THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1951.
WOMANSENSE
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STERONICA PAPWOR
CARDIN - NOW THERE'S WHAT
Star turn of the Jacques Esterel show was the one-eyed hair-do.
Worn with a mask-like porcelain make-up and shell-pink lipstick, all the emphasis is on that huge, heavily mascaraed eye.
Experts at this sort of thing will notice the absence of the usual clongated corners.
Eyes will be worn ROUND this spring!
FLOATING, RIPPLING
AND SHIMMERING...
CUMMED up in a single
sentence
tho new shape from Paris is FLUID and WAISTLESS. The only certain point of contact be- tween dress and wearer being the HIPS.
Is it flat-chested? Not unless you are.
Is it "difealt"? Yes, but it looks easy,
Hiplines fit like a second Ardle prach the wall!
like the skin on a
I CALL GENIUS!
...All done with-
out any ballyhoo
He stood there in the centre of
women
the Dior salon—a short, dark Frenchman in a shoe-string tie, and he wept. Around him struggled, shouted, and fought for the chance to clasp the white-faced Marc Bohan' to their hot, scented bosoms.
"Bravo," cried my Frenchman, wiping his streaming eyes and grin- ning like a Cheshire cat--"Bravo. Encore BRAVO."
I have no doubt he was a big share-] holder in the House of Dior. And well may he grin.
What
we had seen was something like a quarter of a million yards
much-needed lifeblood.
Beauty... and perfume
sprayed over
us
of
JACOBY
Didding of this hand,
ON'T pay too much attention
Terence Reese does not like it any more than I do.
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Defending against Ave clubs, West opened the five of eptides, East cashed the see and kin and shifted to the king of hearts. Terence noted that five
What is more, It was presented as a three-diamonds would make it ring circus of breath-taking beauty against hol- diamonds were 3-2, and that house flowers by the cartload, clouds of perfunt(five clubs was not going to (otomizers used like spray-guns on all who make on any legitimate play, climb the gilded staircase)," and a glittering Was there a possible swindle? audience, including the kind of celebrities Terence found one! He cok whose very attendance guarantees headlines, This ace of heurls, Drew trumps
with three leads
stepping in
But the true zenius of the new Paria collec-dummy, Ruffed a spade. Dis- tions is PIERRE CARDIN,
carded dummy's last heart on his last trump and then played the diamonds as follows:
Sloven Epot to dummy'
His entire exercise in cut and colour-la a triumph shown without benefit of ballyhoo or the presence of the Duchess of Windsori
collection-an intellectual
My hat would have
been in the air
·
As I fought to leave the Dior salons young man thrust a microphone under my nose :
and quizzed me on my reactions.
I told him it was a shot in the arm for a magnificent business,
If I had been interviewed by the same young man after Cardin I would have thrown my hai in the air and cried with truth—"ilere i GENIUS,"
FROM BALMAIN... a maypole-ribbon keaddress.
like the paper on over liquid-looking crepes these
Shades of the chemise-soc are all around te—but only shades,
You just can't
keep still
clothes are sheer joy,
CARDIN hai chemiselike tresses with floating panels hins-cut ruffles spiralling from shoulder to hem
chikon drapes drifting backwards across barc-arm dresses,
...
→ BALMAIN bas maypale rib- bons (straight strips of fabric
MOVE crepe.
masses
floating
A
GOODBYE, LITTLE BABY DOLL...
queen. Six back to his king, and nine to dummy's ace.
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What do you do? A-Fars. You would rather try for game in no-irump than in diamonds.
TODAY'S QUESTION You hold the same hand. Your partner opens ona spada. What do you do?
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Answer Tomorrow
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LADY LUCK
your
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YOU!! LUCKY NUMBER: Count the letters in your first name and add the total to the number shown in brackets after your sign of the Zodine. This is your lucky number for today,
Rupert and the Winter Sale-7
East 14 24 Paus 34 Рага 54 Pata Pass
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SALE
Opening lead—§ 5
Then he led dummy's. three of diamonds and East suddenly welco up to note that he had atten- not been paying, much tion to what had gone on.
He did remember that his partare had followed to only two diamonds so that declarer was left with one diamond and one heart.
What diamond was it? It couldn't be the deuce! So South was going to win that trick und lead a heart.
East discarded his last spade. South produced the deuce of diamonds and dummy's spade won the last trick.
TRIS DAY
As the crowd nears the main doar they go faster, until they are awept into the great store in a flood, Ladies of all sizes elbow and jostle, and Rupert is pushed from side to side and squashed between other people. **Whew, this is weird," he pulls. "I've
never seen Mummy and Mrs. Sheep and Mrs. Badger as excited as this. There must be something very important here." He is too little to see where he is going, and. struggling out of the stream, he is just in time to see Mra. Bear forcing her way round corner,
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STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
How About A Walk?
-Everybody Wants To Go, But Nobody Can- By MAX TRELL
and hot and coat."
and when we get there, we'ro going to walk back train. And
If it's too cold to walk, we're oing to run, Come with us, Hanid."
Hanid was so troubled that she could hardly speak.
"Walking la the simplest thing
in the world," said General Tin
No one had ever seen General
"You can't go for a walk." Tin sitting down. "And I've got
she Anally said in a low, 1- was Knart, the Shadow my hat and cost on, too," Boy with the Turned-About All the others now looked happy voice, "because you can't LL pre-collection gossip of a tremendous emphasis on Name, who firet ouggested that around the room for their hats Walk."
youth is so much nonsense,
and coals. they do it.
And no sooner were the words "Oh dear," said Mory-Jane, The ble difference being that that look like pleats until the the dear little baby doll look girls you may well tip your Punch and his wife Judy
The great big news is that Takirut a lesson from the Dior] oui of his mouth than Mr the Rag Doll "I haven't got you put out your right foot, so many of the slim, pleated or wearer walks)...
then you put out your left foot. folded and deceptively simple coarves
of foft is over, along with the "beat" torso to a terrifying angle of 20 General Tin, the Tin Soldier, and
Right fool--left foot....right, clothes are made for
Won't need thom from the Mary-June, Juck. So far as Paris is con- degrees backwards
the Rag Doll, and
left, right, left. That's all there MENT.
DIOR has flowered chiffons eerted youth has had its ting hips.
Miss China Doll--the beautiful Those much-heralded" "nym-
"Welther have 1," said Mr is to walking. Just watch me..." the hips and held
Why these girls don't fall flat one with the blue eyes and the Bloused to It's going to be a RUNING, with a draped nach finishing in phets" dragged red-herringwise on their back; i'll never know. long blonde curl and Teddy
They all watched as General WALKING, JUMPING - UP ·
One thing is certain. If you the Stuffed Bear, and Hiawatha, for works before us were notice-
It turned out that no one had Tin tried to move forward. He AND-DOWN season.
Jong nying ends.
• LANVIN has drifting over- able only for their absence,
do, you won't be able to catch the Small-Sized Wooden Indian, a hat and cost excent Knarf tried to get his right foot to go For you simply will not be
out, then his left foot. They With fairly short, dark hair so much as a glimpse of your all agrood that it was a won- and General Tin, cloud-like drapery skirts able to keep still in the new from the shoulders
of full- (total eclipse of the blonde), off- new square-toed pumps.
But Knart said that that was both stayed stuck. General Tin clothes. Stilting down they are length evening gowns ・・
But, provided your hips can tulle white faces, pallid lips and huge
all right. The sun was warm. stayed stuck. He just lood iera then nothing-sleeveless ons" as light as candy floss.
dark eyes, the mannequins, take them-and there is a man
They wouldn't really niced a hot there, mainty. Wide necked and o NINA RICCI has capes trailing clouds of chiffon purp. in your life as a focal point for
and cont just for a walk down collarless too.
to the end of the street and trailing ostrich feather borders, strode forth to greet the spring. "Butter"--you'll adore the new
You too will do cowlso. clothes.
back again. Starling up they are straight You get the idea?... FLUIDI -sometimes widening towards the hem like a half-furled um- brella.
But just let the wearer move and they spring to life.
They Hipple. They spiral. They shimmer. They fan out and
flost back,
These clothes
are sheer joy
As maypoles streaming with swirling ribbons, as Ngureheads with: their draperies Down backwards, the women of 1981 will meet this restless nye with MOVEMENT-masses of move- ment in every line.
For all who revel in the soft seductiveness of chitfon, tho
at an angle
of 20 degrees.
ariness of organza, the subtle! FLOATING. shimmer of transparent ullits
What it all
all means for you and me
*
•
IT MEANS gaps, folds, and fly-away pleats on tallored coats
and cost-dresSOD,
derful idea.
Knarf's idco
The Idea that Knar! suggest cd was that they should all stand up, put on their hats and coats and walk down to the end of the street,
Punch.
"If it feels cold!" sald Teddy, "we can run.”
Mr
said "ne, fine, fine,"
smiling ht Teddy.
"And then what will we do?"* Teddy asked, looking around at Punch,
"But you can't go for a walk,” sald Hantd to Milas China Doll.
cald Mr "I'm busy, too," Punch's wife, Judy
Hiawatha, who was sitting in a corner, drew his blanket over his head and went to sleep. Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, ane nounced cheerfully:
Punch'll show them
"I'll take a walk come other day," he said at last. "I'm a bit busy this morning anyway." "I'm not going to walk. I'm
going to run. It's easier," "Let me show you," cald Mr swing
It's as easy an
the faces of all his friends in "You're a very clever young Punch. "You've got to
Dear Sometimes. Oft we go!" the Playroom.
"Walk back again!" they all said. Teddy wasn't very bright thought of that not to have bimself.
They can't go
Teddy rolled your feet out,
Instund of running, Teddy falling off a log."
Mr Punch owung his feet rolled. He rolled under the book- out. The next second he was case and stayed there. Just then Hanid, the Shadow lying hat on his face.
Krnrf loolood -around the the Turned-About
"Knart Help me up, otease," room. Then he glanced out of Name, opened tio door and
said Mr Punch. "I just remem- the window. Innipedi into the room. She
bored that I have some letters
"It's beginning to lock like seemed puzzled,
to write this morning. I'll go rain." he said. "I don't think "We're all going for a walk," walkiner with you all some other wo ought to go for a walk to-
"It's a bemutựu merning Girl with IT MEANS straight jackets, and slim skirts-with the alter-
native of flared and stiffened skiris (like an Inverted glass lumbier) if you can wear the wider Une,
IT MEANS masses of sheer fabrics. I foresee fortunes made from 'volte if the Manchester cotton boys are quick off the
mark.
★ IT MEANS continuing popularity for such items as print tops and matching linings to your muits, coats with side slits to the waist, and all those soft, sleeveles little crepe dressen,
AND IT MEANS you must have something PINK. To be beng on it and better bo o colour they used to call "Bola de Roso" which is amoked salmon crossed with strawberry ice-It you see what I mean?
-{London Express Service),
Kaart said.
It's perfect morning for a "There's walk," said Mr Punchi. nothing I like better ttian a walk on a bright, clear, sunshiny morning, OR we go!"
"
His orders:
"Wints and coats on every body?" Knart ordered. "Stand Up everybody! Here wa goi"
"I'm standing up already." said Cezmi Tii, Thal wag true,
day,"
Miss China Doll told her. day if you don't mind.".
"A walk?" repeated Honid. "You're all going for a walk? Knart helped Mr Puneli back "No, not today," sald every- But-but-you can't!" she blurt- into his rocking chair.
body od out.
Mary-Jane tried to walk and
Tanid 3anced out of the Everyone looked at her in crumpled up like a reg, Mim window, too. It reemed to heT
China Doll didn't even try. astonishment,
that the sun was shining ** Teddy looked at her and sakt: "I've changed my mind." she brightly na ever, But the sadek "We're all going for a walle sald.. "I've got my house to along with all the others: down to the end of the street, clean this moming,"
"No, not today.**