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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
THE FASHION PICTURES PARIS MADE YOU WAIT SIX WEEKS TO SEE DOLORES
1920-whether you like it or not
Pleats and pleats
Collar and sleeves of thi afternong gown fold into the pleated front, bell gathers pleats at the walat,
Shiny Nose
Mars
Beauty
By HELEN FOLLETT
POWDERING one's nose is al
important part of one's personal business and no mis- take. A shiny se should bin put in its place, be made. to take on the dull finish.
Soap is an oil fighter, as we all know. should be used lavishly, a thick lather rubbed Into the flesh at night. Equally important as a part of the trentment, it should be com
with first pletely rinsed
away. warm water, then with cold. If the slightest m remains the skin will seem oiller than ever. After a gentle drying, apply the tonic lotion or astringent. Put it on with pledgets of cotton. Let it dry.
the
more
by EILEEN ASCROFT
#462LE IZ 1912 ELLUL FORELEVEN ERZIELONETIZ69:3|2682828155)|201
ECAUSE of
D
KIX
B weeks' embargo, im
posed by French designers to stop "pirating" their new fashions, these are the first pictures from the Paris show of early February.
The line is 1920 whether you like it or not. Flut busts. flat hips-and-short (about 16 in. from the ground) evening dresses..
Frankest of the designers
shows
The week's fashion feature washable styles for summer...an enchanting white pique Dutch bonnet, which can be unclipped in and second for washing and ironing fat.
....A pure linen utility model with the sleeveless cut-. ed armhole and a novel Third Man" motif round the skirt, with a washable bell and clip- ̈ off buckle.
....Washable nlpaca. 123
and interesting clips, which
skirt petal cryed shoulder open for laundering,
....Sarong four-plece in gay Sea Island cotton, with sarong, bra,, jacket and skirt.
WILH Pierre BalmainMy black ar navy for town, with a jdens
from a nre Laken generation ago; they are almed at the women of to day." Newest colour was tangerine; and this was underlined hy Christian Dior when he flew into Lon- don the other day. Shades for the summer, he said will be "mainly pastel, with the accent, on orange, yellow."
Horseshoe collars
PARIS
fashion detall already making its mark on London Wholesale collections is Dior's "Horseshoe Collar.”
It appears on suits, coats and dresses, is flattering to English figures and cool for subimer
Wes.
.Transpareul evening blouse In non-fron nylon, woven with à metal thread stripe.
...High-heeled evening san- dal in silver kid with sponge- able nylon mesh fool,
Shopping brickbat
ORSET departments in many London utores are not lo- ing their job.
Bartly tting foundation gar- ments are The
average Woman's outstanding fashion problem, often responsible for Ogure faults, pic
beelth troubles and bad teppers.
The good store discourages buying a foundation garment without trying it on; the nosis- Lant goes to the fitung room
Attractive gither ng n low decollete or Alled in with of the new mannlsh shirts with stiff collar and bow tie, it can bewarn urned dawa Ulinly or left upstanding to frame the face,
SKIRTS ARE
FOR EVENING
HE
By
Joan Erskine
LONDON.
accessories.
re-
Pelat style skirt by Diar has which Princess Elizabeth already adopted
with the client and advises on style; and, If necessary, the gar- ment is ted and altered to Kive maximum support and comfort.
summer
For angels give their names lo a type of face make up, which will make fare news. It is I foundation and powder in one, can be ap- plied in a few moments without water and stays on.
Kisses will leave nothing but a muctory now, and cups, table
The Scootmuster gown *** Zuns Dessea, model has hip pockets-tapers to the knees,
men
and
handkerchiefs will be free from lipstick amears, duo to a liquid fixative which protects and holds your lipstick. Hips and thigh must lose any extra inches this spring to do justice to olim skirts tubular lines. Exercise, massage and diet will help, or a session in a giant rolling machine. whittles off the bulges,
and
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FULL OR TIGHT
To counter-balance this were
some very sophistleated inodels, one of which is illustrated here.
THE first photographs of the London couture
Nearly all his suits had long collections have been
revers. One scarlet and black leased recently and they suit had double revers on the show 'n wide diversity of reefer jacket, and scarlet in- style.
set pleat down the centre back. Oil Glands
Victor Stiebel's col- Norman Hartnell showed Fats in uny forin excite lection showed many un- some of the most formal even-
bil glands, cause them
collections. to
Weird ng gowns of the excute
of their usual
skin and wonderful buttons in le tended towards an Oriental greasy contents than the
style for many of them, White needs. So, the candidate for s
the form of cowrie shells. chiffon was used for a cari- more normal complexion is told
horn, plaited straw and tiny skirt; and there was to avold fat ments, pastries; bundles of sticks were on Egyptian look about a heavily butter, cream, cheese and chocolate.
suits and dresses. Among draped dress. the artificial flowers used He did not, however, desert were full blown roses and his traditional crinoline. Like other leading button daisies. Many of his many of the
designers, he chose chalk while evening gowns had huge for a worsted suit. The jacket, sleeves with a froth of lace with large
pockets envelope beneath, low tucked de- and a narrow suede belt, is colletage, and wide sashes worn over a cocon and
striped blouse. falling to the hem.
re-
The more water che trinks the belter. The daily bath with friction with a brush is a quirement because it stimulates the skin all over the body. work of functioning as organ of elimination.
In
пл
If the pores have become en- larged two Ice frictions a day are helpful.
The Chic White Touch
Here is a chlo spring: zavy wool, street drons sparked with white pique by Brenner, Slim skirted it has new sido. fared movement and dropped shoulderline.
a})
white
The London collections have already been described as the "best ever.". Much of the credit is due to the excellent which quality of the materials have been used. In many cases,
ers have had
materials minde for some of their models. Dificult fhough it is.. to generalise about a line, can be safely said that the new 1950 silhouette
slightly
wider, more top-heavy look, achieved with bigger sleever and alightly
hem.
nurrower skirt
In London we feel:
SURPRISED that the simple, aleeveless, bullon-through dress
SUSAN DEACON
has become popular, Unless you аге the possessor of really beautiful arms, this is never a flattering line..........
RESIGNED to the fact that we must shorten our skirts for spring, unless we want to be classed 35 "old-fashioned---
10-18"....
GLAD that one famous COD- metic firm has produced a lip- stick to match the difcult new Paris shade, tangerine. They have called the new lipstick "Flamenco." For those who dis- like an orange shade, they give us "Blush Rose" which clear, piquant plak....
To
U
American печу
AMUSED af an stocking designer with a Iden. He has designed nylons with a scam.running from top Ing-down the FRONT! There is no practical reason for this, and he has produced several types - DEBONAIRE (Light brown), Enchanted (Neutral), and Kola ("subtle" brown). American women like them, because they
dif- terent....
arc
ENVIOUS of the charming Parisian wool accessories. We aaw recently a tiny shell-plnk felt cap. trimmed with pink flowers, matched by a cape like a baby's pellsse, cut with double collar, and framing the face in a becoming line. It was scalloped all round the Belts bordered with
large
Victor Stlebel's "atick of rhubarb" skirt in a black crepe evening dress topped with furquoise and diamond embroidery. It has a long floating
panel of fabric.
A
cdres
braid, fell
pouch pockets swinging from the hips. felt flowers appli qued
dress, LIITU flat heel- cd slippers which
behind.
In A Critical Mood
WAS horrified to read that Paulette Goddam had ar- rived in Britain wearing a coat made from "unborn baby tamb ....d very rare skin."
A
lace
11-
Mannequin walked into Paris designers cannot crowded Puris salon. Down. derstand how the English can to her trailing scarves, beads, copy the line of their clothes,
but Ignore the chic. and 1020 dress, she had the newest 1050 fashion look- Popular belief is that the according to Paris. skin is obtained by forcing the premature birth of the lamb, but a furrier tells me that this is untrue. It is the skin of A stillborn baby lamb.
a
If the lamb had lived for few weeks the skin would have been sold as Persian lamb.
Evening net
evening
CHORT full-skirted
dressen were worn with full-length overskirts of printed
Det in Paris recently.
I have found some
net in a London store
for 10s. 6d. a yard. It is either with spots Dr Ipattern.
A Frogchman in the audience anid "As English Lady"....and appreciative litters came
from
the people sitting around. And he wasn't being Battering.
The outfit was very "English Garden Party." It was in our favourite fawn (the French call
It cofe-au-lait).
It looked cool and colourless. Well-bred, but dull.
They do not understand that, unlike French women, the Eng- Jish do not lead restaurant lves, and if they wear exotic, exaggerated clothes their men- folk would consider they look il-bred. They are happiest not in trailing chiffon or blanket tweeds, but in plain well-cut English tailor-mades.
Gay tartan
THERE in some gay cotton tartan at only 5s. 11d. n yard
In the shops now.
OF
Tho popular conception It would be suitable for, abroad seems to be that the sun sult, summer dress, printed English
spent their leisure bright kitchen curtains. solling
I have been invited to a party printed hours in clothes of this type to launch a machine which, tu and their working hours in claimed, "s a food mixer, will
floral
hairy tweeds.
clean your car, or scour pots"i
GRAY opens an
examination into the ways tee duck the hurrid truth
HOW I FOOL MYSELF
I say my portraits are awful and blame the photographer, the lighting, the setting -- but never
mpscit.
{ ... grumble....... **Why don't you sprak up ? when I'm the one who wasn't listening properly.
I tell myself that a hitch with my thumb well! fix my shoulder stran uken I know it should be stitched.
Iremark, "I always speak frankly," to excuse myself for making thoughtful or over- pointed comments.
I persuade myself that I never eat a thing, though olien I'm nibbling all day.
1 Jump into a bath fifteen minutes before an appointment, and kid myself I will only stay in a few seconds,
AND FINALLY
If I were married I'm sure I'd open my husband's letters and felt myself, it might have been
urgent.
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