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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1953.

Yuletide

Something

New For Your Hair

London, THE THERE'S a new kind of this around blonde Christmas. She's not the bright and brassy girt she used to be. This blonde is a shade more subtle,

Womansense

PARTY FASHION .

PARTY

By Dorothy Barkley

clothes have embroidered in pearls

and

taken on an informal mother-of-pearl," (Illustrated)," nir. Top-flight designers in One London suggestion

jeans London and Florence, after combines

in printed carduroy-black, striped with -reflecting on the informal

cranberry-with a white blanket. way of entertaining which cloth Jacket Bned to maten the has developed since the jeans. (Illustrated). war, now produce exotic de- London

dostimer Digby "fork Merton takes the idea ono stage signs parties" as well as for full further and creates the hostess

ensemble

illustrated. For dress balls.

the top and stacks he chooses silk mnbroidered with velvet; over Both fashion cities

the slacks goes a full silk skirt. stress tho same points (Illustrated). --slim-fitting jeans, narrow

for

casual

Dresses for whito-tio occasiona categories this

For the new kind of fair as drainpipes, and colour- divide into two

ful jackets, gally em- year. hair is the kind that could broidered. And these are be natural-even if it isn't.

gold

It's the look that comes from being a couple of you shades lighter than

from really are; streaks that look like sun bleach, from curls lightened at the tips, from an all-over sparkle.

'It still bottle,

comes out of a but it's natural enough to fool most men. It's the one-shade-lighter look. And it started in America,

it

This sleek two piece BCS, by Florentine de- signer, com- 'bines cm- brokdered blue this

wool

with metal. threaded slik for the jeans,

Either you choose a

slim straight sheath dress which has a skirt fullness swept to the back where it falls in folds to form a train. Or you wear 1 dress with a fullish, bell-shaped skirt following the

new Dior Line.

If you decide on the sheath style, you give it an Empire look by tying a sosh of ribbon just beneath the bust and letting the long streamer ends fail to hem level. If the belied skirt, you adopt an Edwardian air by placing a sash of contrasting ribbon, often finished with a bow, round the skirt at hip level, and a tiny bustie beenth St.

The choice of material de- came 10 Recently

pends, of course, on the style. country in a big way, The

For the sheath dress, stiff biggest manufacturers of bleach

materials which will hold the folds at the back are chosen, over here staged a demonstra- tion of the new idea. Six

There is a gold-brocaded eroam salin, silver-chot broode and different girls with six different

statin. rose-quartz

For the shades of hair-fair, gat brown, adaptable to all climates. belled skirt, gossamer fabrics

made in silk,-chenille-dottest golden They are riork auburn, brown,

nylon organz blonde, and, mouse were poplin, velvet, corduroy, chiffon, lee, embroidered given

or one-shade-lighter ribbed jersey tartane to the fore. look. And it's on the mass-wool.

the

produced level already. 50 this looks like the end of the

Many outfits are sold as blonde that gentlemen used to three-pieces jeans with prefer.

Epitaphi from

** SIX #

*

Black tulle is lalal top and jacket. Tops are

given the coarse-ribbed cobweb look by being woven poplin. Yolande in

with silver threads, And to Donlan, who made her name on knitting like a fisherman's throw up the intricate pattern the stage as a "dumb blonde." jersey or paisley pattern- on a dark coloured lace, black silk. Some or midnight blue for example, and recently went "natural": ed woot or "Men don't look twice at a girl juckets in wool are embroi- the material is placed over

while underskirt, with

and beads with brown hair, the way they dered do at a blonde.

If you liko dramatic colours, I don't get coloured silks; others are wolf-whistles any more."

plain outside, lined to con- there's a new rich shade of red trast.

called "Christmas Red" Victor (London Express Service)

Stlebel used Christmas Red satin, brocaded with black rose pattern, for ball-skirted dress and draped the decolletage with black satin.

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Florentine designers use metal-threaded silk which has a rich appearance, Ax outfit typical of the stylish casual clothes now coming from Italy consists of white metal-threaded Top designers provide inspira- silk jeans and a blue jacket tion for those who like to use

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For CHILDREN: "Bairns-Wear" Cardigans,

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Baby coat hangers

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Tootal Scarves

Tootal Handkerchiefs (in gift boxes); Harris Tweed

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FURNISHING FABRICS

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Printed duroy - black, striped with cranberry 13 used for these

With them go a white blanket oloth jacket, lined, to mintah thems and a black sweater.

material in an unusual TUDY. Pierre Balmain maggests, for

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full-skirted dreas twelve-inch

wide bands of tulle criss-crossed in a boicot-work pattern. Bybil Connelly, the Irish designer now. making Dublin a name in the fashion world, eatin with Carrickmacrosse ince veils rose pink for a young girl's "dream" dress, strapless, full-sldried and belted with a matching satin sash.

Accesucries for this year's evening parties choulder-high ratin gloves; a single black rose; hug-me-tight boleros with cowl collars.

This ensemble for the hostess at home, made by Digby Morion, consists of top and matching stacks lo alk embroidered with velvet and a billowing silk overskki.

-{London 'Express Service)

For HER:- Woollen dress lengths

Woollen coat lengths.. Woollen suit lengths Silks & Brocades?».

Knitting wool

Tootal handkerchiefs (in gift boxos) Indian Benarasi Silk

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Nylons

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