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WEEK-END Spotlight On

Teenage Fashion

By Dorothy Barkley

*London. and while check with tucking and a little. ASHION, ha invaded down the front,

striped collar,. And she avoids

the teenage departments these out-of-fashion details in London shops and taken squere shoulders, long sleeves, teenagers by storm.

pleated skirt,

Copies of the new sea- son's styles are on cale in colours that suit them and at prices they can afford, only a few months after being shown by the top de signers.

beth and I wont along to. lek at a teenage department......... et Fortnumm End Mason's-and there we found that the princess dr and the cupola skirt are Top Hers at the moment.

The princess dress-because it makes en admirable Arst college or business dress. The leenager chooses one in a brown

A blend of comfort and chic

The cupola skirt--because, on short evening dress, it is just. the right style for parties. It's worn over layers of rustling polticoats. She chooses one in grey ribbed silk with the new And she

wide V neckline. avoids theso out-of-fəshion de

tails strapless top and pastel colours.

Her suit, toc, follows the new fashion. It is in hard-wearing grey flannel, with the rounded shoulder line. (Square padded shoulders, like those on a boy's suit, are out). She might choose one that has boot buttons all the way down the jacket, more boot buttons on the sleeve.

Her cotton dresses are candy striped, with two ruffles on the hem, and only a suggestion of a sleeve. Keeping an êye on fashion, she has the collar and cuffs in sugur pink.

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Separates have long been the solution to the teenager's fashion problem. This year they are fashionable too. She might choose a sweater in a blue gras shade, and team It with hrushed wool skirt-the coat material--of burnt orange. For fun, she might top it with a UT goes the girl with elly-bad hat. One to match her

tightly belted sweater, and sewn

with soap waist, and in comes the giribubble sequins, would be new.

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with a comfortable waist- line. The battle of the bulge is over.

You're free at last from the kind of dress with which you have to brenthe-in to do it up, You're five at last from the need to notch your helt that one hole tighter. You're free, from the

dress you have to struggle to zip up. In the new clothes you can relax.

The latest clothes, on all three

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Some of the clothes in these teenage departments are tocing the fashion line so well that. teenagers' mothers, when they come within the size range, are shopping there too. It's nothing unusual to hear a mother say (if she has come in alone to buy her daughter's clothes) "I take the dress. If it deem't 'at her, It will it me."

There's not much point in levels, have the new slack out- teenagers having these fashion- line. In Paris the top designers conscious clothes designed for of dress them unless they follow the are making the kind The is loose at the waist.rules. In London recently, at an im- portant wholesale show, it was

the same story. In the shops artund the West End, more and more of the slack-waist dresses are creeping into the winglows every day. (Typical of the new crup is a black and white blazer jacket tapered to fit the hips, on safe in a Bond Street window.) Pros And Cons

The new fashion has its "FOTB" and "Againsts".....

FOR: It is a change—and it is what is new that is fun about fashion. It is much more com- fortable. It is good for the girl! with a thick waist and sorrow hips perfect for the girl who is far too thin.

Any doubters, who don't know what the ruics are, ought to be

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24,· 1953,

WOMANSENSE

ABOVE: Candy siriped cotton dress. Full skirted. It han sugar pink collar and cuffs, and two ruffles on the hon.

RIGHT: Princess dress in brown. and white check, with tucking down the front and a striped collar.

wash her hair

by a good stylist. She should-

a week, twice knowing that the extra effort is well worth while. She should be able to discriminate between the fashions that will suit her and those that won't.

She will then find that there are lots of young fashions that are just right for har-jellybag hats, ballet pumps, "little girl" and exotic splashes of colour. dresses with Peter Pan collars,

And then perhaps there would

RIGHT: WIde⋅ V neckline and cupola skirt-Xoss latest lina--are the points še može in this ribbed silk perty dress.

ever two petticoats.

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Elizabeth

MAKE UP

YOUR

MIND FIRST ...

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By IDA JEAN KAIN

Back From

Exile

The Lace

HERE will be a differ-

THE

ence this year about Christmas, In Д million small ways the old festive | sceno has changed. For the. turkey-and-treo Christmas

always remains the same, but from a woman's stargi- point the setting is differ- ent.

In fashions, in the home. in toys, and in a woman': looks, the scheme of thing. has moved on..

Tuke, for example, the party dress in lace. There's

a newness about it.

to

LACE is back from long oxile. Laco -— which used to belong essentially middle-aged women at provincial parties-is today the fabric that smart women choose for their new party dress.

The Princess, for one

Princess Margaret at the Royal Film Show in white lace. Model Della

Oake in dark-red lace with one bare shoulder. Actress

Constance Cam-

mings in pale blonde lace at

a first night.

ofl.

The list could go and

BUC-

What brought lace out! of the cupboard? Like every other fashion cess, it was not just a something in the air. Like every fashion that sells, it is a success because of the boost behind it.

What the public sees when a new fashion catches on is an old story. It runs like this:-

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The fashionable Dior creatus COMMON complaint start out fully determined that an exquisite dress in an be some chance of killing, for all made by overweights this time, but between 4:00 and usual material. It draws rounds presented with a copy, headed: time, the "St Trinian" look so who love to eat is that they depicted, all-gone feeling. About It is mentioned by ali fashion 5:00 in the afternoon you get a of applause at the dress show. Three Rules for the teenager. often seen on teenagers-lumpy have no will power when it the 2nd or 3rd day you

She should choose a simple twood skirt, fuzzy hairstyles,

con-writers. Its picture appears in hairstyle, have it cut regularly shapeless coat, baggy beret, comes to turning down de- clude you simply haven't what all the fashion magazines. The licious food. But will power

drew manufacturers take it up —and a now crazo is launched. as you ordinarily think of it, isn't the most impor- tant factor in weight con- That is not

They Take Evening Gowns To Sahara

A to

carry

it takes.

Scientific Nibbling

evidence of lack lowered So instead of

trol. The biggest part of of will power, but of

blood sugar.

ok or skim

or

Or a

How it all happens

What the public doesn't know Is the much more fascinating runs-like this:

reducing is done with your going back to your old ways of story behind the launching. It mind. Once you make up eating, try "sclentine nibbling your mind to banish the For an energy-boost, have Д fat. you'll have the will

pick-up a big glass of

milk. power..

smeli of orange juice with

gloss That Did It!

a raw egg beaten in it. Or cat foes in London, Paris, and a hard cooked For example; one girl who ounce wedge of had taken on 30 extra pounds have

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First, manufacturers of the world unite to pay for a world- size publicity job. They set up

cas,

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cheese.

And

New York. Then the top-level

with

cup of hot tea

MODERN caravan is "My ambition now is to drive Manhattan and walk over the continent

firma approach cacht Parls de- with people I like." businessman Claude BernI-

signer with samples of their Most important, it is the fore-

In this instance the people after the married. had tried to lemon. This is piece-mealing fabric, and oder to make him runner of a whole new style heim and his family

over Barnheim "likes" are his wife sults. But one day she received

diet without any noticeable re- with રા purpose to prevent any kind, any colour, embroid which blends those two old in- the sands of the Sahara De Janine, his two daughters,

energy

lag

and, at the same Ume, ered, silver threaded, cobwebby compatibles-comfort and

sert soon. Two vehicles Daniele, 18, and Miriam, 22, and a letter that told of plaus for a to prevent a big dinner appeille. or coarse, any amount." The style that includes

family reunion few months have been specially con- Miriam's husband, Francis hence, to celebrate her parents in time, can save the diet.

Those 80 to 100 calories, taken buttoned overcoals, hip-length

Conat.

When the dress appears in the loose cardigans in thick knitted structed to provide all home

That did wedding anniversary.

Will power depends on Paris collections Each of the women is taking it. She

shown to tho determined to get her couple of things primarily an evening dress so we can nice gure back before she desire, for you always have suf-applaud

on Press, the lace publicity girls enthusiastically. dress up occasionally, like we do faced her sisters. And the result ficient will to do anything you("Clap madly." at home."

one of them Wes pretty good.

really want to do. But it is implored at Dior's show last Casablanca, will wind through weight had suddenly developed Ener The trip, which will begin at Now, would you say our over also

sustained by energy

"It's lace.") depends Enerty in turn the Sahara and end at Cairo. It will power? In the sense that adequate nutrition, and many

Then the dress is photograph- will cover thousands of miles. a strong incentive boljered, her popular diets fali to provide ed and circulated free to all yes....but wasn't it half-way protective nutrition, the magazines American, Con-

Aveol, soft leather shoes with comforts. lower heels, And pull-on felt hats.

One vehicle is armour-plated -protection against any hostlic African tribes why may be en- countered.

AGAINST: Only two points, but they are powerful. The new line means the dentli of the prettiest fashion that has come The unit includes luxurious the way

this generations dining ot

and sleeping necam- those slope-shouldered, Ught-modation, a sewing machine, a waisted, full-skirted clothes. refrigeration plant."

wanted

Second, it means the blot-out Bernheim sald: "This trip

I bayo of the most appealing | is something

curves-from bust to to to the few per Africa during the war-was a pilot for the Free French,

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of one feminine hips.

Could there be a clearer proct that the pull of fashion is to something new-not comething ||African terrain' I got a chance better?

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a quarter of the distance will be simply that her desire to be of On such fare energy lowers, tinental, Brilish. In six months over areas so desolate that there normal weight activated her to Then old food habits tend to get the party dress you long for is is no record. of their ever stay with plan of eating that the upper hand and you follow a face one. having boon traversed before. helped achieve her goal? Faced

the line the

of least resistance. If you really want to regain dress manufacturer who makes British why a "We plan to with the choice of showing up study the human side of Africa, overweight determicod or normal weight, and follow a

I have en-anthropological in-perhaps that is what will power power, will strengthen day. byning gulness has sold more than

highly protective diet, your will short lace evening dress terest in tribal life: ifike people really is choice power.. who lead a simple life, and 1 like Negroes."

However, it may be you lack day as new food habits take 1,000 in two months.

haid. the will to stay with a longer than a żew days. You

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SHR meets American elephant, hope of pore an

cigarettes.

ozg pearls. Invitation to a tiger Nylons. Latest hunt. A Rolls-Royer. American musical on long- "When I in- playing records.

troduced him: "You know, ho

"A vory big Cadillac. An owns half Ben- invitation to his ranch in Texas, ..."When I introduce him: “You know, he's the son of Hacken- backer the Chicago meat packer"

She meets an Englishman and thinks: "Potted shrimpa Rugby. matches. Fabric

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birthdays, hair

She meets an Italian and gloves thinks: "Dancing every night. Flowers. Jessons.

Italian silk. Italian shngroan Invitation to his villa - brushes. An oci In Capri. A two-seater Alfa- casional brace Romeo.

e of a grouse, When I introduce him: "You Father's pré- Upine-made know, he's the last of the war zalodez. An adversion Borgiaa.??

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