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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1955.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

“FEATHERED” STRAW HAT

A large straw hat covered with yellow paper plumes, strapped together with Jersey

ribbons.Agence France-Presse,

New York Designers Decree

The "Soft On Top" Look

For This Year

New York. This year it's

VERY time designers top."

Εν

Frilly

"soft on above the waist.

white collars give the soft

unlock the doorH (11 The skirts may be look to daytime wool next season's fashions one skin Light. OT puffed expression crops up repeat- out with petticoats edly to describe a favourite but the latest spring out new style.

it has a "soft on top" look

Robb hunts mink in Mayfair and finds

A Hundred Little Snobs Make Up A Coat...

London. X+

HOW many minka make a

Hoe in London? The

question has been bothering me since I came back from Monte Carlo-where 1 Was nearly stifled with mink.

Bu, curly one morning, I went off on the mink-rmind "in May-

fuir

Every member, known and

unknown, of the vast for Cumily was well reprevzited—but not a mink did I see. Not even on American one (and I locked in Grosvenor Square) I was too carly; miniks sleep late.

With

something different. ik couls getting as common

Sportswear

Is More

Feminine Than Ever

By DOROTHY BARKLEY

NE designer who can

practical and the fantastic at the same time with equal caso is Teddy Tinling

-the man who has made the sports girls interested fashion. Two weeks he showed his new sports- wear collection.

in

ago

He has brought the II-line to town for tennis clothes, and forecasts that this style will take the lead at Wimble.

don this year. His tennis dresses ure all one piece, with a fitted tunic-like top, mounted on to a miniature pleated skirt,

sandals and evening shoes. Another now leather was one he discovered on, a recent trip to the States. Thanks to a new tanning process, you can now havo ahoon in a leather which kooks like candy-striped cotton or checked gingham.

Third came the "springolator," the latest

Invention for making backless shoes

is an elastic gussct fitted to the instep of backless shoes so that tirey grip the foot. Mr Rayne makes li clear that this is here

> Comfortabic. This

to stay, and "more than on overnight sensation."

As if being the bend of a world-wide export business were "Charmaine", by Teddy

not enough, Edward Rayne is Tialing, is an H-line dress

also one of the world's leading with satin-piping.

bridge Both the

players. ifc mastered the ganna dreas and the flitte-boy cặp

when be was eight and at 21 was chosen as a mem- made of American

ber of the English Bridge Team.

Arc

orlanese,

UTID

Innovation

Women tennis players rarely choose shorts thew days, and the Tinling

First cime the new season's dresses are

more feminine

colours. Though black is still His approach to shoes-their than ever.

Many of them number favourite, blues colours, styles, matoriale is that have flured skirts worn ranging from lavender to bright they are "*." But he has over stiff petticoats lace blue and browns ranging from learned the 200 operations which

into trimmed, of course. But, to off-white to deep tun will also

making o shoe. He travels 50,000 miles a year on Being to our feet, keep

with the times, up

Second some are trimmed with materials. washable blue straw.

be

One way a new He believes he has an invo-

come two new business.

lustre celf, produced by rubbing tion in shoe construction, which For the professional tennis ther-of-pearl finish on to when perfected, will make it player who has several matches ordinary calf. "I don't think it "physically Impossible" for a day. Tinling has produced an is really as simple as that, but woman to walk badly or uncƏIN-

that's what my outfit entirely of Terylene;

tanner friends fortably. He does not consider tell me, he said.

revolutionary, "Call He makes this shirt, pleated skirt and frilled petticoat. All have this call in pastel pinks and development, the result of re-

tested for their washing blues und

it mainly for search," he says. qualitas. The shirt dries within

consists of

been

len minuten ut ordinary temperature, the pleated has been washed half

mes but never ironed still retains its picats.

JIKATI

skirt

a duzen and

socks

UNEX

Soviet prejudice against grooming and

good looks criticised by youth

it

Slinky Evening Gowns

Shoes

by

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Paquerette

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for Women Communists? Paramount Traders

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For Every Sport dresses, low-cut cocktall

Besides making tennis outsiks, dresses depend on fashion's

the Timling enterprise designe new raised bustline for the for practically every sport you "soft on top" look.

(might think of, and for quite a [gow you might not, including Designer Karen Stark of bowls and archery. The atten Harvey Berin has come tkm to detail its prodigal. There

Lace-topped tennis of are up with two extremes i

Nikolai Zavyalov, from that will not wrinkle undertool;OVIET Russia's this new feminine look.

women Kuybyshev is "Indignant that straight-fronted golf skirts that need no longer for girls

are sometimes criticiseri will dot A girl can choose either and distract you at the match's look smart; they can wear

for dressing martly.

"Do some comrades wish to the siren or the saintly look,

moment; and golfing slinky evening gowns

evening forbid girls to wear plenty of

fashionable frocks and

their gowns and try to look best; to forbid them to play the Tia: Taling enterprise also good Communists, too.

guitur, rouge their lips and makes sun clothes, not so much

manicure their nails? I know for Britain, as for outposta of

many very good, hard-working the Tiling empire Bike Call- and that means the Krem- women technicians, scientists, formla, where the sun is warm lin

- has accepted this new physicians who use enough to

clothes line. worth while.

Star of the show was a sun

arxi still wear the "soft on with

top" styles.

SIREN, SAINTLY

!

There's an "evangeline something collar" of tucked white linen

you areide on your new muzik,

inmatesided. So before sold in stud white cuffs on

room.

make such

altrow

The Communist press

Dr bo

TOLLFO.

I fun sure they have not become bad because of it,” he said.

V. Romanov News of this turn around.

criticised the: “well-established Soviet £5 just ask to see a Pink-Eyed Sap-a sleek grey wool dress for outiti called "In the Mink". A in the Communlet

fashion sumption that one should not like Blue. It's the head of the the saintlier side of gold striped rayon tunic, trim- family this season.

woman's personality. Then, med with mink, was worn over world came to light in the look for a pretty face in love average rich ellent buy for the siren side, Miss bloomers, also trimmad with columns of Komsomolskaya and marriage. Sometimes her moey's worth.

unet Kuchs ull out to KStark designed a navy blue mink. Officially described as a Pravda, the Youth Organisa. opposite is the case,

"piece of nonsense for sitting tion's newspaper. as shapeless as a tent and as cocktail dress with a low, around in," its destination is voluminous. She wants to know cuffed neckline that just California where, Mr Tinling how many skins it

his.

ing a

must be

sun clothes.

"discus- It was holding a

A COMPLAINT

the

One customer actually asked cups around the edge of the assured us, they love luxurioussion" on love, marriage and think that if a young man or i

shoulders and cuts straight across the front at a line low enough to cause comment.

for the heads, feet, and tails to take away as she had paid for Another had the hem with a yardstick, to

them.

μπανε What the hals were the rame distance from the ground.

Isn'! It too degrading that mink is cleaned exactly like line sawdust! Not, as one woman found out with bran. But then she mixed it with water and

smeared

Since i uldn't see a mink robbit?-with being worn, I decided to pee a mink inaking-up.

In through the crystal doors, mirrored stamcase of up the the haute couturier.

on like cold porridge. Not only the mlak lost a few hairs over that little effort

Tips From The Royal Shoemaker Girlish materials like Edward Rayne, shoemaker io dotted Swiss and white the three royal ladies-- the dimity have a surprisingly Queen, the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret-organised a grownup look when they're shoe show at his London factory turned into warm weather and gave us three pieces of cocktail dresses, Miss Stark news. used horizontal bands of dotted Swiss and lace for a dress with camisole top and heavy, lacy straps.

For several years differem

But buck to the mink-round,. designers have turned to

the

And there they were: thota Bands and thousands of pounds worth of sking-all of thơm females. Gentlemen furrters prefer them because they are smaller, Botver,

and silkler. They are only 12-14 inches I SAW one in Bond Street-Far East for fashion ideas. This long and it wakes about 100 of coming from her hairdresser. year, in spite of the preoccupe- them to make a cont.

How did I know? She was tion with the higher

bustiine Individually they are beastly carrying her hat. It couldn't and lower waistline, there Ittle onebs. To be somebody in have been

new copies of clothes worn En very good minis; the mink world you must be good minks don't bother much eastern countries. Wild Canadian, and the best abut their hair. Mamilles are from Esquimaux I SAW a second mink buy- Bay. A coat of EB. will cost a ing coviar at 210s, for 10025, it ? mere £7,000, and if we must the Plecadilly store where tho

a

"NEHRU COATS”

*To

sind

designed woar moming coats, Anthony Biotta stripod trousero, and walk on several tunic-longth_coats this side of the counter,

called them "Nubru Coats," One sleeveless white linen,

mention tax, that's included. assistants

A ranch mire (not that you're likely to be Interested) costs only £2,000 (tax buc.).

Mink farming is like orchid growing; a non-stop effort

10

I SAW another at the counter version of the long, allm coat which sells "Exotie Honeys."

and Then lunch in Park Lane-jacket worn over a navy where I SAW

white polka dot cction dress. 4 mink among the martinis, a mink with The coat is adapted from one mbesage: If you want to show, worn by Prime Minister Jawa your mink choose the bar.

harlal Nehru of India, She was ecuted on a high also cupied a Burmese robe for Blool. Her coat dropped straight a long, arrow doat of blue 40sce from her shoulders over the and made an Indian wari dinner stool to the floor; but it wasn't costume.

Pink-Eyed-not yet

Score

Four minds. Nothing Uko Monte:

Blotta

even

An

The Far Eastern look managed to get into one version of a short dienne dress with a camisole-cut line und overblouse with the long waist ed look. This, designed by Blotta, ia made, of white silk. The square neckline le encrust- od with a border of pink coral, wood paris and rhinestones.

On the typically-American alde are the shirt!” demises · fri everything from cotton to chiffon for

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SUNDAY EXPRESS

Baby Book

"I know many people who beauty. And it put the girl is good-looking, he, or she, stamp of approval on the is no good. But a girl I know

been complaining Here it is... the book that views of comrades who do has recently

to her friends. '1 have mar not believe that a girl ried an ugly follow. I thought gives complete Information only lovely

when she wearing overalls, driving tractor.

is

a

is he would be good and in on the care of the baby, and

telligent - and yesterday ho again spent the whole night drinkdug."

Young people from all parts of the Soviet Union had their

Bay.

Sophisticated Headpiece

small child from the prenatal

period through to the sixth said year

detailed advice

Other

correspondents many women attached too much

and

how they

importance to how they looked on Routines, Menus, Recipes,

dressed. But Training, First Aid these letters too, indicated that Complete Record Section from the Communist party has had Birth to the twelfth Year.

to accept (even if unwillingly)

the fact that Soviet women

want to look smart en llustrated by over 200 "how-to" photograplis, and drawings, some against the wishes of die-hard

Communist husbands.

The

PRITY press, however,

condemns loose living with the

for bitterest attack aro:

urtmout severity. Eingled

out

.

or

Young girls who marry

#accept presents" from rich old

men.

240 pages.

in two colours.

Packed in attractive gift bor.

$25.00

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Obtainable only at South China Morning Post

Rich old men who seek the Wyndham Street, Hong Kong & Salisbury Road, Kowloon

company of young giris.

-(London Express Service,)

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