THE CHINA MAIL. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1980.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
In just one picture, the
winter 1960 story
Summed up. In single silhouette is the Galitzine stary for winter 1960
Princess Galitzine-a Russian-bom designar who shows in Florence-is having a wall deserved succese with a couture collection.
The "full back and silm front" thema runs throughout the collection, from which we photograph tila biach dotted tulle party drans,
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PICTURE BY JOHN ADRIAAN.
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How the God of Love'
set me
back
2s 9d
IT is fairly certain that King Mahendra of Nepal and I will never meet. Nevertheless, in a very
roundabout sort of way, he owes me 28.9d., And I have a ticket to prove it.
and
It happened on a morning. No parking... the blue that began with a pearly signs were everywhere; my pet Japanese-printy kind of mis places were banned.
Round that tiness. A morning
round I drove, proved as false as it was then suddenly I came upon n fair, ending as it did with a fine wide space that housed
shugle motor-cycle. damp, dripping fog in Lon: me standing in tion and Lowndes-square very near to tears.
1
14 I moved it to "one elde there would be masses of room for me.
.
I
Leaving my engine running Royal visit, no parking leaped out and advanced on Police notice No parking what I had always imagined to
Now a
visible
be a fairly lightweight plece of machinery,
It was balanced on two small, rubber-covered feet supporting two curved legs.
1 seized both handles and pushed. A dend
The traffic gushed past; the only pedestrian in Bight long thin streak of a man with a short square dachshund padded by concentrating like mach on not looking. -
It lurched about like
a drunken ́elk-hound
It had started to rain, and I could feel my hil uncurling weight fell round my cars, upon my wrists but, staggering Two spaces away a car back- and straining. I steered the ed out and departech Space t machine to
I last but I couldn't let go! ok.c side. straightened it and waited for Oh,
help HELPI - but there was no ano to hear, for of vappur from my own exhaust telescopie dear), and departed the weight to readjust itself.
I looked down and the legs who in his right mind would pipe belched around both of us before I could find my purse.
fell faster! and My instinct was to kiss him, had dleappeared!
walk the gardens of Lowndes and the rain
Laster,
but no doubt he would rather They had not fallen off or square in the pouring rain.
In the end I was rescued by have had the 50. Tentatively I pushed the bike
As for King Mahendra (Lord backwards. In its rightful rest- one of those ubiquitous utile
overalla.
of Creation, God of Love, Field- ing place might It not miracu- Britishers
He came round a corner and Marshal of the British Army) lovely regain its feet?
and took charge Immediately. With an his 23 ti lay across my thighs like a a flick of a pedal He produced drunken elk-hound, while clouds those internal legs ("they're ing my beige suede gloves.
man folded back they had vanish-
-and he comes in a do-it-yourself kit
SICK for mid-twentieth century toys" are tipped as the most sure-to-please tots the sickest of all, so they tell me, being, the "Visible Man." Price 53s. 11d.
A do-it-yourself kit to build and even sometimes in his work him consists of the bits and and career, pleces of skeleton plus plastic Intestines to be pointed in various colours
The whole inner man is then assembled and encased in transparent "skin."
10y
But I don't find this "sickly". I find it fascinating- and so do the four snatt boys when I have so far shown it. (Yes, I bought one sight!'
ما
"She must be a good mana-
ed.
I considered resting the ma- chine on its side, but, pedals,
and levers, handles
It lurched towards mo heaven knows what else reared up to discourage me..
Are
you
at
TEVER, I swear, in the
ger." the list continues, Nhistory of the human
"furnishing her home attrac- tively, running her, house- a hold smoothly
without blich even of temperament artful shopper sense of
the
humour
. patience of Job" and so on..
L
It's simply the bill for clean-
spending too much hairdresser's?
your
Nobody can put a price on "art" and there. are always those strange, incalculable costs called "Overhlendy, "*
On one point only, will I challenge the stylists,
Why does a colour tint that
costs 3. 10. from the maker
and takes ten minutes to apply, cost 3gns, in the salon?
ones,
race have we women been taken for such a gigantic, money-spinning ride as that one on which each week so many of us embark in com- In the midst of sewing, mend- pany with some rather gor
Add to this a minimum of Piccadilly store. They, tell me fre- man. young on ing, cooking, and housework geous.
28 d tip for the "chief.". there is practially a queve for she must also find time for quently bearded and almost 25 6d for the colour expert" thele service at £3 105 for a
... 25. for the manicurist... intrigued by
"loving and understanding and always known by a faintly
paeu- 18 for the shampoo girl, what is still the "keeping in touch with events foreign - sounding workings of
and 6d for the cloakroom at- greatest of
all miracles outside her house.""
tendant. human being. Especially when
The "perfect home-maker" it
He may
bo "Toni". studied from the "taside.
"Carto
doesn't take seems must bet like a siren, "Alphonse"
It .05
these l'artista”...... every penny, wizard to put that to bill suggest that have the patience of a saint, "Henri."
Ho man and work like
is almost certainly as together.
four all think like a horse!
British an a. Bath bum but, in shillings is a pretty steep sum every petuxy they charge. I never opents to me agairit the hot scented setting of the for "beauty" especially when merely marvel! snion where he dourishes, the it is only the bit above the Continental cachet is unteni- carst
They are
"Fancy God working all this out by himself," said one small character to me as, with shin- ing eyes and infinitely careful little fingers, he folded in the great gut.
"Fancy," said I, for want of a boller answer.
Paragon
The B.B.C. Woman's pro- gramme is looking perfect home-maker.
What's new?
You ask me what's "This week I bring you
glad news that:-
donym.
able
new? the
the
"
ceffers of
شهدتا
the
of women are estates, annually
very
Six
pounds
Caty
much more
$
Answer me tlat you mighty Ans just for the record, may? I nda that, my, own pet hair- marvellous just "creaser!" "13"
and worth moment. MARVELLOUS,
shampoo, set and trim
riot for one I do
of them-a3 FOL worth
I'd better say that or he'l
London Express Service,
FASHIONETTES
-have-
Lars as it has never been be÷
Admitted the bleaching or Unting may well be a monthly! business
be only, and He is our hairdresser and he knocked off the woeldy account. is now in the BIG MONEY. No Admitted also that only 60 THE LATEST plece of office doubt about it.
Surprisingly, nobody has yet, per cent of the women who, go 10 hairdressers change the equipment is the cat-nap" cough "specially designed for sg far as I know, produced any colour of their hair. The bill! for the chairmen and managing direc- nigure on the splendid golden stil' acids
up to very tors." The makers tell me they stream of cash that flows week- than pesmuts.
For gentlemen today. "She must first of all be, and foresee "a big sale among direc ly into
Small wonder that collteurs: continue to be, desirable in the tors' wives who have seen it
thousands lealing hair stylists run country everything plaskis hatigern. A r, estimate
racehorses, and New York mare's boutique de own
partment's slowing sucit- eyes of a husband" says Doreen the ofice."
head Stephens,
of B.B.C.
collect rare antiques. THE LATEST fur coat for upon thousands Women's Television,
Is in spending cult-clothes addicts
Elizabeth Taylor's hair- monkey fur. "It's that crazy, great deal more than they or
of-on dresser, flown from America to wispy look that sends them," their husbands dream.
37-guines-a-week flas in May.. said one furrier,
"And the their hair. price is right too at around 75
Consider current West End 'fair, is merely being supported
that in the style to which he is accus of us remember from our own Sammy. Kaya, named the "bout prices ghs."
remember and most of the top light stylists tomed.
Rene
know school days showed repeatedly tied man of the year" by the 021 (and wo
as the elegent' topper for 'suits at Men's The Foundation; leans THE LATEST eid to Bat have branches die the provinces.
hairdresser he (6) dwellers with limited laun One guinea for a "cut" (and whose
during the late July openings. To female tie buyere, he offers dering faclitics is a tiny 10, with today's det styles a cut divides his wedle between South the use of Christian Dior toward smartly striped repps.
Audley shout and Porte
Now, variations "of 'It in the the following advice: "gat, your on the type of On Mondays and Tuesdays whole range of bright shades man's opinion orly Michel" and "HDwal" fy and white populate hat bare pattern he profere before you
from coast to const
buy that gift tis Half a guinea for a manicure, into London Imported by a
"She has to enter fully into partnership with him as com- panion in his leisure, sharing responsibility for children, homo,
National
wringer on giant suction pads
that will clamp on to the wall over the bath and deal with all "smalls" up to shirt size.
D'
""get.".
is the merest "trim");
One ruines for Three guineas a “iint.”,
THE GAMBOLS.
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THEY'VE REPAIRED MY FRIEKŠME
I SPENT ALL DAY YESTERDAY COOKING
READY FOR OUR
fore is used to make four kinds of panties--bikinis, briefs, de luze briefs and "gürtsi panties. The lace-stretches; Tha2, pantice aga nome liy Bowlteling black, scan- One of the most copied Rabie, dalous fedi priasy pluk and de-
ribbed, knlt pull-on which many fashions is the toboggan hat. The are blue.
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by Barry Appleby
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