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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
FASHION
Victor Ale.
bet
Signed
Thi elegand
black woni
dinner dress.
The low de
collete in-
sel with vel
vet, and
sweeping vel
vel findet s
featured
the back.
LOOKS AHEAD
What can the shoppers do
WOOL SOARS TO RECORD PRICE
DEST buy
about
The ostuma
coats straight linei, caffed sleeves.
this?
By EILEEN ASCROFT
for winter is a has
Value
Bol utility coat.
introduced
**turn-obra”” coats in fur and wool. and styling have never been Muffs are popular in all furs, belter. With
barrel shapes In wool from small soaring prices, utility costs are bound huge square models as big as to rise.
The examples here are both To the season's fashionable re- versible coatings aml cost £8
5. Autumn fashion pointers in clude low pockets, straight lines, cuffed sleeves and large cellars.
Fur Booms Other
suitcases.
foundallon
Silk Powder Pure silk introduced into Ince powder, and lipsileks may cause a re- volution in the cosmetic world as important as the 1914 nico- duction of face powder replac winter bargsins. ing the old rice powders. which may rise in price Effect is silky in appearance later on, are utility furs. end touch, and has the clinging
Full-length coats ure shorter qualities of real silk. Chileť ad-, this season; many are led vintage is a cheer make-up, with plents instead of flares to which conecals minor blemishes ive a slimmer line. Adjustable without obscuring natural skin celtars are smart and practient. luminosity. Already popular in They can be worn fat on the Puris and New York, alomtud shoulders
or high to hug the raturat silk cosmetics arrive in
London,
face on a cold day.
Fur is booming this autumn. One designer, following The current craze for reversibles.
CINDERELLA SHOES
This shom has gracious stone sont id:ilfver Kid, Vamp: of the shos la mida from = transparent material.
London Expres Service,
*
Off Colour
Why is there not more co- coat, ordination between dress and hat manufacturers o the new season's colours?
After buying a new coal in One of the fashioruble BCW chades it is infuriating not to be able to buy a hat ar dress to match,
The British Colour Counell have
tried repeatedly to bring some order into this business of colour matching by ssting full colour range carcās each sea- con, but many manufacturers
do not co-operate.
Another dress problem which causes inconvenience to tomers is the varied system of sizings. Some firms use He American size system, others the English style and other a system entirely their own. No- sult is that a size 14 may be a perfect at from one Arm and hopelessly_largo, or natall frotp another. Differences of up to two inches frequently occur. It is time the English sizing tyr- tem was overhauled and stabi- ilsed
-(London Express Service)
T
of
LONDON.
WENTY-SEVEN best selling outfits from
the autumn collections London's leading
.couturiers were shown in a trimmed
IN
By Joan Erskine
WOOL
luxuriously with with them. Best example was
followed
the opening right down to the hem, giving the effect of a wrapped over cost. A black tricorne of yelvet form- ed the hat.
"Right Royal" was the name
with a wonderful deep purple sull fiven to a ten gown in royal
blue no. wool, with on ener and blouses.
mous deeper blue velvet collar 1ก Back Interest
multi- heavily encrusted with coloured Jewel embroidery. Illustrated are Victor Stie- There is something nostalgle In both about the name 'lea-gown' that
་
parade of fashions in wool chinchilla rex, and lined
The show, or fine grey jersey. recently.
Charles Creed produced by the Inter-maculate day dress in dark ganised national Wool Secretariat, racy worsted. The slim walet- could scarcely have been line was accentuated by an old- bel's contributions.
fob hanging cases he emphasises back in evokes thoughts of rose Kar from a pocket, and s Deau terest. better timed. The rapid rise fashioned silver
dens and hot summer after- raw wool Brummel frill of stiff while or- Hardy Amles surprisingly noons, and it is seldom used in the price of
the
afternoon now. means that the clothes agen ganzn stood up at the throat, brought, back
dress which is light to the A black shenth dinner dress in London in the next few
of duted moulded on the knees, with a burnt Reversible Feature
lines of he cost con- will wecks,
fullness to the hem. This is a crum lily was decorated with siderably mure when they
He showed, too, a fine rever- line whch is most unflattering two huge arum lilles on one reach the shops, than they le cont in searict and black, to any woman with large hips shoulder, a lily shaped skirt and
both
Conts were all of the barrel wide stole lined with Hold would have done last sea- Glant pockets were on
"melon" alltching variety,
shape, anet
Jame. saddle
tapering in at the hem, withi Fine white doeskins son. Men's clothing, knit sides,
with dozens of buttons down the another dinner dress, cul on ting wool and underclothes nished the edges.
Colours were simple,
New Froat. Sulls, with tailored Jae- rari lines. The matching stole binck predominating. are also affected.
shades
red pewter, kels and tight skirts, develop had a hood in the centre, and included
ed stiffened highwayman col delicate fern embroidery curved tobacco, banana cream, and A new shade of olive. Materials lars, often trimmed with braid down the front of the gown. ured
Peter Russell thowed a red face and velvet. were duveteen.
The greatest applause was pewter dress in chiffon tweed cloth, tweed, baralhen, cavalry
[or velour reserved
Die evening with the bodice half-pleated. twill, fannel, doeskin,
Gresses, and here Norman Hart and a matching plented panel and wool georgette.
Sherard in the skirt. Two vast chry- Dolores, santhemums were lucked in the natural doe-eyes, the bell, and the evening cont showed a black dress embrol was lined, somewhat unusual-
the collar and tela.
the large
made
The show was held in clittering ballroom of a London hotel; and Pathe Pic- torial, for the first time; made ar all-colour newsreel from the dieplay. Members of the dipta- matic corps in London, leaders of Britain's wool textile indus- The smartest accessory of the bell try, fim stars and visitors from year, acclaimed both in Loudon scored easily. Exotic
wool-growing and Paris, was shown by Digby with the three great dominions, Australia, New Zea- Morton. It was a neat umbrella diered with gold metal dowers ly, with accordion-pleated taf-
Her 3,000th Parade with farrels:
like
bas
in
Pack hats were down made
and
land. and South Africa, were which hung from the waist in
a velvet scabbard, complete which circled present.
It is pulled out sword-but we feel striking bound to admit that a certain the most One of
of showmanship nannequins was Dolores, Nor- amount
Leeded to do this successfully, man Hartnell's principal model.
And there must bun- She has walked about five but hearted pullings at the handle! be no half- clothes dred miles wearing
million worth
more than pounds during her twenty years from wool felt. They are scam- real shown et on the sides, but the as # model, and Hartnell
styles
London, recret of their "packability"
York, that the wool felt is crease. Paris. Brussels, New Buenos Aires and Monte Vileo. resisting. In one respect, she has stend- fastly refused ever to pander to fashion-her longt jet-binek hair has never been eit, and she wears It coiled and plait
The Wool Show was her 3,000th parade.
Hartzell's slate blue duveleen brilliant will suit,
well defined waist, length with reariet three-quarter jacket, belted tightly. was plaid and heavy tweed, there characteristic of the Parisian bree-quarter coats manage
romfortable. Icok warm and trend this season.
sult, the Marton's "Clarence But in Haute--a straight Jacketed length merely seemed ungainly broken-check.toned. To borrow the styles
wern
Digby
sult in yellow
3
with double buttoning-was lypical of London's return
The last section of the show was devoted to new styles fo early 1951. Here the most un- unul suit came from Charles It was dazzling Creed.
with white barathen, trimmed black velvet and brak. The tapering skirt was worn under Jacket three-quarter length
summer
what Is
to
worse, old- old-
10 of a
a distinct cm. such as
the up-and-down lines of 1912. twenties, is quile
Wrap-round
srown by Victor
move,
the
a cloning Bul
to dip back a few styles and years, and, re-introduce
were coals.
Siebel
Michael Sherard. One was
In that Bre still fresh in our
There is n distinct feeling
brilliant peacock velour, trim- memories, is a thoroughly un- med with rich phantom-beaver inspired action. sleeves which began well above the elbow. The other was Chinchilla
for blouses It
Arty tweed coat, sulls,
exactly matching
instead of contrasting
Autumn Knitwear Has
Interesting Features
With all the emphasis on A dolman-sleeved
sweater binures
tops" in the
right
F turplice
Michael
Jewel
An alter- black wool drea drained by Victor Liebe The art dips at the bark, and the collar, cuffs, hat and skirt trimmings
are of moire.
Talk
white
Iwe're going to talk For Carat may vary accord! "costume wrap style with braid trimming ns market and ribbed sash. This surplice most of us do a lot of talk-
Aweater
now, it seems like an line is an old favourite for large time for considering sizes, and fits right in with 1050 some fresh styling for women's silhouettes. size sweaters, too.
the
•
✡
✡
per
Only a few know, also that seemingly forty-pointer" 0
another
valuable ing before we invest in one smaller than
these beautiful gems polnter" may be more
life because its crown has been that we'll wear all our
higher or ita basle cono deepes
of
. and
our or the "girdle" specially
"forty-
Veen cut
The young woman with the A new shrink-resistant yarn time and pass on to large figure who wants youth blend 30 percent cashmere, heirs forever
for ed to give it greater brilliance? ful styling is a customer oflen 15 percent nylon, 56 percent
A caral is "100 points" and a ever.....we might as well overlooked. and
jeweller thinks of a stone that older wool is a bit tallding point in
know some of the proper weighs 1/3 of a carat до Knitting factories. woman could probably be in- American
"33/100" to Iltistrate the duced to buy more sweaters at Necklines are elastielsed and terms. she were offered
something sweaters are guaranteed not to Jewellers have always found point. typical basle pall.
Triangle, Half Moon, Trapeze. raure than the
it difficult to put diamonds into
Ba- Other features include
Baguette, Stubby the coat sweater.
the words that the ordinary Long shrink-resistant zephyr wool Here are some design ideas to
though guette, Tapered Baguette, Pen- understands,
and illustrate some of the possibili- group in classic styles, in addi- they have their own jargon.... ingon, Marquise, Kite ties for new styling.
tion to novelty and classic Pentagon, Forty-pointer, Kite, Square Cut are terms used For evening wear, a tapered styles in angora blends. One of Half moon, Marquise, Trapeze, describe special cuts. loose cardigan, with low clos-
the
Angoras is done in an all- Baguette... earnt and the like: Ing. three-quarter, semi-ragian over seed stitch, and there is o riceves and sofily rolled collar. short-sleeved
cardigan with It could be trimmed in velvet, novelty collar, too. satin or braid,
The ribbed collar is set in to do away with extra bulk at the V-neckline on this long-sleeved cardigan.
person
to
Rhinestones Over Pails PARIS SEEMS to think that thinestones are A tiri's best people friend. It is rhinestones, rhine- know that a "forty-pointer" 1 stones all over Paris, and the rhinestone that a collections featured 40/100ths of a caral,
tailored Jewellery with every carut is a measure of weight rather than size, and that price sult that was chown.
Until this year no fashion-
Diamond Jargon
The colour story includes How many ordinary wines, copper, deep greens, and warm, medium brown shades, in addition to a range of de- licate pastels and basic darks.
Ballerinas Boost Fashion
Violetta Elvin (left) poses in her twin set with two of the latest umbrellas, wit ciclochable handles and tips for packing. which the Sadler's Wells ballerinos have taken to America. Below: Beryl Grey wents on ex- port-only sweater.
Kondom #suraja Saraión. «
have
conscious woman would dreamed of wearing rhinestone earrings with a tweed infleur, or a flannel suit. The women of Paris seem to have started It.
Unless it is a gala night, few. women in Paris change their Rowns for evening. A well eut suit dressed up with rhinestone jewellery and a a snappy het Is the dinner and dance" outfit
most seen in Paris. If it is Wight
there, how much more right and practical in our land of carcer girls who go straight from office to date, of bubur- banites in for a day's shopping with dinner and theatre dancing afterwards.
or
Gold is still the best inste for day wear, but there's noth- Ing to stop you from carrying your rhinestones in your bag, and donning them after five.
The "diamond look" of large, large stones in bold and won- derful cuts la apparent in the best costume Jewellery. You will find them in bracelets, necklaces, brooches and car- rings.
SILm baguette chains with pendants of large stones are ideal for the dressed-up sult at right. Contour carrings of larger stones than were soch last
season are good this au-
is the
new "string carring which has placed the chandeller.
Even with the large stones rnd larger pieces of jewellery In vogue, two plus seem better than one this season.