1954-11-27 — Page 9

THE · CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1954.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

One of the new inexpensive cottons, this dress by Hor- rockers has a laer print along the edges of the stripes to give it on extra crisp look.

H-line Kimonos May

Influence Western Styles

A kimono and sagh, with

Blueprint For Next Costume

IN

the

Year's Fashions

London,

By DOROTHY BARKLEY

Jewellery

By Dior

London.

aro practical dramos in chocked Next Easter promises to pro-

"b16" fronts, not cotton with

or duce its

unial crop of crazy materials,

fore- Emart dresses in printed shan- bonnels. We have had a styles, the dress story tung with box-pleated skirts. tarte of them already.

"I WOULD rather have will be told next year. For the odd occasion whan

London's Association of Mi-

half a dozen strings Around the London show. may need a cost over a cotton

Designers will sponsor of imitation pearls than a dICE! Horrocks have an core

colours for Easter. They rooms, where the new

de catching outfit in strawberry signs are being shown, the phic: corduroy for the short talk centres on new fabrics. sleeved tent coat; flower-printed cotton for the coat timing and One of them is permanently matching dross. Alternatively,

which is being they have pleated cotton

short cotton jacket, used for full skinted dresses with belted at the waist, in a black

Nerw scooped iti necklines materials are always something and-white doodle print. of a risk. They may be succeSS- ful or they may not. But there' no doubt about this cotton, Ong dress firm, anxious to satisfy themselves that the pleats were # permanent, decided to test

making it up. A sample length of the material WDS bolled dur

two hour-and it

came out smiling,

Another new cotton

putting 13

In an appearance this year white pique Interwoven with gold thread to gleam like bro- cado. Horrockets use this for a sheath dress and match the gold thread with gold mesh collar and cuffs.

Mediterranean blue

Then there is hand-blocked nylon which has burst into our shops in a blaze of color. It comes to us from Jamaica where

Bylon lengths of stiffened printed locally with gally painted tropical fruit designs.

are

The colour which is going to make fashion news is a deep blue sea shade, of the Meditor- rancon, not the maddy English Chimmel, variety. It is a won- derd colour in poplin for a sunny climate and you will every.. probably be seeing it where. Recently we saw it twice The in the same dress show,

wore blue poptin model girls dresses. But one spectator, Mme. Massigil, wife of the French Ambassador and

of Our elegant fashion pega, most

on fashioni a.March and was wearing a hat and cort of the same shade.

Tokyo. sweeping plece of stuff equal in

and MODIFIED Japanese expanse beauty to the should, whici: kimono

if theoretically, protect.

The "Now Japan" woman is new entire that haert tunic-hnd stolen

new

the romance and beauty of ancient silk and the Paris H-line, are producing here a style which may have

far reaching influence Western fashions.

cardon

style. At the same time, she is turning the gran-culting kimono

Many of the new dresses are oil into a two-piece affair" and, of

copies or Inst season's all things, the elaborate obi 19

Strupless Sun CITESSES becoming a loose sash fitted to a styles.

skirts fre teamed with futi 11 which, waistline fixed

"cover-up" matching with

This is fine for those smallege were properly observed, boleros.

called a belt-100 who slocked up Last year. would be dollars (about £34) worth of There's no fear that last year's brocade can be a belt.

bost seller will become year's flop.

The women of the new Japan are attached to their beautiful, it impractical, kimono in flow- ing silk, with its elaborate but tiresome "ob!", or mash.

But they are also attached to the new democracy, which has brought them emancipation

117)*

They have therefore turned to M. Chrißunta Dior who10 fitted bust-and-waist H-line is both mulled to their figures and can be adapted to use with the kimono.

vet

daring

claim to mancipation offered since

PARIS INFLUENCE

American and other designers

this

Leas lucky are those looking

for new styles.

The

who designers

have

heart

coming here to try to sell the taken Dior's new line to new I-line almost uniformly re-jere few and far between. How- carefully search turn with new ideas themselves ever. If you about shapes and fabrics, and it you will find a few here

Horrockses, for instance, is now quite freely predicted there.

H-line few new-style,

here that

the "new kimono"have a will have a substantial influence dresSLE on style in the West,

fashion

have ruppited the following single necklet of cultured descriptions to go with them: pearls," remarked a fashion potter's clay (coffee), dafty-export recently. down-dilly (yellow). (bluish

blueberry green), porcelain (off-

M. Christian Dior, one white), spring carrot (pink). France's leading blush

fashion do- again (rott blue pink) signers, inventor of the post-war and cock's comb (clear red). "New Look” and of this non- |son's H-thie, evidently thinks yo

too.

Another outfit by Horrockses,' this bigck and white two- piece consists of sheath dress in bisch poplin and bolted jacket in printed, cotton., st

1

BEAUTY COMES

OF AGE

Producer's remark that and A

in their collection. attractive

have

arc

and long

Thest wearable invasion smooth midrift and a waistline Callfornia-and it at mid-hip level which is likely to something of the

war, have already dispensed obviou.ly the main influence, with the constriction of the traditional "obl” or

The slinky, straight silhouette, sash, This oli is such an elaborate affair, with rounded shoulders and un-

waistline, with so many strings, bows and Atted stiffenings,

that with

11 the spicuous.

COTL-

is

Wointm who beautiful excites far

a

me

type of beauty, put in reflective mood

na to what makes a woman beautiful, Probably the answer lies in this direction the woman who is

which

་

of

When he presented his cur- rent fashion collection at Bien- heim Palace, the historie coun try home at Woodstock,

ncar Oxford, of the Dukes of Marl- borough, in aid of the British Red Cross Society, some of his mannequins were wearing

at

matrzy ma dozen striandis pearls in graded loops round their neck.

Daty as well as evening drones Irad accompanying jowollery comprising a striking necklacć, usually with matching earrings and often with matching bracelet: and clasp as well:

ANTIQUE FINISH

For M. Dior is great be- Dover in fewritery' especially good quality costume Jewellery which is usually just es effective arid certainly causes its weDLINES much less anxiety than the real thăng --- even if she could afford

buy the real thing nown- | daty's.

The start collection of cos tume jewellery, designed by Christian Dior ant made by Mitchel Macr Lid, features pieces for informal day wear als well de acts for evening wear.

Making use of the colours of precious tomes –Grothyet, am- ber, emerald, ruby, otcstern-he tako dettoutely hand-tinybod stones arki sets them in rhodium, git and diver giti with antique Lundsta

G14 febigo fi Auod in number

of interesting combinations with peagle, ead other stonos Ono necklace, worn by one of his marmequins et Blenheim with a brown, and got trocated cock- tail dress, is composed entirely of glit fringe set so closely to- gether as to form a solid-looking rounded scallop.

Other models included heart- shape pendants with matching brooch and earrings, featuring amber, blue of amethyst stones. Drop pearls hung like opaque tour-drops Inom a glittering emerald and crystal necklace, while the gift delphins which ****miudes up-the necklet, earrings, celeb and brooches of another up were studded with pearls and ruby beatis,

a intangible sordething almost projects itself as beauty.

more Shakespeare, who wrote much interest than the flawless about faces, philosophised that God has given us one face but another. we make

ourselves This becomes

true with more cach passing year.

Someone has

said that no women is less than beautiful makes the responsible for her face up to From then effort to develop all the facets the age of thirty. of her personality and thereby on we shape our faces with our

most dominant grows in fascination.

expression Interviews I have often Certainly aging of the features been struck by the fact that

expression. depends on facial some actresses who are barely our expression is the reflec-

Th

COLOUR COMBINATIONS

pretty Seema to appropriate tion of our inner emotional of earrings, rockets, bracelets

and

attitude

A set of 13 artichte consisting

brooches, Lostured four toward and

colour combinations for which M. Dior fo famous! wwwy/ Mediterranean sapphire; amethyst/Jonquil; Meditranenn

vital beauty. They take on an state, aura that quick one's sense of living.

a being alive.

60 remember well the remark the husband of

It is interesting to speculate famous actress made to her

to her as to the age at which a woman

n

were act in gtt.

Al

And as the influence of the kimono modifies M. Dlor's H- line, nod the kimono itself is Japan's influenced by Paris, discerning tacted from Fashion experts here

are in Hollywood

Shirt-mad predicting that M. Dior himself show, soon,

in Japan a result new Idea, may find

Otherwise, dresses are either which is worthy of the atten-

But 1/ Jopar influences crinoline-full, worn over several sheath-line and tion of France's haute couture.

California, Parts Influences petticouts, or

When it comes to Some of the more forward Japan. The Nippon Designers akt-tight.

pano among Japanese women, hardly Club, one of the more important prints, lock out for rambling

patterns, window a rose recently held the groups, here,

smudge designa and the show In which M. Dior

was chocks

Jagged stripes.

Kono Most

designers, have shirt-mad. There are almost as

of beautiful,

on leaving. He said, "Good-bye is most beautiful. But it is a pure and diamante.

T1 many varieties of shirts as there are of that famous brand

you at four mistake to single out any one tlaned

food. They come

stili enother set of earrinags, diccks, In stripes and in flower-She smiled, lovingly at him age. Glorious youth is the most

and turned 10 greet me, It physically perfect. But 35 19 mecklet and brooch was in bid cotton. There Japanese beauty can do little but Madame Hara, who studied splashed

flashed through my mind that more fascinating age. And to gold, with unusual gry Unted display her only remaining, un- dressmaking in Paris, for eight florid beach shirts worn Ameri she wasn't really beautiful... day one aces sereno women of stones In

the jeans or

am Elizabetifan · de- but after I had been with her 60 and mom who are truly grs . years before World War 11, said can-style outside that the availability of Japanese (shorts, and candy-striped styles for Ave minutes, she appeared lovely

looking.

The advantage of theag arts is rhinestone but- derived jazzed-up with

*** completely so!

Every Evey ago has its own that each article can be pur many of therm silke,

beauty.

women should chased separately Bermuda shorts from century-old weavers with tons,

sed the set Knee-length their ancient patterns and trad!-

To drop down from the stars know this in their hearts for it thus made up gradualty, ave bowed themselves out this Now,

birthdayitis. who

Since its introduction hore in advantage accept tions were great

anto ordinary mortals....often the can barish without waiting for year emancipation have turned the for Japanese designers,

woman who is usually attrac car of age is definitely aging Britain In the early summer, encore. They came in a year ago

tive will be one who started With a mature attitude toward this Dior-designed obi into a more loosely tied sash

CODÍAMTO At

show here, us the latest in beachwear,, but which still retains the glamour

Tofty models looked out with the least promising age a woman stays younger, Jewellery is becoming incress- of brocade but defines the waist foreigners

raw material, so to speak. In But it is the wonder of love by Ingty popular both with cou- applauded over

ordinary

stead of resenting nature's un- which she grows more beaull- turiers in Londone and in cities us accurately, ar as vaguely, as with unprecedented enthusiasm stunted in them and

a black coat ensemble made of folk shled clear.

in far apart as Singapore and Warm weather wear for town fair akimping, she accepted the ful the famous Oshima silk, with

Three challenge and developed that

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PEARLS A REMEDY

perta arriving here to attempt

to break Into the difficult Japan's ilking for Paris

Japanese markol.

emerges in her preference for

Pastels and the fathy. colours, ap-

In unreasonable wenther, the basic colours, Japanese wearer of the kimono brighter usually adorns herself with an parently favoured in the United "haori", or over-jacket. In the States, are out of favour here. knee Tokyo appreciates the Parl-

past, this has been a

Household Hints:

they're

simone's preference for black, grey and rod

New to Japan this winter will be fur trimming, and reversible coats are anticipated.

Patterns, høre are

generally Tower) nrid

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