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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1954. ~

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

TAKING THE PLACE OF 'SEE-WHAT - I'VE~GOT-ON

IS

THE SMART EASY-TO-WEAR

IDEA

By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES

THE dressed-up look is going, going.

gone. It's gasping Its inst without

a tear from me.

Any woman

who is self-consciously

get up to kill looks right out of this year's inshion picture.

There are still some women about with that "See-what-l've-got-on” ex- pression. But they have nothing to do with fashim as I see it.

It's hard to find the right word for the new way of wearing ciothes, but I нuppose "casual" is the nearest-so long as that isn't taken to imply the faintest suspicion of untidiness.

Perhaps wearable" is nearer the mark. "Degage" is nearer still, only 1 hute to use a French word if an English one will do the job.

The point of it is, that once your clothes are chosen and on your body you forget about them.

Clues

If you have a dreas that has to be managed, or a hat that has to be hell on,

or accessories you have to clutch round you, or a mid- riff swathed so tight that

you can't breathe, then by the new standards you are overdressed.

1

Left: Easy and wearable for the beach, for a boat or an open car-a headdress that won't slip away

In the wildest wind. It's made of a length of leopard printed cotton stitched round a plastic bandeau, İx worn with a suntop to match. It answers the hardest hollday problem--keeping tidy in a breeze.

Centre: Easy and wearable for lunch, cocktail or even dinner, the essence of the new informal look. tam-o'-shanter. The dress, by C.D. Models, of patterned silk and wool is worn with a mere nothing of a Note the casual collar, short gloves, unpressed pleats, the for alung round the arm, the way the model stands,

Right: Easy and wearable for a hot summer day, a simple dress that never descends into sloppiness. The dress is cotton, the cut is plain, there is no jewellery, ne hat. But perfect pressing, a well-cut collar and short white gloves take il right out of the tub frock class, make it right for a hot day in any resort.

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GLAMOUR AFTER DARK

By Eileen Ascroft

THAT

London. change has

Wame over the West

End after dark.

Women have started to dress up again for theatres and dining-and miraculous- ly, so have the men. At the theatre recently I counted 10 dinner jackets and two young men in tails.

Clubs that have experienced four chilly, empty months since Christmas arc filing Again. Dance floors are returning to the old intimate huddle.

And who deserves the credit for all this? I give the marks to our elegant vialtors.

come

This is the month when wealthy American tourists to London and smart women arrive from the Con- Linen for our summer social MOSON, It works on the old decoy duck principle. We Eng- lish take note of our spit-and- polish visitors and try to live up to them.

BRAVE MEN

more from Italy?) you can go with carelessness, untidiness, Dining in a club off Berkeley

and from to a cocktail party

seo sluppiness, or lack of thought Square the other day I noted warnen toning down the effect in choosing what you wear, six of the prettiest restaurant of the famous dressy Parts You can pull it off without hats I have seen this summer. hats with very simple, very a lot of money,

Three were American, one casual suits.

But it does require a tremen- French, but two were worn by

Englishwomen dous sense of style.

Jewelled look. Even Lady Coming up the shirt dress Docker haa changed

t] hours

of the day.

velvet, pearls, and clusters of fabricn [rum tweed to saliu; fura to relatively simple_suita. pockets, pockets, pockets; non-

Even in Paris, last fortress chalant hats, from Garbo pull-

of formal dressing (query: la Our to lan-o'-shanters; wound-

that why the Americans and A warning about this wear- round beads; soft handbags English: are buying more and able look. It has nothing to do and hand-stitched gloves a size too large, {**

No going, going gone the black day dress with jewels; the large-brimmed picture hat heavily trimmed, uncasily per- rbet hat fixed with lots of pins;

huicy coiffure.

Going, going, gone... dim- cult-to-wear Occeasuries

the daytime stele;

tho

For example

Bringing it down to people women like you'll find that the hard with real style will wear pretty shouldery but wearable hats. Small haty now. for the Degum and armholes; the uncomfort- always,

K

for Mrs John uble dress with tricky drapery,

Dewar, for Lady Edam,

suit with

too-tight

or a complicated neckline,

in much stiffening or padding you can't sit down.

Agn

You'll find

women

How To Apply

For A Day

-{London Express Service.)

Your Make-up

Day In The

ARE you going to any

outdoor sporting event, when your make-up has to

By LADY BOYLE

more and more wearing their

hair Going, going, gone... hard

brushed rather than combed; handbags and elaborate gloves; more of the casual coiffures of slick, conventional jewellery Constance Cummings, Lady may be exposed to sun, gently. This also removes (diamond or pseudo-diamond Blandford

last all day, and your face on your face and patting it

or the Duchess of wind or showers? A colour- the surplus. cilpa come bottom of the poll); Ittland, rather than the caretu! accessories too carefully match-

less foundation liquid offers rows of curis of Mrs Gerald

1.

Open Air

When you are ready to pow- der

over your face, powder

eyebrows, your penciled

too.

It gives them A natural look. and you can take off the surplus with a Boked finger.

With a day

in the open air ahead of you, this is not the to use a "foury" techni- the While waiting for an excellent protective film

que. I suggest you LLUSIO a base to make

skin powder your

to counter-act the against all three. On the way up

You'l

more ot น่าจ

smoothly receptive, "fea- yellow shade which develops at Tustuls-in-parekete gesture and Next Amooth in

your ther" your eyebrows with the nostrils and chin. So coming up

If you haven't ang, a "mako- easy, easy way of standing of Lady coloured base lightly with short strokes, using

which works is to put easy sull; the brushed-through Reed (Penelope Dudley Ward).

do hair

heavenly - do:

Lady an upward movement, and pencil to match your colour- lighter coloured powder in your Johu rough Mrs

Wyndham, materials; wonderful colours, Cowdray. ices of the formal, "fix" it by putting a tissue ing.

the

If You Want To Be In

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In Fashion "Do As The ROMANS Do"

WHEN

WH

compact poses.

for rebouching

There were three Lower buttonholes in male inpels in the bar before dinner a garden 4U50, cornflowers and a red carnation. And I dined in one of London's ofter-dark restaurants with young man

in

sarden elegant

WDS

pink satin tle, with a pale pink carnation to match. Ila petals had attrac- tive red lips. From the Chelsea Flower Show? No. He achieved the bright red tips with his wifoe lipstick,

Coolest touch

touch of elegance on post-Epsom dance floors Provided by men brave enough to adopt white or cream dinner Jackets. And it is not just the clothes-conscious, but many of young men who are becoming the older ones as well,

The elegance

of secret

feminino and glamour after dark is not a vast, expensive

wardrobe. It ta this: One beautifully cut frock

If you favour

the glowing, I which slightly shiny look Toticed on Martine Alexis, the French film star, it can achieved with a pad of cotton weel soaked in cold water, wrung out well, flattened into a pod and then patted over the powdered Anished make-up. This looks la most attractive for young girls, even in glar- ing sunshine.

in good and

a

not

a cover-up.

unerushable material fairly dark colour-calf-length, mid-calf or ballerina but brushing the floor.

It should have jacket of its own materials, so that it is not too dressy for dining. And it should "undrous" to a decollete top, glamorous enough

floor.

for the smartest dance

MAD HATS

acces-

Add to this faultless sories, one piece of jewellery

As a matter of fact, the pad that sparkles in the lights and of damp cotton wool in very sue, two or three порзерке with multicoloured good for patching up before hats, The sweaters, elcevo- repowdering. It seems to bring the Italian de stripes.

less and tubular in shape, have the skin to life.

London.

sweaters

DON'T TRY IT

or concert

Favourite male

or

Theo need the most careful choosing of all. For an evening signers decided to go wide haller collars and obliging-

hat must be mad gay, flatter- in for beachwear in a big ly adapt - themselves to at

Ing, outrageous or nonsensteal way a few years ago, they all sizes. (See illustration).

or it is not worth wearing at Colourful certainly started something.

skirts with pome If you go sun-bathing, ob- | all," granato

this important patterns are another of serve

rule: What

Black spot of Mayfair after they started-and the

this year's Italian imports. In never try the skin of your dark is the beachwear

musical world, departments in

cotton-finished Batin, face. That's what oil will do to Ballet, opera London's stores and the salons of w

they London's wholesalers now bear

carry one of the latest it, for it bubbles in the sun. It audiences remain frowy, arty Tullian tricks. They are lined is just the thing for the body and messy. witness

fact-wes with vanlig, 2 to the revolution.

which noods more grease, but attire DW They gave beach.

synthetic

is country tweeds Jannel wear new Hte, now colours, now

to make them stand for the face, choose one of the material

bags, Women favour out and styles and fabrics, and they

this means that you special creams that will give

comfortable shoes, sexless matt finish sweaters, threw out the dowdy old styles will not have to wear a special you

smooth,

shapeless skirts and with them. while Petticoat.

loads encouraging the sun's

of inartistic beads. away by the

omnis a now

substitute for

for ultra-violet rays.

I sat next to one young man tallor's canvas

normally

you're a sun-worshipper who survived the whole of a used for silffering and is main like me, you probably spend ballet performance with

อ advantage is that it can be some time on the beach lying thick woollen

#wathed In Italy, of course, the women wasbed and washed without dat on your back in its rays, round his neck. saw to it that the revolution losing any Its stitiness. bid to

But the musical world apart, ехрове осев сте accurred, overnight, 'The

(Besides being used to stiffen lids to the glare, but dark miracle is happening after styles came in, were mapped

Full

is used to line sult glasses leave patches of white darkc. The West End becom and the old styles thrown away, or has spied one of the sea-shells, dip them in the son pockets,)

The solution to and small ing fashionable again. But in carious London new beach shirts, took longer, When the new

In cotton every now and then to keep styles Tived two years ago, and tailored like a man's, this them cool, and lie with one women looked at the crazy cones shirt bas «, beach cartoon pat over each eye.. pointed Staww. koła Mud. the bern printed, all over ik depict- fantastio sweators with football ing Capri munbathers.

to

be carried fashion Edo.

ALL FROM ROME

HAUSTIOITALADURSHOOGUN

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up,

It

and

**What on

THE FANTASTIC

at saked remarkcod stripes, and ourth is that? "Well, you won't see me wearing that," or "They will never sell The latest cape have to be hero."

soon to be believed. They, are mostly tam-o'-shanfors, I noticed How wrong they were. For one in blue wool trimmed all things have changed now. This over with anal spiky pieces of your, everyone: bee been won coral, and another in black over, and bewoners are quite with animal is mo shells.sown Happily doing the Furmans round the edge, Others with do in Lahim,

when styles, all

from:

fagna groz coloured preffit, and oaps, had bamboo

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One of those se-all creatures with eyes in all sidem of his head a London barman-sald to me: "I've worked in Paris and the Bouth of France, but I've never · known' clientele thas this?

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