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ARIS mid-season collec- trasting, brassiere-like "luckers” ..... tions feature three of silver or gold lame, sometimes new necklines the embroidered with brilliants and Calyx, the Frame Collar and beads. the Low Square Decollete.
"Dior shows the first two on many of his cocktail and dinner dresses, writes Betty Wilson from Paris..
and
flecting ir nens in the Spring Collections, already showing London. Wathobis pirating
pleating are permanent tions. Accordion-pleated met is also new and flottering, as can be rega in this white finaly planted net dance frock by Roodlift and Chopman, with
• mitly shirred bodies.
The Frame Collar has a widely set-out decollete with a deep
Madeleine Vrament favours the Low Square. Decollete, sketched here in molre with the square neck outwards at the #idn diamond clips.
falilo pulled with
Paris in London
TN Lendon we welcome
F
the
opening of the first Boulique
*
A-The Colyr neckline,
Coller.
B-The Framë"
The Low
· Femere Décol-
Like Dscroft
tinted foundation
and
heavy
Salon by one of the Big Eleven. Molyneux has copied his ParldTM branch and opened a separule coating of very light powder, ground-flour salon selling lovely brighter red lipsticks and nail accessories and simple dresses, varnishes, more eye make-up, coat and suits, with one fitting and longer finger-nalls. only; at very much reduced prices,
Most popular models are the calf-length slipper satin and
Telling the public
ints boned bodiced full even- SHOULD all goods in shop ing frocks, Boutique also sells
windows bear a visible price flowers, gloves, bags, velvet ticket? scort rings embroidered with beads and jet, scarves, belts, sweaters and jewellery.
CIL
Nylon novelty
HARMING new evening ac- ccnsory is introduced by, an English nylon stocking firm, which is weaving an old gold slik anklet bracelet actually into an
With evening stocking.
the short evening dresses they look most effective.
For neck beauty
It is an interesting argument and in countries, such as Por tugal, where it is compulsory by law, it has proved most popular.
Argument against it was put by Mr Davies, merchandising manager for Harrods, speaking ut a Design Industry lunch on the retailing of fashion.
For effective window dressing, he says, you need lots of fullness, which tends to come in the more expensive garments. So if you label all your window goods, it gives no idea of the more inex- pensive goods inside the store.
I believe that this works ways Many women when they see no pries ticket assume that the garment must Da beyond
collar framing the shoulders and fashion in New York is their means.
finishing at the waist in front, Model sketched here in black woo] has a moles collar
and modesty vest und
the skirt shows the Dior Scissors Line.
The Calyx plunges in a deep V-shape to nearly waist level, with
collar дл upstanding sketched here on Dior's lime brocade cocktall dress.
These very low necklines are often made in velvel with con-
for round handkerchiefs. with scalloped edges.
Ban child begging
Linen manufacturers there are making black, brown and navy blue cheets and blankets, and
HILD begging in the streets report that they are selling well, of London for the last two
Van Slyke, of the weeks, the guise of " Mrs Helen American Glamour magazine, wenig, under tray, Ludy his forecasts a new winter make-up grown to, alarming proportions. for the napo of the “néčk, specially to go with the shorter hair styles.
Other make-up forecasts.ů dull-surface look, achieved by a
By SUSAN DEACON
The raincoat
Hardly a struct of the West End in the evenings is free from these little bands with reddened noses and charcoaled checks.
that is
smart-wet or fine
AINCOATS aro
Rno
no longer drab,
garments. Women demand, and get, the same high fashion in. rain - wear as
they get in a cout or suit.
During the recent wel weather. I have hud many com- plaints that fashion
raincoats
'able:
are almost ̃ ̈üh-. obtainable This
in not so.
The answer
is to buy when
the weather, is good. Ma.st women will not buy raincoats until it is actually rein- ing, which re- sults in a rapid clearance stocks.
SADDLE LEATHER and
SHOE SUEDE
Come and See for Yourself!
THERE MUST BE A BAG
THAT PLEASES YOUR FANCY
BUY ONE FOR YOURSELF NOW, OR HAVE SOME STORED-AWAY FOR XMAS PRESENTSI
Gabardine...cout—izarm, auave, showerproof,
the
It is demoralising for children, and the only way to stamp it out is for adults to re- fuss all Arework money until "the day."
Colour at home
new
COMETHING
for the home decorator is hand- printed material for curtains and covers in your own designs and colours to fit in with your
choral scheme
ambitious. who want to print their own designs, there is, a couras of 12 lessons which covers the art of pattem designing, cutting line printing on paper blocks and
dress and and cloth for both
For the more
furnishing fabrles.
Studied innocence
IT takes a lot of experience for à girl to kiss like a beginner. Plot News.
-(London Expreza Service)
London
This Is the "Dangerous" Season For Lady Who Tends to Gain
A good exercise for the waistline is demonstrated by Movie" Slar Jane Greer, Silting on the floor, she bends from the
waist, endeavouring to touch her toes.
WOMEN
By HELEN FOLLETT
who are inclined to delal to the adiposed sisters who had better cat too much, work too littje, lake on weight remember that they are slipping consists of drawing up the
winter
RD-
in to the dangerous season, spinal column, placing the hands During the summer time they on the hips, twisting the body, are outdoors more, gut more first on one side, then to the
When
np- other, në far, as it will turn. The xercise. proaches they are likely to be harder the muscle pull, the bet- more or less house bound, cs- ter. pecially those who faint at the thought of walking to the cor- ner box. The wise ones will plan a regular time for exer- ciso each day.
Muscle health is necessary to
a woman if she is to keep well, retain the youthful silhouette
A good exercise for the whist- line is done as follows: Sit on floor and bending from the waist, endeavour to touch, your toes without bending your knoés. Straighten up, relax and repeat.
Lack of exerciso means slug
If the waistline is to remain Gish circulation which in turn trim the torso, must have strong creates listlessness and a general fibres.
When muscle slack is what's-the-use state, up, bulk will lessen, The Jungs taken fat cells will go off and dle,
of "mind.
should be dir
washed by Perfect physical conditions
deep breathing.
A simple, easy extrelse for make for contentment and adl- beginners, one especially bene- mntion.
By Lorna Westall
Across
Looks The Channel
The creasingly shorter, and neeks in red velvet, the coat belted at the back, the appear to elongate, chokers are and bloused growing larger and larger. Cone skirt pencil-narrow. are the simple. double or hiple Belted-jackets-give-a-Cossack rowed pearl choker, or the single appearance to cults as well as tend to knotted strand. This month. a Jackets, all of which
comicsse Ichlonable
arrived have small natural waists again.
THE scene, Parls.
time, this season; mid- night. The occasion, a dress show presented by one of the fashion-world's darlings.
The
audience elegant
no
houses,
Maggy
stance, cape or pelerine collars are still a la mode. Schiaparelli
waits casually bated breath. at a charity ball in a "coller" The cloak-like, cape styles ure,
whose massiveness could only longer a novelty. Off stage a muted plano have been inspired by those In top-coats, the most variabla At some plays Ave Maria. Soft lights worn by the "Giraffe-necked" feature is the collar.
Rouffes, for in- flood the central dais. The women of Burma. first model, with
cyes Definitely Red suitably down-cast, and At the
the bos vast collars which point al- ......moment, modest demeanor to match. Parisienne's favourite colour is most down to the waist. Other- isa Bride. All continues definitely red. It is
collars have a practical
matching scarves lour, slotted through them, the scarf- well except that the basis for accessories of any colour, audience on the left-hand and is rich and warm-looking ends draped over the arms like મ side are not getting their for daytime, dramatic for even a stole, or tled, perhaps, in
ing. Molyneux has a reversible vast bow. Top-coats, also, tend top-cont in red wool, lined with to resemble cloaks and mantles! champagne.
black. Schiaparelli shows a less than they did. Belts are Somewhere in the middle an' formal ball-dress in red moire. back. *Full skirts fall in folds Impasse blocks the flow of truya Dior has designed a two-piece from small waints. and classes, The last modt appears, another bride, magni- cently regal, to round off the thundered out by an organ fail show. This time, Ave Maria is
stops out). At that moment, There is still a heavy
likle walter valiantly vaults, demand for rain
in hand, lo tray спрев.
the rescue left bank. of the and the only ones I could
Un- fortunately, he misjudges, and 'find were in nylon.
lands on The Bride's train. For some moments even Ave Maria
This style is also in the shops made in French rubberised crepe.
I chose one. In the new silver-grey. This also has detachable hood, shaped houlders, and a full swing
back.
If you buy a nylon rain- cont make certain that it ic not oil-proofed. Oll proofing does not last and to apt to go sticky.
Swing - back rain- coat-in-French crepe, with detachable hood. 3 The head - shaped
hood, more becom ing than the old pizie. style.
I have scen scm? aftrac-
tive outsize raincoats with cream Iined, d.c
ach able hoods
They are well designed to flatter the
larger figure and are very
is drowned. The Bride's stream of unadulterated, Parisian Invec- tive fills the perfumed air. Then, having got it off her chest, she resumes her, nun-like attitude. The
organist, audible once more, Tout est bien, except that the "left bank” never had their champagne....
smiles.
I have told you this story not only because the tongus In the check, and the richness of it, are delightfully French; but this mixture of studied care on the one hand, and natural spon- taneity on the other, seems to me to constitute the basis of Paris fashions. I want to look now at recent Parisian develop- meats so that when there are com- London shows, we can pare and contrast.
on
If your rain- The mos
coat gets very wot hang it on popular ral1-
a well-padded coat
at the moment is the
hanger in a warm room Loves To Exaggerate shower-
- proof
with the air gabardine coat.
circulating all
How Paris loves to exaggerate. They are two-
If buttons are the vogue, as coats purpose
round it. look 13
Look after your clothes when they are, then Paris must have them everywhere, forming diagʊ- smart worn in
they get wet If you don't want
nala
Jackets, decorating fine, weather.
them to lose their shape, Wet
packets, emphasking back full- Many of them look like an It was double-breasted with
and had twin shoes, either, suede or leather, ness on coats not to mention on ordinary tailored coat and one. moky buttons
should be stuffed with news skirts-most painful for sitting hip pockets with deep flaps. would
that
short It not
the.. know
said. material is proofed.
paper and left to dry away from on, as ons critic „Another : cont
hair is the thing. Paris applies dark
A fire.
the shears mercilessly, and calls pockets, a
the An attractive detachable hood, green had futting
result. "coud If the feathered trimmings on Fashion Days Mong
heavy shaped to the head and but- deep inverted pleat at the centre. toned neatly under the chin, back, and an attractive big high your hat get wet brush them earrings so Paquin and Jaques clips on to the coat underneath collar.
with a soft brush several times Fath dangle the collar.
as they are drying..
The batwing sleeves in this These gabardines are made in coat would make it roomy to a wide range of fashionable wear over a sult colours. A royal purple coat I. Many of the gabardins coals saw had a straight skirt with are made to wane with or with gathered fullness at the centre out a belt, without the belt the
cont has a full swing bauleu
back
theirs down their models. necka. "Why not a diamond ring through the nose to match? arked a sceptical British male, whe was viewing these creations. with some concern. The latest in ear-wear le that not one, but two pendants should hang, (as shown in the picture) from each (London Repress Service) i lobe. White hair become in-
Fur should be shaken, well to get rid of the surplus water. Dry away from any heat Brush with a very soft brush when dry,
:JACQUES FATH'S topless green" velvet sheath dress, Ing topped with violet and mauve antin ribbons, Green velvet stolo to anatéh. And the earring.notton Fath's double
conversion of the now heavy pondant.