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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1948.

Woman Today

"FASHION FORTNIGHT"

IN LONDON

FROM TWO ΤΟ SIX P.M.: Women are beginning again to select special clothes for afternoon elegance. This ault in tan and black striped wool sean in the London col lectione is by Digby Mor. ton. The skirt is alim and the jacket, which has A

full

basqua, has interesting boned saeming. (Photo Harpers'

Bazaar of London)

Flower Pots Used As Decorations

How are your interior de- corations? Sometimes it is dif- ficult to find just what you want fpr that odd corner, or the fire- place, or the difficult nook near the window-seat.

That is where the humble flower, pot emerges from the garden and gains a new 10- spect as a home decoration.

The red clay flower pot seems the most unassuming of objects, humble, carthy, useful but dull. But with a tile energy spent on i, it can become ornamental os well as useful, gnd an unusual addition to your plans of de coration.

Notions

As a first idea, get some small pots and wind ordinary household string around the body of them glueing the string as you no. Then lacquer all the pot (includ-

Besides attracting buyers from all parts of the world to see English fashions, the "Fashion Fortnight" might also be a attempt to oust Paris as the world's leading fashion contro.

London, July 25, More than 250 model houses Britain's top fashion ex-including milliners, furriers and perts, backed by the Board of couturiers will attempt to ture Trade, swing into a fortnight awank salons. The buyers

1,500 overseas buyers to their of dress shows and cocktail certainly be kept busy.. From will parties this month to mark the five to six fashion shows wit bo first anniversary of the inva-seen daily by fashion critics, the sion of the New Look,

press and foreign buyers.

Exactly twelve months after Britain's Board of Trade frown- ed on the longer hemlines, their experts are going all out to in- duce fashion designers to sall the New Look-ankle length gowns, padding and all.

row

AFTERNOON COAT: A rich and lovely coat in black brocade by Delanghe, from har London collection. The waist ja nipped in by a nar. self-belt, the hips se. conted by pocket and the shoulders given a rounded outline. Four covered buttons faatan the cross-ovar `ravers. (Photo Harpors' Buzaar, of London)

ing the top and the saucer) the (and their flowers) as a part of; colour of your lounge-room and shelves in the sun-room, perhaps the decorations. Put hanging place your pots along the mantel- two or three, and decorate them shelf in a rov

No. 2: 17

with pots containing geraniums If you are handy

colourful with brush,, try lacqueringar ivs. or some other pot first with plain lacquer, and either with plain lacquer, or with

plant You

can paint the

Pots then sketching in a design to match your bedroom furnish plain lacquer first and a design ings. Colour the design with a swimming 'round the pots is afterwards. A design of fishes fine brush.

No. 3: Is the entrance porch

to your house rather uninspired? so, try this: Get a small shelf plugged into the walls on either. side of your front door (with ledge to keep the pot anchored). and then paint the pols and

a

you can plan any that you choose. effective and cool to look at, but

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During the flat week 28 shows, including Michael Sherard, Helen Geffers and a combined display of hats by the Ascoclated Millinery Designers. of London, will be given. The second week sees the Big Eleven on

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THIS RAYMOND MODEL SWAGGER COAT in huge fawn and brown Bcptch tweed check Wan ona of many creations which caught the eye at

parade of Eng- lish-tailored coats and sulte held at Grosvenor Hound, Park 'Lane, to bagin the first

model

London "Fashion Fortnight". Bixty-alx

manufac- turing firms, 41 furriers and 23-couturlers are combining to prasent the mammoth parade of fashion, (AP Photo)

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The Board of Trade are not autre what the cutcome will be

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It might be more than that "good publicity." In fact, apart from the more practical side. there might be another motivo

minds altogether. In the the designers of Britain, it seems something is stirring.

Britain's clothes inducte been coupon-bound nudi fu- sterity-controlled for many years now. Even after the war it had a struggle on a hants to find Rumeleni materials and sufficient varieties of materials to

maka

big-time designing ponible.

hay

But the Autumn fashion showings which were held the end of last month, and the beginning of July canie, prob- ably, as a shock to many peo.

ple

·

No Austerity.

Gone were all the trailitional make-do's and enforced pencil- skirts and the severe lines. Bri- tain's designers, both the font- established and the just-arrived, showed that they, too, could bu "Parisian."

That

may be the underlying motive of this "Fashion Fort night". London is after Paris's

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