THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 198O,
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Clothes that make men laugh
A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE
FOR FASHION PAGE BY SOME
OF THE MEN WHO MAKE ME LAUGH
by JILL BUTTERFIELD
FRANK MUIR AND DENIS NORDEN GIVE THE SLACKS .SUIT THE ONCE-OVER, SLACKS SUIT IN SCARLET
JERSEY (OTHER COLOURS TOO) BY SLIMMA.
ONE of the saddest facts about this woman's world is that husbands and high fashion don't mix. The clothes that make, a girl drool with delight make a tuan double up with laughter.
I can't help feeling that the motive for this mirth
Is that the Englishman is at beart zuch
a timid, conservative creature that he
likes the girl who draws the glances to
be on someone else's arm.
Every man maintains that a fashion- nbly dressed woman is just one big joke, So I asked four famous funny men to choose the kind of clothes that made them laugh. With an
(but open unconvinced) mind I give you their cholee and my comments.
Muir and
Norden attack
FRANK MUIR and DENIS NORDEN are outrageous and unreasonable, and aimed straight at our Achilles heel.
"Where," they guffawed, "would you wear things like tight trousers, long- bloused bodices, fashionable hats. dangling earrings ?"
Their biggest hoot was at the at- home suit, and they fred all their guns at it because they couldn't think of one single situation when a girl would put It on "Certainly not for meeting your in-laws, dear,"
I DEFEND.
The at-home sult is the warmest, cosiest, casiest fashion to come on the market for many years. It is pretty enough to greet the guests in, and prac- tical enough in which to stoke the fre beforehand. And it fits in with other separates in your wardrobe.
Peter
Sellers
attacks...
PETER BELLERS is pretty tolerant as men go (he's not the sort of man who shrieka "I wouldn't be seen dead with it" at every revolutionary fashion). He reserves his big laughs for hats, and Anda huge expensive extrovert Ascot- type models excrutiatingly funny.
"I've been out with some shockers in my time. I must say nothing looks funnier than a tiny little woman totter- ing along under the weight of a great big hat."
He gets most amusement from the kind he calls "Enormous plate things The with odd bits hanging off them. only way to make anything of them is to clip them bald."
I DEFEND
The big hat can be the most flattering thing in a limited wardrobe. It can add. punch to a dated dress,' and price ta a cheap one. When a woman feels dowdy, depressed, and uncared-for, the first thing she squanders the housekeeping money on is a brand-new bonnet, IU's the simplest sort of psychology-for a beautiful hat makes a woman feel as if she has all the time in the world, and (even if she hasn't). It can hide a muliftude of hairdressing sins.
PETER SELLERS ADDS A CERTAIN SOMETHING TO REED CRAWFORD'S HIGH WIDE HAT TRIMMED WITH SHAGGY. WHITE MONGOLIAN LAME. PICTURES BY DAVID BAILEY,
Brian Rix
attacks
BRIAN RIX is absolutely decisive; says he geta all his giggles from the beatnik girls.
"It makes me roar with laughter when girls mums up layers of thick, dark dirt with yet more layers of thick, dark clothes. And as for those funny little girl's uniform' kind of dresses--you know, which don't at properly any. сот- where they can't
pare with the kind of clothes where you can really what you're getting."
I DEFEND ...
The semi-fltted, long- waisted look is very much this year's casual, com fortable hall-mark. · And the little-girl look-bare arms, knitted collar, simple shape--is exactly BRIAN RIX GIVES THE BEATNIK THE what the big girl wants
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