MEN LOOKING
AT
WOMEN
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1960.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
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But English girls are still
the best
PHILIP TOWNSEND is a young man who
spends a lot of his time gazing at women— through a camera. This gaze is, one the whole, an amiable one-why else would the young debutantes keep flocking to him for more portraits? Though it lacks the engaging, incisive candour of an Armstrong-Jones, the gaze is miles distant from the misty yard-of-tulle-and-string-of-pearls school of portrait photography still dear to a Mum's heart.
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If
it is, in fact, still early to my that he has arrived, Thilo Townsend has certainly paid off the taxi at the door.
This professional success (he has just moved intr new tudios) goes gaily hand-in-hand with a personal one.
Tall, presentable.
Kood - koking in the nervous, loosely slang-together Englis Runner, he is in tremendous demand an scort life and soul and dumeing - partner; his mantel- piece groans beneath its lood of invitations.
Critical eye
UE eye which, on or off duty, I be Inces 4711 1 girl, is, according to himself, a pretty teritical one.
Exacting us only the eye of
a young man can be: prejudiced
is every man's eve fat and, us
any #irl
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PHILIP TOWNSEND
"I like loolding at girls who are tall and lissome and thin. "Mind you, I don't like giris to be TOO thin-not like bean- posts, (What 18 a beanpost, anyway?] Or some of those models you see disting
the streets.
Too much
around
10, I don't #nd models parti- cularly attractive. They
my interviewing of men has so WELT SO much make-up all the often disconcertingly revealed. Time that they have little spots great deal more observa att over their face have you then SUDLOSE.
Thill has sign views, to. besin with, on hair, No tovely muld fall of shining hair {tor_hini.
tely for noticed that?
"Yes, I do like quite a lot of make-up-but not so much you can hardly see a girl at all. And they put it on *Tong, too— particularly round the eyes.
"I've noticed girls with dark eyes wearing so much black around them you could hardly tell where make-up ended and eye began. Mislake.
"I love it all piled up, right off the face. 1 never like seeing it all over the place. A girl can look stunning with her hair properly done-and it doesn't cust I that much, does it?
"I don't like that white mall- polish, and I call those insipid Dinks a really heinous crime-- all those washed-out-glimmery shades. What I like is a good, strong blood-red.
"I love girls to wear LOTS of scent.
"Black? I hate it en a woman.
· Black velvet, finicky black lace any kind of binek, Makes a girl look very boring.
Contrasts
"I LOVE dark red-the colour of port. And that sand- colour as long as she hasn't got light-coloured hair, then it just makes her look woshed-out, the same tone all over.
"There ought to be a lot of contrast In the colours * girl wears. I love blue--all the paler blues. But I don't like navy, Er those tarty bright pinks and yellows,
coats stuff
Barbara Griggs
almost before you've had time to look round the room. They've got something the other girls haven't.
where
are about 500 debs every year-and only about 50 who really hit the farket.
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Jack Whinsett's Impression of the sort of girl who might arrest the aye of young society photographer Philip Townsend... gleaming piled-up hair (and not a wisp out of place)
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LADY
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- the clear-cut of brilliant silk-shirt bolted
into wide dark skirt... make-up applied
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steady, bold hand ...a flash of dark red on her nails....
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LUCK
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
SATURDAY, MAY 7
21-
AQUARIUS (January
February 19); Your In- elination to be too critical may be the means of spoil- ing an otherwise harmonious relationship.
PISCES (February 20-March 201: A friendship which was al frst based on mutual trust and understanding may eventually develop into
a romantic attachment.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your business affairs should show a decided improve- ment, thanks to your strenuous efforts of the past few months.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Avoid too intimato contact with a neighbour who might be enally encouraged to take advantage of your good nature.
GEMINI (May 21-Juno 21): In order to increase your earnings it would be ad visable to enlist the help of a relative living abroad.
CANCER (June 22-July 21):
If the necessity should arise to use blunt language at a meeting, don't hesitate to do so.
"I hate girls with no sense of or if her hair la plied-up and LEO (July 22-August 21): ocension. I asked a dirl to a just one grand has worked Nothing to do with how jazz club and she turned up in loose.
What is it? money they have, I don't know.
a terribly smart evening dress, I just wouldn't take her.
Hat hate
"Girls who
can wear casual clothes well are heaven (and 1 don't mean thick twerda).
"Que Firl I know Wers Jamalean silk shirts in brillant
Avoid being duped by an acquaintance who responds to your moods too rendily. It may be only a prepara- tion for getting something out of you.
"I DON'T like girls who wear
buy themselves contact lenses. glasses and they can ally well
"The girls I run a mile from
suppose one can onlv are the Cheleen Set. That dirty deline
it in terms of likes and look go shudder-making
much black, those dislikes, I like girls, for instance. black leather who are easy to talk to and have they wear, all the black something to say. I like girls 4 DISLIKE terribly girls of 17 colours, tucked into wide plain VIRGO (August 22-Septem- they
round
"I their who amuse me,
got up in lats their grand- skirts. But separates can misfire "I can't stand stupid little mother might have What lures
or terribly on girls who are too crowded room la sheer person- sense of self-importance--or 14
girls with a highly developed unsultable furs those foxes' short or too wide. ality, not necessarily anything to
heads, squashed. (I don't think do with clothes.
girl who keeps breaking into a I like girls wearing hats at all- "Some girls
foreign language all the time to excent perhaps three rores and a project it so show how well she'r been veil.) much that you're aware of them finished.
eyes,
Crim
me JCTOSS
IF YOU WANT A SWIMSUIT
Hand Pieces," they told me, together? Once again, please, stiffened, we walk") plus all kinds
strictly to make play with when girls!" crazy straw hats.
of
on
1
worn
"A girl should have a clean, clear-cut look to her. None of those limp flowery coltons, or 1 bits of lace,
ber 22) You will meet an important person at a social gathering and the encounter ought to be of considerable benefit to you and your family.
I
LIBRA (September 23-Octo- ber 22): You will feel
attracted to person born in the early part of December, and can safely embark on a friend- ship.
"And I HATE those enormous straw hats on girls who've been "And why will girls wear those to Italy. I do like beadscarves, horrible little while gloves with
greatly other hand.but not fiddly bits round the wrist? I those floppy chiffon ones that hate Anicky pastel Impressionist make a girl's head look like a girls, all pink and white and soft IX slick girls remark-
wrapped-up bun.
and frilly. diamante studded Prable mainly for their
"French girls? They all try cross-draped overskirt to "con- "A girl ought to be well to look like Brigitte Bardot and vert" it into full evening dress.groomed. Behind extra long legs stunk
the
Maybe weukn't don't. scents In the Modestly she conceded that dressing-room
it hotlee if her shoes were a bit slowly down the cat-
turbulent was "kinda new." run-through pattern of bare limbs and flash-
down-at-heel-but I notice AT day." walk between the table for the Rose Marie Reid girls ing colours such as Toulouse Rex sald; "We're taking motion
Back outside by the cat-walk | ONCE if her clothes are dirty rehearsal Lautree for the first of a series
loved caught up pictures of the girls in every of with a second American career capitat to show back home. Brussels, Zurich, Geneva, whistle-stop parades, taking In woman (strawberry blonde and
and similarly splendid legs)
Tell me what's typically Paris.
who Englah as a background?" was, I hoped, the designer, Miss Rose Marle Reld, herself. But Miss Reid, t rarely travels.
I was a quick
from Los Angeles
in the smart restaurant. It might have been just a other fashion parade apart from their singularly odd garb.
For every one wore a swim- "Paris is the carrot at the suit suspended by straps in end." said a heavyweight char-
And what acter entled Rex.
Iront of her clothes.
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There were
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Turbulent
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"Give me Engilsh girls any
-fLondon Exorem Jarvica).
CURIOSITY GINGHAM BO
Latest to arrive
OR
on.
"Pubs," said Y. "The Pros- pect of Whitby" or "The Duves,' seems, with the Thames in the distance
or the Tower of London.
"We've done pubs," said Rex, "Before her," said the blonde, aune speaking of a milestone dismissing the river. "My plan scene is the giant gingham in history swimsuits were no Tony Armstrong-Jones at Tus-handbag.
against
take
was to have them up
sauds-but
we can't
x the
new
SCORPIO (October 23- November 21); Don't let the desire to gossip get the better of you. There la not much sutinfaction in it, and it can cause real unhappi- ness to the victim.
SAGITTARIUS (November
22-December 21): You will
first-class
op- to prove your great worth to your partner,
The
han
have portunity
LACK in the ...sun is a the hot-weather idea.
dress little black switched over from even- It's made in ing to day. A straight
linen black and white check, is black
sheath...it silicone proofed against
could be cut shirt-style CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): You have the is the only thing that
rare gift of running a home "What about Chelsea?" said the rain, has a gilt handie. looks really right in hot
efficiently without neglect- someone-"with pensioners?" Now the girl who started city street, is practical too, ing your personal interests.
ENCOUNTER: K today is your birthday, meeting with Wornan named ALICE may have some special significance.
Fascinating
more than an athletic uniform. A typical
"Of course, we still do American woman mutation mink the point of view that somebody timing,"
with roloured hair and greyhound tulit want to go swimming. legs marshalled the models for
"Our suits could go into the were 2ft ostrich yet another run through water-though I guess most of feathers and jewelled kid fans "Shall we pair of and return
customers don't do much more than get their feet wel."
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"Any colour?" said Rex.
the
suits, and I told her, with truth, him, "fascinating oid faces started
"Scarlet coats," they promised it all, Brigitte Bardot, has for it docan't show travel that I had never seen anything medals too and whiskers. fashion off again by order-
gingham smuts. Team it with crisp white accessories or, batter quite like them in particular, With all that who (including
of tortoise- still, masses the diarasate-studded, pleated chiffon jobs complete with a could possibly compete?
waxworks Armstrong-Jones) ing herself checked dun shelt beads. and wrist- melon shaped, permanently..
garees to wear on holiday. length brown gloves.
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