1955-04-30 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1955.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

This long-sleeved sweater forms a useful part of Gre¢l'1⁄2 outat. It goes with the skiri pictured here as well as her

The

basic dress.

Traveller's Choice

By DOROTHY BARKLEY

London, be warm or cool, dressed up or

This is the first of a series of five articles on how white-collar girls in different lands budget on £12 for a smart outfit. An article on the wardrobe of an average Chinese working girl in Hongkong is included in the series published abroad.

Viennese Career Girls Are Smart In Many Ways

A

Vienna.

By L. P. DAVIS

USTRIA is considered one of the cheapest countries on the Continent. But if the cost of living is cheap, incomes are also low. An Austrian business girl earns, on the average, about $14 per month and she has to watch every penny if she does not want to find her- self in arrears with the rent or even starving.

THOUGHT, NOT MONEY

Rent and food are, of course, the two biggest items in her budget, but clothing runs them a close third. Viennese girls are famous for their smartness and have a reputation-to keep up. In Vienna a badly dressed girl is a rarity- and nobody likes to be con-' sidered a freak.

If the Vienna business girl has little

money

to

spend on her appearance, she certainly spends a lot of thought on it." Interchange- ability of clothing and aC- cessories is her watchword, and she will plan her pur- chases accordingly. She will also restrict her purchases to clothes that can be worn on various occasions and that will look equally well in an office or at a coffee- nouse visit,

MEDIOCRITY SPURNED

WHAT clothes do you down--and will still be useful full

Weed for a motoring when you return home-choose specialise in catering for her

tropical.

Gretl's all-purpose wood-and-cotton frock in dark grey with

a patent-leather belt accensing the waistline.

Among the many interesting | courses on their curriculum,

The Midinettes

Like Psychology Best

Montreal. WOMAN who began

A work in the garment

sees

industry at the age of 10 to it that today's midinettes have & better start in life" than she had.

Plump, energetic Yvette Charpentier has directed the education programme of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union here for the past five years. The union offers its 10,000 members a choice of 18 evering courses from September to May.

Eighty per cent, "of the union members are women, One of the courses they like best is the psychology course, where the professor helps straighten out prob- lems of romance or family life.

KNOWLEDGE OF PICASSO

The courses all have & practical aim: To give the girls wider horizons than those of the workshop. They can learn dramatics and public speaking, ball- room dancing and apprecia tion of ballet, leatherwork and pokerwork, embroidery, cooking, English and French.

A "Inbour-relations 'course, given by a lawyer, stresses that n-strike la not the only answer to a labour dispute, and that the employer may sometimes be right.

WHER was in the work- shops and the employer asked me to do something. I always doubted, always hated," Bass Charpentier said in an inter-

view.

Luckily for her, Vienna is

of small shop.

that

The bustling ILGWU educa- Hoa director sees to it that art sult in 盘

cannot cotton class of custom. She

and she The foundation 14 holiday in England's uncer- gaberdine or one of the new afford a dressmaker,

a one- pleted the dress part of the appreciation is included in the

class tain weather?

summer-weight wools. With a looks upon

the large

mass- plece wool-and-cotton trock in outfit. So for Gret had spent drawing and painting consumption stores with striped blouse or shirthe new

"so that when people talk about dis dark grey with a pleated skirt, £7 71, 8d.

feel sleeves and

This left her with 24 12s. 6d. Picasso, the girls don't That was the gestion that ones have contrasting white dain. She demands a touch of three-quarter

at topped individuality

reasonable smart little collar. came from a friend in New collars and cuffs and

A narrow for a hat, shoes, stockings and embarrassed."

Mise Vienna's shop- patent-leather belt emphasises a nylon handbag. Actually she

Charpentier's ambition and cold; prices, Zealand — and it is

a cardigan if it is one the suit will be equal to alkeepers have learnt to respect the waistline and gives the spent only £4 2s. 6d. on this is that her girls should be able that confronts many over- weathers. Gabetdine or a Arm her wishes,

its shape. Then comes so, in a fit of recklessness, she to pass muster anywhere.

polar-necked seas visitors at

a pleated

pull blew the remaining 10s. Od on this time wool, in

long kimono

a second patent leather belt to of year.

wear well and keep its shape a typical Viennese while-collar sleeves. It can either be worn go with the pullover and the

SAVE SPACE, EXPENSE

girl, on a shopping expedition. ever the freek or with a swond skirt. She had laboriously saved up wide skirt of patterned moiree.

"I'm going to the Cotswolds, taking in Stratford (so I'll need

with

skirt, will

Recently I accompanied Greil,

something for the theatre), then To go with the sult, and to the equivalent

up to the West coast of Set land and on 10 Edinburgh," she wrote. "I'll be living in a sun- case for a month, so I want

a

with Over

MODERN CINDERELLA

Her

Cinderella favourite of £ 12 and A brooch for the frocie and a LIKE A MILLION DOLLARS story is of a girl called Marelle who came looking for work, space the expense and packing wanted a new all-purpose cut- long thin necklace with a large ....................................................ICONEN.

'pendant for the pullover com-

chewing gum, and wearing blue. space of a topcoat, choose a fit.

This, at the end of the ex-jeans and too much make-up.. pedition, was her bill:

She

persuaded the girl to 2. s. d. roll for the charm and person-

short fingertip Jength jacket.

This year they are made in a

versatile wardrobe on a sinan sari brushed wool and dyed in scale and one that suits your hot house colours-add yellow, blue, geranium pink. climate. What do you suggest electric

Mostly they have rounded shoulders, bracelet-length sleeves, and hang straight, at

BE PREPARED

Now we know, as you know, the back so that they can be that our weather is not one of worn with a pencil skirt. cir tourist attractions. Our

travel posters' do not procial For an extra skirt to go with "Come sunny Britain," but this jacket, choose a suntay "Come to historie

pleated style, best for walking

Brita

the lend of castles, cathedrals and for combing in and out of

and historic homes

Shakespeare

Queen

⚫ night.

where

wrote 1 play Elizabeth stayed

cars, in one of the new synthetic or mixtures. In rylon and wool, the or terviene and worsted, they are hardwearing, and the creaŠKS drop out over-night, What is can be washed in more they your hotel room, hung up to dry,

the

Historic it may be, but weather still presents its prou

lems to visitors. How cold will it be

Will I need a topenat? the be ready to wear without

And so on...

your

ironing "next day.

You may swelter in

The best outfit for that sunny homespuns because you were day is a cotton dress with a told tweeds were just the thing couton cardigan to match or for Britain and arrive in a cover-up bolero. Cotton dres beatwave. On the other hand, have toning cardigans and are you may shiver in your cottons edged with the dress material. because you heard that a good. This year look out for shitt summer always followed, a bad dresses, cut on the lines of e winter-and it did not.

man's shirt and made in realis-

" tic shirting, and styles with

The trick is to be prepared aropped waistline.

for all kinds of weather we

once had snow in June — and FOR TOWN OR COUNTRY have enough clothes to be com-

fortable however hot or cold For a dress that will take you it may be

to theatres and not look out of

ELIMINATE

of the new

'One'

on

How do you do this and yet place in the country, you might pack them all into a small suit- 'choose one case that won't all more than styles. This is not so extrava its fair share of the luggage gant

as it may BLERS, boot?

designer has brought out slik dresses at a reasonable price. They have vertical tucking Careful planning is the only the bodice, bution-through way." Bring clothes that adapt fastening and three-quarter

town or country. "Make sleeves. every outfit do the work of two

Eliminate three,

"Finally, 8 mackintosh. You eliminate until only the essen may not need one--and I hope tials are left. If you And you you won't--but it is better to need something extra you can be prepared. Proofed shantung, always buy it en route. rubberised cotton, proofed tweed Make your an all-weather are the new materih's Styles wardrobe. Choose something vary from air tallared belted that will be comfortable : for coat to one with all the new motoring and sightseeing in all fashion, details, an

and

weathers, ......a, coton dress, for

everings.

days, something for If packing space is limited

course, a choose a plastic mae that folds

ntosh.

for

the

so small that it will it into en putât which can your handber

/ to a small piastic envelope-

Lovel

Dual-purpose Dress

Famous Paris conturier. Carven presents this dual-purpose Lion dress. A lovely wedding gown In baller also designed for cocktails after use, The well

Frock

Pullover Skirt

Patent leather belt

Brooch and bracelet Hot

Shoes

Gloves

Nylon Stockings

Nylon Handbag

Second patent-leather

belt

3 100 ality class, which under 148 previous directors had had the banglamorous name of "gymn

1 12 6

10 B

Class"

10 0

16 0

Presty

brunette Marielle went on to be chosen queen nt 195 The annual midineties ball, beld 90 on November 25, the feast of 7.8 St Catherine, patron saint of

0 B

1

10

midinettes. Each workshop nomirates

a candidate, and the winner, chosen by a panel of

212 0.0 Prominent women, is crowned

with

a huge thimble, Her When Grell had changed into sceptre is a needle,

Marielle,

married, her new outät she looked like

starred in a short National Film a. million dollars-all for

Board movie, just released with She is all set for the the title Pins and Needles."

no more clothes worries for hér until the autumn comes along,

La In April singing,

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Just "Spalat `on

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NEXT SATURDAY:

A Young French Girl's...,

£12 Outfit

Egyptian Influence On

Swimsuits

New York

HE two-piece bathing mit is back in sketchier form than Caring its earlier spell of pot larity M

Not But the nation's beaches will bloom out exclusively an İlkimia come simmer Bart the Spend to the bared máódit is here. One mit already showing:

resorts is the afro-place zarong

byle decked by M Anderson

Catalina

by the

This

was described, by one

es the closest thing yet to

Egyptian works

Fourth Dynasty

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This buttoned cape embodies the true meaning of elegance. Note softly rolled stand-away collar.

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