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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1955.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

For Morning: A silk dress. with matching jacket, follow-

Ing the Material

BIK.

lang new

line.

scribble-prtated By John Cavanagh.

London's Top Twelve Designers Agree On

THE LONG, LEAN LOOK

By DOROTHY BARKLEY

London

JHATEVER the dress

is the same,

and falls in a straight line from top to toe. The jacket, cut on the lines of a man's Whether for morning, noon shirt, hangs straight and is

W the line

is

or night, it's the same long edged with braid. The look. That is

for one point material

both agreed by the top designers scribble-printed silk. when they released pictures For of their new models a fort. night ago.

Details to

notice in this

ine: a high, flat bust;

dress

afternoon: a in fine tweed, threaded with gold. Its simplicity is off- set with R shoulder-wiun white pique collar.

smooth-fitting midriff & For evening: a two-toned

She Wears beltless waist; and a reed hail dress which

Gloves With

Bathing Suits

RETTY,

PRETTY

New York.

dark eyed

she wears gloves more often

than any other WOW

i11

the world. They're to pre-

teet her $50,000 hands.

The Paris-born Yvonne even wears gloves with bathing suit.

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"Most people think Umi crazy when they see me on the bench," she said.

can't

Actually, Yvonne afford to let her hands sun- burned. Pretty enough to have made her face her for- tune, Miss Sergent is # hund nodel, and gloves are a vital part of her ward-

rube.

for

In Museum

You've Heen her hands which she has insured $50,000 in magazine illus trations and ads. A prize- winning photograph of them hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Recently a group of fellow models voted her "the girl with the most beauti- ful hands in the world."

"Without gloves," she said. "I'd be helpless. wouldn't be able to do uny housework, or have any fun."

Broken

are

nails, scratches, Misters or chap which unsightly and unpleasant to most women are real disasters to Mias Sergent. The slightest imperfection in the fine white skin or the long, well-kept nuils| means jobs lost.

Housework

She wears

white cotton

slim skirt. Now for individual dressen:

features the the long line to just below the waist. Wistarin blue silk maken the drapel bodice and bow, and white organza, sprigged with blac mimosa the hugo skirt.

For morning: a slim belt- less dress matched with a hip-length jacket. The dress hey A new wide shoulder line, is edged with braid,

For Afternoon: The Ior Jean look on a cold-threaded tweed dress. It has a shoulder- wide while pique collar and is by John Cavanartı.

to

Hats for the long look go extremes. They are either very large or very small. If large, they have wide stiff brims mountert on a small crown; if small, they are topknot hats con- sisting of a mass of small flowers perching on the too of the head.

As it stands here, you see look at its the long, lean leanest. But by the time it reaches you, it may been modified.

have

сап

For Evening: The long torso line on a ball drem. Close-filting bodies in wistarla blue slik

contrasts with the bouffant skirt in white organza.

By Victor Silebel

ilne is just now,

Honore" He puls colour into costume fall. "Faubourg St

"The fashion

pure If you

want something Jewellery, and chooses pastel was a bib necklace in a lattice- and simple

so the tones of pink and blue for his work

10 design punctuated with jewellery

with it is new in fashion, you

beads.

multi-coloured drops.

elaborate." she explained. generally rely on M. Dior

He favours big, bold pieces, "When the line is elaborate, to provide it. Even in cos-

on a lavish, luxurious scale. No then we have simple jewellery.

"The

the stinting for M. Dior.

Jewellery reflects tume jewellery.

colours of the clothes it is de- signed to complement. Pinks and blues, tones of chestnut and sunshine yellows are the colours' Just now."

Не likes Variety **Moni- martre was a draped bib neck- lace with plak beads strung on Anc gold chain. "Mont- In his recent jewellery *

parnasse", looking like some- collection designed in thing out of a Mabarajah's to "Interpret his ideas to the Paris, but made and sold jewel box, was in fine gilt in Britain-he presented illigree cascading like a water- novel styles.

His idea is that fashion should influence costume Jewellery as much as any thing else. So he brings in "bib" necklaces, made up

of a dozen strands of beads,' festooned and draped to form 接 bib. These are wear with evening dresses or high necked sweater, suggests M. Dior.

for

His personal assistant, Mme. Marguerite Carre her Job is

werkroom" - represented him nt the London showing.

From Head To

Toe

There's

Always Something New

Spring

From BETTY WILSON

Paris, and mouth outlined with collections dark pink (it's

He takes coloured beads, gilt are over and now comes Oriental Rose) and filled in the side, although heels

filigree, rhinestones, manufac tured pearls anything but real jewels -- and gives them the styling and setting usually reserved for precious stones.

He groupe the jewellery into what are called "suites" so that women can buy earrings, neek- in and bracelet lace, brooch matching style and setting.

PRINCE PHILIP

CHECKS UP

By ANNE COUPAR

are

Blocs because they A Dlor called "lady-Uke,"

These shoes are cut away at and tove are all covered up and On the hat front, Marie- they are finished with a strap

runs over the instep- down to the feet. There is Christiane, the young Paris which

thing we haven't seen for some in modiste who thought

time now.

the fashion news which with a paler pink. starts at the head and goes

news hats

shoes.

here in hair

in colours

up

in the idea of using mink tails to imitate the horse-tail hairdo, is now making little

CORSELETTE-SANDALS

ONDSTAVN

Beginning at the top *** hata set round with softly At Chez Fath, on the other some of these now Spring waved feathers that follow hats try to look like hair, the hair-line.

And some of the new Spring hairdos like the hair- stylo that Princess garet wore at the Trinidad State banquet

www are

ing a hat on them.

are

grand-manner

Mar-

80

for grand-occasion dresses.

MINK COLOUR

hand, the mannequins wear sandals which are held on only pressure byterally faint

over the indiep Perugia de Mudame Fath in line with

these especially

signed

which puts the colour, collection

emphasis on femininity,

women

At the party which

a

for the

蟋

As for colourw Madame, is mink.

Beneath the "drinking- elaborate that no one could

straw" A-line, you'll find that Perugia gave to launch a new possibly think of perch- the best-dressed

alliance with 1. Miller, of Now York.

modcis 'word theac These Parls are wearing, mink-colour-

which ed lingerie,

deeperis "corselette" sandals as well as styles.

from that pale rosy-brown we pumps propped up on four-inch used to enll bois-de-rope to the heels made of an are of steel.

Theso

designed were

to real runda-bred colour,

Lashion's now One example is having

match up with Getting down to feat. kfchon un ideal as possible, All the hair dressed into a Christian Dior's models are "tall look." her swim suits. She wears washing up, Prince Philip the essential equipment is mesh gloves for driving in knows the snags encounter arranged that food and utensils turban-like twist topped by wearing very elegant

a couple of loose half. patent leather shoes which M. the hottest days of sum-ed when you use mechanical are found where they are re-

quired for use. Shelves and cup curls. boards arc so placed

gloves for occasional dust-

ing and ironing and coloured

cotton gloves to go with

JUS

UST like any husband

with who helps

Eight hundred the swered questions to make

women

On-

this

mer, and

plastic gloves aids for household chores.

for washing dishes

or

laundry.

About the only Limo

that

A few days ago, he went with articles are easily within arm's the Queen on a private inspec- reach.

Roger Flor, the young Frenchman with Elizabeth

tion of the Daily Mail · Ideal A section of, the exhibition is Arden in Paris, who went she Home Exhibition at Olymple, given over to private enterprise to London at Coronation doesn't wear gloves is when her which opened to the public on builders, who have put up bun-time to coff heads for hands are front of a camera the first of this month.

galows and houses priced at from crowns and coronets, dream- ...and when she works in a

£1,000 to nearted up this new hairdo to £5,000,

complement the make-up HOME FOR ONE which all the mannequins at five of the biggest dress bouses in Paris. are wearing.

hospital., Sho nights n

ntirse.

week

works

60

Pausing beside a £07 electrio just over theco dish-washing machine, he asked:

a volunteer Does it really get the egg and grease off plates?" and "Does It' Yvonne said soap, water and wash glasses without breaking

cream are her only beauty aids. Bho washes her hands at least

25 times a day, and manages

cream into them each time. Sho

always carries a little jar of

them?"

NEVER-NEVER?

Then he wanted to see how

A "Arst floor flat has been furnished by the Council of In- dustrial Design, and the YWCA a showing a prototype fatle! for the career, girl these dat lets are to be built in Ebury

SCHEHERAZADE. STYLE

cream with her. She never long it took to rinse the dishes, Street Westtower. They will The now-⠀ make-up cute the cuticles me uses cuticle Finally, after saying: We'll hava large lounge with divan although it is Eastern and remover. She mid the massaging have one of those he querit bad, well-equipped kitchen and certainly exotic gets right and cream keep cuticle flat and "How much on; hire purchase?"

bathrooms-S

wy away with the Chinese flodble. She manicures her own The Queen joined in the

mile which she wears about laughter when the salesman More pairs of nylon stockings slant, which is old style one inch long-coured from replied: "Birthanks to Mir than may exhibition vsattor ham here. the cuticle,

Butky s going to cost a litlio, dews before, sew chapleynd in the

These girls, are Nylon Tair, and a corner zia! Those long nails do create a bit more for the deposit now.

Frince Fillip looked for will attract this your's Eastoy up the dow problema je

brides not only shows wedding

miswary, all the into cle

dunks

"I have to buy hardbami, thai tion

ba, careful with jawakd

I can't damage, the

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