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VAN

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1953.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

DRUSILLA BEYFUS

raporting on

Vanity

THE WOMAN WHO SPOONfeeds the oTHER WOMAN'S FAMISHED LITTLE PRIDES

7ANITY was her business. She ministered to it night and day for five years inside the high court of concelts--the ladies' room in the most celebrated dining place in the West End,

For five years, until she left the job to marry the restaurant manager, Maria Taylor cared for the woman customer's social equipage-her looks, her clothes, and her vanities.

Maria was the person who hung up all the best coals in town. "Mink means nothing to me," she remarked, Maria brushed the backs of the best suits. And Maria spoonfed a thousand famished little prides,

what

every sior, who was dining at the best restaurant one night. The Mar

chioness at Carisbrooke, one of Moria's customers, promised to bring her down.

Sho learned

to hear es customer -the sound of her own name. Whether the customer hadn't been in for months, or whether the turned up for lunch every day, she never forget it-Good evening, Mrs, here's the parcel you tell behind at lunch." **

"Diners up from the country who don't come in very often panicularly ike you to renem- be: the last samo they were here.

"Arzt I can't cecall the name. I can always remember a face. It was a great help.” Maria made a good living from har tips.

"Duitemers of all kinds like you to balk to them about some- thing particularly tholis, son out in Malaya, a new baby, an lines their dogs, a new job.

hat Sometimes a woman would

"Then, at about half past len, a woman rushed into my room in a frightful stato," said Maria, "She couldn't open her mouth because her dentures were inv ing troubles with a petit-four.

"Just as I was pouring very to hot water

over the biscuit

the try to melt R-down came marchioners and Miss Dunne. I didn't know whether to go en malling the biscuit, apologise to her ladyship, shake hands with Miss Duune, or what, could only happen to me."

She's right.

Vanity

It

MIDAS TOUCH FOR THE MILLIONS

THE latest shape of vanity in

THE

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"They like you to notice a new woman's jewellery is pictured here. say to me, I've just bought a The necklace is designed in fake gold. now hat and my husband ays the newest stage in the development of

I've got awal taste in hats. I'm the Midas Touch. Junching with him, do you think.

it looks all right?'

Tho chain is made of basa metal changed

Into a gleaming gold. It has two special pro-

“And I would say, if I thought parties. All the jewellery made of it is as it lacket odd, 's charming. madam, but have you get it on light us air and has a permanent non-Larnishable

at the eight angle?

Art of service

MARIA perfected the art of

wrapping a criticisan

compliment.

in a

A customer, it secris, enjoys the feeling of good service for all, providing the service she gots is a bit better than aw one else's,

think woman wants to

A

shine.

The new gold has flooded the jewellery

market all over the country. The British firm

which Arst brought the idea from Switzerland (where it was used for the first time on

jewellery) and made the equipment that makes

the gold, reported: "Our sales have increased 100

percent in the last year.

Jewellers are turning out gold neck” chuins," gold bracelets, gold earrings. In most West End stores there are two gold counters to one of pearls-and-rhinestones,

The now gold comes in the middle price that it is the who gets special range, the necklaco in the photograph, gold attention. Some customers like mixed with black ringe costs 425. 11d., the me to turn on the warm water earrings 31s. 11d. (and out of the picture) a tap for them at the wash basin, matching bracelet, 2ls. 11d.

"Some like me to remember their special kind of soap. They like a comb that hasn't been used, a special shade of powder, or will expect me to know that they like tissues to pul on the dressing-tables to protect a pale evening bag,

"But whatever it is; they

110 to think that you

things for them alone."

Nol

nip

all Maria's

these

customers

belaveen downstairs

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·To Britain via Switzerland.

✰✰✰ Vanity ✰✰★

EVEN MIRRORS THEMSELVES CHANGE IN STYLE

mirror business THE

In the 18th century a woman But he tells me that, after the were good girls. "Some of them started from scratch could swing her minor about on question of cost, his customers

a polished wood frame with little consider some finer points. the when Eve first peered in a drawers underneath. And on her sweet and the coffee, toll their pool. Since then the urge drawing-room walls were come hosts upstairs that they have gone to tldy-up. They spend so of a woman to see how she of the lovellest mirrors ever to long that xmetimes the men looks has created a history

it their girl friends are and a trade. gossiping to me.

In the fist place, the mirror "But they use the telephone in my room to ring up other boy business was now. I looked up trientis, Faki Maria sadly. Her, the past of the looking-glass in loyalties are always to the man the place where it is hidden-

the in the Mes at the Victoria and рук the bill .who

Albert Museum. promises.

nak

on

..

be made.

"My customers know that a proper tisa should look like one and not like some odd jewellery run up on a headband for At the close of the century, the grand'occasion," he told me. leading expert on furniture wrote: "The evolution of the mirror loses all artistic interest."

*

That is the lara code for Coronation year, based on cus- tomers' commenés,

The summer story will be......

TOLD IN THE MATERIAL

By Hazel Meyrick

London. with the Earl Marshal's decreo I ty

not the ing the Coronation ceremony TT is in the fabric, not the that non-titled women altend-

dress story will be told this in the form of a vell." year. For the fashion

Looking like a half-hat, the houses have turned their Coronulla is made in face and bucks on design to concen- solin trate on new and unusual velling

materials,

The mandarin collar has bowed itself out of popular ity and nothing has come along to replace it, except perhaps that deep scooped- out V neckline worn by the Duchess of Kent, which most people are too cautious to try.

with a froth of tulle

at the back. Worn with these caps are elbow- length gloves (also by order of the Earl Marshal) and ballot- length dresses in brocade and

Jame.

Cap Of State

A coronet can cost up to £1,000, so, for the poeress with more tasta thar money, Harinell has designed a Cap of State. Made from crimson It seems that British velvet trimmed with a discreet women are at last catching simulation of ermine, the crown

pearls,

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on to the idea of an all- of the cap is outlined by mid 27 Des Voeux Road, C., HONG KONG Tel. 25934, year-round cotton wardrobe, wire, trimmed with four drop Many London stores say cotton dresses are already Couturiers complain of Inck being bought in dozens of orders for Coronation gowns. But peeresses are loth to buy even when it is snowing these when they may not have outside. Popular are the opportunity to wear them. 'Coronation' prints, bright Places at the Abbey are chosen Bayadare patterns flecked with glit, and jungle de.. signs in vivid colourings.

ballot and it seems no-one

wants to tempt 'her luck In the ditaw by ordering her dress too far ahead.

LEFT: Pillow-case ticking Grey Vichy cotton was almost a national costume makes striped dress ́for with three-quarter Now spring in France last year.

and a walst denim, its tougher sister, length sleeves

whistling belt. (By Sambo is being taken up with

Clothes). Rlzhi: A cotton equal enthusiasm in Lon-

dress in a bold multicoloured "don.

Jungle print has a full sklet

The model dress houses play for 'safety and use charcoal-grey denim iced with white pique. But it can also be seen in off-key colourings like pink-grey and

green-grey. Strung round skirt hems and on pockets is white rick-rack trimming with as many rows of braid as on an ad- miral's uniform. Often these dresses have an attractive glazed finish which keeps them looking fresh crisp.

and

Pillow-case Ticking

will

3

An American 41m stor visited London recently wearing મ coat made from striped Suddenly, pillow-case ticking. this fabric has been taken up by the fashion houses something new and amusing from ticking Dresses made como in simple button-through price. But where the artists stopped,

designs, inexpensive in

full skirts which the merchanka awooped by The People who know give full Many have

the away from Bland women wearing the Class distinction They told me that the first way business in giving a woman the marks to

a woman took a quick look at chance to take a quick look at icind of tiara they must put away hipline unaided by petticoats, herself indoors was to gaze into herself has become swiftly com-, until the next Corenalin,

Other tough-looking dresses, KYOT Dil Moria's customers polished bronze.

petitive. Each manufacturer

in slubbed cotton tweed this Half-marks to people who time, have workman-like skirts were kind. "There's a class

An Egyptian girl in 1400 BC. strives to cut down his prices, wear the kind designed in the with trouser pleats in distinction between the atten- dant and the customer that owned a bronze mirror like the

The leading eLondon suppller first place as a war, but when gigantic pockets that could the was of powder compacts

reporta: can be converted into a prodace. Some People-not our regulars ones on sale before of course-do their best to em- with, a polished round of the Three years ago we brought out metal and a handle shaped like a compact all £1. Our cum- phasise

a girl. theso

petitors produced one for 15s. "You have to handle people with kid gloves. But the An Englishwoman first glimpsed

"We thrust back with a nun- more polite you are to them, the herself on the wall around the ber of 129. Od. They replied with Once I end of the 14th century. Proper a style at 10s. 6d. Last Christ- more cros they get. mid Thank you, as I always do baked mirror glass had been when customers leave the room, invented, the first shiny surface mas we mopped up the market with our cheapest line yet of to someone who hadn't left me light enough to hang..

7a. Od."

a tip. And the flow at me."

The mivor business was under way But most of Maria'a customers by 1823, when the first fastrey take care of their looks, "Par started up. ticularly women over 40,, They

ali

Cromwell umashed the mirror

Tiara Tailpiece

spersi more time than anyone trade. There is no record of on themselves except women of mine-making during his rule.

who are out to land a contract over a business lunch." But years after his death, the beauty business, was back with a Most customers spend ten backs. minutes to a quarter of an hour Adlarkt observed that the tidying themselves up before a women gazed into their maros from velve till two, "seling melots of women won't bother their top-knots on their for wearing classes. to put on face powder, although heads straight upright." they'd doel naked without a

No marks at all to the woman who wears the make-do-and- mena variety-some piece from her jowd-box mounted on wire,

them.

and your shopping. carry cool bateau necklines.

Another material to catch the designer's eye this year is man's mado into shirting. It is tailored dresses complete with starched collars and cuffs with cuff links to completo the There's a technique about illusion. One dress even has a looking your best in a fara. For spare collar sown onto the

skirt RS example, the ribbogar wisheh keep

a pocket; another

it or want mover chorar. Ther sports a bow-tle.

can be matched exactly to cus- tornor hair colour at the wor

of jewellers where they keep

tazos, All shades are its stock

from ance-white do pla tiptea

New Fabric:

For a cool, open-air look there blonde. Flair cut be maxably are summer separates:mado in called Jersa arranged, and be loreer emoth to a new fabric tuck over the ribbons. A short | Anginiso. It is really that rayon! slockinotto, CODE of private vanities hat wh a flare "although we make puntured with a lace patter

cut is not quite the thirr to wear material, been created by the lara-lar any hair-style like broderie Anglaize Unruh

I talked re cently to a ma who is peculiarly said the director accommodat able, packable and easily wash

ingly.

pablo, it can be found in anything aware at them this Coronation yea, a director of one of thora And most new peerenso feel from high-necked aniria, wom linen suit to ma anteramoratowelow in Bond they look their best, in antique ery landed her in the kind Another wrote offers Street (0) Too Street, me ho mares. The areola romarked decollete cocktail blouse with of social fix which must be beauty: Sho sacrificed her loa

"They Drefte, the apes of MYLER LA peculiar to the class of

ass of clock for her beauty. Her painting

that bort as if they had bemin attendants.

good Hpstick," sald Marie.

Onco one if Maria's custom-

under

barasal "siceves.

Thu Corontilla

-London Express Sayulce. Norman Harine

"María ·· had niwitys longed went so beyond all measure that Part of he fob is to sell wied the furnity for centuries” (t

the mercury goé Into her nerves, the fit enim, the sd-fornament

prion from £700 to £48,000. meet rund Dunn, the film and killed her."

of unpressed pleats caught in at the waist by a tie bow. (By Sambo Clothes)

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