THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1960.
WOMANSENSE
VERONICA PAPWORTH
ST.
LAURENT IS
THE most
GREAT-EVEN
exciting, He claims his collection is
"newsy, and absolutely bang up to the 1960's col-
"in touch with life today." It is too his life.
St Laurent, shedding shades
lection in Paris was that of of Dior, designs for the beatnik Pierre Cardin,
with a whacking great bank
It has everything today's balance, for the girl who goes wild over thost crazy "cult" woman looks for-positive clothes that rock the Chelsea- outlines, splendid simplicity, ites, and heart-lifting colour.
it is also immensely copyable. Which is why the buyers loved it and why, just as soon as the chips can put scissors to cloth, the slick, pared-down chic of Cardin will be on its way to YOU.
In particular I liked:-
The straight, doublebreast- ed Jackets with gentle little scarf collars and scalloped hems, A new type of coat frock with a high wrap-front fold- Ing back to n low, curved neck- line.
★ Straight
wrap coats in Chenille velvets with chin- high collars of fur.
*
*
"Orlental" evening dresses -almost ankle length. Scarves tying this, that and every other way on cloth sulis, crepe suits, and satin evening wraps,
*
There are clumping great knitted hats built over a frame like a skleid, giraffe-necked sweaters in thick tweedy hand- knitting-even a leather jacket.
And what a jackeli
Tomorrow's gilded beatnik will wear black crocodile leather edged with mink and a mink skidlid. (Where, one wondered, was her diamond-studded scooter?)
Blown-up
In keeping with the teenage passion for a "grown-up" took there were dozens (if not hun- dreds) or little black numbers ---tube-straight from neck to thighs with a blown-up bubble skirt below. Designed no doubt - for nymphets with zumber nought hips?
collection
Highlights in his will start a forest-fire fashion.
Reds, greens, and purples in profusion....even purple They are:-
★ Sporty-looking,
stockings!
Off-beat
As for Yves St Laurent-the with
sice-slit
threequarter-length coats. low-slung back belts-
wonder boy over whose bead armeshing ear. coats!
gigantic question mark has hovered for so long.
Polo necked, sleeveless sweaters
fled with draw-
The fledgling, creeping out strings not far above the knees. from under the downy breasts
of the Directrices of Dior, has soared to success with a slightly off-beat collection chock-full of pate. talent, and a character
"Suspense". decolletages held with a single diagonal shoulder-strap.
Jumper tops and long, full divided skirts for lazing
that FOR THE FIRST TIME 18 around at home. HIS OWN.
OUT go
revers
IN come
bare ovals
scarf ties
and bows
★ Thick
knitted skidlids. (These must КО over a shaped foundation) with school- boy mullers to match.
St Laurent has made hand- knitting socially O.K.
(London Express Service).
ON HIS
HIS OWN
PICTURES BY JOHN ADRIAAN.
Variation in the tubular theme a tubular sweater with a brief bubble skirt in the Dior manner.
Fashion follows the thirties
THIS WINTER, THE OLD IS NEW
THINK of the date and
divide it by half!
London showed the way; Paris confirmed it: Thirties are back.
-Jean Wiseman
snonymous with sophistication shoulderlines.
and
purnies.
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STORIES FOR BOYS AND
Teddy's Sleepless Night
Strange Things Were Happening Around Him
By MAX TRELL
"A Girl came to me Jater on and woke me up and asked me TEDDY, the Stuffed Bear came If I had seen anything of her Tweddling out from behind lost Sheep, And à Cow
came
the bookcase. He waddled over and kicked me and sald she had
to where Knart the Shadow- just jumped over the moon.
Boy was sitting with Hiawatha, the Small-Sized Wooden Indian. He plumped down on the floor beside him.
"Good morning Tetidy," said Knart
Hiawatha grunted; "How"""
Rubbed his eyes
But Teddy only rubbed his eyes.
**I didn't get a bit of sleep last night," he said. "The worst place in the whole house to sleep is behind the bookcase."
"But it's comfortable behind that bookcase," Knari said. There's plenty of room and no one makes any noise."
"Noise!" exclaimed
Teddy.
"It's the noisiest place in the whole house! I never want to sleep here again."
"But you're wrong,
said Kharf.
Hiawatha saldr
Teddy!"
"Very Foolish Bear, tell us please how it can be noisy be- hind all those books. Books can't make any noise, can they, Very Foolish Bear?"
Behind a big book "That's what you think," said Teddy to his two friends, as he rubbed his eyes again. "I went to steep last night right behind that big book-that one over there." And Teddy pointed.
"It's the Mother Goose Book," sald Knarf.
Very Foolish Bear, tell us what happened," said Hiawatha. "What happened was this," said Teddy,
"The minute I closed my eyes,
I heard a great racket.
"First of all, I hear a Boy and a Girl shouting and sercam- ing: Look out! Look out!!
Bumped into them
"1 opened my
eyes and jumped up. Then a Boy bumped into me. The next second a Girl bumped into me. And the third second, a pall of cold water landed on my head and got me soaking wet"
"Oh," said Knari, laughing, "that was Jack and Jill who went up the hill to fetch a pall of water."
Teddy nodded and went right
deep magyar the reappears in triumph. Hemlines sleeves and wide swinging backs to the hom or alter- drop one inch or stay the same; tapering The bias cul is found in most natively flaring movement "Top Hat, Flying down houses on sulls that have an from a lowered hipline.
DRESSES are slim, low ard to Rio,' 'No, No, Nanette, easy line with flared, gathered or gered skirts and loosely fitted
fitting at the waist Fred Astaire, Ginger jackets. Wool, of course, in its casy
- often
of on. without reed belt. A feeling of Rogers, Jessie Matthews many varieties stays prominent
Worse thing apang the fabrics. Brown is top a these have flashed all
colour of the season supported by fluency shows in the skirts
"As soon as that Boy and his through my mind this last olive, mustard and ail manner of which have pleats or joose panel
Drees and coat teams sister went away, and I got my- White backs. fortnight, for fashion has munes
and has flashes everywhere for day and are made of materials which self dry again, I moved over to gone nostalgic
Closely following tre show affinities of colour of evening. looked to the Thirties for violets and flashes of red. Shock character but are not definitely the other side of the book and sleepy. And this time an even letics for evening often pro- alike. The finest wool crepe is curfed up. I was really very inspiration.
dude amazing teams of pink used for after-six wear.
Your new SUIT should have worse thing happened." purple.
turquoise with shocking pink-even pale pink a jacket curving in at the front, shaded through to deep red os at faring cut or hanging straight at the back. Shoulders are broad round. Sleeves are and Handy Amies.
ог quarter
seven eighths often with narrow ur undercuffs Biggest change
The trend was obvious in the with London collections.
Paris has continued along the some journey back but with its own individuality,
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A longer version of the shingle appears shining above huge fur collars, ruffs or stoles, Black,
JACOBY on BRIDGE
A correspondent asks, "What
is the worst play you have ever sten?'*
I once saw a man use the top trump to ruff his partner's ace and revoke at the same time, but If he just wants a general type play the one that I despise most is the play of deliberately over- taking your partner's high card In order to make a wrong lead.
The bidding of today's hand is not recommended and after West opened the six of trumps South saw that only a miracle could give him his contract, but the miracle happened.
He drew trumps with two leads and played ace and another demond, East won with the ten and played the king and queen of clubs.
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NORTH
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North East
South
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East Pess make one of those bad plays 1 Pass mentioned earlier. He carefully Pass overtook the queen of clubs with the ace in order to lay down the iding of diamonds.
This gave West thhance to
You, South, hold:/ ▲A VEJ1065 4AQ98 SK QIO
What do you do?
A-Bid Ave no-frump to check for kings. If your partner shows 'one you will bid seven diamonds. TODAY'S QUESTION Again the bidding has gone one heart, one spade, two diamonds. This time you hold: AAQ W10905 4K3 ♣KJ76.
What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow,
South ruffed; finessed dummy's jack of spades and threw West in with the third club. West had thoroughly end played himself and South made the hand.
If West had simply let East hold the queen of clubs East would have played a third club. Then West could have got out with a diamond and eventually made his king of spades.
Crazy
three
is in skirts. Some have a front softness often gathered on to a hip yoke or band.
Others are
"What happened, Very Foolish Bear?" asked Hiawatha.
"Blackbirds happened," said Teddy. "A whole flock of them came out of the book. They flew all around me like enormous
files. I tried swatting them. One of them pecked me on the nose before they all finally flew back
Accompanying this new sil- hauette are shoes that are longer and more pointed than ever and Thats that are high, round and fred, pleated or swing into biss into the, book again."
crazy but which balance the look amazingly well.
TOPCOATS are bulkier with cut being bulky. All have big
EVELYN
cuts and folds The fis, for £fteen years." says Hardy Amice who showed flared skirts with four or six panels.
“VELYN Wood gives you her conception of what some of London's top couturiers offer for the fashionwise woman of this coming winter,
Hartwell
"Hardy Amied
3
John Cavenaghe
4
Ronald Patrion
Baked in a pie
"Those were the four and twenty Blackbirds baked in a ple," said Knarf.
"I don't care what they were," sald Teddy. "All I know is that they kept me from sleeping. And I didn't get arty sleep the rest of the night, either,
(Michael
Sherard
Victor Stabel
"And then a big cgg tumbled
off a wall and fell on me
"That was Humpty Dumpty". said Knarf.
"An old Woman woke me up
and
"And finally," said Teddy, "somebody started flying round On a round my head broom."
"That was Mother Goose her self." said Knari. "I hope you said good-day to her."
GIRLS
"T. said nothing at all," said Teddy. "I just got up and came out from behind all those books and went to sleep in the middle of the kitchen floor where it's nice and quiet.”
"You are a Very Foolish Bear," said Hiawatha.
Big change
up top
Ian Crawford
THE British male still William Evans looks ratner
and made me move over to sell THE
if I was sleeping on a bone that belonged to her Dog."
exhibits ૉ. jawed reticence "That was Old Mother Hub-adorning bard," said Kaarf.
**
A pall of cold water fell on Teddy's head.
granite like Peter Sellers playing a
about himself with odorous lotions but he has always been vain about his hair. Rather surprisingly
hairdresser and runs a very
smart, club-atmosphere salon.
Personality
"Styling," he told me, doesn't mean cutting a man's
hoar
so that he looks like an They are great lock-washers American film star. That idea and unguent-appliers, it seems, has done hairdressing lot of and posing their shyness about harm. It mens giving him a anything more daring than hair style to suit his personality, "short, back and sides" at the hairdresser.
1
"The right hair-cut is just as important as any other aspect of a man's grooming→→→→ h/s sul or his tie, for example."
We looked at some famous
The
The kind of hair-cut whica warms a sergeant-major's heart did not long survive the war, Shedding their uniforms, heads. servicemen halved their hair- Michael Foot needs a com- cuts. This led to hirsute explete change of style, Mr Evans cesses at both ends of the head-decidied.
porty-shaking Httle more elegant than the principles which immer behind that high-domed forehead' would look less austore if he used a side parting. A wing of hair masking his hairline and a little. more shaping at the sides would look younger.
skull-cropped army cut,
But things have improved recently and styling in men's hair salons is here to stay.
Rupert and the Gomnies-13
After puzzling awhile, Rupert is Just going to the rockery whes he suddenly grins and turns to his Mummy. Why did you tease me he and talk of a yellow gnome ? laughs. "It has a red and green surt and a black cap. You know it har *** What are you talking
about now?" Mes. Bear smiles. "It's
And a a yellow gnome. lovely yellow colour too!" Rupert is bewildered. Turning silently he walks out of the cottage, and after a few steps he pauses and stares and starts at something in amaze.
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YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
FRIDAY, AUGUST 12
AQUARIUS (January 21- February 19): If an un- avoidable delay holds up your plans, avoid the blame on an innocent. colleague.
putting
PISCES (February 20-March 20): You may be drawn into some quite unusual may social activity, and
completely thus meet a new
interesting set of
people. ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will be relieved to re- ceive permission to divulge a scrupulously kept secret to a person whom you felt all along ought to be let in on it.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Without appearing
too
much of an autocrat, you ought to be able in a quiet
Chaves Creed"
Lachssic
way to see that your home is run the way you like it. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): A telephone conversation will clear the air regarding some matters which have been bothering you. CANCER (June 22-July 21); Be careful not to hurt a person of the opposite sex who is very sensitive and has recently gone through a rather harrowing time. LEO (July 22-August 21): A new and inexperienced colleague ought to be given your the full benefit of own wide experience. He will show his gratitudo in the help he will eventually be able to give you. VIRGO (August 22- September 22): A change in superiors should give you your chance to put some dormant plans into actual practice.
LIBRA (September 23- October 22): Stability wili be needed to face a tricky situation, but
your
strength of character wil! get you over it with comparative case,
SCORPIO\(October 28- November 21); You will find to your 'regret that your dissimilar tempera- ments prevent a close asso- ciation with a person born under Leo.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21); By using diplomacy you will succeed where drastic methods have proved completely in- effectual.
CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20); Having con- sulted an expert in a legal matter, you should. now stop worrying about it and rest assured that it is in the right handa. YOUR BIRTHDAY: If this is your birthday, you may look forward to a year in which one great worry will be removed and your de sire to be close to another person fulfilled?
Gilbert Harding, on the other hand, needs a bit more trimming on the side and a less skull- hugging cut on top to lengthen his face and take away from its roundness.
Hugh Gaskelt needs a trim on top and more fullness at the side to take away the golliwog look. He might also, Mr Evaris thought, have his hair cut more frequently,
Full marks went to Sir David Eccles ("always perfectly groomed in a style which suits him perfectly") and Trevor Howard was voted the barber's despair.
"He hasn't got the features for being well-groomed," said Mr Evans sadly. "With that kind of splendid ruggedness it doesn't matter what his hair's like except that, it should never be short."
Every 10 days
All the hairdressers to whom, I spoke agreed that you should have your hair cut every 10 days. Then you never look as
if you had just come from the burber's chair or as if you should be on your way there,
to the big- hovering
And the answer
question mark
rust
is there a
over a man's head cure for baldness? A sad but
There's universal no.
d fortune awaiting a sure-fire hair grower.
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