Hanid were Nep was saying over the phone. "Do you know that pond the trunk of the willow, tree
middle of the park? and in the
the tiny door was shul Little King Nep stood by a That's the one I'm in. It's all and
door in the willow tree. again. "just follow me, I'm go frozen over. It's beautiful. want you to see it, 141 be waiting to take you to the bottom ing for you ander the willow of the middle of the pond" tree. Don't be too long."
"Hello, Knarf, Hello, Hanid!" Bald the voice at the other end. "This is an old friend of yours. I'm calling from the bottom of the pond."
Krapf and Hanid both recogn= Ised the voice,
"King Nep! It's you!" they shouted. "What pond are you in?"
Long, long ago--years
Five minutes later, Knart and
Underground Passageway
In the pond, and that what they had taken for the glass roof was the sheet of ice that covered the top of the pendi
Glided By Overhoad They saw Children go glid- ng by on their ice skates over- headl
Hanid were walking up to the They followed ittle King Nep edge of the pond. The top was down a long flight of steps into covered with ice. Here and a dark underground passage- there a few People, mostly, Chil. way.
the dren, were skallag over
Then King Nep it a candle and by its flickerig Ught they smooth ice.
marched behind him along the passageway until they reached "Yes," King Nep was saying, another door. This door seemed "this in my winter garden. It's cool and quiet, I don't even to be made of glass,
"Oh no, not glass," King Nep mind those skaters on my root. wald. "It's polld ice. Feel it."
Heard Him Chuckling and Knart and Hanid stood for a years and years King Nep moment or two watching thom. used to be known as King Nep- Then they hurried over to the
Rupert and the Snowball-23
When finds the little bear do baliqve the clever thing WADIS looking at it, the crow makes a me to follow," he thinks, and be "Oh ploda forward. See enough the kadar noise than ever,
bird perches on one of the trees. dear, can't understand that language." Rupert mutters, and Rupert gazes upwarda in grow.
At
that the crow lies away and he
ing excitement. "There is some
watches it but before long it thing hidden high in
The
wheels back to him, and then fiat brattchen i** bu gasps," Whatever back the same direction. ** can it be? *
ALL RIGHTS ROSNAVED
-Khart and Hand felt door.
the
"It's a cold! Br-rald Kaart.
Little King Nep laughed.
Curious Coats
"You'll get used to being a bit cold in the winter tine," he said, "Come along. But put this on first and you won't be cold any more.
Lille King Nep gave Knart and Hand curious kind of thin and coat, They were olivery.
"Just look at how brightly the sun shines through the dec. The wind never blows down here and how can the rain get the pond wet?"
King Nep took Knarf and Hanid to what he called 'his little "winter palace". It was built of green done with a pic- fure window as wide as a wall,
Sat And Drosmed
Hero, in front of the window, King Nep sat in a comfortable chair and dreamed about the old days when he was Klog Neptune and rode through the "Now you look like a couplu oceans on a chariot drawn by of Fish," King Nep laughed, as Bea Horses.~ The opened the door and
walked into an enormous gar-
ther
"One of the daya,"
Kind den or rather, greenhouse. For Nep sak, "I'll take you for a overheat was a bugo glass roof, long walk down the river to the ocean it we'll look at the Andien Knart and Hanid real big patice where I used to suddenly knew that they wero ilve. That'll be a trip!".
DESIGNS
I-didn't know at the time
the that
thought bad zame occurred to Liberty's so much su that it's likely to be one of the great sensations of the inter- national fashion shows.
contemporary!
GEMINI (May 21-June 21):
like being too much in the yout company of children, 'wishwash
are very fond of them and magentas, grcenery-yallery, and
they like you. the suffragette oclours of vivid purple and emerald, as well as
French rough
oranges and beautiful dim browns.
the
Now they have unearthed
and reprinted the old blocks designs in fresh, as well as the original, colour-schemes on lo silk chilton, foulard and silk in 1890 Liberty stiks
were organza, and wool chiffon..
Jan- Art Nouveau; heavily
lily-uke patterns, The results are no beautiful swathes and swirls and curves, that Paris, Rome, London and
guerous
printed in colours which were Florence couturiers have then deliberately
anti-bought.
-(London Express Servica).
JACOBY
on BRIDGE
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TODAY'S QUESTION
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Answer TumoÏTOW
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CANCER (June 22-July 21):
It would be a mistake your part not to grasp an opportunity at once which Reems to have fallen into your hands. Even a slight postponement may spoil your chances.
LEO
(July 22-August 21): The time has come to avoid extravaganco und to con- Bider the advisability of
putting something aside for the future.
to
VIRGO (August 22-Septem- ber 22): Try avold pointing out your friends' mistakes to them too fre- quently, or you will find them avolding you.
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LIBRA (September 23-Octo- ber 22): A certain fact in your past cannot be ecaled, and you are wrong an excuse in trying to find every time it is mentioned. SCORPIO vember
(October 23-No- 21): A friend abrund is very much look- ing forward to a chatty you letter from you, and should make a point of writing it today.
(November SAGITTARIUS
22-December 21); You may be asked for your opinion on ነቲ Important matter and should give it without `mineing' words.
CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): You are very adept at creating a happy atmosphere in your home, and your friends sense the efficiency
which makes everything run so smoothly.
YOUR BIRTHDAY: If this is your birthday you will and in the coming year that matters which have seemed difficult in the past will bo smoothed out, to you,
to your great joy and satie- faction.
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