1951-08-11 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1951.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Summer Accessories

T-t

Gloves, bag and pumps.

By GRACE THORNCLIFFE SHOWN is a trio of new accessories starting off with nent little glove in turquoise blue fabric. It has an elas-

a

ticised top and a Y stripe

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on back. The straw hand- bag gets better styling this year, as shown by this one of Madagascar straw in natural colour with handle and flap or russet calfskin, and leather lining. Navy kid- skin makes a youthful little pump with a low heel. The back lacing is Interchangeable to allow for colour splurges, this one being in pale pink.

COME

CURVES Autumn's colours are black and brown

BY LILEEN ARCOOFT

Shoulders are unpadded and DLACK and brown will be

follow the fashionable shudes

to put revers and collars Yame theme, season's together in the new clothes, Second member of the top Big Ten designers, Worth, to show an autumn export collec- wool tion, put a dark brown mixture coat over 3 black velvet dress and uses tiny black and cinnamon check for suits in soft long-piled wool.

Skirts remain the same length, but. are fuller, with the fullness drawn towards the back com bined with a longer wolstiine in skiris give Wrap-over front. fullness, too, drawn up into im- portant side drapes.

Now silk tweed ·

Curves have replaced draped crisp lines of summer. The new rain-proof velvet is Jackels, basques and hip pockets, used for every hour of the day; are rounded and slightly suffen- it is particularly effective in a ed to emphasise a small waist. cream mushroom suit,

Focus On Hats

By Dorothy Barkley

LONDON.

WHETHER you choose

pursue

worn

Left: The season's version of the booter. This is in while

with- and is Anlabed рапле

with spotted black velling

while.

the same type of hat year after year, or gaily the changing fashion, you are certain to to your find something

new styles. liking in the All hats at a London mil- linery show recently definitely wearable simple phasis, perhaps,

shape, line and small-as small as flowerpot

straight on the head. you like.

With variation on the forward movement is pillbox and turban theme, appparent, but with

small hat the forehead ta there was particular

not shaded.

were

em.

A Wedding Companion

ELGITUSÍKIRZEZ

-Con Thápṁás

By PRUNELLA, WOOD

Asmira SSKARANGMUS

The summer months are full of weddings, and it- you are gubat or bridesmaid-to-be for the events, you will enjoy mooting this glamorous frock..

to

BACK TO FASHION

FLAT SHOVEL BERET

Matches the quilt-by day.

under a plaid wool 'hooded cloak, the hood faced with the same velvet.

For cocktail suits there is a slik weed which new British tallers well

Centre:

A hat in .mative

straw enveloped with a whisp of velling and finished with a topknot.

or

on the ocelot or contrasting colours of placed velvet. Veils, when worn, ure full, eye-length, either

the chin and The cought under still swept to the back of the head, the where they are finished

scort ends.

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Shoulder lines of silk stici- collars noon dressES

are

are low at the back, Interesting, sweeping up-to a high point at qften giving the impression of one side.

extra helght. With soft whandded The "curve" molit in again folds The same fold technique confirmed and the hacking Jacköf is used again to drape the skiris line is introduced for country bf evening gowns which have suits.

crinoline appearance.

:

With feathers

Black'silk braid is used pro- fusely for Arumming and edging tullor nados,

New hat style is the flat shoval borel with a slight upward wave in the brim. For day it matches its suit or cloak closely covered with tiny curled ostrich feathers.

With dresster afternoon coats, it appears in velvet with light contrast colour lining the brim. "Brigand" collars for suits and coala aro‘attractive now features from Lachasse. These stand-up

Right! This typical of thli.segaon: velvet, trimmed with

Cand an eye-veil.

specially

black

white,

This

Overcoats are either fitted to

the walat, with full, flowing skiris, or ipose, cut with a fist back panel from the shoulders, with magyar or raglan sleeves.

Cocktail crinoline

Michael

shows no Sherord strapless bodices this autumn and has included many beautiful crinoline styles.

Something new is the Cocktail- Crinoline, in black velvet over stiffened petticoats, several lavishly embroidered with raised flowers of black silk braid,

-(Lenitoa Express Service.)

N-E-W-S

World Round-up For Women

From-New-York-

NEW YORK milliner has de- signed a turban of white fox glitter- trimmed with a This moonburst of rhinestones. can also be worn as a muff.

A new perfume for each month of the year is on sale in leading stores. It begins with Carnation for January and finishes with Narcissus for Dreember.

From Paris SILVERED sea green mascara

is being sold in Paris.

A Champs-Elysees dog shop Is bathing while poodles in milk, At a sale in Dier's salon a well-worn suit was marked down from £180 to £25.

Opposition

catered for abundantly. season, you can wear a hot as as you like. farge and as flat

WITH the Paris collections due crown, For covering of the

to begin this month, news

from

that there may be a layer of leaves,

New York inrge with a

feather diagonally comes Across a flat crown. Brime can American top designers say that be shaped

Paris is "through as the supreme to a point rescm- bling a duck's beak-the last, fashion dictator." They say that

In bright

yellow New York can do just as well.

New future

to be going France for restaurant clothes, England for tailor-mades, and America for play clothes (de- Bned as without

of course, felt.

In

on

"New ideas are creeping in

and evening restaurant

in noticed wings Most important materials wear. We ure velour, velvet and panne; brilliants, and ear-pieces มา colours. may be anything from white-particularly striking

in Gold face a' dark a bright mauve

black hat. brown, and most

interesting fashionable trimming. A gold combinations were:

brown fringe of lace round a red vel- piped with blue; a plain white vet cap, set off with gold car

looked hat with a rose perched on the rings,

exceptionally Spanish Inquence mart. brim. The continues. It is evident in the Baps in side pieces and ear

No

DIOR

The few who can make a success of an unusual hat, are

SHOCK ELEMENT The shock element goes too for, surely, in such offerings os a copy of a baseball player's velvet; cop-in bright, mauve or a feather trimming two feet reaction In length! Audience" to both these efforts was a de- #nite, "No, thanks,"

SHOWS DESIGNS

FOR DOLLARS

HE USES MODIFIED 1947 LOOK

PARIS.

re-

NTO New Look this time from AN M. Dior. Like most of the ather Paris designers he turns to a modified version of the old New Look of 1047.

Individual trends are slightly longer skirts and shorter jac tels. Loose martingalea placed high just below the arm- pits. Wide decollete necklines even on day clothes, but no deep "plunges."

aro

But ho Introduces, no revo- lutionary changes. In fact, 80, much is the American market In the minds of French de- signers that many of the clothes begin to look more American than French.

of

Christian Dior, chooses black for autumn for all mes the doy, Secondary colours are shades of brown and green, and For touches of yellow splee,

dance dresses and evening crinoline ball gowns.there 旧

white, many pink tones, but

many of the wonderful range of blue, sometimes blending three nr more together in a dress,

STRAPLESS TOPS

Wool velour is his favourite material, thiele and rich looking for redingote full. skirted coats, lightweight doe-skin for town dresses with curved shoulders

alooves. For And

alternoon

there is yelvet, gleaming satin and stik fallles.

ling, embroidered inco For evening and lots of ribtion trimmings.

He catches necklines and aleeves with tiny ribbon. bows,

and outlines

stilnos evening bust linen with ribbon or braid, giving a long wainted effect.

Strapless tops are still Dior velvet boleros which end just below the bust, giving theTH › B dunt life..

A DIOR FEATURE Buttons are in autumn 1861 Dior feature,

In clong they are like flat small pilves, others are (ny, ribbon rosettes, Hojike, to Urd dozens of diargents Boot buttons

It is made of embroidered organdle in a pale mauve-tint, like 'sweet peas, and it has the big sleeves which are newest in style circles, a delightful neckline, and full skirt. Endlosely useful in a nummer Wardrobe, dnd rows of "coloured, stones, of course with or without the exeuse of was wedding, SI FA kukathe?

**} court shoe with a low substantial heel and tiny self bow. Dior shows them

with black champagne satin cocktail dresses,

In

Gloves, very long or very short, are usually white.

Hals are small, flat and drap ed, worn sideways on the back of the head. For cocktail wear there are a few. large carl-

In

A hat).

anything you wear a girdle and without

THE HEAD designer for BAKS in Fifth Avenue ways: "I have by-passed Paris since the end of the war. Before that I went twice a year.

"When we were cut off from Parls during the war began designing my own clothes mue- cessfully. I can get Ideas from the same places as they do from museums and text books.""

NORMAN NOVELL, Who

wheels in black velvet, with charges as much as 2141 for a ostrich feather fringes.

Fur trimmings Are

suit, says: "One of my best sel- invish,fers last season was a suit withi with astrakhan and civet cata flared skirt. Paris has nothing used for lining coals and hem-like it." length stoles,

Other designers continue to 'go Jewellery Includes thin dia to Paris-but it la said they go mond chokers and seven or from habit and make less and eight strand pearl necklaces,

-(London Express Service)

less use of French ideas,

-(London Express Service)

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