1951-09-29 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1951.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Madam, Restrain That Impulse To Laugh!

fashion startler (but

with sound sense behind it)

T was a breath-taket Bar-

I wara Goalen was wear-

ing a cost. like a pyramid in pleated black taffeta layer upon layer narrow- ing at the bust, narrower at the shoulders, narrower still at the collar, with a aingle white, rose on top in- stead of a hat. A, fashion- startler... but with sound dense behind it.

But listen..

Ed look fine queueing for the fish in that," say the jcerers,

Madam, try to forget yourself for a moment. For- get that you are a practical busy, and perhaps broaden- ing housewife. For frank- Iv, the designer, Jacques Fath, did not have you in. mind.

HE HAS DARING THE woman he did have

in mind is slender, ele- gant, wealthy, and on the verge of a Paris soiree. Probably he doesn't expect to sell more than one of theas coats. Possibly he doesn't expect to sell any.

But-like all top Paris

original

Here is the near-relation or adaptation of the taffetta coat of designer Jacques Fath as modelled by Barbara Goalen. It is trans- formed into a practical every- day coat but with the same pyramid he and details pre- served.

The SHOES — long and point- ed with enormously high splicy

dress designers-he has the heels which taped till they are

daring to fling it at the

no wider than a threepenny bit

public, grackling with at the base.

enough ideas to set the

fashion mind alight with

. interest.

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WHAT IDEAS!

The OUTLINE --- a triangle of nounces 15. Yards' broad at the her narrowing to a single flower at the apex..

The

MATERIAL — a new duli silk taffeta as Anc un chiffon, so supple that it ripples as she

moves.

The CUT each layer taper- ed in itself and then tapered again with fan pleating.

The COLLAR →→vast and cir- cular, and humped so that it renches in a slope from shoulders to nars,

The SLEEVES - immensely wide and bell-shaped, wider at the cuff than the armhole.

The COLOUB — a charecal black (worn with dead accessories).

The

LENGTH

AND SENSE TOO

BUT

UT for those who like to their clues interpreted practice, study the picture above.

It is a cost in black wool lined with block lamb-by

the same designar, has the same tapered line-much less sensationally carried out. There are the same steves-not quite so immoderate, collar--but same huge flattened so it does not take a Barbara Goalan to get away with

The

So the designer also pleases his clients with the kind of coat they like to buy.

He punches them with enough startling ideas to make them

masp,

On the one hand-s fabulous oult, even in Paris.

black

On the other hand-the thing a woman could reaches an inch or two above anywhere."

kind

little

We3:

the instep.

longer than ankle length,"

-(London Express Service)

GETTING

London.

She Provides Frontier Charm

Shapely Shelley Winters of Universal-International is all in favour of Hollywood Western roles where men are men and the "gals" wear low-cut gowns.

Illustrating this belief the fiery blonde wears a black lace filmy gown with a low, wide decollete and black pumps with large square diamond-stúdded buckles added for glamour,

In her latest picture “Frenchie", Shelley gets her man with 'guns blazing in true Western ́tradition.

ENGLISH WOMEN ON HOLIDAY

SHOCK THOSE IN EUROPE

ENGLISHWOMEN coming back from holidays abroad

report that several European countries were shocked by their beach clothes. They tell of encounters with policemen and bench attendants protesting against two- piece bathing dresses and topless sun dresses,

..

One country where English- Portugal too has been en-

women

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EILEEN ASCROFT. COLUMN

who men

have clashed with the forcing its d:corum rults Among the chief offenders 1 local sense of decorum is Spain, against English visitors this would nome middle-aged women Churches and cathedrals in summer. Men and women alike who bulge out of strapless tops, Spain carry nollees in thie on Portugue beaches must only suitable for the young and perchen forbidding any de- wear high-necked bathing slender;

sit 13 colletage within. A similar ban dresses with skirts. A man who restaurants in braces; and is enforced in the

sirects

of wears trunks only is able to week-end cyclists who ride in Feme Spanish cities. I have a fine of up to £5.

too attenuated shorts. report from one reader whu Some places, in Switzerland tells me that he was walking have also turned an unfriendly in. Valencia wearing a topless cye on the English women's collon suntrack when she was holiday clothes, I have reports stopped by n polletman. He of complaints to the Mayor of sent her back to her hotel ter Geneva about decollete frocks- n scarf to cover her shoulders. un the lakeside,

Another reader tells

me of

of an The Mayor gave his official experience with her husband at approval, however, to a bathing Palma

on the Spanish Mediir costume which would certainly raucan Irland of Majorca. He not have parsed in Spain or in walked through the streets of Portugal. the town in shorts--and he was

trimmed suits even In the utility range; quilted coat lin- ings and olive-shaped buttons.

The return of lovely feminine clothes this winter. with diophancus draperica and swirl- ing skirts brings with It the ilck of fre.

Edith Sitwell in her Victorio

of England recalls another ard of feminine dress Harkened by fire tragedies.

At the burning of the church of La Compania in Santiago.in 1883 the flames spread among dresses

those waterfall-bright and iwo thousand- women changed torches."

· BELL SKIRTS

One hundred years later we ONLY five weeks have clapsed are little further forward in ince the Paris autumn protecting women from these collections: but now London

risks. We sill parmli open manufacturers' аге showing

fires and radiators: winter clothes that embody guarded

we still have inflammable leading French fashion features. materiais.

Notes from the 'London Model

(World Copyright Reserved House

London Express Seculeo}. Group show bell skirts Italian over canvas petticoats; velveteen cont frocks trimmed with

black braid; charcoal grey ten) conts in sent back to his hotel in a taxi TERE at home, too, we could

bright pro-do with a litle more loste plush malerinis with with a request to

wool linings; barathea velvet- in our summer dress. perly.

taken to a police station. After MATTERS OF TASTE

20 minutes' detention he was

YOU

FASHION

dress

enormous

LONDON'S

IN

MOOD

By Dorothy Barkley

The contrasting suit is in dark now-long enough in fact, for it grey flannel, and the slim skirt to have become a tradition.

iriped materiais, often flatter-

September is always a time of change. Holiday- makers return to town with suntanned skins and bleached hair; pienic baskets are put away until next year; shutters are re- opened, and the small

g the waist by cleverly tuck-, shops which have been has a pleat at the back to allow But this has changed consider the material so that the In towards the "closed for the annual hali room for walking, This, again, ably since Sir Stafford Cripps stripes taper

We do introduced the "export drive, waist, and out towards the hom day are filled with the old buttons left-to-right.

The Important thing to re- has encouraged

for a good member about these styles bustle.

particularly advocate that which all women should decide to many more London designers evenlig and cocktail wear is sell abroad. Now the overseas button their jackets this way;

ial that, whatever the material in cocktail for but it is one of those subile cilent ako looks

which they are originally OR women, as they re- niterations which freshen the dresses there are several new to London," and fashion from season to season. types of material proving suli- able for wear 'tr hot, even find the new season's Remember the Importance of fashions under discussion, it accessories in completing an tropical clima'es. There is a new

outfit; remember. They taffeta-paper tafici.

not

It is

ecol.

as paper.

Is a time of replanning and should harmonise not stelkeight, fresh, wehderfully replacing their wardrobe. jarring note. This season, hats and crisp -- Crisp

This, we noticed, was used de

pancake

lightfully

To you in touch with are small, the new season's mood, we berots, or boater-type hate, in grufu wear frequently in black long-haired materials, draped relieved by colour perhaps

the c Sometimes

Inches in white, or lemon yellow.

have selected a sult and a with veiling. coat in styles everyone will vell is only three bo choosing this season - depth, just enough to yell the whether from the couturiers, eye. Colourful dloveb -and or the "dressmaker found are spoiled silk scarves

deful accessaries."

the-corner. For London's présent fashion mood ex

are

For evening, this paper taffeta was shown on n full-skirted, decollete style, with a flash c yellow taffela round the colletage falling in a streamer way the skirt,

"Metals" have made a comp presses itself in the pyramid Arthur Banks's collection des back this cease

season, Satina, taffeta lines of coats, and the vertimosirated another apreci of tlemans raynus with a melat on London's próvalling fashion thread-liver, gold, or copper cal lines of suits.

mood. He is a designer to whomewn

-sewn through them, have be ristinafood plan to have overseas buyers are rapidly bo- coire, pujsular for evening and before, you, the example of the coming more important, then eccktail wear, perhaps because dicators of fashion, so here are those at home, Here the question they have a rich and splendid. Twd ̋alylus by Chartes Creed.

could be naked

appearance liable for o grand ockašton. Furtunately, their

What do

The: cósh 4m Iria dellghtful, sèán bitvorm look for in Longreaction to a hot climate has al

laman yellow. which: "They still come for those

elegant, perfectly, pro-ady been texted. The gold,

combines splendidly, with black especcable twinsets und blivol threads it, has been se

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created," they can'

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Above: Dark, grey, sult, odped with black silk braki. The alim skirt has a; pleat at the back to allow room for walking. Notice the loft-to-right buttoning,

A-At! Left;· Loose yellow velour top spat, lined soith black, grosgrain. Points to notice: Two large patch. pockets, FOUR

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