1954-11-13 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1954.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

After-office dress in sand-coloured cotton designed by Frederick Starke. The neck is scooped-out and the skirt has a deep flounce gathered up to the waist.

Husband and Mink to

Flatter Your Ego?

VERY

New York.

WOMEN

E two things out of life-

a husband and a mink coat

Who says so?

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The Designer's Favourite Wears Cotton

By DOROTHY

London.

THE girl who wears cot- Ton in the

designer's favourite just now. She can find original styles when she wants them. She can find materials with fancy new patterns and colours, And she gets value for her money.

Her views:

BARKLEY

the

"Nover at the dress to body, but train the body to it the dress." clothes alone or in the company their of a man."

"Women should choose

On-the subject of being dif- ferent, Schiaparelli — audacious and unpredictable is an expert. Remember the things she gave

{*The latest in fast 2004

accessories

WASHABLE

LEATHER GLOVES

London.

to fashion? The colour "shock-UARANTEED washable material printed like newspaper latest boon offered by indus ing pink", schrves made from leather gloves are the perfume in a bottle with an

"They should never shop with hour-glass slihouette, buttons try and science to the another woman, who sometimes like lollipops. And her clients, kmart woman who has to consciously and often uncon- caught up in the craze for being dress on a budget. sclously is apt to be fealous." different, might and themselves

The gloves are coming in "Ninty percent of women wearing a tweed evening dress, For work, she will be crisply' are afraid of being conspicuous or shocking society (this was in palest pastel shacks, or any colour of the spoolzuscope, and tailored in shirt-blouse of pin- and of what people will say the early thirties) by turning will wash in soap and water as striped cotton, or in well-styled So they buy a gray sult. They at the Wimbledon contrecoily, as any fabric glove, and

of houndstooth-check should dare to be different." in a "rouser skirt." dressca

so often Colton If she wants to slip on

but

a coat over her cotton outat not just to keep warm, simply because she think it nicer for town-the can cotton coat in the new straight and narrow style.

Jooks

wear

For out of office hours, sho will choose something a to style less formal, perhaps the illustrated here. In sand- coloured cutton.

has A and neckline

a scooped-cul flounced skirt

If she feels in the mood, she cuts invest in the new acces- sortes. Shoe me low-cut court styles with Louts heels and are covered in the sune material as the dress. Sunglasses have rims dyed to ma.ch the pattern the dress.

of

These new styles were shown

They are In London recently.

being exported straight away to Australlo, New Zealand, the West Indies and South Africa.

Bachrach must split hairu wunts learn whether a für has been One case involved a cont sold ag a sliver blue mink They won't be in our shops just which had turned brown.

The srl/cr

maintained that the coat Fet; in London we will be wear- ing winter woulles for the next was a genum, silver blue milak.

six months. Split SORTIT anet halra in the found that dyn was plainly visible in the centre of the hair,

For The Insuraner company called

Мих Bachrach. 20 specialist for Bachrach says bolh desires. are born of ego having * husband and a mink flatters the feminine self-esteem.

Bachrach himself doesn't rate mink singhly.

Bachrach in

Incidentally. #f денье nob happy with the colonse of The current mink in your wanilobes, Bachrach says almost relax any shade is possible.

"Chven twee years," said Hoch-

'Silver fox is my favour- ite fur.** said Bachruch, rach, mink breeders can pro- "The woman who wears it vide any elous desir:d."—United always luoks well. [{

has a quiet dignity and poise.'

Mink, erming, silver fox eposstuti---Bachrach's an expert on them ull; has been ever since he discovered with the aid of i intcroscope that the hair of each type of fur has a different com- position

DYE TEST

This discovery, besides being Important to the women who

Pres

The Unpredictable

CHIAPARELLA, whose name le symbolic for fashion's foibles as well as for its elegance, has spent the last quarter century studying women's dress ideas. Now

she has packaged her gleanings into Twelve Com- mandments for Women" and her auto- published them in

("Shocking Life", biography, published by Dent, 215.)

Another model by Starks: tawa onifie la houndstooth- chock cotton. The dress has a high collar and a straight skiri; the coat follows the firsight`and narrow lion.

BE IT JEWEL, FUR OR

FABRIC

I'LL CHAMPION THE FASHION

A

London. STRING of real seed pearls

R

or big fat

boy furs and 10 furriers, is important to Uncle Sam as well. | choker of fake ones? I'd

By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES

If

have everything real. Vou couldn't afford a good

The Federal Bureau of Invest- choose the big fat choker fur coat or a genuine dia. typist dress very much alike.

gation uses his findings in

CUSCS

every

time. Because

in involving fur hairs as evidence.

"fake," And the federal customs division fashion the words

of his "Imitation," use

"copy" FLO longer carry the faintest taint or slur.

has made much talents in duty cages.

fur con-

Bachrach became a sullant by

combining Lwo Careers ----ONE AS #chemist, the a other as a furrier He Now operates from a four-room office and

laboratory in Manhattan's fur distelet, His taboratory the only one of its kind in the world. It is fully equipped for making chemical and technteal fur analysis. His tools Include the delicate microtome, which is used for spitting hides.

Soap &

Water

Work Wonders

On Furniture

SOAP

New York.

OAP and water are good for the complexion-of furniture.

The shabby look of tables, chairs and other polished

dirt

of

a

pieces could be nothing more than a collection of from cont after cont polish or wax applied to dusty surface. Experts say suds often will restore the woods to their original sheen.

4

To clean a polished wood sur- face, mix a bowl of thick, warm soap muds. Then pick up generous portion of surface suds on a damp cloth or sponge and rub Brmly over a small section of the wood, working with the grain. Rinac with

clothi wrung out of warm water, and dry with soft Untless cloth. Repeat in sections until the whole surface has been scrub- bed. A second or third treat- ment, with fresh mudy each time, may:

be neccesary. Once, tho wood is completely dry, apply

When I was a child it wus matter of morality to

mond brooch you went with out. Only cads wore artificial things.

But three great social changes cracked this snobbery

have wide.

SCOOP NECKLINE

·Kiloal for winter parties 2/5/ a hand-painted organen, drain, alonveless and with:the-fashlómable: scoop-neckline. KEN, Ful

with black velvet---Landau Exprses

a cost of polish or wax-United | billowing/sktel·

Press

FIRST: The levelling of in- comes. Today a duchess and a SECOND; The onrush of science, Floods of plastics and synthetics, of

fabrics and finishes have poured out of the Laboratories, with brilliant new qualities which cry out to be used.

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THIRD: The pace of fashion has speeded up from a slow march to a sprint, so that it is doubtful if you want your clothes so good that they inst for ever,

Shoulders

go out

FAKER

After many years of research, one of the largest manufacturers and exporters of glove leather in England, Pittards of Yeovil, in Somerset, has found a method treating heather 60 that loves, " Diy other article mindo from R, will wash per- Zectly.

DELICATE COLOURS Improved methods of dyeing dao ensure that gloves made in multi-colour combinations, even in such delicate "marriages" as black and white or rod and dove grty, can be washed as often as likes without any The woarer risk of the dye from one colour on to the other. black is an absolutely fast colour

and will not affect the White part of the glove.

dirt can be removed, from the particularly greasy London |brand of soot to smear-proof Lip-

stick, and

# makes no difference whether leather is suede

Any

a long as instructions

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mace. Both wash equally well the simple washing

followed namely, uso warm, not hot, water, pure soap or soap fakts and dry away from the fire or other direct hest.

Articles such as hats or hand- |bags, which cannot be Itræssed, can be sponged with soap and water.

GUARANTEE

The manufacturers, one of the old "family" firms of the the west of England dating back to 1800 and OW

by two twothers, have already printed several million guarantee tab in kin languages which they are asking the glove makers to nt-

tach to the finished article.

The guaranice embodies a promise not only to investigate any complaint about washability but to replace the article if re- turned to them.

for

By cot spring, women in all parks of the works -00 percent of Pittards glove leathers go carport- should be able to forget Their merit: their price. II

the ravages wrought by dirt and they are well cut and styled case on Jight coloured gloves they bring the warmth and chic and war confidently whatever of fur within the range of mil-shade of glove may look smartest lions who never got further with their new spring out. before than a pair of bunny gloves.

This

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the armchair and woolly boot, season for Lon- doners, but it's high / numer for fashion designers, who are busy right now creating дех! year's beach clothes.

I met a woman recently who is the world's top designer of swimsuits-Rose Marie Reid of, California.

In just seven years she has

built up a women's swimsuit business which is the biggest and in, and best in America. She a skirts go up and down, accES- me some ideas that I would sories grow big and small, all like to shout from the house with such rapidity that the tops. "good" suit that lasts for years "I started designing," she told can become a liability.

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COLLEGE GIRLS LOSE PRIVILEGES

HONOUR SYSTEM A

FAILURE

ONE of

America's most fashionable colleges for giris-Radcliffe College have anally had to admit the fallure, both in their examinations and in the lending library, of their 10-year-old honour system.

The system

Radcliffe to Harvard And how you long to be quit I had to buy. I'm certainly not (feminine adjunct

formerly allowed fata (she isn't she lives on University)

and will-students to walk in and out of milk, orange juice, power) yet every sult seemed exams as they wished; and later to return to finish writing their that

of the dowdy hand-mado shoes that won't wear out.

I hereby give my blessing

So I

frather to

to

to my own "surprise) Fakes in Fashion

whether they are obvious fakes,

like diamonds the size of ducks

me, "because I hated the suits

to constrict me so

bulged out over the edges,

I decided to construct swim-

sults in a totally new way.

Then were trusted to refrain

from cheating on

their Own

eggs, or really deceitful faca bulge of flesh above the bust igns of cheating on the part of "First, there must never be a papers, but asked to report any like man-made fabrics that are

the spit image of pure wool. I suit is properly built and other students.

too

I give my bitssing to fake boned, the top will stay up by Jewellery, from sparkling glass itself without being cut necklaces to dull gilt bracelets' fight.

...from carefully graduated

pearls to seemingly antique

pendant earrings,

"Second, a sult should

My only proviso: they must long enough in the legs, so there be cheap. "I don't think it's clever to pay £30 for a costume back. I worked out a completely no hideous bulges at the

piece.

As the girls began their new academic year this month, they learned thut in

the future exams will be conducted under the eye of a proctor, that talk- ing, smoking and eating in ox- amination rooms will be pro- hibite

The now action follows 'n new way of cutting to cure this horror

study last year by a cornmition my guitar

have at of deans and studenta, & who #Third, my least inches of up-and-down found that at least half the I give my bloming to the stretchability, so that a woman girls would pot report their vast, wonderful

of with a long body can be as well friends, thus making the honour synthetic fabrics, from the nylon otted as a short woman. 7 malce system "unrealistic. which maker our stockings and my models on mannequins of lingerie to Orion sweaters and quite diferent figures to ensure allowed pleated Terrione skirts,

talk variety of fit. MÁ SA

-range

honour i nystar

1979 Ferreto, take out be

many books as they wanted,

I like them for their ossen-? "Do you make one-ploce För without checking them with a ually modern qualities; the way two-piecel sultry T naked her. they wash and from pack and "Boût, but I much prefer one.

fur

and resist those beastly piece suitska, ond met

to

shape, curve snap RSS niune," "dropped a card into &

and left

But last

I give my blessing rikesh Rose Marie FIALO

I don't would west; abi somam nevelins a clever college Pr *purious mind cost to a fim dhe She Tie Lombok mooHANY to another

the Bible by heart But a chunky fake fur sports works fanatically, often far into Jacket, a fake fur lining and the night, sainer to a topcoat on taidetta the mukas the only swim. 100pakdi ́siciet, a faite · Pérutan sulis i have ever taken a really, lamb #fole,all a hundred Etika "KENDE}{/blėto 3 101), BUNA more

poloer to her albow's

her

box

of

The honour.system will be re- tained in the dormitories, where the girls are: trusted”, with ́ing. avläral hours, boyanand signi ihampelyas, in and out at night

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