WEEK-END
Yes. easy
to
wear but have
they got the 'panch'
of a litted boat?...
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1964.
WOMANSENSE
SOS-a coat that
FITS
for a change!
London.
VE been standing on a balcony In
iccadilly watching
the women go
apping by. Flip, flop, flap they word. Their loose coats banging against ther legs.
Out of every 26 women, 25 Wore swinging conts. I counted,
theloved longe couts, I love you too.
Yone
all the condy, homely virtues and only
Juve one vire,
FIRST VIRTUE: You sip over everything. You slate over a tweed milf as easily is over a Cotton da
1
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SECOND VIRTUE: Your're so easy to istay 1re are thousands and mesuela of you, and
The fint meant to $1. there are no Atting
14.
CHAD VIRTUE: You are all things to all
Catan kuat rows well for town, cotantry, travel, theatre-polig, shopping. FOURTH VIRTUE You know such clever
Seppelines, you're reversible. Same- you have an optional belt to cinch you in.
FIE TA VIRTUE: Vou're warm.
catra
sweaters
wreath you. You can make aring and an interliebag.
what's that one vice"
J t don't think you're chle any more.
1 limit i still see you in the best places--there are lots of you an Paris, ranging from the vase marow tube to the whopping big
But I'm not impressed. You dip ut the back, you have a frankly
pregnant luck,
and you're hideous with Hot heels. Above all, Idea't like the
way you Hap,
For sheer benly, show me a tre cunt aguns dificult to it. agnol over tresses only, nothing Tu su versalite, but oh, so good- lokak
They're back with a bang in And plea. I'd love to see them.
HEAD-LINES
JEWER than flowers, newer
N
fabrics-striped
Laffetu
Is it guard- looking. the fil ied coat?
one
It's
the
fashions that do
things for you rather than you for them. De machy
drew
this coat for us in Paris, with
ane of the new cotton fabric hats....
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than straw-choose fabric for well at home; one consists of Of course I know what a com- over the past year. This book post heap ought to be a heap is by a woman, about a woman, Some of only five pieces Your Brat spring hut.
well-rotted I'm making them up in quite of
humus which and I recommendi it to the nicest hats I've seen in the new collections
but of expensive fabrics, tacles
as the easily breaks down into a friable every woman, Nucy Milford's аге
dresses are narrow and the yard th silk sellors
love (I
the medieval Madanie de Pompadour,
Rich in anecdote, age small, the cost will be less language affected by the true Lanshanters
a bit this on history (I long for more than for very ordinary ready gardener).
dates, but even professional male dresses.
But our compost heap is the historians are terrified of boring BUY or make a cotino
one thing about us that never us with those old things), this This is fashion that will pel cont, but it must be an unusual seems to rot properly. Result: is a witty, charming, and read- into the moderute price bracket cotton. Either first-class old bits of bulbs get put on the able biography about an excit- pretty quickly. Already one priat perhaps quilted, or on heap, flourish there, and get dug London shop is showing striped cnbossed eption, or one of the back all over the garden with ing woman in an exciting age. prosgrain pill-boxes with cravats Swiss embrindered cottons, if the so-called compost.
cutton cartwheels. Ninety-one colton hals were shown by tire top Paris malliner alone.
to match. Another has checked
cutton boaters.
ONE CONCLUSION
HAV
ព
you can manage to find them. They look rich and luxurious, and many are washable.
d
HAVE a narrow pure slik print dress: three yards shr do it.
FAVING seen and studied the spring fashion collections
IF you need an evening everywhere, I have formed one dress, have a very partow one than a of exciting lace rather pretty important conclusion.
very full one of boring tulle. IS WHAT
GREEN FINGERS
THE FABRIC MATTERS MOST.
I'd like you to know that some
of my gardening theories aren't as silly as they sound.
I've maintained for years that
UNFIXED
THE thing I like best Abou
Audrey Hepburn's face is her teeth. They're definitely crooked.
It's sald from the
is There
it is sheer amputation to cut This isn't the catty remark of down your roses to just above the week, the fourth budt. It takes them heart. months to recover from the mo
something more operation and by then it's endearing about that Imperfec- practically winter. I just trim tion than about all the capped, mine to make them tidy.
dawless Leeth 10 Hollywood, This year I find that all the which, to me, always have a outstanding line. So I suggest ALL over my garden bulbs are experts who've been telling us slightly false-teeth look.
popping up in the wrong for years to prune Hike mad- That when planning your own places. The fruit cage, the bean have come round to my side. spring clothes you.
bed, the rose garden are ruined hyne uth and tulip and
Clothes arc mostly very saple, and there is no one
BUY the best and most by
interesung fabrics you eun daffodil spikes scattered untidily
POMPADOUR
Mme Coty prefers homemaking to politics
Complicated Menus Are Crossed Off
FRANCE'S
By Barbara Miller
now
Paris.
A Lady says she stick to social affairs stay out of politics.
ut
good English the result First two years in a British finishing has travelled school. She also will in Italy, Switzerland, Holland, and Belgium, Greece, Poland
This, she added, gives her much in common with
Czechoslovakia.
"My grand-daughters
und
say 1
am very broniminded," Mme said. "Above all I de-
Coty
Mrs Dwight D. Eisenhower, test snobbiam
but
1 think
her American counterpart. "I'm sympathetic to today's
young prople, "I think my life must be they're missing much of the something like Mre Elsen- fun of life." hower's," said Mme Rene In typical Gallic farbion, Coty, wife of France's new she explained:
***AL cotillions I use to dance
president. "1 think I'd with many different men. To-
ind her sympathetic. We day a young girl comes to 4. are both
straight-forward dance with one boy, dances only with him and leaves with him. She must find that dull,"
and direct people."
Mme Coty, Who recently moved into the ornate Elysee Palace, discussed her new life in her first Interview with foreign news agency.
An ample, talkative and motherly type, despite her Dior
striking clothes and
auburn hale, she snicl her ilfe
$11 Prance's "White House" would be active. But pollies would be left to her husband.
HOBBIES
Mane Cuty, 23 shipbulkier's daughter who was married 40 years ago, has two daughters and 10 grandchildren.
Do the official rounds inter- face with her personal life? No, sald Me: Coty.
"I am agreeably surprised to see how much wo can continue to have a family life.
"My hobby is my granti- children. 1 also like classical music and old paintings, My new life won't change those things."
The Cotys
in a llve pow spare apartment of the palace while, their own is being re- decorated. Her favourite colour
is old combination
rose and grey.
Like any
French
woman, Mme Coly can give plenty of recipes. But osk her low many servants she has, and she doesn't know.
aj
WILL PATRONISE ALL
One of the touchiest of all problems for the president's wife what fashion designer to putronise will be solved tootfully. She'll Во to them
11.
grilled
Her husband loves meats and Normandy home cooking. But they dire light calers and usually have nothing except soup, cheese and salad at night.
"I spend my time crossing off complicated menus the palace chef brings every afternoon," she said with a laugh.
Her biggest complaint now is the Paris comedians against who make a joke of the fact she personally prepared her husband's supper after he was elected.
sald "Why,"
Mmc Coty, "should I wake up the servants at one in the morning, simply to heat up some soup?"
FAVOURITE DISHES
Here is the favourite dish of France's President Rene Coty "poulet Normand a la creme."
Cook a cul-up young chicken in a casserole in a bouliton of glass of white water). over it E
water (one onion, wine and herbs When tendor,
pour
H
just didn't know, there were so many, she said with cream sauce made of one cup of fresh cream, mushrooms uncharacteristic vagueness gauted in butter, which would be the envy of
yolks of two many another housewife plagued CEs and a large lump of but- ter. Simmer briefly and serve.
His wife's favourite dish "fish
with servant problems:
CAT WELL TENDED
The Cotys lived in a rented apartment for 30 years before her senator husband broke a win the presidency. recordi 13-ballot deadlock
L
la sauce Americaine": Saute two garlic cloves and one shallot in olive oil and but- ter in a casserole. Toss in several cups of tomatoes, herbs. to and seasoning Let simmer until it makes a puree, mean- They had two malds and one while preparing any favourite be- But now a telephone call white dish carefully. Just brings a car instantly, and there fore serving, add
of a glass are plenty of aides to take the Armagnac brandy in the sauce, family cat, Patou, for a walk, light It and pour the flaming Mine Coty is the first wife mixture over the fish at the of a French president to speak table.
car.
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Hips Bear The Brunt Mackintosh's
Of Added Pounds
I hope nobody iniks Miss J as well as the com leaning back to bring weight to
FUDGING from figures, Position: Sitting on floor, bear on the bulge, have palms Hepburn into having them fixed. plaints, the bulk of weight of hands fat on floor, out at It's her fresh, un-fixed lock settles on the hips. Then sides. that makes up her nstounding
charm-her sheer reality after why, in the name of sweet
Movement: Rell across hip side, and pushing
at the toothpaste smiles of the reason, do the pounds not span to one Mayos, Turners, Tierneys, and come off that spot when with palm of hand, roll back
afford, and save money on the about like toys on the nursery ONCE again, a non-fletion book making 1 myself have chosen floor.
is Book of the Month and two Koncl dresa patterns
The reason 50
for this is the races to fame-fiction sales have de Carlos. simple I know I can make them iniquitous system of composting. dropped by about one-fifth
PERHAPS A MICROSCOPE
REVEAL
London.
DRITISH manufacturers
SOME
-(London Express Service)
WOULD
de across hips to other side, with a calories are cut, you
rollicking, rhythmic rock-a-bye mand to know.
baby motion. roll on. Follow The answer
lies in the with a swinging session...
* explanation of why the pounds accumulate largely stretched in front of body, at Position: Standing, arma, out- on the hips in the first shoulder level.
Lack of activity. place.
Movement: Swing left leg up, Fat always tends to be, de- knee straight, and touch toes to posited on the least used outstretched right hand. Swing areas, the scruff of the right leg up to touch left fingers. Later progress by widening the neck, under the chin and distance between the out- over the hips. That large, stretched arms. This will help fibres. The new terylene sulls, fleshy muscle
on the back the wing. It's moto
thigh mu
muscles to be on the market shortly, have trousers with permanent of the hips makes a rela- Creases which survive everyday tively undisturbod parking roll and swing to muste wear and even a soaking in the spot. rain.
CHANGES...
By DOROTHY BARKLEY.
Though the parade was in- - and so it went on.
tended to show men's sartorial As for the sartorial silhouette Supremacy, there was a weak -planned each year in Savile link in the chain.
It was a woman, not man, who
their ties.
bring
The
From
The
into
takes
same.
In this sedentary tion as the first roll,
age, hips are bound to bear the brunt of added balgo poundage.
000
on floor, leaning back on have both arms. Bung
of men's clothing got lowing "traditional style"
recently and together staged an all-male dress show alongside their first-
FOR THE BEACH - ever Trade Fair, at Lon. Row as carefully g women's
out to the right kida as you roll don's Festival Hall.
fashion is planned in Bond matched up their accessories, Shirt collars in a new lineh-
toward the left ..........-revane post- Street-It had to be examined selected their hats and shoes, like plastic are easy to wash and
tion of arma në... you roll across It was designed to "dis- under a microscope to roveal and hund the last word about need no traning, Schoolboy shirts, The solution is exercise of hips to the opposite side. It's
sort or another.
While fun! in cotton toughened with ardil play their supremacy in charges tince last year.
mulo Perhaps a little less padding every category of
If the young-man-about town Abry, she sold with collars of walking is not particularly hip c'regularly
Ida Jean Kain attire" as their publicity on the shoulders to give a more is looking for natty accessories two sizes, one slightly larger so slimming, if you walk r
#. or dance or ride a bike, you will blurb carefully
natural line, Jackets perhaps this year, then he's well catered that your sou con grow into not have a hip problem. But explain lightly more walated, with a for. "Ribbon des replace the But, in leisure and pleasure that's just t ed.
ticket pocket at the front. a more usual style. These are one
The lxbest in centre vent the back-bus inch wide and waste mense e clothes, the porpect Brightens that's in it how much of
beach
But women have flamingo design: 'on. ena ell. One thing was night driving, there are water confiderab denie: there was no trace of
proofed gloves with white plastic
a while ground, and lower little spare time for exercla backs the Edwardian revival.
Hots have been put through outside the trousers. This comes this hip slimming rout now processes. On Intended rom the Bahamas add there, designed to act directs ↑
“wo woró, apruted, 18. la comuldeg" big hip muscles. Them
Whether or not it suc. eccled is doubtful. But it certainly proved one thing
men's fashions..
DULL.
are
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