1955-02-12 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1955.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

ANNE SCOTT-JAMES, at Italy's dress shows, finds sparkle-and some frights

Yes, I'm PUNCH DRUNK!

after seeing what these

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Many of the high fashion collections seem designed for the debutanto. Typical is Antoncill's taffeta dream with full skirt worn over petticoats.

Florence.

THE Halians have shown their collec-

THE

tion to the world. The wires bazZ with stories (buring to me) of fashion battles betwem Roine am! Florence, or italy and France.

What's it all about?

Does Halian fashion matler a pin to you and me?

If you care at all about fashion, I think Italy matters enormously. Though I have seen seme frightful clothes- most of the Italian haute couture can only be described as French Provincial I have also picked up an armful of wonderful ideas. There's inspiration and bril liance at the shows, in the shups, in the streets.

New Collections Presented By Top Twelve London Designers

The Goblet-And The Slink Line

By DOROTHY BARKLEY

TAKE

goblet.

plain and

London, sulis art man-tailored. They are have narrow. glass double-breastesi,

and hacking square shoulders there it at the track. the have

tline

For a softening effect, though, presented by designer he drapes the collars and des Ronak Paterson when the them in a bow at the front, and

teams the jacket with

you

a very

Top Twelve of Lonion feminine camisole dress, Fils fashion showed their enflections.

In terms of fashion, this means a wide, open neckline. an easy fitted bodice sloping intea neat waist, and a lim shirt. He called it "atem" slim).

materials aro

butcher hopsack und striped suitino.

From the hotchpotch that I have seen have tried to

Hii itket that we could, should and must use at home.

LET'S USE THE ITALIAN COLOURS. I find colour the best single thing about Italian fashion-some of the designers here have the best colour senise ir: the business, and I'm not gering Dor. Most of thr colour combinations would took as beautiful in England as they <io In the strong pure light.

Don't hate me lo much,

bu the sun is blazing on the archeti city

the Jugged Tuscan

and

hills.)

blue men'a

Rott climate scapegout for

We make our

the the raud and muddle of our colour scheine.

B1

ta sub-

His hate include a red-and- white stripedi cotton pillbox fished with a Hiawatha quilt.

CANDY COLOURS

Al Michael Sherard's, colours Surprises from the Pater. come out of the chocolate shop.

son collection:

junk

The mixture Langerine. This was seen besi

hal na shovel-brimmed

رون

runmed will small pik though feathers

effect, The startling. WIIH murz pleasmt

imagine than you might

FOR THE SLIM

well to

Sugur almond pink, violet cream and fudge are the fore.

really. we just too lazy study The jocl. A

French urtist once us- ine, after sured shopping in Lon- don, that the Eng- lish n:0 colour blind.

LET'S USE tiko

Such pale colours look their and beet on evening clothes, tangerine colour: feathers, Sherard has found appropriately IDEAB

materials. The Simonetta's coffee- gossamer-like

coloured evening most effective was layer upon

with long layer of fine nylon gauze, look-dress

A gloves of hyacinth ing like

out something

of

blue... Midsummer Night's Dream,

Most of the evening dresses have detachable fichus bulton-

bodice, It log onto the

bouffant

Blonde eggshell-off-white to

COLIT a fashion you-as was used for a Tent coal comici cuffed in white knitted wool.

Luxury clothes, He made a

plnk woo! Loose-lung

in skirts and hemlines which are ituen. collare and ankle-high in front and dipped

into a train at the back.

coat.

lined it with white and teamed

R

Ing

NEW HATS

WHAT

ITALY

DOES

WELL

The holiday clothica have uniqa o

vitality. This beach wrap und hood in striped wool

La by Emillo Pucci

Straw makes the_smart_accessories

Straw makes the newest looking beach bag in Italy (left), In the chape of a parrot. (By Emilio Pucci) The straw beach hat with an open crown is decorated with jewels. Luciana's jewellery is beautiful, always big and impressive. The gilt mesh bracelet, four inches deep, haa turquoise drops. It's straw again for the waistcoat (right)—but straw so smooth and fine that it looks like scariot silk. (By Paoli of Florence.)

Or Emilio Puo- ci'n under-water colours, which ripple like the set in skirts band in violet, sapphire, turquoise and aqua- marine...

Or Capucci's ice-cream pink

dress with

What makes a new hat this chiffon evening

fo

A

Nobody in Italy thinks that related colours clash.

it with

a white chiffon dress, your” Anything at all, accord-Fichu of shocking pink. . .]. Intricately tucked and plated.

London's younges! Ordinary dieting will get you mliner, Edward Harvane, who nowhere if you are interested decorated his showroom with in John Cavanagh's "slink line".

Where an English designer 11.

white" puta "a touch of It is so narrow and close-fitting Paper primroses and put on a that you will probably have to there to prove

collection featured hats supphire blue, an Italian starve yourself,

Described as a long, lean line of pink goose feathers, of black another blus-turquoise. from shoulder to hem, it means velves sewn with pearl buttons put pink anginst scarlet,

just

have

His

and pink felt with embroidered flowers.

fat

on

puls

red

on you.

top

And the cotton shirts (with The more you eat Italian food properly stiffened collars) the better you like it. It in'! printed in big trubbles in many undeniably brilliant, like colours....

French cooking, but it grows LET'S WEAR ITALIAN My favourite Florentine res- ACCESSORIES. This season tourant is Camillo's on the there are fresh ones, and of all left bank of the Arno, where those I have seen the accessories you can watch the cook beating are what I would have liked to steak buy for myself.

There's new costume jewel- lery, from long, clanking chain of necklaces to earrings made They

clusters of big rhinestones. There are simple côtion hats In such as plain bright colours, corul, lemon, raspberry, Much newer than a straw hat with summer dresses and coats-1.

wool-against orange--and how right

they are.

plumbling look. They are al- Fruit and flowers were his

moat akin tight, with

Dresses thai.

diaphragm and hips, belled waist.

share

tho

and

But has

Materials include Ume-green covered the wire with green helan for a summer cont, silk fabric and added sprigs of printed in stained glass window colours for a dress; and a new purple heather here and there, "woven ribbon" silk which has sufficient body to be

One-colour idea

have seen

ono

I saw a loather' shop window with everything black, and longed for new black band- bag. The punch of one colour impelled you to buy.

while you wait for your supper,

She said (two minutes later):

Do you mind if I go ana fetch my glasses? I'm quite blind without them, and everything's a blur.

and ladling out broth Household Hints Favourite recipe

ASKED Camillo's for the recipe of one of the dishes I

loed best:~~- PETIT DI POLLO ALLA CAMILLO

To keep the whites of ponched ga.fluffy instead of fat, add a tablespoon of vinegar to the water in which they are to be. cooked,

were a milliner, I'd make them (Chicken bresals a la Camiilo). Ithan those shelled, and unaltech

in thousands.

There are harlequin shoes, by Ferragamo, in suede of many colours--even the heels of beach shoes are different,

HG A

theme

One hat was composed

Unshelled nuts keep better entirely of clusters of grapes,

ET'S send our shop-window

those salted. They are not recommended Another of pink chrysanthemum

Flower petals or grapes La dressers on a trip from Milan.

Take some slices of the white keep better than for women whose waist and petals.

to Rome to study the colours.

meat of a chicken, cover them All nuts keep better at low hips take up more than a fair may not seem the obvious basis

for a hat, but the

effect was They would drop their bit-of-

in bread crumbs, and saute temperature, so it's a good idea of

FoT IoT a tapo, measure.

e surprisingly ch

chle. them, Cavanagh relents a little

everything windows, and beguile

them to a golden colour.. And to refrigerate them rather than have a mixture of as many of store them on a kitchen shelf. and offers coats

Everyone is probably familiar the Jackets and

eye with more one-colour which are long and loose, cut with flowers that hang in house

the wire baskets filled displinę. with

LETE ADMIRE THE WAY the following ingredients as you can lay your hands on (you can DESIGN

When baking Bah, FOR THE make your own, adaptations);~- on the lines of a sldrt, And

anybody

window THEY porches.

ham, tongue, gruyere moderate ovan and cook until skirts with flat box. pleats or fine accordian pleating,

hought of turning one into a dressed with nothing but cherry. YOUNG Though most of the raw

sweaters and town clothes I have seen left mo cheese, and truffes, all diced the flesh flakes easily with a hat? That is just what red blouses,

too self- very small

and mixed with fork. Avoid high heat or long FULL OF MYSTERY Harvane has done. He shaped scarves and I went mod for a cold-too elaborate,

conscious, too many petticoats, grated Parmesan cheese, Moisten cooking. his wire cages to At the head, cherry-red sweater.

too much detail--the debutantes' with gravy and butter. clothes here are delicious.

Cover the chicken slices with Let's dress our young girls in this mixture, and put in a hot

oven until they are browned. or organdio for white laco dances instead of crumpled net, just the siladi.

No potatoes with this dish, and make puff sleeves illegal. LET'S USE ITALIAN SPORTS IDEAS. The bouch

All have sparkle For morning: Head-hugging | holiday clothes here have over ayclamen, pale pink felt cloches, very plain with no

unique vitality. A holiday looks brim and no marked crown, like a wonderful time.

ITALIAN fashion" really adds' shantung over deep pink.,

-Let's import or copy the many up to a triumph of gaiety But did he have to uro quite and trimmed with anything that

There were takes your fancy dog collar, delectable sweaters, from husky

can't pee this so mary bows?

country bows here, there and every a patent leather belt or a suede hooded sweaters to "mermaid"

sweaters with #new, low, launching new line that will where, ranging from butterfly palch

serpentine nocicline. All

in alter the shape of women in bowe on jacket hems to big

petals swirling coloura that aren't just good, three continents. On the con

the formal clothes are. round the head and covering but marvellous

painfully Colours, are Michael is the mystery man most of the hair.

But the colours), of the Top Twelve and has a pink, gold or groen. habit of doing De Aifferently

things

For evening: The Geisha, giri

into

suit.

inilored

THREE STYLES

Hals split into three main

For evening, he mixes his styles: colour and puts mauve chiffon

floppy bows in the form of a chain in Confections of

bustle on alk' dresses.

Big bubbles

from the rest jest ba Ahad, with the bun on the hat AND the new

While others.-ahow a very, luriend of on the hood of o feminine version of the tailored, wirke, wanedown bun cirded li

with rounded" brouil Lwin comario and mounted", on

and skirts; they

Here is another recipe, from famous Inn in the mountains; DE: FLORENTINE FRIED A

· ARTICHOKES

Take a globe artichoke, and cut into slices Dip the slices first in beaten egg yolk then in flour and fry in boiling olive bil.

Flattered?

In baking yeast breads, let about 10 "rest" the dough minutes before moulding. Dough which has not briefly remilja în better shaped, rolls and loaves.

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