Introducing ★
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1988,
CECILE LAVIGNE HAVE YOU FALSE
fashion expert
To-day Miss Lavigne takes you behind the scenes in the fashion parade, gives you the "low- down" on the people and circumstances that decide the style of your clothes.
* BENINGTON
fashion artist
BEFORE
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HAS MADE THIS CHANGE
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It will do the You same for
Look out for these ." lines," sketched from left to right:
1. Botero atit. 2 Reefer suit. 3 Plain with print mixed-pleating at back. 4. Shirred corset waist.
Exotic Prints
ONE
NE of the things which and so are pleated skirts
imakes a fashion-writer
sce red is to be asked by bolero suits .
a casual acquaintance, after she
has been to dozens and dozens
of dress shows, "What are the
new styles like ?" Film critics
trasting colours
wickedly con-
and the
feel this way, too, when, hot elaborate Victorian mode
from a week's picture preview-
ing, their wives any, as wives a mouth or so whether you have
do, "Let's go to a movie to won
night."
Here. In case you had wondered,
is where you and I really come into
For, in order to be able to tell you, this business, I do not refer to with authority, that suit coats have those of
who buy original
Filks, Jacey
you
lengthened to below the hip-bone, models, you know all about it any- That pleated skirts
ore in,
also way, but to the great army of women Mripes.
who are dependent, for their dress- spots, surah
men's suit- ing on the clothes in the shops. prints, lingerie blouses,
Corseletted dresses, off-shoulder ings,
hoop skirts, hour- American Influence evening gowns, glass waists, and all the other things we have been shouting at for
you the past few weeks, we have to sit on hard little chairs, day after day, and see hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of new models.
Ribbed Weaves
HATING us almost as
WHAT the buyers go
for is, in the main, what you and I are ultimately
going to wear. Not just yet, but presently, when the models have been bought and delivered, copied, altered and adjusted, and made in their hundreds and sold to us, thank
price of the original.
heaven, at about one-tenth of the
10
Re
are
Elaborate
print frock, cut
to the Ayure
unusual treat-
ment of shoul-
der-straps...
toorn with
heavy bracelets and a spray of
the flowers in har.
Some of this Reason's hats
arc
of
topces with protective flowing neck drupes.
Miss Benington has sketched to-day some of the "trends" des- cribed by Cecile Lavigne -the new suits; back fullness frock; accen- tuated waistline, and one of the "Bali" print evening frocks.
୧୧
IN"
Glorify A Type
MAINBOCHER,
arc
who
makes a lot of the Duchess of Windsor's clothes, would not be human or the artist he is if his collection generally did not glorify and enhance her type. I don't mean to say he doesn't do other clothes, and for every type of elegant woman. He docs, few better. But the Duchess must be in his mind, and the stiuation is that,
as the Mainbocher models
bought, copied, adapted, manufactured, more and more women are going to dress a little bit like the Duchess dresses.
A gentleman called Jean Seblum- berger made a sort of turban evening shoe, jersey crassing on the and bandaging the foot, for Harrison Wams, a famous, white- haired, cat's-eyed American beauty. You can buy its twin in Bond-street to-day.
Splashy Prints
toes Mrs.
MOST important of all
is the way contem- porary thought and events sway and move the mode. The pictures in a big art exhibition lend their portion of rich colours, fabrics and period lines. Juliana has kept yel- Iow before us, and tulips on our hots and dresses since the state of her' romance.
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CURRENT FASHION
LADIES' BLOUSES
IN A WIDE CHOICE OF SIZES BEAUTIFULLY EMBROIDERED
THE
we
much as we are hat
signers, and can spal a Hartnell, a ing them, manneqquins sway by, Right now American women are Stiebel, a Peter Russell by this or frankly Foreign Legion, sart proud of their narrow bodies.
enoriously influencing fashion. Since that individual touch. Walk, four steps to the right, smile, American buyers swoop un Paris walk, turn, four steps to the left, and London in great numbers
Continuing this idea, little dat walk, smile (if you can call it a with lots of dough, it is oners and A Great Help smile).
that designers should dedicate quite
sallors Victorian-have nct veils English and American soclety по THERE is
reason tying and bunching down behind. flocks to Bali these days. So I beckon one nearer in order to a lot of their art to creating the sort
why the English That is how it goes, one thing lead- have splashy vivid Bull-ish prints examine the familiar, yet unfamiliar, of clothes that will say something fabric of her suit. I'm. Whipcord. Wee
American buyers. This average woman should not know ing to another. Trains of Thought, for our slinkier evening gowns, gur
surging popularity of Lois of it about this Cason, pret explains the
these things too.
People go more It is a great help you see, another game to play. Last land head-dresses. the bolero outfit, now at its peak, in good dressing, even if you only back of a dress blue, for instance, out the collections a favourite de- autumn's bi-colour schemes the and more to the country. Through- other ribbed weaves like it.
of the shirty type of dress and little dress at the guinea shops. Any the front, red-has developed into coration is a large bunch Disdainfully, she submits
to the jacket of the severely cut but gran- bookworm will tell you that a know the really big news of this season, flowers. examination and I restrain the im- diosely ornamented dinner suit, of ledge and understanding of the pulse to give a hearty smack to her the full, frothy evening dress. They classic helps your bread and butter two fabries allied in one treŝs. retreating back, remembering that are all calculated to go straight to reading.
100, must be tired of clothes, the heart-and purse-of the Ameri-
A Little Whimsy and envying her that thirty-four
model
she,
hip. When you meet
can buyer,
girls off
When the Buyers Game pulls you
of fleld
So it goes on. And how I run on, unit I um suddenly pulled up short by a dress which comes along and makes me and my colleagues go can always work out why the de-
THERE
like are many other "Ahr”
Breworks signers are doing this and that.
reasons why the de- shows, becouse it is breath-taking Why, for instance, is there such a signers are doing this and that, and utterly beautiful. WHATEVER they ulti- strong Victorian
mately pay for them, through the entire eling running One day, one of them as a little Detailed Notes
evening mode, in whimsy. Presently, women all over
probably see them Origin of Clothes
with untidy hair, careless shirts.
duty, you will
and shabby flannel pants-the sort
Gladys Cooper, loves to get around
in. This is not merely because it is
the thing of the moment to want to American women make it their some cases to the limit of crinolines, the land will be wearing the result
Spotting the Winners
1
nt you do
mittens, lace shawls, fans. Empress of it. Mme. Schiaparelli, for WITH the others, I
clown-bead buttons, merry-go-round others. and animal prints.
feverishly make de
Get Away From It All, but just pride and business to know about Eugente evening hats? The answer example, has been to the circus, natural reaction.
the origin of their clothes. Far, far is the influence of the successful Consequently her new clothes have tailed notes, and think, with the more than we do.
play and film about Victoria. Any American average woman can tell you, for instance, all about the A Word on Hats WHEN a few bad num- superb Schiaparelli type suits that
bers go by, we whis. go on and on,
fastenings
only needing new and trieks to make them
film COSTUME
stage successes
en-
bow
"T must get that drawn
for my paper if only I can get in I watched wonder-woman Chanel Arst." on the stairs, contemplating standing
Somehow it sets us all to think per weak wisecracks to each look this season's. She knows that
and her collection, and wearing, of all
things, a sort of parlourmaid's black about ourselves and men and money other, light a cigarette, think our Molyneux own dark thoughts. When you are style, especially for the over-thirties; styles. Not only successes.
on top of her head. Yes, for and love and the life we might have is ace high, in cut and ormously influence current daytime, and very effective it was had, or the life we are going to have, seeing clothes all the time, there are that Allx sculpts jersey into miracies us a long, long time to live down the too with day clothes. If it "takes,""
It took Many of her
and of the world going round... mannequins wore it. few things as boring as bad clothes. of draped beauty; that Creed's tail- flowing chiffon at the back of hats you will be
In other words, i makes us go Or else, there is quite a nice little leurs are unbeatable; that Chanel's which followed Dietrich in "The
sceing It around.
gooey. play. I call it Spotting lace evening gowns are simply too Garden of Allah." Indeed, we have the ease of certain elegant, outstand- brance, we
Then
again and again, you get
With a quick shock of remem- What The Buyers Will Go For. lovely to be true.
realise yet once again Though it is not very satisfactory at
not yet lived it down. It has merely ing women influencing some particu- how terribly, vitally She is even beginning to learn turned a corner, and done something lar designer, with heaven only knows clothes are in what is so quaintly the time, because you can't tell for the characteristics of the London de- a little different.
important
what wide-reaching effects on us all. colled The Scheme of Things.
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