THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
FASHION NEWS FOCUS by Barbara Griggs
That arch-enemy of chic.
(RAIN, OF COURSE)
London. duty as
pretty, lightweight Sommer coat
are perhap
INTO each life a little better bei
:)
rain must fall: but And this year. for the first
it is,
women
most.
understandably, time, it's easy to find good plain who mind it shapes made in lots of delicious
summery colours.
For rain-and the tear.
ing gunts of wind that
tend to accompany it is
the arch-enemy of chic,
Stronghold
stronghold
at
last
wrecking hairstyles, ruins, beige and navy ing coats and suits, spot- that has capitulated ting good kid gloves and is Aquasculum: their fameus nincoats, that turning fragile new shoes Aqua-Five
never red reproofing and are into sodden old wreckta.
bil-ard #repre as well as water- upellent, are being made this spring for The Brd time in range of four pastel colours too: misty blue, sugar-plak, prim- 1, and pale green.
And the nasty habit rata has of coming down from But p parently clear sky is in no way effen by any supposed beartits it enters on the complexion.
Beyond just staying hom, and sulking, what protection can possibly be devised against the beastly stuff?
A mine.at is at least half aa Answer: and there are myrand types to chang from.
They can all, however, the di- vid into two categorles: these thai lek 1ke aiemats, the inere sight of which starts peple anxiously looking at the sky and those that ordiary lightweight coals.
look like
Summer
In favour
THERE' will always be a strong
fonner
ንጉ
You can buy
nylen woven coats Every Bghtweight, that pack into a minute eurner of a Kuitense) in lots of gay calours,
In the fleld of
proofed poplin and ton, the choice is halte all the Lime-like 10 udmirable
lightweight
and
single-breasted
the
picture that, fightiv Eelted, and sheeves rolled up a peint or two. could almost be worn on its own on a day of brilliant sunstting as rather witty little cost-dress. Two dual points to be borne in mind for summer buying: maincont
light- Dick your weight as possible-suunnit ran tends to go with Anan- pleasant steambent ter which bathing sult would be the must comfortable wear, and a
as
vote 12 lavour of The Touch of hot plastic qulie the
classic cff-white jenst. the Burberrys, the famous Aquastra- tums, the plain pale ges mis- leadingly known as French-lype (though the French copied them from us in the Arst place) which
Hang on...
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PICTURE BY JOHN DOLE
The lighthearted approach...
RAINCOAT with a lighthearted approach to rain but a high rate of defence just the same. Mede in a super Swiss mixture of cotton and Terylene, Tricel-lined, it comes in a pale candy-pink, sky blue or lilac, as well as coventional stone, grey and navy,
COUP!
No
BRITISH DESIGNER BILL POOLE
SENDS NEW YORK
CRAZY ABOUT OUR SILKS
[O firm in the fashion Inspiration at least parlly
world has quite been
Oriental from Los Angeles, ne able to match the scale of Jaguar triumphs when it comes to exporting America.
new to Japan, where he saw the famous silk mills of Kiyoto, and to Bangkok, where the vivid to orangey-saffron of priestly robn
In the temples, and the elds of lotus flowers, strawberry pink and white, growing wild every- where, made a heady impact on him.
way,
But in its own Liberty of London are put- ting up some pretty stiff one-man competition. Bill For next winter, his collection Poole, designer of their is full of sombre browns and famous Art Nouveau silks, rich redis, dark paisley-lke pat- is just back from a round- terns in wool and silk chiffons. the world trip that started. with a fantastic selling spree in America, where top le signers ate up kis beautiful silka (almost literally).
Back home
ما
de
THE
New ranges
14
THE Liberly success story In
market the American more than just a pleasant gleara in the Chancellor's eye; it's an object-lesson f how to tackle the export-market,
TF America produced a "IF
signer like this, we should
Designer Bill Poole has spent never hear the end of it," sai one New York wholesaler to me, weeks in America studs ing their widely different fashion world t Currently, the American glos- close quarters. He has worked sies are splashing him in a way as closely as possible with highly gratifying
British individual designers, producing prestige-Cour pages in Ameri- new materials, special order
Harpers
even whole new Bazaarful colour-ways, colour two pages in American ranges to meet the partlculor Vague (one of them colour): needs of different designers, anal and four colour pages in Look, he has an open mind for sug- And the host of top designers gestions. who have ordered Includes names- Jike Jinumy Galanes British fashion is to breats
intu the American market Pauline Trigere. Donald Brooks which is wide open for it this and Norman Norell,
?
LADY LUCK
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE ·
THURSDAY, APRIL 20
AQUARIUS (7) (January 21- February 19): By showing that you are not easily intimidated you can ADOR gain the upper hand over someone who is trying to bully you.
PISCES (12) (February 20--
March 20): Wider gesportal- bilities and 11 certain amount of risk will maku your work in the near future doubly interesting. ARIES (1) (March 21-April 19): Listen to the advice of a very successful person, and don't be too proud to emulato his method. TAURUS (4) (April 20-May 20) Your own attitude to- wards your work will deter- mine the extent of a cul- league's willingness to co- operate.
rumour
GEMINI (3) (May 21-June
21): Make sure a which is going around has no basis in fact, before taking any action to stop it.
CANCER (2) (June 22-July 21): If you want to keep your reputation for reliabi lity, don't neglect the most insignificant detail of your work.
LEO (6) (July 22-August
21):
Because you are so indemanding and apprecia tive of the smallest favours,
your friends feel they can-
net du enough for you. VIRGO (11) (August
pro-
September 22): A mising start of a friendship should be followed up be- fore the first Impression has a chance to fade. LIBRA (5) (September 23-
October 22): A change in routine at home would bo relatively simple, and could give you more time for out- side activities. SCORPIO (8) (October 23- November 21): A weil- connected friend from abroad may be the menna of introducing you into n first-class business organis sation, SAGITTARIUS (10) (No-
vember 22-December 21): You are entitled to be in- dignant if a business ap- pointment is broken with- out any attempt being made to notify you in advance, CAPRICORN (9) (December 22-January 20): Don't be impatient with friend who cannot make up his mind. Some suggestions of yours may be helpful. YÖUR LÜCKY NUMBER:
Count the letters in your first name and add the total to the number shown in brackets after your sign of the Zoliuc. This is your lucky number for the week.
Rupert and the Paper-fall-31
Edward's idea sceme a good one, so the two pala turn round three times. When nothing happens they do it again, then again and The building still in sight, and I'm getting giddy." Edward greans dismally. "Hatf a mot I've got an idea this time."
is, very obviously, the right way Now Bill is back in London, to go about it. In one sepson.
pin, any rate, it has produced hard at work on a spring 1902 of collection which he'll take to orders
£30,000 (HK- $480,000). America again in June.
200 WOMEN WHO SHARE
IN
one hour two hun- dred women climbed a flight of Bond-street stairs in answer to a newspaper advertise-
can be found in good Ch CECONDLY, raincoats tend to ment.
stores,
with
come hung about
end labels in-
And new on the market. awing-tickets and very chic, are black dieating what they're made of, belted oilskins by Swallow how to wash and clean, them, that really are vitakin and not and how much wet-proofing you just bot black plastle, that sell can actually expect from them, for about six guincas.
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Study them all carefully and hang ou to them, along with the bl. like grim death, You ro oxgressively may need them for subsequent roln-mirated, and that wilt do arguments with the makers...
With unmer coming however, the raincoats that aren't quite
JACOBY BRIDGE
WHEN you bid a grand slam W
on
and go down ono trick you have thrown away your below the line score, your small slam bonus and the value of a game, In addition, you have probably disrupted your partnership and possibly entered into a losing argument,
Therefore, the first rule in grand elam bidding is: "Dart't bid a grand slam unless you are sure of wrapping it up!"
The casita grond stam to bld is the one where you can count 37 or
high card more points. You may not make if but you will find that the odds are really with you.
VCARD Seriseno
Q-The bidding has been:
North
East Routh
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rasa 14
2N.T.
Газа J
4%
Pasa
West Pass PAX
AB54 40
You, South, hold: AKJIGE VK32
What do you do? A-14 five diamands. You can afford to invito a slam, but you went to fear it to your patiner for further acilon, II yea don't feel like gambling, a para is not really bad underbid,
TODAY'S QUESTION
You do bid five diamunde and your partner bids six clubs. What do you do now?
Answer Tomorrow
WEST AQET
♥ J 843 +05
10 000
NORTH 4A32
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EAST 46054
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North and South vulnerable South
West North
1 N.T. Paza 7 N.T. Рамя Pass
Opening lead- 10
Fant Газа
Ore was a 15-year-old from Surrey, with her while socks pulled high.
One was an ex-member of the Polish Army in pre-war national dress.
One Was Portuguese, 1wo were French, one was Russian, two were Spanish.
There was Negress from South Africa, there was beauty from Brazil.
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They all wanted to be models. They all thought they were attractive enough and photo- genic enough to be models,
They came because they were bored with their jobs, exited on by the people they worked with, because thel boy friends thought them prettier than the smiler's in the toothpaste verligements
it-
Some
sandwiches. brought picture hats, hoilday snupshots, Mary brought Mother. For the Mr Worthington is modern every bil as anxious to put her daughter on the glossy pages of a magazine as her predecessor was determined to send her on the stage.
ONE IN 100
MOD
[ODELLING hos become Just about the most sought-after profession for giris today.
And how many of the two hundred I saw were chosen?
Five.
The top five London model agencies in London alone reckon to xcc close on 10,000 girls a year.
A
DREAM
by
Drawing
by
Robb
Jill
Butterfield
steady heights, and you can
the currently count
hands.
on just the flagers of
worth
-[London Express Sarvic®).
says Rupert, "The little jester made us sum from left to right and we're doing the same now, Let's try turning from right to left and see if that does the trick."" Edward agrees, and they spia thece times round the other way. Then they both give a gasp. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Knarf And Giddap
-Shadow Tells Milk Wagen Horse About Pegasus-
By MAX TRELL
street and going Inside, They've all got books,
"Now what I'd like to know
PROM AROUND the corner the sound real stars crane
of slow, this. What's inside those both steady hoofbeats. Klopp-klopp, books?"
klopp-klopp they went, It was
"Lots
of things," answered very carly in the morning.
Knart,
"Like what?" asked Giddap. "Like arithmetic," said Knorf.
Doesn't understand
that again, please. Like what?" Giddap stared at Knarf. "Say
DEVOTION
nectio
TT is a profession that
fantastic devotion ("Darling. you CAN work after six to- night, can't you?" is the foshlon photographer's lingo). It's 23 job that needs the bones of a racehorse and the constitution of an ox.
Knarf, the Shadow Boy with the Turned-About Name, hur. riedly put on his hat and coat. He reached the sidewalk in front of his house just as Gid- dap, the Mile Wagon Horse, come up with the milk wagon and the Milkman.
"Whoa!" said the Milkman, and he sprung off the wagon.
for the People in the
Kharf repeated:
"Like arithmetic, Arithmetic la numbers. How much is two and two?"
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Enarf tells Giddap about a. Horse with wings.
Knarf said thoughtfully after "Two and two?" repeated I have watched giris being He left almost immediately with Giddap. She rounded puzzled. trying to think, "I can't remem
two trays with milk bottles 10 two and two-what?"
ber any stories about Milkmen," photographed clad only in
Two and two anything," said Giddag. "I suppose," she added, "What about Horses?" asked bikini and a prayer in the Eng-leave Ish Channel' in January and neighbourhood. He didn't even
Knarf. "Two' and two battles that Horses are too big to fit others swathed in furs on the notice Knarf. But Giddap did.
of milk." "Good morning, friend," said roof tops of Florence when it
Clúdap.
But Giddap just stood there Inside those small booke
Kaart's face it up. has been 90deg. in the shade.
It
"There "Good morning, friend," said shaking her head. is a calling that offers
"So that's
are plenty of stories what's in those about Horses!" he exclaimed. hours of boredom (citting Knart.
books, twos-and-twos-and-twos around with your knitting while
"Let's hear one," said Gid- and milk bottles," slic muttered. the photographer mocks up a set) for a brier Ansh of glory.
It is physically one of the hardest Jobo a girl can do.
MYOPIA
ND yet over 200 women answered an advertisement
to train to be a model. Why?
Listen to one 26-year-old: "I
teens
I'm glad I saw you this morning," said Giddap, "I'm saying good-bye."
"Oh! You're going away?" asked Knarf, and he wasn't at
all pleased.
"Vacation," said Glddap. "11 be back,"
on
"there's
"Those are only the arithme- dap
"Well," said Knarf, the books," said Knart.
"There are other kinds wonderful story about a 1forse asked Giddap, jerking her head named Pegasus.“ up in surprise.
Had wings
"Pegasus? Pegasus?" repoat-
"I "I
"Spelling books," said Knart. "How do you spell Cat?"
ed Giddap to herself. "There Felt botter
"Don't know, friend," said used to be a Horse la my stablu Kharf felt better at once, ile Glddap. "But I know one when, named Peg. But I don't know
I see one." ambled,
nny Horne named Pegasus. Dki "Wish you could come along "It's not the some thing," she pull a milk wazon?" do domestic work-help In-can-with me, friend," Giddap went sald Knart.
Knart, "Oh no," said "A Cat's a Cnt," said Gid- meza," he quickly added, always mostly I've
"I'll be all alone on a big
dap, "whether you can spell her don't think Pegasus would have wanted to be a model. They form. We could have fun." lead such exciting lives like "I'd like to go, all right," said or not. Go on, please. What been very good at pulling a travelling and meeting people."
Knorf.
other kinds of books are there?" nilic wagon." Another girl aged 24 said:
"Fine," said Giddap. "Won- "The books I like beat of nil,”
"You don't say! Whai was North has 22 points opporite
"My friends cald 1 ought to try.
derful. We'll leave in the sald Knarf, “are the books with wrong with this Pegasus?" South's opening no-trump. He
And as I get fed up with my
You can it on my stories in them."
asked Giddag. Job knows South has at least 15 so
Giddap pawed her front lez as a clerk, I thought Td morning.
**There wasn't anything North should waste no time or
like to get out of a routine job." back, I'll run all the way."
But Kmart was shaking his happily.
wrong with Pegasus," said Are theso the reasons why
Knarf, head.
"lie was energy In forcing bida. He just
o wonderful bids
the
slam
Gld-
Horse. He had wings,' grand
you would apply to run in the relaxes.
Olymples, dance Swan Lake,
Giddap stood there without You
would day. take un medicine?
moving anything but her cars West opens the ten of clubs
naturt surely analyse your (£0 6 HK$101)-a week is aptide Arst?
and the end of her tall. and if South bothers to count
"A Home with wings... a he can see four tricks in rack
But perhap
those 103 de I have been talking to the the average beginner's wage),
and whose day is just about as illusioned minor suit plus three hearts principals
women who limped lending and two spades för Total agencies who tell me that about predictable as that of the girl here trought that they had.
the who spends I palinding of 13.
75 per cent of their girls and typewriter er washing the nap-
Perhaps they had belloyed their boy-friends moved in the So he can mpread his hand,) permanent postá
myopic of magazine world?' but if he feels in a nasty mood or imi't able to cmint to 13 be con play the hand out slowly and carefully. Unless he re- velies he won't go down.
and
But only one girl in every ICO applicants is even consider- ed suitable enough to be placed on an agent's books and even when accepted (not as philon- thrupte as it rounds-thë ngent takes 10
of all the per ent models earn) success Is far from guaranteed.
of
mannequins.
Then
aro
as chowroom pics.
the nine-to-five
is
"You can't go?" asked
Sounds good "Now that sounds good!" she said. "Books with stories in fow them yes, friend, they sound
good!"
"No," vald Knart. Giddap was allent for a moments.
"I guess you've got otior "There aro nteries about Girls Horse with wings," Köart heard things to do," Gidday finally and about
and about her Boyz
murmuring "A flying school. People. There are stories about Horre, Flying through the nlr said. "Like going to You know," she continued after Birds and Flowers and Princes over the rooftops with a milk inkinit
over her and Dragons and Fairies and wagon! Wish I had wings. You
and Dwatts. and could call me Glddnoвpus. (he wasn't), Gients an→→”
flying ink wegen Horse!" building a school
"What about Milkmen?" in- And just then the Milkınan Dco crowds of terrupted Ciddep. "Any stories returned and Giddap, without every day, 1 | Boys and Girls marching up the about than?"
wings, klopp-klopped off.
Klanco
roulder to see if the Milkman Witcher was coming back stillo past
Of the remaining 25 per cent
Or perhaps, oven in 1001, with the looks, the stamino, girls of the trade whose in- and
namo Vanity's to be a tho toughness comes are far from the much- photographer's
motiel. only Woman, publicised three-gure bracket about one in eight reaches evch
-London Exprete Service).
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