1953-03-21 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, 'SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1953.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

The PARIS HAT story

Robb SAYS-

TERRIFIC... but will you buy them?

PARIS hats-all bigtime

newsmakers and show

stoppers have completely

stumped the visiting Lon- ang black, and the hat in size don buyers, Since the hats bud shape is not very different are all shapes and sizes, it from what Park. Is trying

is impossible to say which

deeree for spring.

to

size or shape will be the C This is a beige-coloured fashion-setter for the

Verrion of the first hat.

spring.

Just look at these huge hats →will you buy them?

A THIS

FATH bat In black straw has under- brim trimuning of black feather trands. These cover the under brim entirely, and except when blow about, hang straight as Ja Hat C.

AB Raling black and white synthetic straw (beach Lat. The fringe is in shimmer-

D Transparent horse-hair

mushroom hat wired 20 layers, looks like fine Hauze. and is made in the new cubur "greige"-a mixture of krey, pink" and beige.

E Black and white-picture hut in printed wilder pique... The crown ig Very Billow, as in all of the kare bats, and the black

W

Toe

white pattern resembles pattern of the partridge breast feathers.

CLEANING VASES

Hot 100

together. Glass plates :lold be stacked with a paper daily between each one, and plaved

Before on a rubber shelt pad! osteet, wipe cach piece with a ruft cloth.

To remove the odour from in back and flower vases and eltan them at the same time, apply chlorine solution with . a brutal, or 11 with water, adding a fentrou rluse of the eldering. Diluted bottled houschuld ammonia does a good job of eleaning vinegar cruets.

Store MemWWORS with care, placing upright, the tall pitees

THE

Glares which stick together van be pried loose by putting : el water in the inner glass | and running warm water over; the outer.

RETURN RETURN

MIREE cheers for fat

Tgirls! They've decided

to give up diefing, and go in

with a GHOST OF A GIRL

C

ΤΟ GUIDE YOU

By ANNE EDWARDS

Paris. There is the ghost of a girl at the Paris dress showa, Sometimes clear, sometimes shadowy, but she is there all the time.

SHE is very slender, dresses in pale colours, wears a foose-bloused bodice und very straight skirt with u waist line round her hips. And her hat has. a big crown that comes down to her eyebrows.

SHE is--do

you recognise

her?-the ghost of the girl UNDER YOUR HAT-2

who were girls after the first

New hairstyles..... UNDER YOUR HAT-1 world war. And she representa

FIRST... « Paris style os simple as the hats are elebgrate. bat with a feminine touch in the

ostrich-feather front curls.

THE CURVE

OF THE

By HAZEL MEYRICK ·

the floor, then bend to pick up cach individual one with your knees straight, Don't cheat! At first you'll be alarmed at

for fashion in a big way. outsize model. and she's world. But those dull-as- the creaking sensation as you The ann cement that the found it pays her better to ditchwater dresses with low reach for the door, but by the curve is returning to Lon- remain that way.

V-necks, modesty fronts, time you've got to the last card you'll be as sprightly as an

don has sent thin man- One of London's best known in the trade 405 athlete. nequins eating all they can known outsize dress houses, “Mum's motleis lie {1}}- get their teeth into, while Linda

Michael Sherard has shown Leigh, are being daimed on the rails. Large his boutique collection in Lon numny couturiers are looking flooded with orders for their women

looking for don, and thereby hangs the tale for new models.

dresses from all over the something ́ ́as fashionable of a shirt,

Hardy Amies,

for instance, at

his lust collec- tion introduced us to Lillum. Lilium went to London from this to nel 18 his model, and Lillum undoubt- edly has curves, But most im-

portaut of all,

she knows how

-to

show them

off to advan- taxe.

Averil Ames, 21 London actress who found herself putting on the pounds, dicted down to a small outsize with a Special T.V. Inaming diet, and fascinated viewers watch-

ed her progress

are

as the straight up and down Having made trousers some- girls, and the designers thing entirely their own, women are seeing that they get looked round for another aril- ele of male attire to appropriate,

it.

The secret of large dressing to have everything to the right scale. Leave little prints, Peter-pan collars to the

little

and chose the shirt.

It appeared first in America night-gown.

rls. No timid all-over pattern for you, but wonderful, bol 05 1 splashes of colour.

Like

with an

summer

the Hanging to just above the an-

mmer coat of anthracite gacy kles, complete with conventional ride-splits, the shirt-gown was enormous cape collar mate in poplin, or even bug girls-though IL would funnel, with a high-fitting col-

ol ueld yellow--wonderful on

lur, and cuffed sleeves swamp small onest.or those horse-blanket checks that sult links. you so well,

red

with

The shirt showed up next sa dress for the beach, still with elde-splits, but belted at the waist, worn over matching No bunchies of rosebuds on thorts, and a band round the

your lapel, but cabbage roses, head that looked suspiciously two of them, or larger-than-life like a tie.. flowers splashed over the skirt

of a cucktail dress.

Not doll-sized handbage

The Americans took another alice off the shirt's tall, and for chowed rugger shirts for women, tite big girls, but those hugo With their bizarre coloured leather pochettes, beloved of patubes New Yorkers loved Paris, which look like suitcases them, chose them in the gaud-

beside tule women.

When comes

those

wmelt that

look and

quat your

Now the shirt returns to England, at Sherard's boutique, with you another slice off its fail to make it hang just to hip level.

jest shades and wore them with-of all things — a white to evening lurched collart you win honds down. Only a large woman can wear a crino- lino successfully, and strapless evening gowns work.by week How mad can one look at Royal ridiculous on the as she was Ascot? Milliner Rudolph and couturier thin. So discard weighed in Digby Morton got together to produce le bolero and bare

shoulders, frent of the this outfit for the event. The lady looks.

A curve may be the smartest a little overwhelmed by her ensemble distance between two pointsWith his spring weed sults Now Averil and no wonder, for a puff of wind and but a amall trim waistline Sherard shows jockey shirts one to side salmon pink, the other stopped she'd lose that petalled hat, while the makes all the difference

large woman, and exercise Is grey, or yellow

and gaudy dieting, docan't first shower of rain would ruin her

best way of achieving it. greon. They're' worn. two ways: hanker after dress of draped organza. But that cout For laggards who have to with the front hanging out, the stago any of stiff moire silk she's wearing, if only force themselves to do a tally and the back tucked in; the waist-whittler that never fals: tucked in. But never complete- back hanging out and the front an uncertain Ascot.

Scatter a pack of cards round ly outside your skirt.

camera.

haa

more,

bend-and-stretch,. here's She has it wasn't in white, would be ideal for

become a young

д

an outline that every designer is showing,

SHE will not come to Eng- lund yet, and she will not be very popular when she Joes. But she is coming all right — the bright young thing of the 1920's.

AND

LOOK FOR SILK

ND now after one week of Paria dress shown, aller ull three lop designers-Fatii, Balenciaga, and Dior - huve given their shows; what is there in it for the average British woman who is out to get some- thing new for spring?

This is my summary: If you want the talest in suits look for Bilk and wool tweed....a ligia box jacket with ballooning shoulders,...a neckline cut. down very low all round.

BUT you will still be fashion ble in a closely fitted jacket in dark grey flannel,

IF you want the latest in summer coats look for one that balloons round your

and wraps aeros: your middle like cocoon....for a shining skontung or muslin,

SECOND: Here is the full contrast to the very feminine Buts-suggestion from a Paris stylist

shoulders line... covered shoulders.

for white ornandle embroider- jewels, ed in gold read or white pique cul as simply as a trans dress or chiffon or shan- lung printed in vague flowers, for embrie or muslin.

BUT you will still be fashion- able in fitted coat of cotton or corded stl.

IF you want the intest in afternoon dresses look for necklines high in front and low

BUT you will still be fashion- ble in a topless dress in surin or corded sille, in talle or taffeta,

at the back....printed chiffon in lace mounted on satin worn

or printed shoutung....skirts with a stole.

BOAT NECKLINE BUT you will still be fashion- able in a dress of spidery lace or ribbed silk.

gathered on around the hips. And you want the latest in hats, look for panammas with deeper crowns, especial- nuch ly if they turn up at the back ad come down to your evos.

BUT you will be fashionable the in a smal! round beret on top of your head.

IF you want the

Intest

in evening dresses look for a boat neckline or a deep round neck-

-London Express Scrulee)-

SHAKE WHEN DRY

look

If the cost has been ex- portant rule. Buy the proper poced to just a bit of rain and Size. If a coat is too small, it is just a little wet, it should is going to split or crack in the be dried in a well-ventilated seams; if too large, it will lose room, hanging free. When its shape..and ultimately thoroughly dry, give the coat a unsightly. Feel comfortable In good shuking.

your coal, see that it can be All precautions for ehr- closed without any undue ing for coats are impor- strain. And don't Carry yultr tant, Init we Jist the handbag or packages hugged first and perhaps most 1m- against at if you can help it."

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