1955-05-28 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1955.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

BEACH DRESS IN GLAZED COTTON

"Solcares", a chic one-piece beach dress in light blue glazed

cotion. By Ledoux-Sports: — Agence France-Presse. »

OLD CONVENTIONS

TURNED UPSIDE-DOWN

For instance the flounces that

BEWARE OF FASHION'S

PITFALLS

By

DOROTHY BARKLEY

London,

THIS is a year for colour.

T

ful, eye-catching de-

remains to be seen, look is one that Carry whatever come from Paris,

but the long London will new styles

signs, particularly in acces- You have only to look round sories. Though this brings

the stores and dress houses to see that this line has been in-

greater variety to styles, troduced for every occasion; and it brings a big problem too, that it sells

For these startling designs everrous. They!

те

ut prices to suit pocket. Variations on It range from the rather severe appearance of choosing something coma day dress- with the buckled pletely unsuitable.

belt at mid hip level and

could tempt the unwary into are

J

So Elizabeth and I have stifly pleated skirt, to the soft Rowing lines of shantung of the picked out some

dress with its sash draped at striking new designs just mid hip level and gathered because they are striking

skir. to consider their danger points..

I

a

Take the new colton blazers, stylish, gay, but definitely hard to wear. They only look their best on the chic, and sophisti-

with Wear thein cated pencil skirt and avoid fussy trimmings, please. Elizabeth has sketched two of the new styles. One is in a white pique banded with saxe blue braid, the other is in blue and

white striped woven cotton..

¡

berets. Made pliable material

Take the new

in

3 soft

ly

As another variation on the 100g,

look, many designers show the long overblouse which often teamed with a matching skir to make a suit. The over- blouse may be in any material from cotton to wool, has round- ea shoulders, is Atted at the waistline and over the hips.

Frederick Starke, for -in- stance, shows an outfit and banana beige is the new colour

which consists of this filled overblouse with three-quarter sleeves and patch pocket on the hipline, teamed with a crisply the best-yet imitation of silk pleated skirt This is a CHY they can conveniently be time outät. Other houses have similar outâta for evening. One, for instance, shows an evening averblouse in black velvet mottled with moss

It green.

and

twisted to suit any shape of

face. The risk here is that the hairstyle will ruin the effect Avoid this by remembering the

its affect a casual air and many of them are made in pull-on styles to match the suit.

sit pic rule - choose your has scooped out neckline hairstyle first, your hat it buttons down the front to its second. Most people find that cuffed hem at mid hip level. these hats look best

with . Hats to go with these out- face-framing style which has sufficient curl to soften the lines of the hat, but not So much that it looks untidy. The forward tipping boater, in striped pique, goes best with a short neat hairstyle, or a sleek bun.

.

A group of striking new designs: white piqus blazer banded with saxe blue braid; tip-tilted boater in pink, and while pique: Soppy berret in spotted silk gathered onto a stif band: woven cotion blazer striped in navy and white.

NOW LADY MARYE IS A

PRIVATE

DETECTIVE

By EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE

London,

Then take the long look, au- other fashion which scemed difficult at first. Its moulded lincs, with its slim-fitting waist, demand well-proportioned figure. Only the trim-igured can wear it with any real sue cess, the short and plump should wisely leave it alone, Paris.

It was thought at first that HE old conventions that burgcon from the hips of A-line because of this it would have a

cousin of the Duke of West- done some high-powered jobs. Not appeal. ticking mattress -

dresses are now matched by the limited is newest table-cloths.

Manufacturers have decided minster - who in her time These are usually kept to cover mat- cut

"Lady Marye is ideal for ta At the table-top and

in has been waitress, actress, undercover work-keen mind, that sufficient people are

ted in it, and they pro tresses and that broderie edged round with

cook-general, petticoat verested in

and sharp eye, and pretty, But she anglaise should be used for face made of ribben-threaded mote it again in the styles they model,

flower-em are preparing now for sale in factory hand has a new can be inconspicuous when it is broderie anglaise,

So those who have hesitated to private detective, the shops in six months' time job. She has become 蟲

buy it still have time to catch

Her employer tells me: "She now producing the best grass in WENTY - FOUR-YEAR- is an excellent operative, a first- the West. TOLD Lady Mary Roas, class agent. She has been with Next month love married

THE

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petticoat flounces have been broidered muslin, printed cot turned upside down in Paris: sona er hail-spot musl hats are now made from Table napkins match-or they wicker bread-baskets; plates could be just big chiffon hand- kertheets, Le Printemps-the de- printed with spotted veil- partment store-is showing a ing; chiffon handkerchiefa stark iron and glass table brigh- suggested as table napkins. tenod

with

six big chitten Designer Pierre Balmain be squares coloured pink, yellow, black ga by using pastel flowered vialet eminence-purple, outboy brocade (the kind thrifty and emerald-green

French housewives buy to re- cover

their

BETTY WILSON

-London Express Service.

mattresses) for WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVE

light coats to slip over summer dance dresses; then used the"

same mattress-licking to cover walls of his new Paris apart. ment,

CRIBBING

Long Body

In the Jerry Lanvin bou. Line

Line For The

fique, mannequins

Wore con-

versation-piece chapeaux made incm ordinary wicker bread- baskets, No wonder designers specialising in china and table linen retaliated by cribbing the dress desginers' incas.

Junior Miss

London.

Tthe Children's "Wear

A wer lighted to find manufac- turers providing fashion styles for those forgotten years, the elevens to "four- teen..

Charmingly simple nylon organza pary dresses had the fashionable new long body lze and for day wear there were

becoming jersey tweeds, woven with angera, trimmed with knitted ribbing bands or wash- abla velvet.

Anothe unusual party dress,

in Swiss crystal organzai, was

for

woven with matching Cy- bookbery insets, light and pretty summer and washable. And-something really new in baby dresors.

coloured dresses

handwoven.

Wood,

brightly

Belginn with the

design bands of trimming woven right into the clath.

HOME DECORATOR

FOR the housewife who likes

and takes

to"tadie' a personal band in droorations I have discovered a really useful handbook. It as- sumes from the start that

you have entrusterm but not talent through paint- you and

renovating step by step.

instructive chapter on colour paychology. Red, for instance, is over-stimulating to ng blue is de- Strong pressing, vivid. orange is daz-

ing

There's an

ON HER HEAD a breading, and dark green is boring.

basket. A. twist of chiffon and ablack-spotted linen butterfly terait-inton hai with.... the

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necessary."

Lady Marye has one criticism Lady Marye is working for of her new job. "It is absolute- UP Whether or not Dior has a Britain's biggest private delec- ly maddening to have this awful definite new trend planted for tive agency. Its headquarters seal of secrecy on you," she said.

collection in August are in Soho,

his new

STYLE PLUS MATERIAL

INTEREST

This delightful beach sult in strawberry-pink poplin with a white scroll design is by Ledoux-Sports. The little upstand- ing collar adde så, original" touch. - Agence France-Presse.

the

in 1953, will move to the South of France for a month or so.

HONEYMOON OVER

And

LORD and Lady Brownlow, who were married in Las Vegas, Nevada, last December, are back in London. They spent most of their honeymoon named Great at picturesquely House at Roaring Waters, Lord Brownlow's estate in Jamaica, ON HER OWN

American-born Lady Brown- ADY. LA PAMELA MOUNT- low, who was formerly Lady

BATTEN, 25, who has al- Betty, took a trip to ways lived

onc of her chester recently. Her object: parents homes however

It is a tem to collect a painting

Balinese girl, porary-1s launching out on her portrait of own. She has just moved into painted by herself in 1933. a flat in Belgravia,

Lady Brownlow promised the canvas to the Painting for Plea- Lady Pamela is a quiet, shy sure Exhibition, which opened girl, but her friends hope the last week. change of address will mean she will be seen out more.

Man-

had the

Lady Brownlow picture sent to Manchester from The flat, however, was chosen Ireland. It wasn't collected by her parents, Earl and Coun- before because, she says:

tess Mountbatten. And living thought the exhibition didn't right next door is Lady Bra- open until June." bourne, Lady Pamela's elder

sister.

ALTERATION

I

TWINS

HEAR that Viscountess

Ednam' is expecting twins

THE 93-year-old Marquis of shortly, When they arrive, the Winchester, premier Mar- children will have famous twin" quis of England, has asked the great-uncles the Hon. Edward editor of a peerage reference and the Hon. George Ward, book to change the description brothers of, the Earl of Dudley, of his third wife's status.

Viscount Ednam's father,

The marchioness,

Before her marriage Lady an Indian, bas hitherto been described as Ednam was Miss Stella Cartano,. "Bapsy Pavry, daughter of the daughter of a former Argentine The Most Rev. Khurshedji Pavry, Ambassador in London. High Priest of the Parsees in Edname have an eight-year-old India,"

sun, William.

The marquis now says bis father-in-law.. war merely priest of a fire temple," and re- that reference quests

books should be amended,

IN THE GARDEN

£80,000 CARPET MILLIONAIRESS Bärbara Hutton has sent a carpet worth £80,000 to Versailles Palace. The carpet, once own- ed by Marie Antoinette is shown, at the Palace at an exhibition of

I HAVE news of Lady Oran nearly 1,000 Antoinette trea

more and Browne, who, as sures, gathered from all parts of Bally Gray, was one of Britain's the world. The exhibition com- most lovely young film and memorates the 200th anniver➡ stage notremes. She is living sary of her birth. quietly at Castle MacGarrett, her husband's sent in County

Names of those who have Mayo. Her main interest at the clude Prince Michael of Greece, sent their treasures they in-

moment is gardening.

The gardens of the castle are open to the public. Larly Oran more and Browne love potter ing" around" in them. Her latest venture in horticulture is growing cacti from seeda. may soil the eurilus ones." She told me.

Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, and the Duchess of Sutherland- appear in a 300-page catalogue, But Miss Hutton's name is not among them.

She says there has been too much talk about her wealth ---- and this- has caused her much unhappiness.

Lopa Oranmore and Browne Queen Elizabeth has sent reputes to be one of the best Marie Antoinette clock from shols in Ireland spends much Buckingham Palace. It plays 1f his time in the gardens too 60 tunes. And the Earl of but farming is his main interest. Harewood has lent a Sevreg Many acres of his land which procelain tem service. were rusky and waterlogged are

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