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WEEK-END

New Slant On Social Eating

By IDA JEAN KAIN

COCIAL

calories have

D. been made the scape- goal for too many pounds, too many years. So before

the Reason gets into full

swing, tong unt the old alibi for overeating.

Women of qeated shop and sizes are happy to go along with the ready-made excuse that u slite

Ruest

never violates the rules of ellauette hy turning down proffered fósil. Let's exumine the reason. ing behind this widely ac- cepted notion. On the surface it might seem that since the hooters has gene to no earl of trouble to prepare delicious food, it would be an insult not to eat it. This might hold true It the boy's invited, a merely to help her cùt up. the food in the house! And, If that were the case, the would make up her guest list on the basis of the biggest appetiten. Seen In this light, the winie leea is ridiculous.

Fashionable

quest tall

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It is true that a beates en- Joys having her entertaining effer'd appreciated, But a 10- fural of food desn't mean that the food ka't delicious or precfited or that you wouldn't Enjoy eating 11. This is a calorie-conscious nge and uvders anding hostesres not affronted by a polite, "No. thank you." Or if they arc, they'd better catch up with the times, for it is quite fashiorinble rowadays not to overent, Queen Elizabeth 1 has even munde,

ne

"No, Thank you? Pm dieting." geelally acceptable. And look of her beautiful figure!

Today the emphasis han de finitely changed. The trend is toward light, refrethinents mand, hearty velability.

yea

Over you analyze

realize that your ronron for going to a lea Juncheon, or church

MART

to be with your friends, al enjoy people. With this higa crystalli-od" In your mind you can have twice 28 much for at all sevic) Tenelous this year and keep your figure to).

Idea Of Fun

This shift in enjoyment will accomplish mles i

your

thinking andl this whitude will auerced where a grim doter- Inwal on

parties will

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1958.

WOMANSENSE

Trousers Are Here To Stay

By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES

London.

resisting, WOMEN ARE PUTTING their two legs into trousers — "struggling, denying every inch of the way. "I'll never wear them," says one. "My husband hates them," says another.

"I'm too short." "I'm too feminine." With a "I'm too fat." thousand and one denials on their lips, they nlp out and get trousered.

The trouser people find their sales figures leaping ahead. One shop that sold 35 pairs a week in November last year sold over 100 pairs last week. A famous manufacturer find his sales up by 25 percent.

The fact is, trousers aren't a passing fashion. They have become ns basic as a cont or a nightgown. It is not a question of whether you have trousers, but what sort this year.

★ ★ ★

IT STARTED IN 1928. A few daring women wore trousers in the evening. They were full, baggy, and crepe de Chine, and were strictly confined to the Upper Ten.

Beach pyjamas were another embryo frouser fashion. Considered rather inst.

PICTURE BY FORBREN

IN 32 THEY WENT SPORT- ING. The young took them up Perfect out for the country and golf. They fit for a mari were cut like a man's trousers. and front, and at-home even- creased back Ing. Black cuffed. Sometimes worn with a

and known û

and

Jersey sweater man's jacket,

pants trouser sults. sparkling with Spanish em- broidery.

IT'S FAR FROM WHERE IT STARTED

OLD

mean you have anyJrOA—Cưdil, to cat! Certainly not! But go' with the idea that

only

The new classic trouser you desire small amount of the food and suit, cut like a man's. have a wonderful-time-talking-with-full-length-rGainy. to your friends. This idea of

fun

Trees

tronikera.

NEW... NEWER... NEWEST

with Back velvet bullfighter pants

the Spanish-looking blouse. Cuffed tartan pants with a high-necked pullover (these for outdoors)...Rancher panis shaped exactly to the leg. plus the newest sort of top: a pull-on fabric shirt with no front opening, with handsome knitted collar and cuffs.

CHINESE SYMBOLS ON LATEST

London,

A

CHINESE influence

has crept into the new

COTTON PRINTS

cotton prints. For the there are

By DOROTHY BARKLEY.

For the girl who goes sailing suits in patterned colton with an plenty of practical overskirt to match. Swimsuits

which in find their respective prizes. If numbers tallled, they were given the article.

newest of this season's styles in the new fashionable are one-piece with shoestring tied up a caravan as a travelling

and

straps,

"

In Scotland-by bringing the roods to the door. A retaller cottons have an allover material-salleloth.

shop and toured remote districts, pattern of Chinese symbols This was used for matching

In Boston-by making the in black on a yellow or green top and jeans in bottle green.

The tops had knitted polo neck Three ways in which sterts "bargain basement" live Up bnekground.

collars and cuffs in bright yellow have been luring customers are to its name. If goods were of contrast, By.

after the Jeans had yellow saddle quoted by a trade magazine this unsold

12 days, prices were reduced by 20 percent; another print seen in last teling deecrating the seams, montli

Dressen were given Houtien In London-by treasure hunt after six more days, by another week's collections took its touches with straw brald gerolled type game. A selection of goods 25 percent: after a further six inspiration from Victorian round the colices and cuffs. In each department was displayed days, by a further 25 percent. wallpaper. It had larger- Spectator Sports have corded with lucky numbers attached. And if goods were sill unfold than-life flower bouquets the idea of beach outfily n stage Customers were given numbered-after-30-shopping days they were

further. They are making swim- vouchers and had two weeks lu given to charity. and aspidistras.

way

Much as there was variety in prints, now I wish the same | could be said of the styles. There were dull and unoriginal.' in 2012 wholesale collection one dress looked just like the nexi— tunic top, full skirt and ed cover-up jacket. And the long #leeved button-through dresses resembled overalls.

Some of the details bordered

doyley.

one

They Won't Be So Short That

You Can't Sit Down In Them

Kansas City.

IN THE *40*8; DOWN IN THE WORLD. With the war. they became first cousin to the 'boiler suit. A strictly practical fashion for Lactorles and A.R.P. Known, frankly, as slacks.

all too

1951; DRAINPIPES and the boom is on. The shape is new: light and tapered. The name is new: just pants,

And they've never looked back. They had a lift when Cenasta come. More parties in private houses, fewer tmps to the movies.

They had a wonderful booster in the shape of TV

TV

which keeps women at home, which invites relaxation, which has revived family parlics and armchair evenings.

Every season. more women take to them. Last year, only the young and bony, wore them, liking what they dil for a long leg and a a slim hip. This year,

odds are hall will turn up in pants. Perhaps 90 percent the quests are young.

It

So go get yourself a pair of some sort, or you're odd woman out.

CONSTRUCTIVELY): YOURS'

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smoothing

YOUT

kole upwardL A side parting adds breadth, and the angular contour In broken by suff

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The long

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You have a very Jong face? Then don't stretch it further by centra Barting

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TALKING POINT

How hard it is for some

↑

they're cutting them cleverly for people to get out of room 40-inch hips

Every season there are versions. Best-sellers are black Ματα velvet or black jersey. dashing drainpipes in leopard

new

embroidered 1000?.

print, tarten. striped corduroy,

üfter their visit is really over.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes.

-

To bo poor and Independent

There are trainpipes for the is very nearly impossible.

garden-gaberdines and cordu-

roys cut with a bit more space

to

spare, Drainpipes for the beach-cut off short at the call,

in gaudy colours.

Newest of all--I first saw it the other day is the Rancher Pant in the sketch. Instead of tapering evenly from hip to ankie, it is shaped to the leg, revealing the line of the calt.

*

Frotest as you may, trousers are here, and, they won't the out. Ask a dozen women to an in- formal evening party, and the

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By MARGARET RICHARDS Geographically, too, she his al on the fantastic.. The metallleTTOUSE dresses will have

Arsiband knowledge of lastes ..siltching on the cuffs of

Her first "Skirts won't be so short that and buying habits. short-sleeved dress icoked like shorter skirts, too. a woman can't sit down in experience was in California, medieval chain mail. The all- Georgin Bullock, designer them," she said. "The American where she started as a late-after- over pattern on another was like for a famous volume label woman will keep her sence of noon-and Saturday model for a department store while she still (Nelly Don), says, "the decency."

Miss Bullock is firmly estab was a student at the University whole trend toward shed as a prophet of what of Southern California, shorter skirta. Actually women will or won't buy. She

For the last three years she they were going up before had her own design business by has "commuted 1,400 miles bye to sex appeal, so keep legs, t, Christian Dior said any the time she was 25, and now between Kansas City and New is responsible not only for the thing about it."

volume dress lino but another York, where she maintains a workroom In the Empire State The Paris designer “merely had one which carries her own the courage and prestige to on- Those she describes as "elegant building,

Matching scarves, led pirate fashion, were wom with many of the cotton treses. They were topped with a straw hat from which the crown had been re-

noved. Sounds crazy? Maybe you'll

bo wearing them before nounce what most, or at least casual clothes,

The new volume line for Joni

many designers, foresaw som The two fines combined require spring is nearly ready, Mine The new length for short time ago aid the 32-year-old a working knowledge of

tho Bullock sald. close-fitting to just above the Miss Bullock, one of the nation's reeds, tastes and purses of The skirts will be an inch to kneg looked hideous even on the youngest top designers,

• pretty large segment of Ameri- an inch and one-half shorter. models. Most women will keep She is counting on American can wornanhood Thoir retail she said. ""The higher priced line to the traditional length or wear women to reject any. hemlines prices spread is from $10.95 to has shown the shorter trend for Joans.

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