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"THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1955.

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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Unique Bolero To Accompany New Spring Bonnets Have

Organdy Dinner Gown

This bell-shaped dinner gown in white organdy is by Hubert de Givenchy. It is worn with a unique topless bolero of the same material. The skirt has embroidered pink roses and green leaves-Agence France-Presse.

Trimmings

By Dorothy Barkley

London.

is

from a long, cold and miserable winter and put ting on her Sunday best for Spring. Window boxes everywhere going gay, daf- rodils, and tulips out in the parks. Shops look livelier, with "buy-something-new for-Spring" displays.

This is not entirely, for out own benent, of course. For this is the time of year when our overseas visitors -you recognise them by the cameras slung over their shoulders and by the sun tan begin to arrive in town. They see the sights, shop for souvenirs, look up old friends. But there's always something new to look for, too.

Fancy

Left: A black straw boater trimmed with roses and fine black veiling. Right: A white straw "saucer" hat trimmed with tropical fruit,

year there's a craze for home- pale coloured, with beige and skirts with round necks, un- made hats, and with the small pink topping, the list.

belted waiste but darted to fit half-hats of current fashion this They come in a variety of like a second skin; with bertha is easier than it sounds. Most styles, with wide scooped neck collars, cap sleeves and buttons of them follow the same basic lines, short sleeves and straight to below the waist, in principle, and consist of a small triangular shaped crown, held place by wired car pieces.

New restaurants, for instance. So many have sprung up skacy the end of food-rationing that there's something to suit every one-in decor, as well as diet. You can have a French Ash soup served in colourful surroundings of tangerine walls and Edwardian posters; a pineapple drink in Cuban atmosphere (with toucas caged in the background); or a continental pastry in an Italian Jewelled brooches, fruit or bar complete with creeping flowers make the trimmings, and plants, hanging ivy, venetian are held in place by a few blinds, bamboo

stand, stitches. They are easily primitive"pottery sculpture, and changed to go with different sunny Italian scenes painted on ourits. the walls,

coat

Perhaps a more rsubtle symbol of Spring is seen in fashion. First comes the bonnet.

This

THE SHAPE OF WOMEN

HAS CHANGED

By Anne Edwards and Drusilla Beyfus

7HAT went on

London: in

Our

Wworld during the Big

Silence? Plenty.

In a mil

lion ways the London scene

moved on...

First, the shape of women changed. For the A-line girl caught on, and the Girl With a Waist began to fade from the picture.

Everywhere you heard women talking about the A-line, "Imagine me in the A-lice," they said, But the shops we canvassed reported: "They ask for it. They try it. And they buy It,"

This is the fastest-ever fashion to catch on, Already the chain stare level of business is on to it, and these are the customers who are usually slowest on the uptake of a new fashion,

merchandise

on," now

SPLASHI! goes

the

on that pearly little hat

pearly--the sort of thing English. women should wear instead of the usual felt hat with a wing on it,

Along Piccadilly we

saw it.

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in the mirror.

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For those who don't claim to be a second Aage Thaarup, there are plenty of hats of the ready-made variety. To show.

SLOW that there is something extra special about a

a Spring bonnet,

To

Balance Patterns And Solids When Choosing Fabrics

New York. pattern? Lange in scale ora To be expert at choosing small provinciel print? This will

fabrics

depend on the size of the room. this spring, and the other prints necided for 8 the room. Here, too, a guziche, is

we have picked the two start by becoming illustrated here. They are stranger. in your own available in any well-decorated saucer shaped, sit straight on home

room, this good, safe percentage top of the head. Trimmings

People often ask me where to clashing patterns which may be quite unusual, arestart in re-decorating a room

will give restfulness without entirely optional, depending on

Newly arrived in London knowledge to work.” and just the thing for visitors from hot countries—is the tweed street dress-and by that I don't

Colour Main Guide

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One patterned fabric should be

amount of the fabric used. One

how far you are prepared to which has grown all too familiar. enter into the Spring atmo in its curent dress, I always tell about 30 per cent of the total

them: sphere.

"Walk into the room as though more plain fabrics, 55 per By way

of trimming, the you had never seen it before. Cent. One striped fabric, 10 per dabbed here and there small black straw We

boater has Try to see it from a completely or a small print co-ordinated cent. One tone-on-tomo fabric and -waited. Would

two roses mounted on a long detached point of view, as seconds ever end? We peered stem, a narrow white ribbon and dramatic critic looks at & new with the large floral, 5 per cent,

We looked just fancy veiling. The white straw play. After

Science Comes To Aid 311, you are year hat,

with rolled edges, has different woman. from the, one And now for the textures. green clasps to secure it to your who picked those fabrics the Here is where you choose fabrics and is decorated with last time You're wiser. You've for sheer curtains, for slipcovers bunches of tropical fruit,

seer. intre, Put this acquired and upholstery, and

for the brilliant flashes of accent colour that are the room's crowning glory. Here, the beautiful and o help relect new fabrics, the practical fabrics go hand-in mean the thick Harris tweed there

guideposts hand. Science has been good in variety. The new tweeds, all colour, pattern, texture, in that providing beauty that washes, durable,, and Eritish, are lightweight and su order. And the one that will do charm that is fine that they give warmth most for the room is colour. fragile appearance with an iron without overheating. They are

The size of the room, and the

constitution.

It's the modern miracle of amount of sunlight, help to this particular springtime that a determine a change. Every room, homemaker can choose test should have a sense of spacious tube artistry in fabrics of ress, one way to achieve it stamina, even to the glitter of Household Hints the room is small, is to keep their

draperies and walls the rame newest of today's fish is sili

metallic threads The solid colottr.

cope that Helps make your fabric If a room is flooded with sun water-repellent, mildewproof and light all day, select from the cool sun-resistant; and its that

Cutting through into Bondhead Street we came upon the rret- tlest little saucepan. we bad seen. It is a white fire proot porcelain, hand-painted with a trail of green ivy leaves, with a lid to match. Perfect for serving straight from the oven Further along the street and much dower down in the price scale is another new idea for the kitchen an imitation Jemon Alled with real lemon juice.

FLASH !

are certain

Around the news-

FLASH: The Queen had a

Vegetable shortening mixed present most housewives would

home-rendered lard will welcome year's supply-32. with The latest cane chair for loggia of detergent to use in a new help keep the lard fresh. It range of colour the blues, greent, mailates it against heat and cold. i lounging: a symbol of what the washing machine that Prince takes two pounds of shortening reys. said English

to each 50 pounds of lard, middle-class woman Philip bought here. longs to retire to--a house in FLASH: A little French of a chain of shops selling the country and herself lying restaurant in. Chelsea had dresses "in £2 to £S range. indolently on oce of those idea we would like to spread

not putting any more of lounging chairs which swing They invited, all their old cus

"All our A-line from

Mr J. Wallis, managing director

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If it is dark, then go to the Look of the new Shroglas, forti

san, orlon, dacron and nylon, bright end of the colour scale each contributing its own special the yellows, reds, cranges...and advantages to the long the of today's special darling, pink.

easy handling and the beauty of Your key colour will be your windows, for in general, Press.

Dew

drapery fabric for the first to be

When refinishing a piece furniture with carved wood- work, try this. Use steel wool the old bread-and-butter nuum- genlly under the apple tree. tomers to a pink. champagne in taking the finish off

In one side there is a sipt for and caviar party, to celebrate attach a length of the wool to chosen. Will it be a Bowery

the opening of a new the latest magazines and over room. her head a canopy for when

bers into my shops."

that

SPLASH!

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diping the

the sun gets really hat. And, of FLASH: A:Woman in New course, by her side a little table York will never forget the day that she shook hands with the for her China tea.

gun.my side of wide ad- hesive tape, then pull the wool back and forth across the curved

surfaces,

Around the shops AFTER a safari round the

No that she often achieves wife of the President. "I was Nail polish remover will take London shops we can report.

such

or could afford so embarrassed I could die," care of the gummy longing,

substance they have

never been the lounge chair if she didit said Mrs Duries Crane, För left on skin by adhesive tapė. more bursting with good things is £47.

she was wearing a green faffeta to buy.

Within a step or two, though, dress that was a replica of Mrs

Olly 'raga and those used in was an idea more within c Eisenhower's. grasp a bottle white leed

FLASH: A scene that sums painting are Are hazards when port--to serve as cocktail

uncovered piles. style.. success-American up The new favourite material before dinner.

Delicious (we tried it).

Eddie Fisher, America's No. 1 Spontaneous ignition can result, -gloves for summer in 1QwIL

white port is boy crooner, lolling back in a For safety, place such rogs In a

galvanised steel pail shantung in clear pinks, blues and

silk dressing gown cheaper

a good zberry, and yellows.

One shop in

Piccadilly in performance, with a retinue of

other guys waiting for his com And new, white gloves which vited all its customers for the hands.

me

a. Coke.

Along Oxford Street spotted all these:---

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thrown into

For a taste treat, try braised mushrooms. Slice

pound mushrooms, add two tablespoods. boiling water, 1 tablespoons

iriswer the problem of white week to come and taste its new Jake," "Open the window, Bill" gloves for summer in town cheeses a dozen of each, Could "Close the door" : Al, #.. They are cool and cotton and there be a better way to softes FLASH: Li Palmer Showej butter or other table fat, and

cheap:

up a customer?

Young

people," said As every, white-cotton-glove- wine and cheese man,

tasted good cheese wearer knows, two cheap pairs never in the hand are worth more than we're out to educate them." "one" "isper-pair waiting to be

.

cases

The charm!

the ing how a woman driver should salt and pepper to taste. Cover have look and seldom does. She sat and cook five minutes. Serve.

and swathed in pale fur at the wheel on toast with lemon,

of a big black sporting Bentley

and zoomed past the sparkling lights to Plendily

FLASH

A good cleaner for washable walls and painted woodwork is

A paper plate in the bottom washed,

Gerald Legge of the kitchen garbage Jail will Striped skirts, blue striped on and here is something new splendid advertisement for cut-

Off along to Piccadilly Circus at a cocktail party looking help keep it dry and clean. white; perfect for wearing around the house with a cotton in luggage Inexpensive sult- ting off all those little grape which are durable end ours. Like Princes Margaret, sweat shirt--and much better smart, wila father handles and she had dispensed with them made by adding one cup of am keep-your-husband stuff, in our leather commers, in three sizes. Mrs. Legge had brushed

hers out view, than those Faisley print Round in Regent Street we into a long soft bob and the mould cup vinegar and overalls that cost around the stumbled on magic.

Princess has cut her off cup baking soda toque gallon seconds you will be PLASH We liked the story more beautiful, ?

the lof the dance at whichs pre said

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