THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, · FEBRUARY 6, 1980.
WEEK-END
WOMANSENSE
VERONICAS PAPWORTH
SNOBS...
Big hats, small
hats
but
no In-botwooris
Fresenting Jamen Wedge-the young man from Wallhamatów "Tech." who, slili in bis Urat year at the Royal College of Design, has made some of the most exciting hate in town for the current Ronald Patterson collection.
On the left wig of black organza poials is topped by a gray Handel bowler
What's IN what's OUT
THE
most
LONDON.
reliable way of categorising
that's why women
viti a
1781
Un the right tal-crowned hat in' sky blue kid.
This 20-year-old lad--who wishes to be known simply a James *—--hua pretty decided views on bats —” 1. Uke them either very big er amail, bolbing in between. Anil I cannot bear bereta. They are unfashionable and unflaiter ing
"Fighting words. James'
only be described as traditional- contemporary themes.
Regency is the most in of alt period styles, especially if it in kilfully mixed with the best of
people is to get into their modern designs, Gay wall- homes. In people live in paper on one wall only is Ous. In homes. Cut people Room divider units are Out, surround themselves. Using one exotic print fabric in a room and picking out all with. Outness: more at his colours to feature every home than anywhere where else is Out. The Oriental loof is still In. Particularly its elsc.
pale colour schemes.
'Here is a guide to In and Out Matching curtain colour to homes, produed, with the pro- walls is In, Floor-length "bur- visu that some In - peoplo, can lains are. In. ¦ Net curtains nee have one or two Out Ulunga in Out Gingham In IA | Fancy: tuele houten and still be M. (pálmota are Out, Pelmet #llunt- The word contemporary · la.... ing. in Chit Sol are lamps - with Out. Bol the uso of what can Negro hoada ant ships.
Photographs.
buy in Paris
SAYS DIGBY, MORTON, WHO IS SO GLAD HÈ LEFT THE TOP TEAM", „TO MAKE DRESSES FOR THE MILLION
E were debating the future of the "Top Eleven" British dress designers — myself and Digby Morton, the only "old boy," the sole "ex-founder-member," the "one who got away" from top-flight dressmaking for the few to mass-production for the many.
The setting was his office the converted hay-loft of a Mayfair coach house, a rose-carpeted, black-upholstered "pied-a-terre," small and snug, but very far removed from the looking-glass-lined luxury of his dressmaking heydays.
Doodbye to
оп
then.
BO
"Ladies-yes ladies-were
"It all began in a night club," terribly exclling to design for he told me."the 'Blue Monkey'
of the Brass Ball," or something
simple boy from And me a Dublin..
"These days everyone seems quite happy to look like every- che clso-and our off-the-peg clothes are so superb one can- nol blime them.
"But Lady Ashley in her youth... Lady Mount Tem- ple. Lady Kemmloy and Lady Casiterosse. Oh, my dear, when I think
of Lady Carlierome... much finish. Litlo crepe de chine shops dyed to match every outfit! "And Given Farrar, Ton
Which does not mean that Digby is laag successful. Or has any regrets. Far from it.
"Let's face it. We have a bunch
of middle-aged gentle men making quiet clothes for, a dwindling collection of dimeult cus.omers," he sighed ps, sitting tound a checked tin tray. In- congruously balanced on Victorian marquetry table, we toasted British," "couture," in tea with digestive biscuits.
'Writing the wall' "Belleve me,
I saw the writing on the wall And oh, the
I Tellef when enfi
the fiters who Gerrard, Adele Antsiro (I made given to tantrums, the her first trousseau) . all of
the them so shatteringly feminine, who throw fils,
embroiderers! temperamentl.
undasped 11 hundred casual, yet indescribably elegant
'throw-away" workers hands from my throat in the
manner. "They and I quit,
never dressed "Faced with the prospect of
impress. fewer and older customom
· A riot becoming increasinely difficult ́ I did not hesitate. Couture "There was no need for that, to on the WAY
being
"They were a sensation: But finished In this
then Englishwomen, the kind of country. Masked production ..., là the Englishwomen I mean, could thing. Somo time soon, the wear anything. boys will find that it is in- finitely
more rewarding to concentrate than combine the two,
wero tallers
זיי
Exciting
"I'm happler now I'm free, and any friends tell me I look ounder and ten years younger," "Yet it was fun when you first started?" I asted.
"Exhilaratii," said he "but don't forge. I can go backc the end of the roaring twenties,
"Those girls were so gay, so
to
"Today they stride into Д room shoulders first.
"Frenchwomen enter bosoms firstItalian women hips first! "If only our women would “undulate.".
Undulating experimentally to wards the tin wastray, I helped myself to a biscuit and asked him, for the bencit of all would
he be dress designers, how started,
"There was an enchanting | woman who had inherited ä fortuno-and gambled most of it away at Le Touquet, But sho kaď enough left for us to set up in a converted garage off Berkeley Square.
'Stimulating'
"Yet even in those days our
customers had this 'snob' thing about Paris,
"More than ones I heard one of my own dresses passed off as a little number from Patou."
"I stayed there until I felt bold enough to branch out on my own. Those were the days" Steering ixick to the 1980% I wondered it, for some ambitious young man, it could happen all over again?
"Never," said Digby. "The big future for a designer is with the wholesale trado
"My designs are now turned
cut of the role of 2.000 a week"
I thought about his descrip- tion of London's Top Eleven- middle-aged men making clothes for elderly women.
Seme will sy it is not kin: ethers that it is not true.
And, anyway, is the whole. male" so very much more stime. lating?
Maybe not but to feel 10 to Shades of the roaring twen- years younger and "rounder is
sury something? they closed around us,
Is this the stuff to make
Britain great?
TN the years that I have taken
And the head is no doubt still arious interest in school wondering what....and why feen have watched them slow-....and who, etc.....but prin- ly epiral-UPWARDS
Which, to the unencumbered, chlid-free observer might well
suggest a rise in the standard of zhool living.
elpally WHAT.
BEST. FOOT
FORWARD
Yet nothing could be further T will be perfectly simple,"
from the truth,
Constant contact with the
one shoc only and I am off. Arriving. I step out of my ent with a four.
It is whisked away; in I go, up the marble staircase.
I Emocih my sidrt, prepare to gnal to my husband (he'll alore tho dress) then... Heaven save mel I am wear- ing one gold pump and one hideous scariot plaited Sun Sebastian monstrosity.
Panic seizos me.
whiskers
"I will be perfectly small and Tan with grey wasions
Should i fatt
riting, generation has acquainted change in the office, or the club, eyes me speculatively. me with all the fearful details. or somewhere-then meet you
"Stodge with gravy," followed at the reception.
by "stodge with custard" la the staple school diet.
Small cook shops throughout the length and breadth of the country thrive on prpplying cupplementery meals to the pupils of our better known schools.
"And I will not be late.
"I promise."
I tear through the day-and everything, but everything, la agafust me.
Comforting
myself with thoughts of my Azzy new dress I progress.
1
rush to the car and ash
A father of my acquaintance around for my driving shoes. recently received a cardboard I always keep on old · pair carton from his eight-year-old under the seat to "save" my
heels.
son
The
or bla
my horrible shoe in a plant pot ... or act as it odd shoes were INI
#
Grey "whiskers draws closer. HAM ht criex my hus- band, appearing round a pillar, *Sa you have professor":
met the
"Not julle," I admit, Intro- ductions" proceed and the pro- foscor is oharming in correct, it very limited, English,
mo
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LADY
your
Pare
LUCK
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if somo of the participants soem irritable and incliped to argue.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6 AQUARIUS (January 21- February 18): If, owing to circumstances beyond your control. you must spend long hours on your own, try to find some hobby or occupation of absorbing interest in order to prevent lonoliness from getting you down.
PISCES (February 20-March 20): A ruah promise you made on the spur of the moment to take part in a doubtful venture should be withdrawn undor the pro- text of having forgotten a previous commitment.
ARIES (March 21-April 10): If you are a witness to a very emotional outburst, don't let sentimentality get the better of you. Keep a cool head and it will help the other person to calm
down.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A matter of personal im- portance should not be ex« plained in writing; it would be better to see the person concerned and have a frank discussion,
GEMINI
(May 21-June 21):
A friend who has boen abroad for a long time has gotten out of touch with present local conditions and will be very grateful if you dovote a little time to bring
SCORPIO (October 23-No- vomber 21): Don't let an impulsive move spoil the auccess of a plan which you have been pursuing for a long time. Be patient just a little while longer. SAGITTARIUS (Novembor
22-December 21):
This scams as good a time as any to catch up an your correspondice and to bring records up to
your dato. CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): A. now LC-. quaintance may prove amus- ing for the evening, but does not promise to be-
come a lasting addition to your circle of friends.
ENCOUNTER: 'It LUCKY
this is your birthday, a meeting with a man pamod NICHOLAS may havá, some special significanco.
Household Hints
"Is it prizible to remove mil- dow spats from a 'white sports- shirt-also to remove tak spots from a white popite shiri havo
tried peroxide In Epih cases without success.” ing him up to date.
Rub some soft map rulyed CANCER (June 22-July 21): with powered chalks over the mildew spots. Then put the Some members of your
thirt
out side on the clothes family who have been reline in the open air and give luctant to act will be very a good airing o pleased it you take
Your ink pois are a bit more initiativo and bring about complicated. First dampen the tho reconciliation everybody dosires.
the
shirt with some cold water and rub some citric acid crystale over the spots. Now spongo LEO (July 22-August 21): quickly, using a wad of cotton-
Due to a sudden inspiration, wool, you will find an easy solu- | ammoniu
with
structions.
ง
solution of and water. (1) part tion to a personal problem | emmonis to S parte witam). which has bothered you ever Rins thoroughly with cold since the new year.
water before washing and press- ing in the NBD) WHY", VIRGO (August 22-Septem-
ber 22): You will be invited If you want to clean and lako to the house of a person of
the shine out of a blue mergo whom you were once very sultry following thesa "In- fond and whose attraction
If you sponge your mult - with the years have dimmed. a mixture of ammonis and water Another guest may turo (1 teaspoonful to 1 plai of out to be a most acceptable water) this should take away a substitute.
good deal of that shine. Usp a cleaning agent, such as carton (Soptember 23-Octo- tetrachloride, on any dirty spots. LIBRA
ber 22): Do your utmost Then hang your alt out in the to finish tonight's meeting | air before presting it with a hot on a harmonious note oven fron over a damp cloth...
Pioneer
the mark of a man
for
your
| favourite
That is my cue. My evening VALENTINE
Enclosed ara Out unless
Thoy: please and last
are scarlet
plaited dinner,"
hideous wrote the leather and utterly they're hidden away in 'drawers, Sunday's
"You were liced bravo to hopeful "are
you bought in a mad moment in come," he tella
WHO Small pictures in groups are Inyoung
www In satisfied Your hard-erned San Sebastian mainly because pitecus glance at my foot. Wall plaques never
of my inability to say. "I Wall plates wero In once but money lo well spent?" they're Out now. Hose primis
father reports that the cannot bear the shape or the is made. wil be Out if they're not enro- contents were "dirty white and colour," in Spanish,
In my clumping red ahqe I Original sketches and cement-like with fuL
The right onto one, that am a heroine. paintings by friends are always green-furred edges
really matters is thero,
I wonder how I'd have made In Flying bird pictures wont
The left one is mising but cut in two gold ones? ever bo In
I must be on timoj 1. change
London Spreke Servlovi.
Woel conl carpets and fux rugs are in.
Little splashes of colour and scoiter cushions arc Out. Thlogs that match аго Out Ottomana, chals-longues, vandt knick-knacks, ate nil ID, Oil lamts are the most In of all Marble 13 antique shop snips.
In.
нацверил,
Ho re-posted it to the head master-aranymously,
by Elizabeth Dickson
Tomorrow's style
NEAK preview of the way smorl girls will wear their ↑ hair this Spring and Summer.
Responsible for the radical change shown on the right, Is Andre Bernard who, this time Tast year, insisted that all mo tiels grow their hair, and was the first to bring iri qútek comb tips for Empresa Josephina styles, e
* Bonus of the new stria la lla cary daro batween agle, and Just two pin curis at the front- zura haided, to bring bacle: Ito
lavour.
today
on
St.
Valentine's
Day
Sunday
February
ABOVE: Model z 14th
falo-Zari - wash with fourjcen inches of red hair · eleganily piled high
LEPTI (Same girl this week with kale ghloried at the back slightly larger at the sides and ath brushed-forward.
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