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THE CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1953.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

THE AUTUMN. SHOWS

by Eileen Ascroft

·THE CHAMPAGNE

LOOK

IT'S GAY, GOLD ... AND REVERSIBLE

CAN DIOR DO IT?

BATTLE OF THE SKIRT

By ANNE EDWARDS *:

THE

THIE little man who kicked up such an outsized rumpus among women with the very first dress show he ever designed has put the cat among the pigeons again all right.

For here he is, right at othby. the head of another revolu-

Paris. ullhouette heart-shaped. tion.

A CHAMPAGNE glass is Shoulders are wide and round- et, necklines curved and dips the motif for Pierre ing like the old sweetheart Balmain collection, and the style.

Theatre conta clothes are gay, gold and

When he designed skirts that come down to the ankle, the row women made was heard from in

orientat

And the mari who keeps the lead is the man who senises how a fashion will grow just a Wikio before anyone else does

"Wanted'

be paler, Bun-tan out, eye' make- .up will be heavier, and darker.

Jowellery will be heavier. We

may see a return to long ropes of pearls with darling tassels. Pearls will be wrapped round the wrist,

earrings will be longer. Houls will drop and patent leather should be popular.

No doubt with the short ricista will coine pale pink stockings, No, to can never be. We must keep our legs to ourselven, No! It's Not Funny...

says, housewife IRIS BREAKS

FURS: Short-häired furs will be most popular, and I foresee a return to fur choicers,

What will really happen, I expect all these points, will bea modified version of

Wakirts, Mr Dior. You Women, who can will wear the WE do not like short

Balham to WHEN I first met Dior, at a

moment when few women new Dongth, I have no doubt,

bubbling as the liquid it. brocados are lined with fur, and Buenos Aires. Now that had a good word, to say for him, bait there are none who.comnot shall not make

self.

By day the curved shoul- ders provide the bowl of the glass, a slim skirt the stem, But after six the glass a reversed, with the slim stem at the top, curving out to give the upturned bowl.

Rounded shoulders

IR Paria this reason centres round the thoulders and bust line.

FASHION Interest

Jacques Fath shows the new wide top for coats and suits with roundel shoulders, low- set loose steeves and curved- bock yoke.

have small mink collars.

There is a fine chiffon wool used for diaphanous evening dresses and a daytime flannel that has a satin finish. Some of the country suits team with matching overskirts, and scarves which provide the warmth of a top coat without the bulk.

Another new note was the fur cont collar with one long loose end that can be draped as a stole.

*** LONDON MAAAAA

GREEN RUNS SECOND

he has designed skirts that I asked: "Why do you make and will not,

pinched go up to the lunees the rum- 30-yard skirts and pus will be just as noisy, waists and ankle-length dresses just when the world is at its poorest, when material is short, when women have to do jobs,

No

Whatever else you think of M. Dior you must admit

and when we have all learned that he has courage,

the comfort of sensible clothes?" one applauded him very much in his salon. The one The little man-who manages dress show in Paris which to look so like a teddy bear which has just had the surprise the buyers of Fe life-gave his deprecating usually has stunding on their chairs and little smile and said: "It is just cheering

reduces that I feel this is what women - and Parisienne fashion clitors want. Their life has been severe, strict, so practical." to tears of admiration--got only a few claps here and there,

Strange.

Most of his necklines are Before Elleen Ascroft went round, edged with fur, braid or to Paris she had a preview of velvet, and collars non-existent. the London shows, also being WHEN it was over not many Skirts are sull slim and a shade held recently. Here is her re- people darted up and kissed charter.

style is at its port on the London clothes of best, in the three-quarter-length which detalls are released to tumic redingote, buttoning up day:

the back, and seven-eighths cont over slim skirts.

DARK forest

green, with a black cast, Is London's Dresses have an interesting secondary winter colour, with moulded line, flattering only to the slim gure. Skirts indicate black in the lead.

and accentuated.

here. frocks

•

him on both cheeks, or queued to shake his hand or tell him that his clothes were ravishing.

shook Instead, the women their heads. They didn't like it. They didn't like the baggy waistllads, they didn't like the berry costs, buy most of all, they didn't like the very short skirts,

"Women will never go back to them," everyone was whisper Ing. "Long skirts are so much more becorning."

•

He was dead right last time, what he proposed then has been the fashion for the last six years. And I think he will prove right again.

Too clever we do go back a little way wards the 1920'a and do it his way-women will still look

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feminine.

Can

No! It

Never Be

them.

us wear

Our mother and ounts gave them a fair trial in the 1920's. and we are still hooting with laughter when wo look at their photographs.

We

you Wearing New Look, modified to make us Joolt praceful. But even

enjoyed

our

youngest girls do not look their

bost

unskirted to the kaces, Need we have a harry walst

says secretary EVELYN HUGHES 7THIS

time Dior has put fine, too, dear Christian? It does his shirt on the wrong nothing for the shark thumpy English- will have figurts

women are usually, let us admit it, dumpy.

skirt. Women none of it.

Leg beauty is no longer the eye-catcher it was. Ankles and feet are only noticed by "the" older men,

Didn't someone win a beauty competition the other day wh was afterwards accused by rival of having no ankles?

When the longer skirt жаз

Oh dear.

Mr Dior, if it had anyone but you we could have ignored him. Now, I sup- pose, I'll got the scissors, and try just me of my frocks short,

I know I'm not going "like it not for a few months.

-(London Express Service)

Packing Enters Push-button Era

introduced, women took it to their hearts. That was Just pretty.

what is after the war, after the shortage He suggests only alluring about those styles. For of material and the glut of

Chicago. be is the too clever to try to uniforms. Women were glad to be feminine and mysterious put over a fashion that is not be

They

ey will not welcome a buy nearly all of their every- Housewives econ will be able to 100

percent And one secret of his succes is In the main women will only Woman," he says, "is so pretty." that he always makes the adopt a fashion universally it it appeals to them. The Paris prettier,

fashion houses have been un successful in many of their ideas

the tube look, for example,

"Aagalis in the other direction

Ho is the only dress designer I ther came across who can put fashion revolutionary without ever letting it look grotesque.

over

a

the walat, then continue up to A Bread-and-Butter colles- join the back, which is draped tion is how Hardy Amics de

scribes his clothes. After the There is an Empire Influence splendour of the Coronation he feels that the accent this winter day inilored Several feature rlb pockets. will be on clothes that are part

It was all a strange echo of Skirts are slightly bell-shaped, of a woman's everyday life. achieved by euiting and fold-. There is a feeling for softer, that day, six years ago in Paris, ing at the hip, not by padding straighter lines. The bosom is when Dior put on his New Look. You don't have to choose be or petticoats. Necklines present emphasised both by draping and The women didn't like that tween looking smart or looking For topcoals that must elther. They didn't like many variations on the square cut.

the pretty. He can bring them both style.

cover a suit thero is a casual, full skirts. They didn't like the off at onep, fa

corseted Walst, but above all So my money is dit od biar Footnotes Anicle-length evening dresses straight unatted silhouette,

they didn't like the long skirts.

in lace and chiffon follow the Empire line with straight loose

skirts and busts accentuated by

wide figure mouiding satia MATTLI, 100, Gushes,

The heart shape MANGUIN, whose collection

produces a collection mostly in black. There is also a range of red, from palest pink to' deep ruby.

dresses

He shows many above-ankla ended in champagne lace crinoline evening party at midnight, described his und only one strapless top.

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'asuove!" thjes Left: Pare tlik cocktail dinar in exciomen, bronse and black, with Central Full-length coef in fawn late-cloth, fully lined wi Chingle In Right Block what afternoon drass, Trimmed and feces with block failly. All by Molt

Lundua tiek spirite

"Women will never go backs to them," they whispered.. "Short skirts are so much more practical.",

It's courage

You have to admit that it 1 takes courage to lift your best cliente u blow like this when you have them contentedly eat- ing out of your hand. It takes courage to stake your livelihood

and his short, sldrta

YES — and men will approve

says fashion artist

S far as I can tell, not

A having seen them yet,

on being able to sell your. cus-1-think with most men. I ain tomers the reverse of what you know they like, But, above all, going to like the new Dior

.t takes courage because M. Dior cannot afford to be wrong.

dresses.

At least it will be easier for women to adapt their old frocks Whatever Englishmen may to the new length, than 1a was say the course of fashion is not when he introduced the long. a zig-zag tacking from side to I cart foroses shorter · and side. Fashion grow from each siecler hair-styles, make-up willi

Health For Today

SITTING PRETTY

Fashionable

"Sitting pretty," ac about sleeping time, because it -cording to Dr Philip has been amply proved that resi- less sleepers get restiul sleep. Lewin, is as important as No matter how you compose good standing. While any

for yourself

sleep. your sort of sitting posture will automatic reflexes will take over By GRACE THORNCLIFFE take the weight off the feet when you drop off, and you'll

HERE are same te foot- and relieve certain muscles, sleep in many postures. But be persona who must sit for sure that you have a good bed, rin's along fashion are. Eded, with box spring] and mattress

whzo arid bine inltskin is cho gay long periods at their work giving you enough support so enlour scheme di a non sing find it best to sit correctly. that your body contours can pimp, one side med, the other the mattress without alue and decorated with a who This, fortunately, is also dont the way to sit "pretty." And having your weight dg the kid-covered oversized wafels pls.

spring.

Blocks end while is smartly oz- progbed In

орга pump fashioned of while shatang with black patterit heal trim and

Peachy Cosmetics Are News isn't too hard to do.

By HELEN FOLLETT

In an ordinary kitchen chair,

same old rouge compact, samo kept above the tip of the nose bent very von/ZAB=4th

perk

and up

PREVENT STRAIN

back

Household Hints

Laundering

equipment. Before the sollect

mend

and

or a stenographer's posture chair, Proper lifting and carrying polka dots Navy mode is used or even In the easy chair, the habits can help, too. In lifting on on irregular eling rendat correct posture is best assumed a heavy object, bend the knees with glowing sub in the same COSMETICIANS and beauti- peachy, velvety look. The man by sitting back in the chair, not and not the back, if you wish to tone on the drap and warmp. clans tro constantly suggesting ner of application is important. on its eage. With buttocks and prevent straining the that women should change their It is placed high on the cheeks; things well supported, the back muscles or perhaps even the facial decorations. The idea is blended up and out to the is held straight, supported by vortebros When carrying a strikea the girls as being hairline. The smallest possible the back of the chair. Feat are heavy sullense, it goer enslest.if practical and exciting. They get. amount is passed over the eye-placed flat on the floor. The the posture is creat, not slump. ured of the same old powder, da Rouge should always be head is held upright with neer ing When ironing, the weight difcult with up-to-dato laundry

forward. : should be kept on

on both feat. old lipstick. You are now sup for a fresh, young look.

Sitting up too posed to look peachy, Sounds

At the desk, or in the driver's shirts are put in the washing will Now for lipstick to complete back arched away from support Intriguing. No doubt it make the Intly in the looking this make-up foursome! It is in a strained, not a natural posi- seat of the car, an upright back machine, remove stains, empty colourfast glass

White and feel and that orange-reds and strong lon. Sitting too for forward in leaned against the support of pockets and

fuchsia tones are definitely put, The chair bends the back in a posture chair or car-seat, con cotton shirta - may be washed glamorous,

serves energy by reducing strain anyhow for the time being. For

together; rayons, coloured and fatigue. -..

nylons and allks may go into The first step is a thorough the peachy portrait, the lipstick long curve which is not restful. cleaning of the skin with a chould be a medium red for

To assure good posture," atten- the washer at the same time light all, which should be en- blondes, a crimson for brunettes,

In the overstuffed type of on should first be given, to the Wash white nylons reperately so tirely removed with tissues a faint raspberry for redheads, chair, the temptations to avoid general health, to getting plenty they won't pick up dya from Then you lay on a peach though the girl with the fam coloured foundation, frictioning ing thatch had better do a are stumping down on the end of rest, and resolving conflicts colber. fabrica,

When

dusting langs experimenting. The of the spine, and twisting the and it in until it is evenly dis- fitte

by those colours of her make-up must legs under as is done when using tho, body to best advant-be? tribuled. It is and

$go, good dynamic posture can, shades, don't neglect the light who have experimented that not detract from the Titan sitting on are foot.m

be achieved with comparatively bulb, since dust on bulbs an this lovely soft sona lends a crown that la herbeauty. Good sitting habits and tot lttle difficulty,

cut off some of the light. Use only to make sliting more restmouth mibtio ful and racre graceful, but are

Good body position and action damp mudry cloth It bulb Fye make-up.is more

especially diety, but first be puru than the doors look of last reflected also in improved pas- is much less ring than a slump bulb is cool, To give fragrance It' may even help to give relief to your bedroom or guðst room, season and, when used, the rest fure when standing, ga of the hand-painting on the

to certain type of symplenia wpray your favourite cologne on complexion must

must be “équally. Posture lying down involves such as foot trouble," backachos the clean bulbi. The heat from will not look Listh sleeping time and loafing and muscular fatigue. Of course the lamp will cause its fragronos

time. Thers is boyüke worrying. It is hot cure-all"

translucency to the ecroplexion, blessing.

and ly more flattering than the pinky-pink tones that have been, the rage, t

Darker Rouge, though darkörtün: subile, so one the powder, carries the samo lithographic.

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DON'T BLUMP

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and

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the said

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