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THE CHINA ̈MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1961.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
FASHION
by BARBARA
GRIGGS
What is the quality every
girl should have this party-time?
I may be a late Christmas party or a
few friends in to drinks the sedate black-tie affair of your grandest friends or the champagne thrash given by your jolliest friends Tom and Cynthia Al Home until 8 pm (they hope) or that New Year's Eve saturnalia
But whatever form it takes, it's un- likely that this cheery season will drift by
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of some sort and you looking critically at yourself in the mirror and wondering how to jazz up what you see there.
Subversive critics have tried to gest that n woman's sneaking desire to stand out in a crowd is aran, anti-social ambition
Fr fact, as very man knows perfectly well. the best parties of all are the ones where every girl in the room get ready with just that idea iu mund- total dazzle which even the most self-centred 1stess would be happy 10 welcome into her drawing-room
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Quiz
THIS week, accordingly.
1
have quizzed the shops, the beauty pundits and the most expert dazzle-makers in town for their ideas Un You festive Pok and thrown in a few of my own, based in narrow-eyed observation at a hectic string of parties over the last 10 days.
Top of everyone's list: the way your hair looks. Ff the looks super, you can turn up in blue jeans and most people will stif be too charmed to notice
did).
All-over town extra; the pretty bits of nonsense you bury inal that tousle: a salin
or velvet bow to match or contrast with your dress.
Fenwicks sell them at 12s. 11d but if you're feeling the pinch financially, you can make your Own flat dressmaker bow in firm satin silk or velvet, stitched on to a tiny haireomb.
Mute hair-dazzle: jewelled plas the shape of a small bow, price 8. lid at the same shop.
Dazzle make-up to go with the razzle hair-do. more eyes, less mouth. At Max Factor you can buy an extra longth of eyelash to flutter the most easy to fasten I've seen yet. Price 15s.
fid
..
And girls going further add gold mascara Max Factor's wand price 10s 9d.
Renoir trick to make large eyes Jook larger; a faint blush of rouge right up under your eyes.
Eighteenth-century trick to
RAZZLE DAZZLE!
GIRL WHO'S GOT IT
THE GIRL with Razzle-Dozzle.... newly-tousled head of hair-it's cut to the length of a short bob with a fringe in front-specially dreamed up by Vidal Sassoon. Dress for That Donce in gilded white brocade, price 7 guineas, at Wallis Shops. Long double row of gold dusted pearls, price £1 s. 6d. at Harrods.
My prize-winner so far: Marle the beginning of Scarafia at photographer John the week after French's smart penthouse party the Paris shows her dark hair piled up in a before Balen- razzle hinir - do, her dress Avioga and Given- simmer of soft peach pink chy whu show georgette.
late to the buyers.
The girl in the picture does
unc-
-p
it another way: sculptured white Then Yves St and gold brocade cut into the Laurent, plain Chanel shape that makers time star are happily naming the Twist signer of Dior, Style.
new launching
Her peuris: enormous baroque ones dusted with guld
Ifocus
even more attention on white your eyes --
--a beauty patch. powder. (One model I know does fi with a black eyebrow pencil with calourless nail-polish os a fixa- live
For less mouth. Lancome's now Francaise, a luminous
SOME
SHOW
Edward
out on his own. fixed his showing
PICTURE BY JOAN COLE
than his sonal show.
date for Monday morning, and Michael (who found that hour hers are putting, on their sea- the Incorporated Society, faced shades less horrific witli disappearing American originally scheduled show on buyers, had to think again. Sunday evening at 7 am) and Now Edward Rayne and the the 11 houses will be showing society's president, Lady Paniela Saturday and Sunday. Berry.
their heads have put together and come up with El
mouth-watering scheme which
bring should
the treasured Rayne Amercian buyers flocking over
Newest look for heads thir makes a change season
from thuse
bulging curves Chairdressers, like everyone else, are mesmerised by the Twist): a pretty tousle, suggesting that you stood in the wind and rain for Rouge Some time before finding trans- natural pink with a hint of
for, of course, no lip who as chairman of the In- in port to your party (you probably brown.
TIVEWIRE slick at all).
corporated Society bas already effect on And if you want your make-up had an invigorating to stay really cool, follow the their activities, has excelled him- laid on for them-for free.
A specially chartered airplane arrangements for inspired suggestion of a French self in the beauty expert, stach a pint of their spring and summer show will fly them all to London late one Friday evening in January rosewater in your fridge (they ings next month.
"and if any of them are still practically give it away at any
Originally the London collec- feeling strong enough, chemist) and spray it over your tions
at thought we might give them the face to set your make-up. FFELS nice, anyway.
Twist treatment," says Edward Rayne.
For girl twisting their own hair, Vidal Sassoon, who did the razzle hairstyle in the picture.
Suggests setting it much lighter
than usual, brushing it out and backcombing just enough to give it height, then flicking thes
nds out with a hairpin aur Jacquering.
A
*
Famous
ND the day after? Do what the girl with the most fam- us tousled head of them ail Does to restore her set; Buzy
Reckless
PASHION went reckless this
A winter, and even conserva- five dressers are standing out of Little Black crowds in a
Parker doesn't bother to pin shocking red or a sizzling orange, up again every morning she cut plain as a petticoat and just gives her head a sound-shak- worn with a cable's length ing
pearls.
Smedle
Smedley
THE FAMILY'S FAVOURITES
TAIN
of
were timed
tu
run
Autumn
fur hat...
Ear-hugging hat of soft coffee-oploured jersey band- ed with, rich brown for.
Price 498, 60.-
For baby
-tie-on nappy
as
IF ODPING with a fragile now! baby and two lethal mappY: pins reduces you to near- hysterie, take heart-a now! pinless nappy just imported)] from Italy is in the shops. Made of super soft absorbent wovori cation it goes on nestly as a pair of pants and ties easily around the waint."
Although 'I am still owaliing! a caport
from my aight- month-old guinea-pig, #ho would not anumage to pull it o overnight. Called Sorriso, tha apples cust £1 0s. 94. por, half-tozen.
-{London Rapters Arroios),
Party
Saturday
break
for
Edward Rayne, in New York 10 days ago, rounded up all the buyers he had time to contact. Three top New-York-stores,
Lord
& Bergerf Goodman,
Taylor and Henri Bendel have already promised to come.
Yves St Laurent, incidentally, looks like getting off to a good (traves. For the following THE
trans- Three important start: been lunch will and the buyers atlantic stores, one Canada, now arrangements have
eating and drinking in £ oug in New York, and one in Mayfair art gallery, and o Texas, are
have rumoured to Saturday evening Lady Pamela signed him up on two-year
Horrific
"
we
MERE booking tables at the W saddle Room club for late Friday evening." (My bet; After a gruelling Paris week they, WON'T be feeling strong enough ...)
The working round starts Saturday morning at 9 am with
MOTHER KNEW BEST
SHE WORE under a lined skirt silky cami-pants, back in fashion again after spending 20 years in the dowagers' department.
Modern version - nylon, lace-trimmed, price 22s. 6d. London Express Service.
DRAWING BY SHEILA WARE,
is throwing a party at her West- starting basis to produce ex- minster home at which the guest clusive designs for them. of honour will be Mrs David Bruce, wife of the American Ambassador in London.
Sunday morning, .after 10 am start, Junch is on Edward Rayne, at his pretty Bond Street shop, when the associate mem-
LADY
your
AQUARIUS
GETTING AIN TO - THE BANDWAGON NOTE: AMERICAN HOSIERY MANUFACTURERS ARE WORKING ON A TWIST-PROOF NYLON THAT WON'T TWIST WITH YOU,
----(London. Express Service),
LUCK
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30
(January 21- February 19): You may have to use gift which is not to your taste in order to avoid offending the donor,
PISCES (February 20-March 20): A romantic encounter at a New Year's party may bring about a significant change in your life.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): By attending too many social functions you may be getting less alcop than your health requires.
TAURUS (April 20-May 30): Tou should not delay planning next year's holiday if you want to be sure of securing bookings.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Patience with a difficult child may be needed, but towaro better quailled than you lo deal with the problem." CANCER (June 22-July 21):
Inclurio among Your New Year's resolutions one that: you failed to keep this year,
VIRGO (August 22-September 22): You will have the plea- sure of seeing the New Year in with friends who have travelled some distance to join you.
LIBRA (September 23-October 22): It will give you great satisfaction if you can man- age to finish a job of home decoration before the start of the year.
SCORPIO (October 23-Novem
ber 21): Spare same time from “your celebrations to give plea- sure to an elderly member of the family.
SAGITTARIUS. (November, 22- December 21): With a little. persuasion you should be able obtain a favour which med little to the donor but, I grdat deal o
You
to
CAPRICORN (December 28- January 20): A chanes re- mark about art in general may provide inpiration for a creative idea.
LEO (July 22-August 21): Re- LUCKY ENCOUNTER; IT today elve to cultivate #talent is your birthday, a meeting next your which has been with La svoman ·ERİMİ rudly negoted through pre- GLORIA may have somet
sure of work.