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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 191

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

DISTINCT STYLES

Coutry ensemble in an un. usual

colour achome The coat. inspired by the nine- teenth century man's ulster, is in lan lambswool and lined with the suit material which is in two tones of grey. The coat is double-breasted, bul. toning to the knees with smoked pearl, bulions,

"Poodle" coat in fur fabrio

lons. The pockets are

ed into the rounded aldo scam Inseta,

Economy has

much

to do with next season's fashions

OUTURE

like

By Dorothy Barkley

LONDON. shoulders only softly padded, and black tweed, enriched

designers, are often belied,

are

others in the A clothing trade, becoming anxious about the unfavourable effects which

by a black velvet collar.

Illustrating Digby Morton's new collection, we have chosen here a town suit and a country ensemble. The tailored town auit, shown left has a belted waist, and a slim skirt line. It is in black Venetian cloth, with black velvet collar, The waist-- cost effect of the lapels strikes an original note.

Ready-to-wear

Coats have three distinct styles the princess, the tubular and the pyrumid. The princess style is perhaps most attractive of all; It achieves more silhouette than bas wool price increases will femining

been seen for some considerable have on the cost of next time. Costs in this style have season's clothes. They face atted bodies, full daring skirt the prospect of a clientèle emphasising the waistline. It is forced to economise.

more universally wearable than the enormous tent coats. On other coats, the most notable style detail is the rounded

The perfectly tailored country shoulder line with deepset ensemble has an arresting sleeves dolman; leg of mution, culour scheme, Inspired by the nineteenth century man's ulster ample room for a suit beneath.

that coat is in tan and lined The new tubulur line is per- with the sult material which best explained by its is in two tones of grey. Lining haps

conts with material matching the illustration, (shown here). The

the suit

is an accepted

way this 'ines, curving in towards hein, are slimming. This one season of making ensembles, is in fur fabric poodle cloth. The .coat is double-breasted, with smoked pearl hence the name "poodle coat." buttoning Variation is the poodle jacket, buttons; the suit skirt is box- which has similar Hines, and is plented so that long country a very useful slip-on for, wear walks may be taken in comfort. Over anything. The tubular And the long, furled umbrella look was also seen on a coat is still an irreproachable and suit ensemble: in royal blue

The couturiers, although and balloon, all of which give creators of new fathlons consistently copied by any- one wishing to be fushion- uble, sell models only to an exclusive. minority. They are being forced to think hard of ways und means to prevent that minority vanishing completely.

One of the most interesting experiments to offset this cost of living sequel is that of London couturier Digby Morion In his designing of a complete "rendy-to-wear" collection. He insista there in "no question of ready-to-wear ever taking the place of personally tailored clothes," but feels this is the answer to current economic difcutios. Machine produced. these clothes naturally have lesa of the intricate cutting detail associated with tailoring, but compensation

comes in. lower cost.

The Answer

und

hond

In this arst ready-to-weur collection, Digby Morton con- centrates on the classically tullored suit in which he aways excels.. Materials-by no means new, but prominent this season— are tweeds Anc

Cultings and lightweight velours. Loading brown, black, green urd mauve,

colours

Are

the

New

latter, a colour which has not been seen for sometime. season's touches are observed in unusual colour combinations

with

designed

on tubular

lines

with enormous sucer

but-

work-

royal blue

black,

grey.

Is checked brown combinos

cessory,

Feminine Heels

Much focus is now centred on ankle appeal. Hosiery firms in America have ingeniously devised attractive "heel" fancies for summer nylons. four heel designs presented here are current. favourites with women in America.

NO. 1

with

NO. 2

Detall noted-small rolled collars; high revers, sometimes buttoning to the neck; a tendency to fuller skirts, which contrasti with the narrow skirts so much favoured by most other- designers at the moment, Skirts are either wrap-over in style, or box-pleated all the way round. Jackels,

which have natural

The

The "Swiss Do" heel comes in a variety of shades,

Polka-dot frocks, so It goes especially well with popular in the summer for garden, parties, "Picture Frame"

more sophisticated wearer. It goca especially well with one-coloured. dresses for cocktails.

Is

for

the

NO. 3 The "Mandella" boel resembling strings of the mandolin is a top seller, The heel decoration is available in self-colour, black, brown and navy and vertical, heel lines of many shades.

~NO. 4The Zebrette" beet-consists of a series of very....fine.

contrasting lines accentuated by a matching scam. Proving quite a bit this decorative besl while un- usual, makes a subtle slimming look on the legs.

nc.

W?

Lovely Peggy Dow, Holly-

wood screen

star, was

snapped by

the cameraman

Was

as she about to leave

for a day, at

the beach. The attractive

two-piece swimsuit has

Д bra-top

prettily over.

laid with eye-

let

white

pique, scallop- edged.

Surely we've heard all this before?

season

herself

WITH the Wimbledon tennis makes all clothes for

the annual tut and 12-year-old daughter and tutting about the court fashions averages about 12 new gar- grows louder.

ments a year. There are plenty of styles this season for the old-time centre court stars to criticise-irons- parent materials, colour touches and gold bead trimming.

Mr Basford has become pro- ficient with pins and fittings,

DIFFERENT

AT a Festival embroidery ex- But tennis stars have always hibition several entries been fashion-conscious. Remem- were from mon. ber those other controversies?

1905-8 uproar was caused by Mrs Bundy (May Sutton), first American woman player to roll up her sleeves.

1919-the great Suzanne Leng- len was denounced for wearing the first short skirt and display ing her legs.

1933-Helen Jacobs was asked not to play in shorts,

time.

Captain Geoffrey Edwards. bachelor oft. 3in: actor, who lives in Chelsea, started to embroider on his war-time ARP post to pass

He མལ་ creates his designs as he works

the with

silks and wools.

than "Much mare interesting following a set pattern."

But darn sockat "No, that is quite different," says Cap-

1040 Gorgeous Gussie tan Edwards, Moran's lace-trimmed panties. started one of the most frivolous fashion debates.

ENTERPRISE

сап

TWO London stores introduce 1951-Transparent dresses, like a new shopping service → Mrs Betty Schofield-Davidson's a personal assistant who dress and panties in white nylon be booked by phone and will lace, are this year's talking point look-out clothes. in advance.. Or will it be Lorna Cornell's split skirt, Jean Curry's gold bead embroidery or Betty Wilford's blue buttonholes?

HOME-MADE

the

One of these store hostesses, Miss Caroline Ash, says service is proving popular with

whose time country shoppers,

is limited, and overseas visitors who don't know London shops. "Lots of lone women like to too," an

THOSE BABY CHARTS HAVE SOME of the amariest clothes book as appointment, 100,

FOOLED YOU—

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The CHAPMAN PINCHER Column presents an entirely new guide to whether your baby is putting on enough weight

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the Is the

And it makes nonsense of the guidance that baby. specialists — including doctors have been giving to mothers,

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BOYS GIRLS

2

scen in London recently ware says Miss They like a home-made, many by women steend feminine opinion, before who have never had a sewing facing their husbands in a new lesson,

A parade of prize-winning designs in a national sewing competition Included tailor- mades, evening gowns, wedding dresses and children's party frocks. A

grandmother, Mrs

G. Steel, of Shirley, Croydon,

wan

talloned blue

learned to make sulls for her grandson, by unpicking an old suit to see how it was talldred. Mrs Irene Basford, of Ryder Crescent, Scathipert, prize with guberdine sult 'in novy blue with a blouse of ide pink poult. Her three-piece suit cost

took her £8 10s, and

four In between weeks to make housework and looking after her two schoolchildren,

She

dress."

(World Copyright Reserved-- London Express Servics)..

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Town suit in black Vene- tlan cloth: Unusual feature in the waistcoat effent of deep lapels, Black velvet used for contrast on

collar.

NEWS FROM

NEW YORK

A PERFUME gadget which is

to

MOR

ORE than 1,200 healthy babies have helped to make this chart. It brings most reassur- ing news to the millions of mothers who worry whether their babies are putting on weight properly.

It proves that a baby may be pounds lighter or heavier than the mythical "average baby" used as a guide by child welfare clinics and still be thoroughly healthy.

It shows mothers have suffered needles anxiety. A woman-Dr. Jessle Parfit, of Oxford University's Institute of Social Medicine-carried out the real-life investigations on which the new chart is based.

The 1,200 babies were weigh- be sold in New Yorked at regular intervals through-

shops is being turned

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out by out their first year. The results

loolis prove

in-

more

It match. còmpany. just like a folder of matches,

BABY BOYS almost but each stick has a perfume 1

variably on the

оп put head which, rubbed

than special weight

girls an extra 1lb. Go2s. by the end of the first year on the average.

MOST BABIES

skin, leaves its fragrance.

་

the

2

MONTHS

6. R. 10 11 12

HOW TO USE RUN your finger along the bottom tine, of the

THE CHART

chart until you come to your baby's age in months, its a boy continuo vertically up the chart until your finger strikes the tower thick line. Then read of the weight in Ib. from the scale on the left. This is the minimum weight your baby should have put on zince birth. Continue upwards until your finger strikes the upper thick line. Titta olves the maximum weight he should have gained. If your baby's weight fails anywhere between these extremes lia is gaining well;

EXAMPLE: A seven-month-old baby may have put on as little as 910, or as much as 231b, and still be perfectly healthy.

For a girl baby you follow the dotted lines.

That chart shows the "normal"

.. ¡Almost "half" the babies fallad

Sunglasses are / daling on 2 on roughly strange shapes, You can buy

Even the medical textbook amount of weight weight of a baby as 141⁄2ib, at alx sule that "from them set into 'visor-like, vells, the game

six to eight Other models havis triangular respective of their weight at months and 2144b, at one your ounces a weak should be gained Nearly halt the Bables weighed for the first five months, and frames, slots so that you can tle birth. So a six-pound baby boy them on with ribbons, and gains weight just as fast as a during the Oxford inquiry would about tour ounces a week during

nine-pound boy, frames. In rainbow colours.

have to be classed as abnormal the next seven" turned out to 9. BABIES

be hopelessly inaccurate. who are hadvy by that reckoning.. From Paris.

⚫nt.birth usually retain. their lead over, light-weights. A nine-pound baby tends to remain.

to put on weight xoʻrapidly; Jet three pounds heavier than a Dr Fardt's Andings also du-they were baricelly.carmala a flower attached. to the child who weighed six pounds a guide that a baby should double father will be grateful to br prove the ertsbilshed nursery Anxious, mothers and birth, for inslande. Mellerio shows a gold 'din- Sa the standard, chart pub birth weight in five to six Parit Be guided by the chart.

When one lished by the National Associa, months and treble, it in a year petal is pressed buck the hourt tion for Malernity and Child Some babies in the test failed it is backed by 1/200 bables who

are doing, Dino, of the rose opana to reveal a Welfare for use in clinics is out, to treble their weight by soveml tiny: gold: watch;

pounds

Tết,they were chubby,

CUFF and

glove, watches are

the newest jewellery novelty These are mainly in the shape

of

cuff with a clip.

mond-studded rose.

dated

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Gooseberry Raspberry

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Strawberry

$150

$2.35

$1.35

$1.30

-$1.5M

A $1,350.

Redcurrant Jolly

$145.

Bumbia Jalfor

· Salad Dressing.

Bas. Jar' $1,90

"1602, Jar:32,00

802.jar $1,65 ::

Sandwich Sprend 1pos.jar: $2.80

Boar$1,65

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