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your
LUCK
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27
AQUARIUS (2) (January 21-
"
February 19): A temporary
coolncas between you and
your partner should not he
taken too
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
COMING: THE
CRAZE
FOR CULT CLOTHES
LONDON.
MINOR revolution
is being started in
You the fashion world Beriously.
by
will soon make it up with the girls who refuse to each other. PISCES (11) (February 20-conform. Tired of losing March 201: This would be their waistlines, tired a favourable day to attend of the ricocheting hem- to au important task you line too, they're sticking out for clothes, that suit their personality and telling high fashion to go hang.
lacked the condence 10 tackle carlier.
ARIES (5) March 21-April 19): By giving suflicient
T
Uncrowned queen of the non- conformists is of course Brigitle Bardol, who oparked off a care that left the top for gingham fashion designers goping.
thought to the preparations for family gathering, you can avoid some embarraSS- ment which otherwise might result. TAURUS (G) (April 20-May 20): A meeting with some congenial people ut #1 Chlef henchmen in this crozo friend's home could ensure the girls in their teens and large your social horizon early twenties, angry young immeasurably.
women of fashion who don't see why they should all dress like
A FLAIR
GEMINI (7) (May 21-June | evin it "Dlor says so.
21): Faced with a problem which needs careful docision, don't depend on your usual luck, but treat it with the seriousness it deserves,
· CANCER (4) (June 22-July 21): You will anon are the funny side of a situation which embarrassed
JVN greatly at the time. LEO (3) (July 22-August 21): You will be strongly attracted to a person with whom you will come in contact on the occasion of rendering a social service. VIRGO (8) (August 22- September 221: Make time for a hobby which interests you greatly. It may duvetall Beatly with your work as it develops.
LIBRA
(1) (September 23- October 22): Arrangements for a business trip may have to be changed at the last minute, but events
girls is Mary Quant, a Chelsea- Chief dressmaker to the cult
ile in her twenties who makes
clothes with a definite flair about them which owe nothing to the Paris couturiers. When I want to know what is the current cult craze, I always ask Mary.
ABOVE LEFT: For the cult girle a full-length evening skirt with a tin sash made up la Barclay tartan, worn with a black cashmere top.
Both from the House.
What's coming into fashion right now? Glitter-pants, for one thing. They are made from soberly cul dogstooth check fabric which is gold-flecked, and and thrust sparkles unexpectedly as you
walk.
The cult girls wear them with plain gold chain-mail tops.
The Arab shirt which Mary Quant spotted in North Africa is now selling to the cult girls as fast as it can be unloaded onto the shop counters.
STRING
It is made from fine knitted cotton, looks ke Grandpa's
has
will prove the, altered time best shirt without its collar, and more favourable to your comes in some wonderful colours purpose.
—my Invourite version SCORPIO (12) (October 23-shocking pink stripes.
November 21): Clear up a
It is cheap and pretty, and misunderstanding which
can be screwed up into a ball otherwise might mar а budding friendship, SAGITTARIUS (10) (Novem- ber 22-December 21): An interesting proposition ought to be considered not only on its own merits, but as a means of furthering important business
an
association.
into your suitcase without suffering. Arab shirts are worn with very plain denim fetas or newer slili, a dead- plain skiri cut from browTI denim.
Sootch
-by....
ABOVE RIGHT: This collarless, sami fitted ault in purple Shetland tweed has a long matching stole pinned at the shoulder with a Cairngorm brooch.
JANE ROGERS Fashioned in London
Cuit girls who are handy with their needles are malting them- selves shirts out of knitted string, If you can stand the strain of coping with string and huge wooden needles, you end up with sweater that is sur- urisingly soft to wear, gives a texture that rough and tough goes well with casual clothes.
This week I met a dynamic blonde who takes the personality cult still further, and believes Soon Heather will be market- that you should not only dress ilg her own designs of cult on the signs of to suit your type-but your clothes, keyed
the Zodiac. Zodiac sigu as well.
for evening crepe sille ar rayon cut into simple, clothes with a good line about them.
If you are the country-loving type, then go for rough-textured tweeds all the time and even wear a tweed sleeveless dress for
cocktail, dissed up with massen of gilt jewellery.
Finally, if you are the kind of who is 'with B,' who likes 10 be one step ahead of the rest.
Her name is Heather Barnes Personality dressing takes then the field is wide open for and she spends her time lectur- some practice, if you're used to you. ing to organisations up and doing what Paris dictates. If down Britain, trying to persuade you are the pretty, feminic type; the horizon that I have photo- Two new ideas coming up on men and women to brighten up then look for soti, dreamy their way of dressing..
fabrics like chiffon cuddly tex- Fraphed, which might have been made for you are the long plaid tures such as mohair.
evening skirt I picked it in If you are sophisticated, then yellow and black and the sult pick some of the new abstract with its' own matching atcic, prints in sombre colours, and, speared with a giant brooch.
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
An Air Mail Letter
CAPRICORN (9) (December-Chirpie Receives A Letter From Red Robin→
22-January 20): Money from
an unexpected source will make possiblo a domestic
By MAX TRELL
improvement you have long CHIRPIE Sparrow came to this
desired.
YOUR LUCKY NUMBER:
clighted on the window sill.
But
he didn't return the
a Br!" Knart suddenly claimed.
cx-.
Hanid looked again. She was 200 that ker surprised to brother was right. The black markings on the back of the stamp were in the shape of a Bind's fect. It looked as ir a
Count the letters in your with the Turned-About. Names, He' had what seemed to be a bit Ped down on the back of the
first name and add the total to the number shown
in brackets after your sign. of the Zodiac. This is your lucky number for the week.
stop.
.
good-morning greeting on or Bird had stuck his fest, an window dil for his morning and Honid. He just kept ned ink bottle, or perhaps in thick, bread crumbs and Knart and ding and shaking his head. Then black mud, and had then stop Braid, the Shadow Children they saw why he didn't answer. were waiting by the window of paper in his beak. the inside-the-roomside of the window-lo greet him.
It was a cold, windy, Winter Chirpie Sparrow
morning.
on BRIDGE
JACOBY on B
COUTH thought to himself, "IL weren't Friday the 13th I
would try for a grand slom; as its. I am going to bid six no- trump and get in that extra 10 points.
We werd a good suɑre and this is no me for shilly: shallying."
dummy hit the When the table South rather wished that he had deferred a trifle further to Friday the 13th and eattled for a six heart contract. Ploying · af hearts he could afford 10 play the ace of Hearts first and then try for seven if both. opponents followed.
At six no-tup the play of In high heart was a luxury he could not afters. He might
wind up going down four tricks,
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Fast Bouth Weat Páse
FABS Fass Pass 3.0 Pats
You, South, hold:
SAJU7G WAG34 +KQY10 ME
What do you do?.
A-4 A hoaris. You must!
• minko`nod dry for a alam and this is the best way to go about}: It.
TODAY'S
QUESTION Trustend of bidding four spadox] your, Partner has raised" "your" three diamond bid to four. What do you do now?
Aurwer Tomorraw.
From Rod Robin
"Chirple! What's that you've
"It's letter," Chirple kept cot in your beak?" Hanld asked.
"Getaletterlakefiskoillakeft !" saying. "It's as air mail letter Chirple answered all la o Jum- frem my friend Red Robin. He's ble of chirps with his beak shut. down South where it's warm. He's here for the Winter. This
"He says he's got a letter," is his letter. The wind blew It Knart said to Hanid. "He says up to me,
"What's that you've got in your beale?" Hanld asked Chleple."
THE PETIT FOURS
-TRAY
TRAIL-BLAZING A NEW ERA OF FASHION?
by Peggy Massin
Paris.
EMPHASIS on a natural waistline belted by wide
is the keynote of Hubert de Givenchy's spring fashion collection, shown to journalists three. weeks after buyers and private clients made their appraisal.
The new silhouette is evolutionary without dramatic change, but. Givenchy may well be trail-blazing. a new ern of fashion.
Dresses remain stark pillars of architectural struc- tura with no sleeves, no collars and no nonsense. They have supple bloused bodices above easy gathered skirts. Hemlines remain a knee-cap length.
A few late-day clothes ignore the waistline in long tubular effects, paired with alde-biased flounced hem- bands. Coats are voluminous, cut in wide sandwich board treatments with deep-set bat wing aleeves.
as
SKI-JUMP DIPS
Shoulders are sloped, and, often drop as sharply a ski-jump. Horizontal seaming, yoke insets or curved sections vary the coats.
Also on display are loose jackets ranging from waist to hip-bone length, with yoke treatments, big fancy buttons, and contrasting overblouses. A white slubbed linen suit is accompanied by a black lid over- blouse.
Collarless necklines are emphasised by separately cut long muffler scarves, in fabric matching the print blouse or contrasting toned hat.
Givenchy is preoccupied by light colours, headlining the range of brilliant yellows and candy pinks, with accessories almost always in oyster white. Numerous string and putty-coloured ensembles are contrarily shown with flower-bright bowler or cloche hats.
EXTREMELY FANCIFUL
Late-day millinery is extremely fanciful. Givenchy shows parasol hats with organdy brims spreading to the shoulder blades. He completely hides the face of one.. of his beautiful oriental mannequins with a giant black organdy handerchief.
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Other special features are allm coccon capes styled without armhole slits, an inch-wide revalled fringe edging street-suits, and abstract geometric silk prints in sombre colours-Reuter.
Homework-
by Helen Burke not children
THESE
THESE Viennese short- bread tartlets are made
of a most adaptable mix-
ture. It can be piped into tiny cases as used in boxes
it's
who hate it...
of chocolates or in larger A LOOK around the schools, highlights home-
work as this term's most controversial subject. And the stepping up of the homework situation (longer hours, younger children doing it all points to more work for parents.
as
small cup cake sizes. And they can also be piped into fingers, rings, stars and going to do ligure 8's-indeed, anything
as your fancy suggests.
Micham schoolgirls have an- rooms and dart from one to the half plain and half
well pelf-raising flour because plain nounced that distractions make other giving help us
homework preparing my husband's dinner." flour one makes them slightly it impossible to do "Well," said Chirgic, you
And Chirple rubbed his beak uninteresting and it all self at home. They prefer to stay on don't always have to have words
Mrs Harry Secombe has an. of dust on the raising four is used the tartlets at school instead. to say something. Red Robin is against a bit
a certain
11-plus daughter now in Gram- Hanid put out her hard and telling me that he feels fine, window sill, and made the mark break up, entailing
At Streatham a headmaster mar school took the bit of paper. It was He wouldn't be dancing over of his beak on the stamp right loss.
complained that boys wore pro- about the size
postage that stomp if he didn't feel across the mark of Red Robin's
The saving grace is that at Cream 70%. butter very well. venit from doing homeword fing!"
fest.
Have ready
rified 4oz. each because their parents gave par- present Jennifer comes out of
school at half-past three which 1 plain and self-raising flour and ties.
Gradually
means that homework is over 204. caster sugar,,
in time to relax during the mix half of them into the bul
evening.
wake it, take it, take it. that
what you just
Isn't cald,
Chirpie?"
Chirpic Sparrow nodded.
"How are you Knart "But if it's a letter,"
asked said to Chirpic, "what dozs 11 that, Chirple dear? say? How can you read
it Elania.
"I'm going to do this," sald without any words?"
Chirpic.
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"And now," said Chirple, "I'm "Good-morning" Chirpis was going to send him an air mail now saying. "Hold on to that letter telling him that I'm get letter, please. Don't let the wind ting plenty to eat this Winter." blow it away. I just received
IL I haven't read it yet."
"But it isn't a letter, Chirpie dear," said Hold. "It's only a postage-stamp/"...
It's a lotter
He led his three of hearts, "Oh no, it's a latter all West produced the danes. South right," Chirple
was just about to call for
insisted. "Just,
the look at the writing on "
Jack from durmy when he sud- denly reminded himselt that it
was still. Friday the 13th
Hamid laughed. "That in't and writing Chirple. That's print- know what it Bays? It says AIR MAIL."
that maybe West would have all tag Do you
four hearts..
South -called for dummy's "No, no, no," chirped Chirple. uide and sure enough Eart show-That isn't what I mean, -- The cd out.
writing is on the other aide Now it was a simple matter Just look at the other side!" for Bouth to come back to his
So Knari Hanid fcoked hand; finesse the jack of hearts and make seven no-truny for on the other aids of the postane "what turned out to be a real top | drugs ¦ They didn't keo, any score, It seems that the Deld writing. At kast, it won't the had eliher gone down at no-kind of wring they were unsi or made exactly six to. They say aume black raarks. IL 100K ko the footprints of
trump .beerts.
At Newark, Nottinghamshire,
ter and then add half teaspoon 75 per cent of the pupils in a the re-endary modern school asked Ack vanlila essence,
ond for homework because they maining dry ingredients
TOO TOUGH
"Red will know what mean!" said Chirple gleefully.
And then Chirpic picked the stamp up and let it go flying off with the wind, for after all
beat, well to a soft consistency were bared with television, I really was going by airl
It seems that it's the telly Place the mixture in a piping
"I'm bag filed with a small star pipe addicted and seeally minded
good at helping most hale home- because all the methods havo (for small paper cases) and, of parents, who
(for larger ones), work, large one
"It was bad enough changed sirico I was al school, around when they, so has the, altitude to work- Pipe into the paper cases, in a creeping cirmular
finishing werê babies", caid the father of they seem to like 16,9 movement, with a slight depression in the a studlous pair of twins, "but
| three houfs of homework in
Rupert and the Winter Sale-19
The lady is so agitated and talka silenced.. !! I really think I can help, he insists. "I was, shop. ao fast that the shopotan cannot. get a word lo, uall Rupert screws ping with my Mummy when I up his courage to interrupts Go dtopped my parcels and some. away, go away, little bear," saya thing dropped near me and dis -the man."'ll see to you in a appeared. Something reddish in minute. This matter is more colour. Oh my, if only i could important. Yes, Madai, pray pro-remember just where in the shop ced." But Rupert won't bij ie, wane SE ARA
CUT ALL RIGHTS REFERYERŐ
centre.
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes et night is wearing me out," 400 degrees Fahr, of gas mark 8. When they are cool, sift a little icing sugar over cách and drop a little red currant Jelly in the centre,
Another way is to pipe swirls, sters or large S's on to a flour
HECTIC
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Mr W. J. Langford, head- master of Battersea Grammar School, saya that his boys do homework varying from an hour-and-a-half a night to four
hours.
'He makes concessions by net- ting homework 'two days or a week in advance so that boya 1ho can adjust their timetables to ed baking sheet and bake them Mrs Elleen Jones is in
ocensional outing. as above.***.
unusual position of being include an tonchor with two school age with their parenta, A very professional way is to children, one of whom. attends nandwich cold, thin swirla, or her own school in Dulwich. 175 If you think things are pet- fing tao, tol, consider the jaros Ingora with melted chocolate ark then dip -one and of There is more more home, rramme at Shrewsbury vublic odoh "sandwich" Into molted work than there used to be," she #chrol bitere the boys trive at chocolate, d
sava. "I set more myself, I give 6.30, do an hour's school before them both something to eat ng breakfast, alors on nuth, #chool soon as wo, dirive lioms, pack, and sport unit high ina at, sk thom off to their respective then start on three hours" prep.
The approximate post of those tarilets 2 60.
=-(London Express Service).