THE · CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY;: APRIL;;13, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
BARBARA GRIGGS, CONCLUDING HER JOURNEY TO A WOMAN'S WORLD,' PRESENTS THE DRESS THAT'S SELLING
YORK LIKE MAD IN NEW
MAKE A MUU-MUU
THE MUU - MUU THE
here's American fashion coming back to the States from Hawaii where their missionaries took it years ago to clothe the shocking nud- ity of the pretty native girls,
Now they're on sale everywhere here, and American women slip into them for an evening
in
Craze for colour
-wilder than ever...
in
New York. Jatie arcen, deep archid, painting, wrapover kimonos in
violet, shocking pink, warm delicious soild colours that look. MERICA is a coun- dark blue have taken their like heavy ́šilkk, plain bution-
loosely striped try of extremes, so place, and bras, panti-girdles, throughs
petticoats, half-slips and panti Gaugulorsque flower-prints-for
these match.
are the departments in stores over here that, this spring, are particularly colour- drenched.
at home doing the chores it is perhaps inevitable or just curfed up with a that her most valuable book. Distinguishing contributions to inter- them from a nightie: national fashion should their vivid colour. Muu- be at two extremes. as Muu's I've seen were well. made
Hawaiian
All the best of the in stripes, prints, startling spirations which America hues.
farms out to the rest of the world, all the things which the visitar from another country covets most while prowling round New York shops and stores, tend, in fact, to fall into one of two categories:
JACOBY on BRIDGE
TODAY'S hand illustrated the
ZANY, OR...
difference between ethical THEY are zony, absurd, use- and unethical deveption. Southlessly prefly, the froth on wan the opening heart lead and the champagne. studied the hand carefully. He Or the are so blessedly prac- saw that the success of his con-leal, so clearly adapted for the woman who tract depended on getting put comfort of the
and the life she with the loss of only one club wears them
leads, that one can't think, after tries.
seeing them, how to without thera for secund longer.
Then South Ind the jack of trumps from dummy. East South went played the deuce,
do
Into the second category falls
int a long Luddle and feally most of American sportswear; played the acc. West showed the shirtwaist dress; the whole out and South made a slight easy-going idea of separates. gesture of disgum.
Into the first category fall nightdresses, glant Then South led a low club Baby-Doll
junk-rings; those dotty little find West went right up with
topped by a the aer. He might have played birdcage hats
roge and ofler, freaksized
very imaginable excuss.
Both extrelacı -- even at ho convinced that East was sitting eccond-hand, lagging pace we with a trump trick.
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ALL-OVER
UNINHIBITED
LREADY the restless spirits A feel that colour clone sull isn't guy
enough, and every lingerie counter carries a display of gaudy printed slips, their entours looking like a close-up of an Impressionist painting.
For America is colour-mad at the moment, Norman Norell'a best-selling sult is a bright jade tweed, lined in candy pink, with blouse and lapels to match.
Every store is a hot, bright ursault of uninhibited colour. Everywhere the pinks and the oranges, the Jades, the cerulean blucs and the reds abound. the archids are thrown together, stirred up, sloshed around, so that British shops remembered seem caverns of dreary restraint, and dim nondescript hues.
PRACTICAL
A
British designers will no doubl argue that this particular type of
Karment la created for speclito American need: the fact that street-clothes in America would be for too Wilm for awetleringly-heated apartments.
FOR US...?
REMAIN convinced that it Americans were dealing with too-chilly English housed anet flats, they'd be just as quick off the-house robes that were com- the mark at producing round- fortingly warm and snug.
In any case, the need to change into something pretty and comfortable at the end of a long day's work remains the same in either case.
Please, British designers and shopkeepers, can you start in on them now?
Woman's country.
POST-SCRIPT BEFORE DE- HE great revelation of Ameri- PARTURE: NOW I KNOW
can fashion to Inn is Clits 福 category that simply doesn't American genius has just solved exist It England.
one of the most searing of all This is their whole range of bachelor-pirl problems; how to preity, casual, incredibly low- avoid answering the telephone priced robes and housedresses, when it's the bore of your life made to kick around in for the of the other end, without folling housework, or to be slipped into Timothy-who-is-top-of-the-list. when you return at the end of
For a trivial monthly sum all
PICTURN BY VIDʻZINOH.
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LADYLUCK
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
THURSDAY, APRIL 13
AQUARIUS (11) (January 21-February 10): Don't let your pre-occupation with personal problem impair the sound judgment" on which your work dopanda,
PISCES (6) (February 20- March 203: Although you may act hypocritically at times, this does not keep you from being casentially honest person,
ARIES (4) (March 21-April 19): An expenditure 'you are planning for the home may be unnecessary, and you ought to use the money for something you need more urgently.
TAURUS (8) ́(Apdi 20-May 20): Make certain that the plan you have in mind has its practical applications and le not just an unrealis- tic dream,
GEMINI (12) · (May 21-Juno 21) Don't be tempted to give advice lightly. Your - friends have great confid- ence in your wisdom and sincerity.
CANCER (9) (June 22-July 21); Get to know a now #equaintance better before taking the responsibility of Introducing him into your close social circle.
LEO (2) (July 22-August 21): You should attend to some long neglected cor- respondence before the sub-
ject matter becomes hope- leanly out of date. VIRGO (6) (August 22- September 22): A surpriso la in store for you, and you will be delighted with the Imagination shown by the donor.
LIBRA (7) (September 23- October 22): It will tako a great deal of persuasion to make your partner seo eye to eye with you on tho holiday arrangements you have in mind. SCORPIO
(3) (October 23- November 21): Your superior at work is suff- ciently well disposed to- wards you to listen to a grievance you have long wanted to voice.
SAGITTARIUS. (1) (Novem- ber 22-December 21): A friend's recent mistake will teach you a very valuable lesson and deter you from taking 1 similar wrong stop.
CAPRICORN (10) (Decem ber 22-January 20): By trying to Imagine yourself in a friend's position you will be able to judge hin be. haviour much more sym. pathetically.
YOUR LUCKY NUMBER:
Count the letters in your Arat home and add the total to the number shown in brackets after your sign the Zodiac. This is your lucky number for, the week.
DEB WORLD HEADS BACK TO THE
THE Duke of Kent's engagement to Katharine
Worsley, the country girl who has never been a deb, has considerably reduced the en- thusiasm of mothers now starting that expensive London season for their daughters.
"Makes you wonder if it is worth bothering with at all," said one at a recent Mum's lunch, a long, fatiguing day. And all your calls are answered after gazing at the engagement headlines with poorly"
of them decent enough to answer the door in.
This housedress formula 't just a stray, happy thought, it's a solid slice of the fashion busi- ness that netted about £180,- 000,000 (HK$2,686 milion) in
1990.
For their comfort, their gulety and their eturm, I'd like to see hundreds and thousands of them made in England.
IN the way of ZANINESS—the
I've looked at and longed for current mania is for colour right the way through lingerie, rows of them at home-crisply While, pesch und pale pink cut conts in brilliantly printed have vanished beneath the coun- towelling, striped popovers as ters like war-time cigarettes. brightly coloured as a child's
just three rings by a pleasant voice which informs the caller that you are out, that she is very sorry but she has no idea when you will be back, and can she take a message?
It's about then that you liently lift the receiver your- self and either replace it with a shudder or else cut in smooth- lp: "It's all right, I'll take the call, it just took me some time to get to the phone, thank you 40 much.. Timothy, DAR- LING....
--[London Express Servies}.
concealed malice.
COUNTRY...
by
Sarah Coleman
daughter of the Marchioness of June 20 BCCS debutante For Katharine has caught everything connected with them. Northampton.
dance in the City of London and England's most eligible young When the Queen abolished the As one mother gold; "It's another at the Dorchester, July
In man without joining the De presentation of debutantes, many harder work the country, 24 two at leading London hotels And July 6 Lady Marl Bury has u butants world and "doing the cf those in Court el:cles thought nicer and much cheaper.
for season" in the accepted sense. would mean the end of the you don't get involved with these dance
nt her daughter and artifcial world dreadful young men and their Londonderry House and a few The Queen, among other mem- outdated bers of the Royal Family. Is the debs had created in London horrid debs' directory. Why doors up the road Lady Barlow
Lady asked two boys who has one at the Dorchester. delighted with this aspect of the since the war.
had been in prison to several But although anany, mothers Duke of Kent's bride-to-be. For
of her dinner parties last year since she abolished, presenta hnd misgivings the deb season
I mean, really...." tion at court, deba in the old went on getting less social and
diostesses every year.
Avill go lo accepted some of the words have more commercial censed to exist and the Royal The Duke of Kent's engagment length to keep their Family has tended to discouraga now proves without doubt the even at dinner parties.
theory held by many mothers It is therefore easy in London available. Several unfortunate that for a girl to do the season for a boy with a prison back- Bat out hinders matrimonial ground to escort your daughter prospects rather than helping to a deba" dance. them.
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Mr. Merlin's Magic
-It Turns February Into Merry Month Of May—
By MAX TRELL
KNARF And Dianid. the
The Robins were singing. The Squirrels were springing from branch to branch. A Puppy ran down the path chasing his tail. From snewhere close by came the music of a merry-go-round, A red balloon went satling up into the blue sky.
"It's lovely. Mr Merlin!" cried Hanid, clapping her hands
walk through the park.
Just let's see"
He started to turn a page, Shadow Children with the but Knarf and Honid both with joy, per deception for Strath
to Turned-About Names, were just shouted that it wouldn't do a play the pack of trumps
starting to walk through the bit of god to turn the pages up with the ace; park on a ne, bright but quite of the calendar. That couldn't dummy: go and lead
club. I was also sharp wintry day when all at change the weather. # perfectly proper for him to once they heard someone call- "Just let's see," Mr Merlin huddle before lending that jacking their names. They turned said again. of trumps. but it wag entirely
around.
improper for him to go into an It was Mr Merlin the Mag-
get before rising with the cellcent Ataglekan, dressed by a of spades. Then, it was even more improper for him to Ko into histributes when West showed ent.
Deceptien in bridge is cnly proper when you deceive by mens of your netual piny: no! the manner of your play, Of course, you are allowed to play fast even though you have a problem, but the reverse is not You must not study allowed, when you have nothing to
think about.
Turned to March
"Don't turn any more pages!" begged Knari.
But Mr Merün didn't seem to hear Knarf or Honid,
He tumed to June, It became warmer, Knarf und Hanld took off their coats.
He lurned to July. It became hot, Knorf and Hanid took off their shoes and stocking and started to go wading in the fountain.
"Br-r, isn't it cold?" Knarf naked Bår. Merlin.
He turned to March. It aud heavy overcoat with a fur col- denly turned cloudy. The wind Jat, a green velvet hat, ear- howind. It snowed and it rained muffs, mafier pl woullen at the same time. gloves.
"No! No! No!" cried Kaari. Mr Merlin tumed to August. "Good morning, my Chic-
They turned their backs to kens!" he end. "And how are the wind. They sunk their heads
It became very hot, Knarf and froze. Hund sat down on the grass hurriedly you both this morning?"
Into their coat collars to keep and fanned themselves. Deep in again, "Good morning, Mr Merlin,” out the snow and the rain.
the shade of the trees the shouts of the "We're fine, thank
"guem Merch is ald Hauld.
Robins and the Squirrels stayed lake. you."
on February," Mr very still. provement , Mr Merlin," old Knarf. Merlin said. And then he turned "Br-r, isn't it cold?"
the pake
An astonished look appeared April.
on Mr Merlin's face.
"Cold?" le repeated.
"Did
no Im-
'Wrong sort'
MEN
Ideal way?
any ONCE fixed, these dates
numbers
"They're horrid'
ein-
not be changed because there is not another dala
hostesses, are likely to have spent time and money to find half the people invited will ke of the other dance,
S. Those with money will
Many mothers thinks the deba season as it is will end this year with, complete division of EN looking for a wife these THE more eligible young men
days feel that the debu who has already been
tend to dislike London. One forces.
sked to
Backed by Royal disapproval, tanto has acquired expen 3 deb
country dances said to me," the old
families will sive tastes beyond their means shall go to less than half, Mostly tend to
withdraw their girls and mot the wrong port of
the week-end
Irom London more as cach year country CRCs, people. Many of
bret the marriages are not made in Lon-one in the London hotels, They
concentrate on London. don ballroom but on country are all the same-borrig."
Tom Husiler, society photo- The ceensions such na Hunt Balls
for excorts in grapher, who attends most of the and polit to pelata,
London is going to be particu- London deb dances, says: "For The deb world has never been lorly bad in June and July those with money I think deb bigger, more commercial, or when several unfortunate life in London will be as it is meant lesy socially than it does hostesses have clashing dates. today. Already planned be-
On June 7 Lady Mary Lyon Dances will get bigger and tween Apill and July are 40 gives a dance for her adopted better and more expensive and major cocktail parties and 101 daughter, Miss Ariel Strickland, the only problem will be getting
deb dances..
rush
for the next 10 years or more.
in Chiswick, and Lady Thomp the young men to attend them." Each of these will cost the son and Mrs Mackenzie give a And the ideal way to bring piris? parents between £1,000 dance for their daughters at a out your daughter in 1981 and (HK$18,000) and £5,000 London hotel. (HK$80,000) and there; are two
the
onwards? Sixteen mothers still gazing resentfully at the ple
have the
30
Rupert and the Paper-fall-25
or three on the same night in Both parties are on the river tures of Katharing Worsley: London in the middle of the Thames, about five miles apart, agreed that If you austumer, The whole thing has and if the weather is fine it to country background, friends and' become purely commercial,
expected that half the escorts relations to help, a small week- and Knart
Hanld
This year doughters of will spend their time In boats end dance in a nice country mit on their conta
actrestes. film stars, models, between the two dances,
house up to 50 milles from They could hear the circus
and proprietors
Clly June 9 will diatribule the debe London is the answer everyt skators on the Janunciers, whose parents were between Suffolk, Norfolk and time, A flock ot hungry not themselves presented in past Stroy for three dances.
-(London Express Service). prominent Im Sparrow flow overhead, Some years are one shouted "Merry Christmas?" Loudon scene, of the calendar to Beginning of autumn
Mothers who were themselves Cold and grey Mr Merlin turned to Septem- Mr Merlin turned to January, presented by their mothers Suddenly again the sun came
ago ore beinaning the and
Hanid hugged yes out. It was fresh and cool. The ber. Some of the flowers began Kuart hear you any cold?"
The Robins all had themselves. The sky was cold amount of money they can so easily be Jockeyed into spending Kvars in the park turned bright to fade.
London ♥*CARD Sense vigorously.
Knart and Hand both nodded green. An elm tree near Knart families, and so did the Squir- and grey. The sun shone ilke
and Hanid showed its buds. A rela. The Puppy had Secome a very ampli lang in a very, big and doubling that the
season today la a suitable place "It's the middle of the win- buah pprang into blossom, all big Dog and didn't bother about room. ter," Hanid said. "Why golden yellow.
chasing his tall Knarf anil
"Welt," zaid Mr Merlin as heat all for a 17-year-old girl. shouldn't it be cold?"
The next instant; however, Hanid put on their shoes and finally "It's February," Knart re-
The rain stockings again.
.pgain here's where wo came the sun vanished, minded My Merlin, "It's always poured down.
Mr Merin turned to October, in my Chickens. I guess, we'd
IN' |cold in February, Imít li?"
"April shower," said Mr Mer It got brisk. The leaves started better take our walk If we're the way of ZANINE98.the is going back to the country, iln. "Let's try May,"
falling off the trees. They nui- going to take it. k
This year tered off with the wind dancing "You're right about that eal-where it started
like. Lady Norrie, ke Follow Birds and making endar," he said as they started people
un the path past the leaficos Indy Killearn, Lady Hawke, rustling mines.
More of the flowers faded, trees and bushes, "it docem't Lady Wedgewood, and the Duke Only the asters and the chry change the weather ce bit, and Duchess of Marlborough aro their daughters" and santhemum and here and there Come on lel's welle faster, slving
Maybe" wenn welk eight grand-daughters: smällen - dunees a rose still biteamed -
«mong carefully Then Mir Merila tumed to through March into prit and at home November. It grow cold. The May and Julia. Who known?" locled, friends, as was done In
And Kart and, Stepid took the old, dayON CAR Robing flow away,
He turned to December.
K Mr. Meriln'a-hands and, they all C. It will be an end-diozne" affair, too, for Lady Judith Compton, grow colder, still. The lake, broke into, a run.
The bidding has been: North Xast Foulk West
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What do you do?
A-Bid three bearis. You an- sume your partner holds at leasi five hearts,`becsuso with four ihearts aux four eluka ho would
have opened one club.
TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner continues with a bid of the spades. What do you do now?
Angwis TomOTTOW
Looked at calendar
So, he turned the page of the Mr Morlia didn't shy any calendar to May. thing for a moment or tvo, And now, magically, the ratt The sun shone down Then he took a calendar cut of slopped. lila pocket and looked at 1. like a #reat smiling face Knarf "Yo, you're riuti, It is and Hanid jocked, with worker February," he admitted, "Tut at all the dowers nocking and Why does it
be bowing in the swam and under avo Lo February 11 just turn the the tree the violets and pop pages of this calendar. I'm piles and unetnones and dallo, The leaves were on tim suro we can find 'n pleksinier clile. imonia than February for our treng
turned to February At home
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As he has promised Ruper! hands over the Nutwood paper and the other given a "aatinlied cry. "That's nị That's itt", bu chuckles, You see, ant of thor dreadfulopes-rockats passed......10 near to Sinta Linup's head oflice shay it made a terrific histricanu
'and blew all the instructions for tha destries of his desk. Many of them fell be shower near you und pasa geen Tamm_back 'to 'To though we're late, we've been ∙able to send the Christmas premata tamos villagea and this paper will help us for your village.
ALL RIGHTA NARRAYED.