THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
THE TOP TEAM IN FASHION MAKING IT ALL MAKE SENSE
Paris
LOOK OF THE DAY
IT'S only for you. If you are young enough to get away with a minimum of make-up-a shaggy boy haircut.
All the emphasis is reserved, for the heavily shadowed eyes-lps are pale orange-pink. Carita designed this short back-blown style for Cardin's models,
BACKSWEEP
Cardin's new back-sweep- Ior headline. Cut like a coalman's unt, in pleated pink organdie trimmed with two back-tilting roses.
LADY
your
FIRST
(A)-and the one word
DAY
TOP-KNOT
on every clothes tag
is YOUTH!
ZANY
Cardin's new
jewel. White hibiscus Blatted through black and white beads.
Cardin's
top - knot
ot
Bouth Sea pink petals with a fine net vell.
LUCK
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31
AQUARIUS (January February 19):
21. Don't
ambitious plan to anyone until you are quite ready to put it into practice.
PISCES (February 20-March 20): In spite of the pre- sent uncertainty of your affairs, you will ho moro successful if you set aside any doubts of the eventual outcome.
by JILL BUTTERFIELD
PARIS.
THE last nail was hammered into the coffin of the beatnik brigade by four French designers who opened the French fashion show here last Tuesday.
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Jacques Esterel, Jacques Griffe, Jean Patou, and Pierre Cardin are couturiers whose style and line are totally dissimilar but who have one very strong char- acteristic in common. They all think that youth is the most valuable possession in a woman's wardrobe, and they all gave youth its head,
CHEEK-HUGGER
Young again---Paton's brilliant, pink, ́face- bugging straw beret worn tilted low `over one cheek.
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They killed off the weirdie, stiffened flure or swell in a für scrubbed out the scruffy look, ry of pleats.
THERE ARE back-dipping, and produced the kind of clothes
that made every woman wish collarless Jackets that come off she were 20, every girl reach when the room grows warm and for her cheque book and every show a briliantly printed blouse. man long to escort her.
A RIOT
A SUNBURST
In'
THERE ARE loose-fitting, YOUTH is at its strongest at wide-skirted, coat dresses the House of Cardin (a riot of tweeds to wear when it is spring specially imported azaleas, lilac, on the calendar but winter in and lilios), Colours, as one would the air, and simple silk dresses expect from this expert with col- for high summer, with all their our, are sizzling. Hard to wear, heaven to watch.
He mixes, sharp water-melon pink, tangerine, pillar-box red, and the apricot which suitq his sloe-eyed models so well.
Hats, whether large and gar den-party pretty or just the size of a saucer, follow a new back. tilted line or perch as a mass of blossom on the head.
And his line is a line which seems created especially youth's present-day tastes,
for
THERE ARE skirts you can walk in, run in, jump on .bus in; skirts that awing wide in a
JACOBY on BRIDGE
SOUTH went through all the
motions before playing from dummy. At least he appeared to go through all the molions. Eventually, South decided that West was more likely to have led from a queen thon from an acc, so South played the ten and of hearts from dumIDY" bramed delightedly at North when East won with the see,
Unfortunately for South, East abandoned the heart suit and shifted to the jack of clubs. Now South had to lose four
friendship with a few ill fast club tricks. considered remarks.
divulge the details of an VIRGO (August 22- September 22): Don't take a romantic attachment too seriously, as the other party may not be prepared to bind himself permanently to anyone.
LIBRA (September 23- Cetober 22): A small in- cident should not be allowed to upset you unduly. Tho Bootler you forgot about It, the better you will feel for the rest of the week,
SCORPIO (October
November 21): A small personal sacrifice. for your family's sake will bring you
unexpected: compensa-"
ARIES (March 21-April 19): A scheme which has been dormant in your mind for quite a while is worth re viewing now.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you can adapt yourself to a partner with a very strong character, it will mean a very happy life for both of you.
др tion. SAGITTARIUS
↑ (November 22-December 21): You must work
up sufficient drive to overcome an ob- stacle in your way. You have the necessary energy and should make full use of it.
CAPRICORN. ` (December 22- January 20);` A now hobby would mean giving up more time than you can reason= spare just now. Shelve it for a while.. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR: If today is your birthday, look out for ELECTRIC BLUE. It ought to bring you luck.
GEMINI: (May 21-June 21): With your usual charm and persuasive power you will got your own way Lodiny without
causing
the alightest resentment. CANCER (June 22-July 21):- Postpone an Important de-. cision until you have sleptably *-lovar.^it^ and stick to your "usual pleasant routine, to
day.
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LEO・ (July 22-August 21); Unless you are very careful you could break up an old
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surprises, with either a swinging back panel or with their fulness restricted to a sunburst of pleats, at one side.
THERE ARE spiralling chiffon evening dresses which ripple with every movement and plunge low behind.
YOUTH made Jacques Esterel a furtune (he was the man who half-dressed Brigitte Bardot in gingham) and now he has moved to grand new premises in the fo- mous Faubourg St.-Honore.
Despite his grand address, he stays faithful to the young and light-hearted. His hats are zany cartwheels or doll-sized silk pill- boxes; his evening dresses have Ught bodices and huge puffed skirts; his colours are breath- takingly bright orange and scarlet predominate.
YOUTH swayed through Jean) Patou's crocus-coloured collec tion. But it was youth dressed up in Sunday best. Young and pretty were his short mandarin- collared Jackets worn with schoolgirl touches of white, and a straw beret.
his Young, too, shape, slim, in fact, but
new
skirt with a loose front panel, giving the effect, of fulness.
FANTASY
DRAWINGS. BY
Robb
TYPICAL of the wave of fantasy that is sweeping Paris. Model girl Tiaga is completely covered in a black skin-suit, a black mask and a million dollars (£367,000) ́in' diamonds by Van Cleef and Arnék. Her Surrealistic hair style is by Alexandre.
CHILDREN'S CORNER
The Soldier Parade
-The Shadows See It In The Middle Of The Night-
By MAX TRELL . He pointed toward the book-
'coso and, more especially, at al YOUTH even invaded the de- "B the Shadow Girl with the ing on the bottom shelf, Uppud
KNARF," sold Hanid large picture book that was ly corous salon of Jacques Griffe, Turned-About Name, to her over on its side and half-open, who is more used to dressing brother, "It's impossible! It's the like a tent. duchesses than debagers, but middle of the night. How con last week he opened. hla show you hear the musse of a brass with a group of slacks and jac- band in the middle of the night?" kots and' crowned the wind-
"I heard 1," said Knart ob- before, that very afternoon, in blown hair of his mannequinssiinately, "It's a parade."
with Jaunty yachting caps,
** Noticed the book
Hanid had noticed the book
fact. She had seen the name of
Kis suit akirix swing' in a cir- "But I tell you." Hanki re- it. It was called "Soldiers of- cle of pleats below simple pull- pented, "there can't be a parade All Nations."
over tops. His colours are im- in the middle of the night. You Out of the book, ak Knarf and practicably pretty-lots of jade-were dreaming, that's all." green and pearl-creamy orange, For the next several minutes, Koarf and Hanid sat silently in their corner of the room.
he had caved one trick by his But brilitant decision at trick one.
South did guess correctly at what's in it
trick one, but he also made the play wrong play. His correct
would have been to call for the all for you?
king of hearts and to drop his) Ave spot on East'a ace.
"
She heard it
.
Hank watched with astonish- ment; came a whole parade
First came the brass band!
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Although soldiers marched right.
by him, Cat never wake up.
Where the soldiers marched to
In
their parade, Knart and Hanid couldn't tell,
OF
All the musicians were in uni- forms. They were soldiers. But Whore did they go?
Thay marched past the Doy, They marched past the Cat. And the Dog and Cat kept right on sleeping.
They could see the window, what their uniforms were,
what nations they belonged to, Perhaps they marched all looking like a pale square neither Keart nor Hasli could through the house, in and out the darkness, Over to one side, tell on account of the darkness of all the rooms, Or perhaps they could make out the edge They were about the size of salt they marched only in the one
the Well, firstly, watch for Car- of the rocking chair and
shakers.
room where Knart and Hald I. Bast shifted to A club din's suits which will be copied side of the bookcase.
Behind the brass band came saw them. South would be down two, but in your local shops as quickly "Listen!" Knarf wald sudden-
the generals on horseback with East might well have played as sterling, can be changed into ty, "I hear it again!” his partner for five hearts to francs and couture into ready- Hanid listened. She was about flags flying. the Jack and led back, a heart, to-wear fashion.. But watch too to say, “But Knarf, there can't
Second brass band in which case South would for these ideas to add a Paris be a parade. In the middle of wrap up his contract with a touch to your last year's ward-the night" when all of a sud- But what flags they were least one exita trick.
robo.
den, she heard it.
And finally, just as the light neither Knart, nor Honld could From Estérel: Look for long!
There could be no doubt tell, either. Yet they were sure In the window was beginning scarves vivid silk to wind
they were flags.
to grow, brighter with the com- From somewhere quite close, Then came the marching sol- ing of day, the brass bands and peck.
From Piton: Look for a new she heard the taint music of a dlers, marching in long, solid the marching: soldiers and gen→ orals with the flying flags all place to sow a bow, just above brass bar-the tooting of a lines,
whistling of Dio. "There are hundreds and hun- paraded back into the book the elbow; rows of tiny chiffon trumpet, the
Autos and piccolor, dreds of them," Hand whis- ognin, flowers replacing, buttons on a fes and cocktail auita'
thora-ta-tat and the boompered to her brother,
And Then como a second braSE From Uride: Long, long gloves boom-boom of the drums. worn crinkled right down to the then she thought to herself in band and more generals and moro soldiers, all: marching out wrist bone5
Rupert and the Purple Star-55choolboy-famien, around your about it.
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HY, AIR MIGHTS RESERVED
From Cardio: Shiny, lacquered fruit, making brooches necklaces, and nouding ort hats; shows with
wonder:
Marching foot
"How can there be a parade
Everything qulat
Once more everything was
When Knort and Hauld look
of the book on the bottom shelf quiet. of the bookenso...
The curious thing was this: at the book called "Soldiers
of All Nations" the next morni. Though the soldiers and the ing, all they could find were
ah bruptly passed-olt toe; dark gloves with the lightest summer in the middle of the night? And
my right here in this room, tool brass banda and the generals pictures of brace bands and And if you are fre, fromthe then came, the tramp-tramp, came streaming out of the generala with flags flying and - Jasena fille "Who is the Ideal, girl tramp of marching feet, not very book, the sound of their male regiments of marching soldiers Le Paris today, don't despair. For loud, mind you, but very sharp and the stamp of their feet did but not a single one of them the Frendi designers all know and distinct and close at hand, not seem to be heard by anyone mayd
And the only spind that could thpt although,20 looks #delicious just like the sound of the brass but, Knart end Hani
* No one else, in. the houro be made via e faint ruque lether clothes, 1, 1 the woman band
Knart, heard them; They went right on whan kuara and Hanld- turund
sleeping, N
whispered.