THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1960,
WOMANSENSE
The "Lost And Found" ➡Willy Shows The Shadows All Of His "Finds”—-
By MAX TRELL
OT in the middle of the
park, between the rowboat pond and an old oak tree, was, a small sign hanging on a daisy. You had to be small and you
had to have sharp eyes to see that sign:
The sign read:
"LOST AND FOUND DEPARTMENT":
Wm. Toad, Manager
Knerf and Hanid, the Shadow Children with the Turned-About Names, were lying on the grass on a very pleasant morning when they happened Arst to see the daisy, and then to see the sign swinging from one of the petals.
Lost and found-Willy Toad. Manager," said Knart, reading the sign. "What's Willy doing. doing that?"
Hand shook her head. "Willy's always doing queer and wonderful things.
"Willy!" she called. "Willy! Where are you?”
Big bundle.
A minute or so later, Willy come hopping over to the daisy carrying a big bundle over his shoulder.
"Howdy, Hanid!, Hi, Knart!"
Willy, grocted
the putting
brings bundle down. "What
you to my territory today?"
"We just happened to see that sign. Willy," explained Knarf.
Willy nodded.
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Willy put the penny back
where it was found.
"Wel," said Willy, "maybe nobody. wants these other things, either. Here's a fine, straight match stick with the end burned off."
"Nobody wants that," said Kharf and Hanid together.
"And here's a brown button with a piece of brown thread,' Willy went on.
"Nobody," said Kart and Hanld together again.
Willy.
"Not even the thread?" asked
"Not even the thread, Willy." said Hanid, shaking her head.
Showed the rest Willy showed the rest of his 'found' things that folks had 'lost.
There was the top of a soda
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LEFT: High-voltage sweetness: a white evening dress that owes more to Balenciaga than Queen Charlotte's Ball; gold-threaded white organza back-dipping over layers of white tulle, and a waist that is highlit with a bow but unstressed. Design by Lindsay Robertson.
CENTRE: Provocation: puffball hat designed in white cotton sprays by the College's blue-eyed boy: first-year student James Wedge.
RIGHT; Sober line: a dress in brilliant blue and green printed linen that falls plumb from shoulder to hemline, with a matching coat in vivid blue linen and a flowering organza hat,
water bottle, there was a cork, To everyone interested
"New business of mine. Just there was the rubber from the
got into it." he said. "Folks end of a pencil. there was the lose things.
there was a
Other folks find tip of a shoelace, things. I get the lost things rubber band.
things don't care if they
get
to the folks who've lost them. "All right," said Willy. "May- I get them from the folks who be the folks who lost all those And them. Il makes everybody, happy. It's a lovely business."
Sat down
Willy sat down shade of his daisy.
"Now i'r instance, here are some of the things that were found today, right here in this park,"
under the
As he spoke, Willy undid the bundle.
"Here's a lost peanut shell." he said, holding it up. "H's emply, of course. But it can be filled up again with another peanut. Somebody must have " lost it."
Honid sald she didn't think the empty peanut shell was good for anything any more. She said once a peanut shell was
empty. It was good for nothing "It can't be filled up gan with another peanut, Willy!" she said.
Other lost things "No?" asked Willy, sounding surprise. "Well, I'll save it anyway. Maybe a Squirrel lost it. And here's a pin. It's almost brand-new. Somebody would
like that pin back. I betcha --- somebody who lost it."
"Nobody would," said Knart. "What!" exclaimed Willy. "Nobody would like that beau- tiful. almost brand-new · pin back! Aw, you're fooling!"
It took Knarf and Hanid quite a while to convince Willy that they weren't fooling about The lost pin,
them back or not. But here's something that I'm sure the one who lost it wants it back!" And Willy reached down' into the middle of the alle of things and held up a bright new penny shouted that whoever lost that penny certainly did want it
Knorf and Hanid at once
back!
"But Willy," said Knart, "how
the one who lost it?" are you going to get it back to
Found by sparrow "I'll show you," said Willy. was found by a Sparrow. was lying in a crack in the pavement right
thero- on the other side of the oak tree,"
Over
Willy put penny back in the crack in the pavement on the other side of
the bright new
the oak tree.
And, sure enough, about a minute later. while Knarf and Hanid and Willy were watching from behind the oak tree, who should come along but a little Boy, locking up and down for something.
Let out shout
And when he spled the penny he let out a shout:
penny.
"I've found it! I've found my
"There?" said Willy,
"That's how it's done. Isn't this a wen- derful business?"
And Knart and Hanid told Willy that it certainly was, and they really meant it.
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in the quality of fashion design in England, the annual dress show put
the School on by Fashion. Design at the Royal College of Art is of absorbing interest.
tomorrow's
or
How rich is this quarry of
designers?
How many budding Michaels Hartnells ere forming their talents here? How many level- headed young technicians are ctting ready to fll tomorrow's shop windows with gay, well- designed clothes?
The importance of this school, run with critical encour agement and enthusiasm by Janey Ironside, grows recognise ably every year,
Fisms like Marks and Spencers offer prizes for out- standing work: wholesale houses
Like the talent for stark drama in Mervyn Crighton's black and white evening dress. This sophisticated young second- year student also showed a long slim evening dress in white
tull- organdie wom under a length black organdie coat with a ruffled collar. His designing has tremendous maturity and
case.
The joyous
impertinence
PICTURE BY JOHN DOLS,
FASHION NEWS FOCUS
by Barbara Griggs
enjoys wearing, "aid "feels instinctively to be right for their time.
And it was a vital lesson to all the designers who are still 'turn-
In London, favourlie couturier tends to be Michael certainly the simplest, and possibly the closest to Balenciaga in feeling. Their designing on the whole,
ing out frilly debutante clothes fact, leans to an uncompro
Left of centre, and for 20-year-old girls; who think mising that pale pinks and blues are pecasionally they have to be more in tune with the charming jerked back just in time from
difficult the line that's so extreme Twenties than chic
Like the joyous impertinence, like Frederick Starke and Rims of James Wedge's flowering sea- are happy to offer the students urchin of a hat, a pillbox gone TOOMS during the three-year
ahead of style; and who feel white cotton-solitary piece of and he can be imaginative when that so long as you're under 25 course.
nonsense among all his severe it's the right moment."
you'll be happiest in full skirts, Requests for special designs, straight bucket hats. for advertising and trade shows, Like the disciplined prettiness bony
And finally, in contrast, the well-marked waists and college
severity of Granville girl outfits. pour in non-stop;
This show proved conclusively sional dazzling coups are pulled of Lindsay Robertson's up-and- Proctor's tailored black suit: evening dress; gold long and double-breasted jacket, off by bright lights like first down year student James Wedge who threaded organiza over layers of and underneath il, a red and that they couldn't be more makes the hats for Ronald uneven while tulle pellicoat, in black lotus print wool blouse.
a shape that brushes the ground Paterson's couture shows.
at the back, lifts to the knees in
a training spell in their work" to seed, made of stift fronds of without being too commercial colours; who put prettiness miles ends up funny,
while occa-
The recent 1980 show proved that the talent is there in abundance. In the handful of
designs shown on this page (an invidiously small choice) there is chle and there is imagination, there is maturity of design and there is dazzling verve
VERONICA
GWYNETH TIGHE Sort of "typical".
WE
front.
it
The colours that figured most strongly in the show are coffee- bean brown by day, brilliant lime green and Oriental oranges by night; an enormous amount of black and white; flashes of pearing Slamese pink and a
khakis and creams. make-weight of muled belges,
are
to
wrong.
The couturier they all admire And the prevailing. style was this is most By any standards,
with as severe as it comes. The waist- is Balenciaga, designing of a high level,
મૈં Givenchy
close second. less chemise is high in favour But the interest of this show, (According to
Janey Ironside hats
uncomprcanisingly He is a second-year student of, whom Janey Ironside comments: to me, goes much further than who coaches and coaxes them hatty; flower-prints, apart from all, this is true to an almost some highly stylised William "I like the fact that he has that.
It was a fascinating revela inhibiting extent: "We don't Morris prints were nowhere plenty of good strong ideas but remains tremendously down-to- tion of the sort of clothes that try to steer them away from him be seen; simplicity and severity
generation earth. He can be straightforward a whole
admires, but we do point out that they were the order of the day.
must achieve something for their
These are the clothes and this own.")
is the style that, more and more, On trips to Paris, students finds favour with the young set. have been known to turn up And the designers who are still their noses at Patou and thinking of them in terms, of Lanvin Castillo, and
even broderie anglaise, flared skirts, with merely include Dior
fussy taffeta party dresses and grudging "Well, maybe," while princess-line coats had better
ay made their reverent bee revise their plans fast. line for Balencaigo.
-(London Express Service),
PAPWORTH
Suddenly they're looking
for BRAINY
BRAINY blondes
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THURSDAY,
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