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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1953.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Flowers and fruit have gone to

the head for Spring:

Below left: Steiner puts a halo of wild strawberries on his cherub cut, sprays the hair with a new colour,~ 'Pink Orchid."

Below right: Giant marguerite petals form the brim of a hat by model milliner Rudolph, designed for Ascot.

VICTORIAN REVIVAL

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By Hazel Meyrick

London. snapped up nowadays as sunumer

IF you've always regarded pyjamas,

up

The owner of the shop, Mrs Victorian underwear as Gertrude Lee, trained on that something to giggle at, it's well-known London battle- time to change your mind, ground, the Caledonian Market, For Coronation year in and fins developed a shrewd eye

bargain. for a

She buys terest in fashions of former Victorian clothes at Buction times has brought to Lon- sales, sells them to people who don a craze for wearing the visit her shop from all over the lingerie of the modest world. nineties, and there are signs the fashion will catch on overseas too.

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If it's a bustle you're after, Mrs Lee has one for sale. She'll sell you an enormous Bower- laden hat to hide your face f you're travelling incognito, or a feather boa, a little bedraggled perhaps, but still at the ends good for several seasons.

measure

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NEW FOR SPAING-} Frocks of striped mattress and pillow titking,

NEW YORK

TOLIDAY TWOSOMES

for

Round-the-world fashion report from Eileen Ascroft

comes full circle to London

After all that

I find only the hem-line

is changing

FTER visiting four continents and meeting women of 14 nations in four months it was a pleasant surprise to see tho women I know best through new eyes,

Three English characteristics have struck me during my arst three days at home.

THE CLEAR COMPLEXION of Englishwomen -and their delicate colouring. It is envied the world over-even if it is a product of our terrible climate.

"THEIR SLIM FIGURE and Kood carriage. More women here over the age of 40 keep their figures In trim than anywhere else and that includes America.

HAPPY EXPRESSIONS. It is the only country in the world where the averago woman in the street really looks us If she is enjoying life.

And within the last few days it has arrived in a London shop and is selling in rayon, at 05. Od n yard.

SINGAPORE

Inst summer. You see it, t week-ends in the yacht club in snappy sports clothes. You meet Il dancing in the famous Wrest Point hotel and as elegant dress- maker suits · sight-seeing Hobart, The

man who pioneered denim in London last year has a 'new

NEW FOR SPAING-2

Fur-print cotton poplins

H 1953 are cotton dresses with

wool cardigans... matching Woollens tone with their cotton companions mel are trimmed with bands of the cotton Duchess of Kent's fashion brainwave for 1933, I called an personality is still stamped him and saw his gayer-than- material.

Armly

in mattress springtime dresses on this

clty after her and pillow ticking. Smooth and New HOME IDEA for col-

visit. She fed COTTON into

Bilky

to the touch, they wash feeling bridal cutlery canteens the couturier class and all like rags, are cheap to buy and BACK IN LONDON god-parents

give women who have worn slik all hardly crease at all. or relations

vary it with one complete place setting for their lives now christening. birthday and smart cotton dresses by day in Christmas presents. By the time the clear pastel pinks, blues and the girl Is 21 the has a large yellows that the Duchear Intro-

duced.

At night you see them and valuable conteen,

dancing in Raffles Hotel in cotton organdle and lace,

SAN FRANCISCO

AUSTRALIA

The formula is simple, You make everything 118 voluminous

possible. Take as any yards of cot. ton as you can buy, gather them up into a petticoat or Also cashing in on this return night-gown, add several to Victorian underwear are two

who rows of lace, and throw in young actresser

made

lingerie - to for good sites when resting between some flounces measure, Then wear it with parts. ribbon slotted through.

Irene Reiph and Patrició Hastings found their interest in to the Victorian sewing was mutual when they This return

the came London era has sent everyone scurrying appeared in to an obscure London junk-shop. ply. Now they've turned their

· Tucked away in a back street of hobby Into profit by designing with pipes, beer mugs and en- and fashion models, Covent Garden is the "Delight Jingerie

Its name is an apt century flavour for stage and ful Muddle."

ulm stars.. for the shop is a description,

Pat and Irene Include in their jumble of Victorian bric-a-brac in which car-trumpets and repetire nigh.-coal, designed samplers jostle glass prisms and to go over Victorian-style night- dresses. To wear just for fun, lorgnettes.

or to hide hair-curlers, is their version of the night-cap, 11] berally frilled and decorated with ruffles. For stars who feel the cold, Pat and Irene make up the traditional red flannel, and very attractive it looks.

- Hidden away in this delectably nostalgic collection is Victorian underwear that can be bought for

волн Camisoles

and petticoats, unworn and taken from the bottom drawers und hope chests of the nineties. There are elaborately tucked nightgowns with balloon ing sicoves and high-fastening collars and camisoles be-slotiod ribbon. There are with pink even cambric combinations worn by the bright young things of Victoria's day which are

hand-

withi

many American husbands help regularly with household THIS is the last stronghold of chores in the evenings that shops the really LARGE HAT. arc selling large washing-up Everybody wears them, from APRONS FOR MEN,

trimmed shopgirls to business couraging slogans.

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Tradition has it that most underclothes are in pink, white

or blue, but Irene, and Patricia

asked for other are sanctimes shades. Googie Withers and for instance, Kay Hammond, like their lingerie to match up with their bedroom colour scheme,

At the moment Patricia is understudying the lead in a West End play. she Alls in lime Walting back-stage by carrying on with her sewing

Cotton cambrie, beloved" of the Victorians, is the fabric Pat and Irene

cotton use, and

Advice On Making erally has made

Good Sauerkraut

GENEVA, N.Y.

come-back for lingerie.

great

BOMBAY

women

Rix, has sketched one of those

dresses in black and white SU

QUMMING up the leading couturier collections, there pllow ticking and you will be seeing them in the London shops are two lines, both with longer. around Easter.

skirta (about 12in. from the ground). One is alim, with a and unpadded natural waist shoulders; the second with Necklines are mostly wide Vs. small waist, and bell skirt,

Another summer idea from the same designer is a holiday Jumper suit in butcher's apron material, either in blue stripes

or checks.

ROME

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Topcoats are either

loose, slim and straight or redingote- style, with dew collars.

Many day dresses and even some sulla aro sleeveless,

White and pink will be sum- mer favourites. Pure silk is the fabric of the

year, usually palterned. At

the exhibition sweater and shirt pusse

frayon fabrics used in the Big in

Eloven collections, the accent was on ribbed effects and small sprig designs.

and at least three

ERE sports clothes

clogant

ballgowns, as When I called on Mrs Joan found BLACK TIGHTS every Rosanove, Melbourne's only where, with practising woman barrister, I found her sitting in her dusty tops that must be sloppy legal chambers in a trim black appearance

sizes too big. silk suit, with an enormous Ae with me in the Comet expect to see on a film star.

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Designers are showing just ne American girl who flew black cartwheel hat you would many short evening dresses as change you will be making to only really important long ones (10in-12in. from the was wearing a cute pillbox hut

your wardrobe for spring 1953 is to let down your hems, of leopard fur-patterned silk. It reminded me of the beautiful fur-print silks featured by both Dior and Givenchy last aŭlumn.

Back in London

collections. Rix hos

HONOLULU

In Sydney I lunched with a ground), leading business woman, Miss Sylvia Ashby,—who runa an American-style research bureau. Sho arrived with brickcast, Jooking alick and efficient in a I find these tallored black suit, white blouse ToUSES attractive fur prints in several and a black and white tulle ple i luxurious

aro Alled with spring

INDOOR sketched a two-purpose dress in dure hat that would have en- PLANTS

In one I even had a poplin, patterned like a leopard's

hibiscus and a bougainvilea in my bathroom.

Keen to copy the idea in Lon- don I find there green plants which do well in a damp, warm atmosphere would thrive, near the both and These include Rex

Begonia, Ficus Elasticus and Tradescantia.

pelt.

I have also seen this leopard fur design as a silk jacket over a plain belge 'dress and as the lining to a

hanced the Ascot scene.

TASMANIA

overcoat black gabrunn DENIM is having as big a boom on the other side or the world as it did in Britain

cost.

are several

THE NEW SYNTHETIC FABRICS

THERE'S a lot going on The success making sauerkraut It is easy for beginners to in the textile world these at home depends chiefly on deal with, as it doesn't slither

use around the cutting table as silk days, and while the re

nowing how much salt to

and how

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By ELEANOR ROSS

In connection with all this, it has been pointed out that all of the characteristics claimed by The shopper wants to know, some of the new fibres do not al- to pack and slore the and rayon do. It is practically search and new develop not only about the claims and ways show up in performance. kraut during the "curing" fool-proof to wash, always looks ments are aimed at adding uses of these fabrics, but, more The finish given a fabric is as cool and fresh, and never has to our already wide range important, she wants some in- process.

important, or sometimes more the clammy feck of nylon. The N. Y. Agricultural Experi-, So if you're looking for of fabrics, some of it is formation on what kind of per- important, than the composition ment Station and the Cornell underwear with

of a fabric. than a difference proving more

bit formance to expect. Just calling University of College of Home this summer, you can't do bet confusing to the average it a "miracle" abre isn't enough

Fault of Finish Economies at Ithaca recommend ter than choose cambric. It's

for a woman who wants to know made about the ability of some For instance, a great to-do la housewife. ¤ mixture of 45 pounds of cheap, hard-wooring, and looks

if she can put it in the washing fabric to hold pleats even after shredded cabbage and one pound just right under donim and.

Before synthetic of salt to make 18 quarts of other tough cotton dresses.

fibres and machine, whether it should be repeated washings. But some- what heat, and times the pleats do not survive sauerkraut,

Fine lawns and cambrics are new blends in fabric became so ironed and at

will give sturdy laboratory tests. all the better for

numerous, a shopper could find whether it 2 Allip

We are told As a result of the that this is not the fault of the trouble. She knew what a label pressure exert crisp, appearance a stone crock, paraffined barrel leave them to soak in rice that said "nylon"

hen the big textile and retail store The pleats are originally "heat meant when the found it on an item or jar. A clean cover and a water, or add a little sugar to she

people decided about. weight should be placed on the final rinse. It while col yardage in a store, and she re- Lime to label the new synthetics set, but if this procem la not perfectly performed, the pressing top of the crock or barrel. ton turnia

parchment-coloured Joleed in the easy washability of in a maro informative manner, so will still be necessary after with constant laundering,

nynthetic a this

yarn. Each that we know what a fabric can

washing If it is to be used by the end of white dye or washing blue will new synthetic makes claims, be expected to do and how it can the winter, it will keep without restore it to its former gleam- each one. Is halled as the last be maintained, as well as what processing.United Press. ing whiteness.

of

The mixture should stand three starch in the rinsing water. To her way around without much service exerted by shoppers, gure, but rather of the finish, i

to five minutes then be placed in keep their

STUFFED TRIPE

FIRST SIWALLGE,

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TRIPS, BUT WE BET TIRED OA

IT ALWAYS THE SAME

WAY!

TRY THIS THER DEAR!

AID TRIPO CUT IN ONE. PIECE, FOR.

2 HOURS IN 14 PINT MILK, OR MILK

AND WATER: WITH YE "TEASPOONFISË. **SALT AND A QUARTERADI

ONION

word.

WHEN IT 13 COLO..... SPREAD OVER IT A FORCEMENT MIXTURE OF

2 OZ BREADCRUMBS

Į DESSERTSPOON

PARSLEY

2 TEASPOON DRIED

KAKERDA

SALT, POPPER AND A LITTLE LAJON JUICE MIXED WITH ·

MILK, OG DEATEN

ROLL ITUA THE IT ROUND

it contains.

PUT IT INTO A DEBP. PIS-DISH AND POUR IN 12 PINT OF THE STRAINED LIQUID FROM THE TRIPE

COVER WITH A LIO OR GREASED PAPER”).

AND BAKE IN 'A- MODERATELY ‘HOT, LOVIN, FOR: Y2 HOUR

Some Advantages

-- The now synthetics and blenda are so wonderful on the whole, that in time women can look for perfection in promiso.... and, per formance, For one thing, most have a low-moisture content, have good wrinkle resistance, mildew and moth resistance. Non-water born spots, such as Kroane, are often more difficult remove from synthetics than Chery: pro

are from natural fibres, but waloppiible spots are maxliy removed

"all, thla syntholin fabric

Poworld 18 far from perfect, but it ls Working hard for improve

and we, women, especially then of the từ bóng loạt tài consolous, are doing much, to bert those important: improve

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