1954-03-13 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1954.

WEEK-END

WOMANSENSE

For husband-hunting ·

Gorgeous Creations By London Couturiers The Best Place Is

Closely Guarded Fashion Secrets Are Revealed

THE

London. The renuine tickings and THE pictures of the new chintzes were used, ALondon collections have just been released. They

steret were kept

for

But this year there are more sophistiented varieties of these same materials. There is white popiln printed with ingitrosa stripe, and fine culton with chintz-like flower pattern. And Is the price you pay for stoch fashion that the sophisticated imitation costs three Umes the Surprise Number One of price of the primitive original,

nionth to give foreign bavers time to return home with the designs they pur. chased.

the collections Was the battle royal wagen over the length of the evening

dress. Hartnell said "Long dresses only will be worn,"

"whilst Stiebel moted the ballerina dress.

NEW COLOURS

Above: A John Cavanagh creation for the recent London spring collections. The hundred yards of tulle evening dress has its gigantle un-crinolined skirt draped around and from an embroidered motif of lilies- of-the-valley. The minute bodice is trimmed with black velvet.

At left: A short evening dress in mist grey organza by Victor Stiebel. The skin-fitted bodice is draped to accentuate the bust and the full skirt is embroidered with medallions of pleated grey taffeta set with rhinestones. ·

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"In The Air"

By RON BURTON

Los Angeles. Their matrimonial ob. THE beat place for a jects usually aro passen-

girl to hunt for a hus- gorn, other airlines em band is in the air.

ployees, and "the boy back The feminine head of a home." Miss Toy BRYB training school for airlines that many a stewardess has stewardessos says this oc- heard the "my, how-you've- cupation often is described changed" remark when she "husband insurance." visita homo after starting

many

stewardesses her airlines career.

So marry soon after starting work that there's a con- stant shortage of personnel, she adds.

the to

A look at

some of school's methods helps explain why the girls trap men so easily.

First off, the ones who enrol must meet certain physical re

Statistics buck up the statement of Marsha Toy, quirements. Their age range le

now

a former stewardess with Trans World Airlines, running the Airline School of the Pacific.

The Los Angeles office of the U.S. Department of Commerce Bays the train ing apparently all but in

sures

from 21 to 28, their height from five feet, one inch to five feet, seven, and weight from 100 to 140 pounds.

Glamourised

Then Miss Toy and her staff of 12 former stowardosses go to work on the applicant's

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a husband-steward- Bonality and appearance, ess has the highest mar- The course lasts 12 wecks. rlage rate of any occupa- and emphasises poise, speech, tional group, with no close good grooming, and posture second in sight.

including the business of how to sit down properly.

Their Objects

A Hollywood hair stylist re- styles the students' hair. And if At present, there are ap- there's a glaring feature fault, proximately 5,000 steward- it may be corrected at a low

under arrangements

be esses on 30 domestic lines. fee

tween the school and a plastic They work an average of

Surgeon. 18 months, which means about 300 leave month. Some take

As the course progresses, the

every giris leam "trade" secrets-for other example, correct head carriage airlines jobs, but marriage involves keeping the ear lobes bars them as stewardesses, and shoulders in a straight line.

WHY SOME MARRIAGES

ARE FAILURES

Philadelphia.

HUSBAND'S

5.

ever- things present newspaper at municate

and ner. the breakfast table

over,

talk through their

problems

But staff members may decido that a girl isn't going to make it. When this happens, she re- ceives a refund and some gentle advice to try a less-exacting profession

Miss Toy, à trim woman in her thirties, opened hor school six years ago She claims a 87 percent placemint of hot graduates, although many air- lines have their own schools,

United and American Airlines Angeles agree

Lo Inability

to com- carefully before they go odces in Los with

the part to the divorce courts. Law-that stewardesses are in

stant demand. yers and judges frequently refer couples seeking divorce in hasty anger to the organisation.

and

a

Dr Mudd, married since

cott

{

12. And one spokesman even had who might not at present all a little cheering news for girls

the physical bill.

"American

girls are getting heavier and taller, and so many

OS ALITUI

of our stewardesses

sald with a sigh,

"that

we may have to chango height and weight limits.

the wife's nylon stockings 6. "Major" differences drying in the bathroom are in attitudes toward religion, only surfaco reasons why Every year there's a crop of marriages fail, one author children, finances, sex

jobs. Names fut old colours, This ity says. year there is a bigger one than Theso are just outer Dr Mudd, president of 1922, says that in most pro- usual for us to keep pace with. symptoms masking a deeper the American Association cases the woman takes the soon," he

first step to salvage the Yellow 1 no longer yellow, maladjustment,

saya Dr of Marriage Counsellors, Those designers Who but ripe orange bamboo Emily H. Mudd, executive started the Council in 1983, marriage, favoured the full length blonde. Pink isn't pink, but director of the Marriage holding sessions one night dress deliberately made it pepermint rock or dawn blush. Council of Philadelphia, an a week in a doctor's borrow-

And green is sun olive or lemon more glamorous and more leaf.

affiliate of the University of ed office. decorative than it has been

Pennsylvania. recently.

fox

And

Even black and while are no longer black and white. For black, now read soot or carbon;

Dr Mudd, a pleasant, for white, oyster or suri, of

brown con be cinnamon, grey-haired mother of four, after tobacco, cogline,

old gold, or listed six major reasons for burnt apricot (If you know what marriage failures:

Surprise Number Two was the revival Making a comeback

It

a lang eclipse, it trimmed sults, conts, jackets. was even sewn onto a satin base and used as an evening

wrap.

colour that is).

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"The majority of women "We wanted to find out riage their major job," Dr in this country make mar- if there was a real need Mudd said, "and they have for a marriage counselling the greater stake in keep service in the community,'

ing out of the divorce she explained,

courts."

It didn't take long to get

1. Over-dependence on the answer. parents.

2. Failure to grow up to a reasonable independ-

ence.

Far-fetched and fanciful they may be but they certainly bring business. For we all have a fanciful streak and a dislike of REVIVAL OF LACE

the mundane.

Aaud do we fall for the new Surprise Number Three names? or

do.

3. Inability to give as revival of lace. Designers hove feminine Was the This year it was used in prefer a sun olive suit to a green

psychology taped. Who wouldn't well as take. all manner of ways. For any one, or a burnt apricot cont to a Ascot outfit it was velled brown one? over linen and turned into

a suit, for an evening dress

it was pinced over # coloured satin underskirt. It even takes a hint from your kitchen apron. Mattli, for instance, made an angle length dress of finely pleat- ed black tulle and topped it with an apron of lace,

Two further details, thrust into the news by

course

We

While the Council · ex- tends a helping hand to! couples regardless of race, creed or colour, Dr Mudd In 1958, the council con- found that the average per- ducted 8,168 interviews. A son coming to the organi- small fee normally is ention was under 30. charged, although in cases Dr Mudd explained why, of financial need, this is "Young people aro waived.

elastic, and have The Council regards it- optimistle outlook toward accept the partner's feel self as a preventive agency, their problems," -- United

helping couples think Press.

4. Failure to recognise the partner's needs and

· Dorothy Barkley ings.

more

a moro

SHE'S TOO BUSY TO PARTAKE IN

LIFE'S SILLY LITTLE THINGS

the_collections, are the DOESN'T it infuriate you sailor collar and the pussy-

Easter.

By Anne Heywood

But the trouble is, Mrs G. R Is too efficient, too schedule- ridden, too much like flawlessly running machine. She has no daxibility, no time for

own

when you read in the cat bow. Wholesalers, tak-papers-or hear introduced Ing their cue from London on the lecture platform-a She has a doctor hus. It isn't that Mrs G. R'z hus and Paris, are now busily woman who is a successful band, four children rang- band is neglected and unhappy, relaxing, no time for fun. ** She whipping up their own verwife, mother of a large ing in age from 18 to 21, nor that she le a bad mother. Is sions of these in time for family, top executive in a a full-time job as assistant, On the contrary, her schedule because her own life runs

big business, charming vice president in a

manu allows plenty of Ume for can instead of her running her life. hostess, and, for example, facturing company, a well. panionship with the children, gifted amateur portrait run town house and ̈h and discussions on their Im- painter?

well-run country house, a portant problains. ". They, pro, My first reaction is al- reputation for her flawless in fact, very happy children and waya, "Oh, dearl What's clothes, and consider devpied to their mother, the matter with me? I ablo acclaim,” an a han Ahd hér, husband, who works couldn't accomplish all that grower.

hard, 100,

PUSSY-CAT BOW

The sailor collar will be shown on a two piece suit, while the pussy cat bow will trim any thing from sults to evening capes, and will be made in any thing from striped silk to black .taffeta.

in a million years."

But then I review in my

There's a new way in which mind some of the women A full life," Idst year's fashions are being brought, up to date for this year ko that whom I've met, and say, with nothing

Last your we saw the first or immediately I feel better! ing that makes

Mra G. R. Is an ex: BOGBILAR tie pulta and drassus in malteass tipicing and · Household chintz," ample;

But you would be wrong!

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