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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
LADY LUCK-
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
PROFILE: DIOR'S NEW MASTER OF FASHION
London.
MARC Bohan is
a
MARC BOHAN
علي
But was it fair to Infigenen world fashion on what sulied only the few?
Bohan did not think so, Ho re-created women R women
human secret. THURSDAY, AUGUST 31
Traditionally as Dior's AQUARIUS (0) Canuary 21-
stimulating new Interest to
Bohan guards
fashion new master of fashion February 19): A rather take you out of yourself,
know-how as jealously as his ambitious plant
August 22. he needs be self-effac- privalu life. be VIRGO CRA
(3)
He refuses to be trekled safely if you enlist September 22): Careful | ing. Undeniably the influenced by his elegant wife this co-operation of someone planning behind the scene image of the fluttering of a Paris judge.
Dominique, the blonde daughter you can trust.
will accompilah more than creator is as much the In return he lets her choose with the Slim Look, impercep- PISCES (6) Februney 20- sudden netlost without re-
March 201: Your tendenes
flection.
stuff of the Dior trade her clothes, But for their young ibly accentuating hips in flared
children, Anne-Marie
pleated skirts, tempting to flatter people may give à
mark as the ballyhoo of Natalie, he insists on the Bohan Bem with crept and printed rather evalulons person of
the prize fighter.
buch. He is equally particules chiffon. the opposite sex an exag-
about his own suits, flying to 1 girls earned a new walk gerated Idea në your regard.
to model suits with lng belteri ARIES (7) 1March 21-Aprli
Jackets worn over sleeveles, 19): A friend may las upset
high-necked blouses, at position
by an ugly ramour, and if
tu
301 Ja dispel it, do so und euse his entist.
TAURUS (12) (April 20-May 20): Although you may he preoccupied with a friend's pressing problem, take care not to overlook your shuty to yourself.
your
GEMINI (5) May 21-June 21 You may have a with your partner but it today, nature to get over it quickly. CANCER (June 22-July Don't try to impress somebody with an extrava: gant outing of cash which could keep you short for the rest of the week. LEO (11) daly 22-Augiest
21: If your present voutine Kives
feeling of You A frustration, look for some
LIBRA (8) (September 29 October 29: Don't sulle if you feel you have been slighted by a friend, b bring your grievance out into the open.
A in
That it happens to be a Bohun trait is all the more
They
Charming
INV recall
ho War
dried out front to shrieks of
London for Savile Row Ritings,
Rit and
He pre-
furs to eat a dush-his one ex-
He wears his clothes well perhap: precisely, in the manner of a thly bureauerat, travaganet--behind the wheel of a fast sports car. "It gives me "I am never pepec," he says. lunety when I choose to be Blone."
Raving
by Simon Kavanaugh
nonths later is threal.
the erlieg were
1113 latest enflection WDS rally written off us a var Hop R was pretly, but not startling enough for the crites. He was sued for flat chested <rurres, Worse stil, he had raised the hemline to show the knu.. "If Boban designed only
cou-
Thunderous applause, screams and kisses greeted the 35-year gowns," a critic sold, old designer.
"we should happily be agreeing Having critles claimed his collection to
that he was the greatest DJ astonishingly in
aurier in the world." accord with current Paris trends.
Bohan is big enough to ride For the. House of Dior, the storm. From backer by
agilt chair multi-millionaire wab spindly legs he commands. race horse owner Marrui
aft of 1,400. Betore him are Boussac, It 2
spelled more inflions
designs that must bring Dior In the bik. For
more than 50 per cent of the Boban - swift metamorphosis from anonymity to "Monleur fashion revenue of France, And
beyond the window lies Mare" the msega,
ickle world of women.
SCORPIO 12 Oetober 23-greeable to elegant women who lay his clothes. Like November 211: A welcome
a relative will expensive perfume the gift fras make you realise that your hint of mystery behind the previous kindness was fully creation lingers with them. appreciated. SAĞITTARIUS (10) (Nuvem-
her 22-December 211; letter
from abroad answer to your request for advice may help you in a way you never anticipated.
December CAPRICORN
You are 22-January 20): fortunate in having a friend who is in a
position to give the introduction You you need at this juncture. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER: Count the letters in your first name and add the intal to the number shown be brackets after your sign of Zodine. This is your lucky number for the week,
Rupert and the Secret Path-3
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Sara agicce apposite directions." and they move off, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
have put them down on purpose somebody must be making
duelenses and debutantes like a ruletant playwright on arst night.
And they sigh delightedly when he says: "Ay you can see I am a most shy person....
He is charming, gallant and very much the trained fashion expert. His mother was a Paris milliner and be grew up omong pites of glossy magazines. The were practically his whole world. From them he learned early in life that simplicity of design was the essence of success,
Mare Bahan went to work in his teens for Piquet--and the way ahead seemed very clear, "I always knew I should be a fashion designer," he says. "I knew it from the time I could holt a pencil."
Christian Dior himself set this secretive trend in 1947 when he gave Paris a lead In fastlon. Blanched by the are lights of the salon in the Avenue Montaigne, he slipped quletly away to his father's farm behind the foothills of Canner to design in peser. Then he returned to Paris with a New Look for a war- weary world. It triumph..
Weary
Mare Bohon
was
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has no hide. way in the South of France, He seeks solitude in his elegant" Paris flat where he sketched 300 Cesis for his first colletion in January 1s year.
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But to Yvea 91, Laurent,
Ima languishing
military hospital, it promised an uncer- talu future. He recovered from tervous breakdown. reportedly threatening to spe Dior for £40,000 to alleged breach of contract.
Too
overcome to comment tils collection, Bohan about
the curtahis retreated behind with tears trkling down Jus satlow, pointed face, Realistical- y-and in the best. Diur tradition-he was shy.
Without any philosophy about fashion he had proved his point, "Fashion is a funny thing," he says. "My attitude is very simple. Women ciress ter attract men. We must always five the samething new, something unexpected. We make a ringe when we gel tired of the things we dir! 66 before."
Working at dead of night be The Eming was perfeel. Women the Slim Look. emerged with
were weary of ultra fashion Frum Plyurt he moved to farbonds
short-leggesi, Jean Pateu and fu 1954 open- rounded
for a wives longed ed his own satton, But lack of sensible les from the tup cash forced him to close and turiers. he went over to Molyneux In London, then to Dior's Mayfair
Particular
Then his Paris master, young Yves St. Laurent, the 22-year-, o wonder boy, bewed out of Fashion to the shrill of army
Bohun was Lugles.
called to take his place in the autumn of
1900
Here comes the bride
-1961 fashion
London.
HAVE you noticed there is a change in the look
of this year's bride, a whole new trend that
was sparked off by two top-weddings?
First the new Duchess of Kent chose a wed- ding gown from John Cavanagh with a high boat- shaped neck, long tight sleeves and the very minimum of decoration. Then Henrietta Tiarks picked a gown of almost monastic severity when she married the Marquess of Tavistock.
It is all part of the trend peg dresses. Wedding gowns towards simpler wedding are plainer and prettier dresses that was started by for all that. Princess Margaret. Now all the film-star necklines, the jewelled clutter and the frills and flounces have also dis- appeared from the off-the-
by
Angela Grayson
chalk-white solin that Ir't! Vogue, with pure coming into silk gaze taking over from organdy as the fabric for sum- mer weddings.
in all
Its
The new fashion has brought
Out of favour for the time back into prominence some old being BrC heavy figured fabrics, and relegated the fuseler broeides, and luce oties Into the background. It's forma except the thickest type, the plain, rich tonterials like gulpure, which still appears, thick-ribbed silk ottoman, henvy here and there, as a brief boleru
top on a princess-line gown.
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Now Lob, a wedding dress simply a wedding-dress, some- thing to UC WOL) once
packed away. It is no longer convertible Into a dress iur dancing· (never a very
good jities anyway for it couldn't help looking bridal) or, as I unce
saw, into a top and trousers for after ski weur.
For more than in years, frst, Christian Dior-before he died and his bespectacled sugersso Yves St Laurent had pommelied the female form into the i and
Y-Unow, stitched It in Hessian thread into the Sack and finally dressed it nen-Princess.
Unstartling
After his fleet show a jeading For trained models and rich, Paris
chanted: newspaper lovely women Bohan's prc. "Here is fashion which is dis- Six decessors offered individuality, tinguished and fine." -But
· Orlon goos elegantly into ovaning in this silk-liko sweater of Tycora Contreco. By Wolter Wilson of Howick.
The classic shape for 1961 14 a dress with u really high neckline, fastening at the throat, underneath. For report wear, with long tight sleeves Bal work
making the the bride can team the Broderie magic in
blouse with minute shorts and largest waistline luok snall,
white ord
aun-top in pink and youthaul shaping in the
check gingham. form of panels which Kently flare out to the jam.
The full bell-shaped skirt is
ADVENTUROUS as out of date a full-length flowered hat is at overy vell. For anything other thon one's choice as an ideal wed- big society; wedding, a shoulder- ding hat, particularly now that length cloud of tulle is the you can buy wig hats of flower chicest choice of head-dress. It petals which have a rain-proof is held in place with an Alice- plastic coating. band covered in the samo fabric
mother of 1901 picks a pastel marabou bou Instead, to match her dress and cout.
the
Fur future inspiration he will drive along the boule- vards, dreaming up creations/ trying to fastilon something different out of nothing that is new.
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Marc Bohan
-
the reluctant designer.
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Time For Dinner
-The Shadows Help King Nep Feed Fish.....
By MAX TRELL
H, YOU'VE etme just in "Atti
"Oh, but we've had cur din- nor, sald Hanid.
lith King "Oh dear, I beg your pardon,"
Nep as Knef and Hurid, the said King Nep. I didn't mean Shadow Children
the your dinner, I meant their din- with Tuned-About Names, came up her,"
to the willow tree.
King Nep pointed to the pond,
"Ther dinner?" repented Ugo. Knart in a puzzled voice.
"My little ones," nodded King
A long time ago, hundreds and hundreds of years
King Nep was known KS great King Neptun, tuler of Nep. The Seven Seas. But People had almost forgollen about Sam and the more they forgot, the small- er he became. He wasn't much teller than a matchstick now.
Lived in cave
Inslead of living in a mother -pearl heus in the bottom of The sea, he lived in a tlay cave next to the willow tree, at th edge of the pond in the middle of the park.
Oh yes, and one thing mere
tead of being master of all the Creatures who lived in the st, he was master raw of only the Goldfish and Tadpes and
Basket of food
He reached inside a hollow ni Uie bottom of the willow tre
"Aren't you coming?” King Nep asked Kaari and Hania.
"Nonsens!"" cried King Nep.
He pulled out a basket. The themselves all wet by, walking basket was, as big as he was into the pond, and filled with recaps of food of all kinds. There were bits of "You won't get well" incat and crumbs of bread and chopped ecg and snippets of
From
waiter,
the somewhere under King Nep pulled up a wooden cane with three prongs The basket was so heavy tiut at the end of it. He waved this Instantly cane over the water, Klay Nep could hardly lift it.
the pond separated into Lwo "We'll help you!" erled Knar! parts. and Hanid,
"Thank you very much," said
Dry path
Down the middle ran a path
The water of the
Sunish and Whirligigs who King Nep. "That's why," he lived in the park pond.
Despite everything, the King added with a wink, "I'm glad as dry as any other of the paths Nep was the happiest match-u came just in time. I don't in the park.
think I could have brought pond war on both sides of the them their dinner without your buth, looking like glass. help! Just keep along this path, please."
stick-size King in the whole world!
In time for what?
"If we came just in time."
said Kmart to King Nep, "what did we come just in time for
"Yeu cam just in time," said King N.p, "for dinner."
FRINGED
TABLECLOTHS
FRINGED
F
The path lot
The Fish, the Tadpoles, the Whirligigs, the Frogs and all straight down the other small Creatures who
to the edge of the pond. As he lived in the pond came crowd- walked along. King Nep took a ing up. whistle made of a shell out of hi prcket and blew on it,
"Dianer! Dinner! Dinner!" he shouted,
Kaart and Hanid expected to stop at the edge of the pond and throw the food from the basket into the pund.
"Here's your dinner, my little oh," King Nep Fold.
All along the palk, King Nep tossed dinner to the hungry little ones who fred in the pondi,
Should cat
King Nep, however, had other "Eat heartily, my dears, Eat ideas. Instead of stopping at the well Your King hasn't forgot
he walked in you" he kept saying. edge of the pond,
TABLE-right Into It,
"Come along," he kept say- CLOTHS that fall to Ing. "Come along" the ground and are designed
to
Stopped at edge
And finally. aftor everyone was fed and the basket was empty, King Nep led Kaaif and Hand back to the edge of the pond.
small circulur cover tables are an Edwardian re-
King Nep was already in the when vival now the rage of New water up to its chla
With a splash the two parts Kuart and Hankt stopped at the of the pond came together," just York.
an hey had been befor2. One of the better Ameri- edge of the pond.
"As I Bald bfore," King Nep can trendy to permeate "Well," he said, "aren't you
Pric to Kart pnd Hanid. England, these very chic, coming?" The swing-over la silk, irt-
Knart and Hanid explaked "thank you for coming Junt in clcntally, has now been taken long-skirted cloths can be up by the man-made
Abres, bought in bright shades of that they weren't going to get time for dinner." First of all they brought out plain Irish linen. Tricel and Courtelle with а shimmery, shiny look, now Prices ascend from 16s. comes Orion in a completely and matching napkins are new gulac so that it looks just 38. 6d. each at Bourne and like knitted silk, would make u wonderful, simple sheath dress Hollingsworth.
to wear to a wedding.
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THE latest colour for men yarn has all the subile glow elicht.
Brida's mothers are more ad- of pure silk.
Comes
from Going Into the Pale, bright pink is still the
Spain Lend ten from king-ten-nine,
choice of shops any day
be where the Spanish men's- now will queen-tra-nine, ten-nine-eight,top choice for the bride's going venturous in their
away bulat, and now that linen clothes. At one time they stuck sweaters and cardigans knitted wear industry have just or ten-nine-geven.
or in this yara matchlied to fully Wrat's cpening lead of the lins been given a near crease strictly to navy and white
went ecmpletely wild on a riot lined skirts of the same fabri. hold their first trade fair in king of hearta was both normal resistant finish more and more and effective, Eant played his brides are choosing a little suit of all prints. Now, an likely as Cool and smooth to touch, it Barcelona's medieval ship- not, the bride'a mother "will drapos softly, is easy to wash yard to which Columbus ro- of the and matching lopcost in that choose a gently bloused sheath and quick to dry. Like ainios; turned in elgist epot. This play higher, card nake" partner to fabric. continue the marit and this time The best-selling honeymoon dress in spricot and white silk, all of the synthetics it whi
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