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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 17, 1989

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First impressions are fun, but tern of modern life. Think of second thoughts are plain sense bus queues, the space between About Paris fashions. When the cinema seats and the Chestnut Tree news is too hot to handle there is before you contradict me. no time to be critical. By the time I have seen the sixtieth collection, I'm very choosey about the bouquets I hand out.

The bell skirt will stay. It is due in the fashion cycle. But it will look less like a parachute than it does in the Paris salons, where the only breeze comes from the flick of fans.

When it is modified to suit you and me, it will be slick and youth- ful and seventeen inches from the ground.

The suit rivals

a bellboy jacket with a flared skirt, and thigh length coat over pleats

will end in a compromise.

The Marcel Rochas jacket frock shows the line most women will like. You can see it in the sketch. The jacket is black, the frock che quered in blue, black, red and white,

Kilted tartan moire is my advice for the petticoat you must wear un- der all your prints this spring. Leave the needlework to people who like laundry bills.

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Two lines for coats and both of them good.

Squared collarless coats in plain materials like thin frieze or smooth serge, look right in own with sophis- ticated accessories. Mastic with hopsack.with all black accessories, for you.

Fitted coats have more skirt full- ness to accommodate the new frocks, and a group of flat pleats centre back is one of the best ways of getting width without bulk.

Top marks went to the coat in the sketch for its sleek outline, for its clever trimming of rolled black

from the

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the fringed scarf worn like a plaid braid, for its ravishing colour over one shoulder.

The bellboy suits are charming, but they have a slightly stage-struck air, and that displeases most Eng- lishwomen.

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a greyed yellow.

Coats worn with printed frocks are lined or faced with the print.

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The collections, as a whole, have the prim air of a Victorian gover- neas.

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Daisies are the favourite flower

The "Little Eva" frocks with their big allowance of lingerie trimming will take in America, but not here. Demure and delicious at a party on daytime prints. against the right background, but not to be tolerated rush- ing for the 8.30 in the morning..

If I ever see a woman wearing a hoop in a short Swiss needlework petticoat in a London street, I will take back all I say here and now. They simply don't fit into the pat:

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When old man Winter's arrival in delayed he usually makes a vi- cious appearENCE.

Marguerites bloom on hundreds of hats.

Heim and Chanel cut a day frock low in front, and then tuck in a lace "modesty." It is chic to look inno- cent and dewy eyed; to wear Maria Guy's mushroom hats of chip straw; to swing your long handled bag like a school satchel.

In the daytime you can wear a shoulder shawl with a printed chiffon dress,

Our favourite evening gown has a foot in both camps. The huge moire ekirt is black. The pintucked muslin blouse pure Jane Eyre. Sash

the faded blue of turquoise.

To contradict everything and prove that a woman can be prim and provocative, there is a minia- ture bolero in starched guipure lace, sweeping to a pointed shawl at the back.

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This year your formal print will] be chiffon.

You can wear a cotton blouse in the evening if your skirt is grand enough.

Your heels should not be more than 12in. high. Your hat should have flowers and/or a veil on it.

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than ever because clothes are more Your accessories must be plainer

decorative.

Thb tafi band sketch is a greyet yellow woollen coat with trimmings of rolled black braid, and the smart sult is really a fartan dress with a clamic black jacket and afringed plaid attached to the shoulders.