THE CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1981.
WEEK-END
WOMANSENSE
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Ascot winners any woman can back
SUNSHINE YELLOW A HOT
TIP... PINK STRONGLY
ANY SIDE OF THE TRACKS dress in creato shodding bluo and black printed royon, by C & A Modas, £4.9c. 11d. Dressed up for the Paddock with a sophisticated black straw picturo hat, designed by Poter Shephord.
PIATURE BY TENEMOS DONOYAN
R
FANCIED
by JILL BUTTERFIELD
FASHION PAGE
with a shiny shamrock green sailor hat topping her cream- coloured evat.
OYAL ASCOT— garden party dresses which somehow the mix- seom to be whisked up from
The Begum Aga Khan ture never changes. The organdies and organzas.
Clothes were just beauti- - lovely and lofty as over, grass is always emerald, ful backgrounds. Simple silk with her dazzling smile, the toppers are always suita, off-the-peg coats, grent patience and terrific grey, the rails stem ubiquitous dress and jackets, chie; cool-looking in spotted. white as
aquamarine silk with 11 a detergent were first favourites,
› advertisement, and every And there was the usual matching perky little straw
possible form of fashion crop of lanky-haired debs flirts across the Royal swishing around in full- Enclosure.
skirted shirtwaisters..
But 1961 Ascot will go down in fashion history as the year when you needed neither rose-coloured spec- tacles nor the umbrellas most women carried.
The brilliant colours won the day. Pink was everyone's favourite rosy pink, candy pink, pink deep as the heart of u rose. The sunshine yellow which Princess Mar- garet wote was heavily backed. All the blues in the book were there in full force from the misty, milky turquoise the Queen chose to the perennially popular bright navy.
But the weather had un doubtedly affected'
most women, Missing this year, those gorgeous extravagant
hat.
MY CLOSE CHALLEN- GERS:-
But the hats the hats were a very different story. o Countess Annoni, smattering of feather-light in a black and white silk / Ithough there. was a bubbly dark-haired - beauty mufin hats, of flower- sult spiced with a mustard petalled caps, of little cravat.
bowlers, every other girl in the Paddock o
Mrs Michnel Dornier, had borrowed her hat from a pink and white rosebud # Breton sailor and girl in navy blue allk with "snup" was the greeting of a candy-flons pillbox on her the day.
feminino
There were Bretons of tulle, of shiny black straw, there were Bretons woven from ribbon, scattered with flowers. There were Bretons topping fresh young faces und Bretons (unfortunately) perched on blue-rinsed hair.
MY FASHION FAVOUR ITES OF THE DAY:-
we
sleek blonde hair.
HANDICAPS to any fashion entrant are:-
Fur stoles in the bright- ness of a June afternoon;
White shoes which are grassy green after 10 minutes in the Purdock;
Open-backed sandals suck- cd into the soggy turf.
Princess Marina (shall
And the saddest sight of ever learn to call the all the drooping plastic Duchess of Kent that?) in a mac I saw shamefacedly dis- dramatic vivid velvet hat of appearing into the Royal the striking turquoise they Enclosure. used to call Marina Blue.
Princess Alexandra,
beaming behind her mother,
NEVOL
bronztan
THE BUNTAN LOTION THAT PROTECTS EVEN AFTER KWSHMINGI
CALADRYL
RELIEVES SKIN IRRITATIONS
& PRICKLY HEAT.
SOOTHES THE DISCOMFORT OF INSECT BITES & STINGS
THE
IVE FINISHED CLEANING OUT. THE LOFT
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(London Expiran Beroler), (
DRAWING BY
Robb
ANY SIDE OF THE TRACKS two-plece dress in sugar pink slik and rayon, trimmed with whito, by Linzi, £6.6s. It becomes smart enough for the Royal Enclosure with a soft straw sou'wester. Collarless coat in white honeycomb cotton, by Richard Shops, £3.96..11d., gains glamour with an elegant ayeshading hat in navy bluo tullo. Hats designed by Jonny Fischor.
FASHION TIPS
Sleeves or no sleeves
THE majority of summer dresses this year are sleeveless. This fashion fact raises problems, however, for many wearers.
Angela Grayson
with at least can slecves. Many sleeved clothes, there are also Eleoveless dresses come with many, with sleeves, as buyera jackets, which should be kept on, are aware of women's urm prob- Although stores are full of un- Icms.
Get the gloves right
Few women over forty should When the arm rests against wear sleeveless dresses. Even the body, it looks stouter than fairly slender women frequently it is. Examine the arm in this this year can And the upper arm is better of camouflaged. Certainly, anyone who is even a bit plump should avoid arm exposuro at the top..
In accessories thinking, women neglect glaves moal. They buy them as an afterthought, seldom consider the relation of length or even colour to the costume. Like other accessories, gloves sleeve, soft enough to be worn
make or break crushed on the arm. position in the mirror to decide the costume., A coat with whether a sleeveless dress will above-elbow steeves does not
Sleeveless dresses also cal! look well. If in doubt, decldo look right with
Jong gloves. wrist-length for
The against it.
three-quarter gloves. The glove should be glove is for Plenty of dresses can be found long enough nearly to meet the full-length sleeves,
GAMBOLS
THE WATERS
NICE AND HOT.
By Barry Appleby
SO I TURN ON THE BATH FOR YOU!
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