from Miss Hepburn
GIVE
LIVE 10 women a perfectly plain black dress and tell them to go away and dress up for a dinner party. The chances are that at least nine of them--and probably all 10-will emerge wearing pearls.
THE CHINA"'"-"MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
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How to wear The Little
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Black Dress: three lessons
ABOVE: Tsa hot, amari
afternoon.. and but EVERY woman... la Wenti pearls, a farzo pale fizt. and long whita sloves . . . 9xE9DT Audrey, who has left all her Towels Der esprings, at home. chosen black #loves, and picked Farhat in BLAOK. Daşk gale note... the huzo orzandla streamer on the bat.
LEFT: 4 orening
All and tha Quarli ars out at last. eisesed 'round the fons nack of Audrey's Do you evening dress but
notice most to the oxal olunk OF MILFEST RT the frant matched by a smaller clunk of diamonds #lowing in her dark hair, and the two tiny diamond olunks of vareinks
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LADY LUCK-
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
MONDAY; AUGUST 7.
AQUARIUS (January 21- February 19): If your life scoma too restricted by lnck of money, redouble your efforts to find a mumorative job.
moro re-
that of a person of doubt- ful integrity. VIRGO (August. 22- September 22): Your in- stinctive distrust of a now business acquaintance should be a guide to your future dealings with him.” LIBRA (September 25- October 22): You will only auoceed in complicating your problems by discus Bing, them with people who are not in a position to
| PISCES (February 20-March
20): A completely new experience is likely to bring about a drastic chango, in your outlook on life. ARIES (March 21-April 19): A holiday acquaintanco with
help, delightful older 4 couple could teach you a SCORPIO valuable leason for later
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your partner's somewhat unnecessary thrift may be the principal cause of fric- tion between you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Greater responsibility placed on you at work could give you the chance you have been awaiting to prove your worth.
CANCER (Jund 22-July 21): If your partner needs a moral boust, you are in the best of all positions to give it to him.
LEO (July 22-August 21): Don't sign a paper which could link your name with
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(Octobor, 23- November 21): Keep part of the day free for a friend who has been trying to find an opportunity to see you.' SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21): You should realise how little cause you have for
com- plaint when you compare your lot with that of your neighbours.
CAPRICORN (December 22-
January 20): If you nee quiet concentration for your work today, avoid the company of a garrulous friend.
YOUR BIRTHDAY: If your birthday is this week, you will find a symbol of good fortune in a gift of an orna- mental candlestick.
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There will, of course, be slight variations on this theme.. Two of them will be wearing three-row chokers and three, long drippy ropes. One or two of the women will be wearing thin gold bracelets as well, and at least one of them a rather business-like wrist watch. Some of the pearls will be inter- spersed with little bits of crystal and some of them may even be real.
Six or seven of the women will be wearing earrings too, and at least one won't have been able to resist the temptation to add a little gold brooch at the side.
But the general effect will be much about the Hame. For black dressus and pearls, evi- dently, are now us frealy mar- ried In the Englishwoman's mind as fish and chips, and at Buy English party the yawning results of this partnership can be studied right round the
toum,
A pity, because pearls actual- ly go que nicely with black. It's the multiplication of the
effect that makes it such a bore. With the co-operation of Audrey Hepburn, therefore, l'in puting on today my own object- lesson in How to Dress Up In The Little Black DresE.
The dress saif-there are actually two of them, bul they're virtually indistinguish- able was designed by Givenchy -one of the sort he's been doing for years, and probably now designs in his sleep, tossing A nonchalant sketch or two to his head cutter immediately
after breakfast.
Audrey Hepburn, playing n Holly flighty playgiri called Golightly in
her newest film
Breakfast at Tiffany's (we shall
be seeing it later this year)
FASHION
by
BARBARA
GRIGGS
extract the maximum puteniial from a Little Black Dress with- out resorting to any of the timeworn cliches like a pink lowered hat, a pair of elbow- length white gloves, or
three rows of pearls.
Givenchy Of course, it is u dress... but the moral remains unimpaired.
takes both and shows how to their
WE NOW HAVE in Eug
major fabric land three
irms hell-bent on making mark Iri the couture
world, and spotting their fabrics
LIBERTY, after
ABOVE: 's dinner-time and for maximum effect acrops the, tabla. Audray stakes averything on, a, dark, multi-coloured Finals of lowellery round her, neck, black and glittery earrings, and an expensive hairdo.
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years of art nouveau silks were a sensa struck glimmer-achieved by a crystal thread woven into the fabric. turning out dimly pretty designation two seasons ago, for the home market, recovered
another Liberty. Colours are brilliant-golden
For this season he has re- discovered
JACOBY OF BRIDGE
THE Immediate Jump to four
or five of a minor suit. is not recommended in this or any bidding system, but if you do choose to use such a bid it should be strictly pre-emptive in nature.
Now look at the North hand. club Your partner opens one and, much to your surprise, You just know
at French fashion shown has become a patriotie preoccupation of English fashion writers. All three look like distinguishing their original zeat in the person
of designer El Poole; his tradition-Paisley designs-and yellows, shades of pale and hot West' passes.
his whole collection, silk, chit- pink, greens, a beautiful tur themselves this season.
Zona, organzas, consists of qualse and a hundred different variations on this theme.
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
A Very Fishy Story
-Punch Tells Hanid About Goldfish-Mermaids-
By MAX TRELL
MR PUNCH," said Hanid, A the Shadow Girl with the Turned-About Name, to her old friend, "did you ever Mermaid?"
meet a
Hut were
They looked at them. they didn't believe they Mermaids. They aald they were only Göldüsh"
Why Goldfish?
"Goldish!" cried Hanld. feel-
Mr Punch, who was sitting ing more mixed up than ever. in his rocking chair wearing "Why did your mother and your
is gold-rimmed glasses and
father think
reading a book, went on read- Goldfalı?”
ing for a few moments. Then
He
he looked up with a start. gave such slart that the glasses fell off his face,
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"What!" he exclaimed. "What? What?"
Hanid repeated the question.
Met dozens
"Oh," he said, "a Mermaid Yes, of course. I've met dozen of them. Very pleasant Girls. Very well-behaved."
Then
his Mr Punch put Klasses back on and continued reading.
any
"But Mr Punch," said Hanld, who was not content by maller of means with the litle that Mr Punch had told her
Mermaids, "where uld' about
were shaped like Fish with long golden tails!
"I turned to my mother and my father,
"Why. Son, what's the mat- er? my father asked.
-'Have you picked out the three Goldish you want, J'unchie darling?" asked my mother.
They WETO only
"They're not Goldfish! They they're Mermaids!" I gasped.
Hanld looked at Mr Punch. "What did your mother and father my when they "I Four
say
that, Mr ชวน from beard
Punoh?" she asked.
"Well," said Mr Punch, suppose I'd better start the beginning,"
ba-
"Yes," said Hanid. "Please, Mr Punch, start from the ginning."
"You see," Bald Mr Punch, "il was my birthday and my
They disagreed
"They said, 'Nonsense! They're Goldfish! It's 18 plain as the nese on your face! Then they truned to the pet shop Man, mother and my father said they Mr Neptune, and said. Mr Nep- would go to the pet shop with tune. those are Goldfish, aren't me and I could pick out buy three Goldach to keep in an aquarium. So off we all went."
and they?'
"Mr Neptune Just shrugged and said, "Some folks might say they were Goldish, and some
"They-they're Mermaidsje exclaimed Punch.
and let him RO home to his supper."
Mr Punch was slicnt,
"That's the end of the Mer-
"Didn't you ever go back to the pet shop and look at those. beautiful de golden Mermaids again?" Honid asked. She kept wishing she had seen them.
mald story," he finally sold.
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might say they were went back many time,"
"But where were the Mer- folks maira?" Hanid asked. impa- Mermaids, trut as far as I'm Important concerned,
I'm hungry and I'd lient to get to the
like to close us this shop and part of the story.
get borac to my suppet,'
Punch "So," said Mr
"I'm
Looked around
that coming to
Mr
le
my and, "I told my mother and
said Mr Punch in a low "but the pet shop was alway closed. I guess Mr Neptune was always home eating his supper, or als dinner, or his breakfast, or his lunch, or something. He
was never there. So
ASCHER hit the jackpot with their rose printed silk some years ago taken up in a big- way by Christian Dior. Over.
blacks.
the past few. seasons he has be- come much more interested in ever tweeds and wool fabrics, with Victorian chenille a first love.
that the other side has a major suit game and you decide to leap to four clubs and possibly shut them out.
♥*CARD Seriseķe.
The result is the close SCOOP for Coco Chanel | equivalent to falling in the -the best blast of public-river and coming up with a fish lly a French designer has in one's mouth, That is, you had. One hundred and get your fish if your partner, thirty chic young Parisiennes who happens to hold all four acting as gulden ard inter- preters. at the French Fair, opening this month in Moscow, will all wear the same chic, young, Parisienne uniform do signed by Chanel bulge Chanel blazer edged with scarlet and navy, beige straight skirt with a kick-plate on the side- round-necked front, and fine belge sweater worn underneath the jacket.
In his new collection, chenille again comes out top-the most sensational design being a plushy chenille with a faint gold gleam deep down in the pile.
SEKENS is a MIKI
silk- la much more designer who interested in texture and weave than in surface design, has no stuffy blon against, combining natural and laboratory-produced So that France never looks fabrics and has evolved, accord- rumpled, each of the girls will ingly, some of the best-behaved, have two.versions of the same most beautifully supple silken outfit. fabrics on the murkot,
Chanel has always been the Sekers fabrics thila season look most-copied designer in the heavier without being in the world. It will be interesting to least stiff and one of the head; see if GUM takes the hist line designs has a faint moun-
-(London Express Service).
Corsets for Russia
THE women of Russia, whose corsetry until now
has been somewhat 19th-century in fabric and stying, are to get new designs' with a Mayfair look. Mme. Illa Knina, the corsetiere of Bruton- street, has been asked to design master patterns
you meet the Mermaids? When darling," cold Punch, my father that I had changed saw those Mermaids again....for the Soviet trade.
did you meet them? What was
came
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shout my birthday never." the pet present and that I would take all around. three red rubber bolls rather
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and my my ind "When my mother
She velit make them light, try's cole corsetry coll:po at It like? Please, Mr Punch Tell father and I reached
creations welgh Leicester School of Art are pushed his for all her shop I looked
And Mr Punch #lel"
In under Zez, She will ure lots of. Gråmming with good keus. three Goldfish. And we old-rimmed glasses down Mr Punch saw that it would Finally, in the back of the shop. than
very large sald good-night to the pet shop front at his yes and opened nylon fabri and little elastic,
believes for she
their Ideas-in oxe- the elastic i saw Man and went to another alore his book.
notebook sags into your body's own culos as well as hi shape after about half an hour sketches-when I helped judge the other of wear.
a trado competition day. Object; to design a teen- Designing
og foundation garment,
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hla aquarium. be no use trying to read book until he had told Hanid
bottom "The to know about all she wanted
covered Mermaids. So he shut the book with white pebbles. There were and pusherl hi gold-rimmed plants with roots in the pebbles glase up on his forehead.
Nobody believes
"Nobody belleves in Menalds
pny · more," he said to Henid.
onil stems and loaves rouch Rupert and the Rugger Match-30
up. to the top. And there were mossy rocks laid one on top of another to form caves,
"That's the Goldfish tank,
said my father.
"I'm sorry to say that I didn't Son,'
salch
beilove in them either. But
'they were, dozens of "Yer. Punchle doar, There them, all araning around in my mother. Pick out three of the gayest manner. They must the ones that you like best for have been playing tog. I said your birthday present, And do
to my mother and my father, Look at these Look at them! beautiful Mermaida Dut they didn't believe me. They
Jero and interrupted Br db'4 Punch to say that sho understand what he had just his nald about
mother and father.
"Dki 'they seo the Mermaids, too, Mr Punoh?" 2nd asked. Me Puch shook his head,
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because it's be quiet about it, getting late and the pet shop Man, Mr Neptune wants to go heme for his supper."
Kopt staring
"Du" wald Mr. Punch to kionid, "I just kept staring into the tank. Crowlurne were awins- ming around-dozeria of them. But they weren't Goldfish! They:
wils ebiden were Hille Maide Lal: The bottom half of them
Finding himet alt in Rupert alta down on a bench and holda his head in his handa. **This is all med." he moans. Where am I now in this a prison?” Calight: noise maksia, jim klancé down and he sees a large motise peeping at him, round se water
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tug. Who are you? Why are. you hers squeaks the moule. feaping nervously to the floor." Ga away. This is my home, and don't like any company.: "^1, winit I could go away 3"- saya' Rupert, when he get over isis mirprlia, "But how den 177
**-'ALL' RIGSİTH NESHAVED 2-0.
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for a mass mar- ket will not be sirouze to this Prague-born sp:cialist, whom
Number one prizewinner hyd created a wasple of blue nylon truations underlig · MOTIO of and clastle with decorative blua England's most cxpensive conturo clother. Some yearA nyo sho designed master terna Ice Marks and Scor.cer,
bat-
satin bows und
reaner ID- bons anchored in between the two tier layers cd nylon One TUNATUD mugbested a partic- Meno. Knina's impression of girdle of apricot nylon Inces and the Russian shape, le the another a pretty while broderio **The yours
girls are much anglaise bra mounted on
tock legga and. much leaner cotton.
pink
due to all that good feeding Coetry
design is 'n field
then their mothers prcônblý •
Rt their schools. But this older. Wile open for now talent-yet women ignore their figures, and a field which many, designers moro they are the ones who need the corn in favour of the
obvious glamour.
fashion. corrala I will design.".
Though is cenalldorod chiefly
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sheid, one of the it sou find English, eceetry woman's' drag boring or too reliant on brightnet prizewinners timed American copies and American out to be a boy from Belgium. Ideea, there is hope on iha horizon, Studiorita: at:îhe
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· play for a tizm.
TODAY'S QUESTION, Instead of rebidding three no trump, your partner's first rehid was two spades. You went to three clubs and he bid threa hearts. What do you do this time? Answer TemGTTON"
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aces and the king of diamonds, contents himself with a mern bid of six clubs. If he playe you for a better hand and bids either seven clubs or six no- trump you wind up with the Bah eating you.
Even six clubs is lucky. Not only does your partner hold the right king with his four aces, but he has no third diamond to embarrass him.
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All he has to do to make the hand is to win the opening lead, lay down the ace trumps to find that both op- ponents follow; and then ruff uft your two last diamonds with his remaining trumps.
CALADRYL
RELIEVES SKIN IRRITATIONS & PRICKLY HEAT.
SOOTHES THE · DISCOMFORT OF, INSECT BITES
& STINGS
GALMORY!
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