1951-05-26 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1951.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

WOULD YOU GIVE

THESE A PRIZE

FOR ORIGINALITY?

HUNDRED years ago

A every family visiting

the Great Exhibition would take home a keepsake mug or china figure of the Queen to be placed on the mantel- piece or piano.

What shall we take home from the 1951 exhibition? Souvenir Committee has been selecting mementoes for the past year. Those on sale officially are supposed to represent good design. originality and value for

money.

EILEEN ASCROFT Inspects the Festival souvenirs

DESIGNS GO GAY FOR

Extreme Left: Sun dress and boicro It cotton cambric with an interest- Wik design inspired by Peratan medallions,"

Left: Simple styled dress In an

MUA) material with panels of flowers centre back and front,

T

THE FESTIVAL

'BY DOROTHY BARKLEY

large pockets on the skirt, where the stripes were net vertically.

in

casual

with white, and so on. And one model carried with her besch outflt an indispensable object a fly swatter.

But for something a little quieter than floral patterns or

But in London, we have not Ṭ......................................................... stripes, there is a delightful

pattern inspired by peacocks yet had much opportunity to LONDON.

feathers. This was shown made wear these light dresses, for the

kind. HE Festival has altered to a full skirted dress with a weather is far from

comfortably

neckline, was quite in keeping to atiend the appearance of Lon- (see picture right).

the first of the nullamn show- don itself with new

Thick tweed coats and Then of course there were a higs. variety of dark based prints, woollen suits did not scom at unfamiliar buildings, shown and

made up Into dresses all out of season. Painters for flags and bunting, crowds of with bolero tops and full skirts next season from Mornesss are people, and floodlighting at of unpressed pleats. One of still coats with mandarin collars, "chicken-leg" sleeves, thore in night. It has also de-

a floral print had a full roll-coloured strapless 100 to caught in at the wrists, and large termined various designers une in with the basic colcur of envelop pockets and cuffs. The give special "festival" in skirt. Nightgowns, house- general style here is still the shows to celebrate this fes- cats, and swimsuits were shown straight-hanging, back-belted, tival year with everything demonstrate the various uses compromise between the tent

for the materials. gayer and brighter than normal.

to

and the fitted coat. Materials are salt diagonal or dice-check tweeds, or checked wool, with striking colour combina- . some tions, Cyril Lord, a fabric pro-

for example, mauve with Several interesting touches black, and bright green with. ducer, has been showing were noticed in accessories, black. And then there is what he calls his "definitely There was the hat with the de- Varletion on the collat, called a different" fabrics. These tachable crown so that con- "bolster" collar the end is fabrics

trasting brims and crowns could rolled under to give the effect are woven in be worn-white with blue, red of a ruff. an embossed teapot-stand of Lancashire, and are sold all Northern Ireland and in heat-resisting glass.

Gifts for women range

from te

head-scarves and parasols metal compacts and etgarette cases. For men there are leather; stud boxes, metal tobacco con- tainers, Festival ties or braces of woven elastic, incorporating

Nelson's column.

over the world. They range from all types of rayon. crepes, satins, georgettes, taffetas and poults-to cot- ton cambries. He is particu-| larly pleased with R finel rayon surah which is claim-j ed to be crease-resistant. If

For children: pencil shar-pressed it, squeezed it und peners in the shape of St. Paul's, erimped it—and it resisted torches like Big Ben, or to valiantly. sailors which climb up ropes to dy Festival flags.

Most useful discovery in the sretion; trufley

Furniture

At

to stand between twin beds. Its twn trays slide out sideways for

Mrs. Keighley packs her round-the-world wardrobe

A

more formal

dress

with a pattern Inspired by

peacocks' · feathers,

COLOUR Counts More Than SHAPE

T E colour of

mer.

By Florence Mills

in

the bodice and attaching a sailor collar to a cowl neckline.

In addition to his blarritz

colour blúc, hè fàvours, such

He

or

'stone also red stor

Dye an

un

The Witness Box

PARIS. biarritz blue this summer. It is dress counts a dazzling, intense sky blue that its shape, this seems to have a more than

silver tinge His designs are In keeping summer, it seems. Black seems about it. with the Festival note: they are

to be in the works for the He uses It for Shantung combinations as gunmetal erey coffee- colourful, and, in a great many autumn, however,

dresses or for throttle scarves with lemon silk, coses, unusual for dress fabries: French designers are concen- that the High around the throat, coloured alpaca teamed with streamlined cars with mouth-trating on brilliant colour setting off perfectly his casual navy blue and white draught For the home there are breakfast. The rolloy is made organ fronts, bicycles, window schemes more than evolving coolle juiktets in white pique or board cheat necessarias.

"His colours for eveni pottery ashtrays, hand- of Californien evenlyptus and boxes, paper dolls in u variety now-fangled fashions this sum. the gaping vee necklines of his

and, for a beach mer.

pull-over aluminium. The trays are heat- of colours,

jackets carved platters

wood, and of

figures stain proof, in

in Edwardian

apricot, Basic black, prime favourite coloured men, bruss door-knockers,

pastel out, and colours, and need no cloths,

dress of pale peach chiffon and striped bathing costumes.

in the spring, has been pushed Designer Exploits oside for dazzling blues and

adds ph

gloves and yellow Castillo exploits the stripes and gaudy shirtwaist style this summer, golva of white crepe-Associa reds, vivid

plain roses to an exotically draped flower patterns long absent changing it a little by blousing fed Press. front the Paris fashion scene.... To show his materials at their There is

even a a rainbow dress best, Cyril Lord asked some of this summer. Designer Meggy London's designers to create Rouff makes it out of chiffon, special styles for this show.

printed SD that one colour Michael Sherrard co-operated merges into another, exactly with a magnificent evening en- like a rainboy. She gives it semble for

sunray pleated skirt a style NTO this Witness Box steps gala occasions: full length cout in red wine widely favoured by all French satin with batwing sleeves over designers and ties the waist GLORIA SWANSON.

well-groomed 83-year-old a white all round pleated skirt. with an enormous sash of black

The matrimonial form book Victor Stibel

created

magnl-taffeta.

gives her record as:- ficent dress with a full crino».

Marriages Divorces line

skirt: the bodice was white, horizontally

FIVE Madame Rouff has a trick of

FIVE draped; the skirt,

ont Is Misa Swansory cynical I circular, was in red and making dresses with only

Serve. She uses black taffela about marriage or disillusion striped rayun. Basic colour for her cold showed a dress in 3-Horal chalk white crepe but file ined about things in general?.

Here are the-things-she-saki- weather clothes is black: for the crepe: four flying pancis hung the opposite side of the bodice

with an outsize stole of brilliant as the-years-went-by: FROL parts of her trip, white over the straight skirt,

coloured silk or chiffon. She Only two hats are ineluded, bul One of Cyril Lord's most at- drapes it diagonally to the waist, tractive designs was inspired by then allows it. to swish into In many ways. A black velvet a Persian medallion.

He has loose, flying panel another cap is dressed up with sequin produced this in a variety of fashion hangover from previous

WHAT clothes need a woman take to fly round the world?

life Mrs Keighley and mother of seven -month-old Jonathan

Eden.

Were's one who is doing it Brenda Rawnsley, it private

Ber round-the-world wardrobe, designed to cover hot and cold climates, packs into two suitcases--and it has ideas for 1951 holidaymakers.

She will take it with her this week on a five-week tour of the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand. Canada and America. Her job; selling lithographs of well-known paintings to schools and starting school picture circulating schemes.

THE CONCO Collapsible cotton hat; Mrs. Keighley wearing it.

PARIS CHANGES the SHAPE AGAIN

from IRENE RICHARD

PARIS,

MID-SEASON summer

collections reveal a feminine silhouette with full skirts, often pleated. stuping shoulders and Magyar sleeves.

★ Leading colour is white, with all shades of yellow and Biarritz blue,

* Linen and shantung domi- nale the collections with many prints and "sheers.""

Smartest models are adapt- ablo Jean Destes shows a round-the-clock dress, with detachable apron-cum-cape and removable sleeves.

The three-quarter-length dance dress, with bouffant rulle skirt, is designed for hot weather * Long gloves are a "must “ for evening wear., Schlaparafli makes dyster sotin gauntlets. which pull-up-to the armpitį, finished with bows

*

Costwheat the which hörschblr. trimmed with fudyti „und" valĺng.

(Clavko Št.

they pack flat and can be worn

full

and while

One Sleeve Trick

At 27: I am a mother first and a film star afterwards."

At 32: About her third hus- band: "We will always be good triends,"

velling real flowers or feathers. For sunshine there is

colours.

At 33: "I just know what I He showed in soft seasons which is still highly a large white cotton hat called "cong and bolero, (see picturs).

Grey made into a delightful dress P

most spectacular colour the right thing for me to have."

Want and persuade people it's An- It is made on a piano wire

comes with a scheme

i slinky other unusual design was

At 33: "I would marry again frame, which opens out into an combination of

and

nd white crepe evening number, I stripes enormous sunhat. It can

be cu

thought it would make me the sort of silk worn inside

happy." panels of flowers. He showed adorned with out, or on windy this in a perfectly simply styled

associates onc

with Joseph's At 33: About her fourth hus- days at half must.

dr 255,

worn inevitably with a coat of many colours. She drapes band: "I plumped for happinees Lingerie is all nylon, nylon

but well

proportioned it round the strapless bones this time....and for keeps." lave trimmed, which washes large,

were either in Anc ties it at the back, then leaves organdie, (ser above it to fall to the ground in two

again huge, loose panels.

hat hats

straw or

overnight and requires no iron- ing. And the whole trousseau is crease-resisting to save time in picture). Stripes were

Castillo, late of Elizabeth in an unusual way: a packing and pressing.

At 30: "Hardly a day of cur striped rayon button through Arden's salon in New York and dreas had horizontal stripes, but now designing for Lanvin in lives passed without a quarrel... with panels on the bodice, and] Paris,

of his While we were in England he

ALL CHANGE

"Separates" play an important part, with interchangeable nylon blouses and seersucker skirts for hot weather, lace stoles to dress up a plain black dinner dress for Australia's winter and a Parts black tie silk dress with coloured scarves that tuck into the waistband to give it slx different

Το

save

on over-

night stops, beauty aids travel together

in a

fitted case. To go with her brown eyes, dark red-brown hair and light skin, Mrs Keighley has chosen a peach powder and blue-pink lip- stick, bright enough to fure sub-| shine or electric lights.

*. BRAVO

T APPLAUD the restaurant that has relaxed lis "revening dress only" rule for the Festival perlod. Many visitors arriving by air have no luggage room for evening dress. It would be a graceful ges- ture L other spots

night would follow suit for the holl-! day months.

ADVICE

"Push

bourselves hard as you can And dont--be afraid of being a unladylike

fitue

on occasions and of making a big noise,izs

Godwin, Assistant, Secretary of the Clert- càl und Müministrative. Workers' Union

„zWard Wodutsent herend) London

apress/Mervice).

makes

Long & Short Of It

much

Shown at the Glove Gala at the Hotel George V in Paris recently is this original shawl-glove fashion. One glove is. wrist-length and the other is so long it wraps around the shoulders to form a shawl. The shawl-glove is attached to the other arm by a little sleeve. The pair is made of Parma violet sucde. A curled diamond fern is clipped to the wrist.

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kept me up all night to quarrel with."

At 30, after her fourth divorce: "I am through with marriage"

At 51: "A man expects a woman to use time and tasto to make herself look her best. Then he turns up as if he had just come in from a hunting trip and didn't bother to change,

At 51 I'd look undressed

my mole." without

At 52, after her Afth divorce: "My marriages failed because had so little time to relax."

I

At 52: "I don't plan any more, just wait for things to happen."

At 53: "I amn gick and tired of Gloria Swanson,"

N-E-W-S

WHO

FOR WOMEN WANT TO KNOW....

How to look smart:

Lace is the news fabric of the summer. Shoes are being sold velled with heavy guipure Ince. Pastel taffeta, veiled with lace, is used for cocktail dresses. An unusual dress in white or- gondie is stitched with one-inch

bands of navy knee,

At a mid-season collection in London last week alk day Idresses were att shown with the Princess Elizabeth neckline. (A V-neck, with a collar and floppy bow.)

How to save time;

Revolving

cupboards in the Jaitchen is a now. idea from America. Working on a centre pivot, those, cupboards are cs- pecially efficient under the sink and draining board.

How to be a good hostess: A

wire living in

British

Jamaica sends 13. recipe Scoop

SHIRTS FOR LEISURE::

Carefree is the keynote of this sport shirt, made from spun.rayon in the coat style, and cut on generous lines to give maximum case and comfort to wearer. Sleeves are short-and there are two useful pockets which button. The collar, wear as you please, open or closed.

BY BONSOIR.

MACKINTOSHS

SHOP A

Page 47.

SINCERE'S

DEPARTMENT STURE

FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS

UNMISTAKABLY THE FASHIONS

IN SWIMWEAR

FOR 1951!

LOVELY

STYLES ENCHANTING

FABRICS

By.

JANTZEN

GANTNER

COLE

ETC. ETC.

CHOICE OF LADIES' SUITS WITH FLARRING OR STRAIGHT SKIRTS, MADE OF SILK VELVET, NYLON OR LASTEX, SHIRRED OR PLAIN. A VARIETY OF STYLES FOR MEN,TOO.

GIFT

Silverware.

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the flesh out of a lobster shell Sterling Silver make a and dice it, Stand the empty living place a home and shell filled with a thick creamy

sauce on a bed a lettuce, and put warmth into the berve, the diced lobister en cock.

tail, sticks grouped round the sholl

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