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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1955:

Men! How Do You Like Your New Silhouette?

By Dorothy

P

Barkley

London.

ARIS may be the ac- knowledged leader of styles for women's fashion, but in men's de- signs Landon has an undis- puted lead. The sartorial silhouette may not seem to alter very much from year lo year, but whatever changes occur. however slight, have usually been originated by the tailors of Savile Row.

The latest trends in men's styles. were recently

show in the marbled hall of one of London's stately old homes--Hutchinson House. They wore planned by mem- bers of the men's fashion counell for their clothes- conscious customers.

Two main Вечун items were announced. More light- weight fabrics. More colour. SEE PLENTY OF

Favourite materials are fine EXCITING NEW FEATURESI | worstede, either plain or honey- comb patterned, and tropical NEVER BEFORE HAS A sultings for town; and Scoteti

REFRIGERATOR OFFERED cheviot checked in olive and SO MUCH FOR SO LITTLEd for country wear.

•

• Full-width porcelain crisper • Hendidor shelves Butter bank

and many more features.

The colour of the year is blue

LEFT: First picture of the sundown jacket. It has roll cellar, one button front, and crescent pockets, and is made in Cambridge blue doeskin,

RIGHT: New to the City types-a black jacket, and black waistcoat with sponge- bag check trousers,

One of the World's Strangest Stories

Lost Children Of Charfield

By ROBERT CHAPMAN

în 1928.

Could you pass-

THE TOP-DRAWER TEST?

W

HAT is your Social class? What is your particular rung

on the ladder?

MIDDLE CLASS,

you

say? Then which middle class is yours? The upper

or the lower?

It's not what you earn-it's how you eat and talk that gives you a

grade (according to the professors)

by PERCY HOWARD

And where do other people place you? Some ad- Class Three does the same to be on nodding terms with 'a horse. To contess "I can't vertising experts take the 48 Class Two-but it talks afford to ride nowadays will plunge and grade you in of "gerviettes." Finally, give you higher standing thon rough and ready fashion ac- Class Four squirms into ignoring horses altogether. cording to your income. focus: it never uses table- More than £1,800 a year? napkins at all. Then you rank with Class MEAL-TIME TESTS. You A, the well to do. Between will get a lower rating if you!-- £450 and £800? Lower

Drink tea instead of coffee at middle class.

breakfast.

Deeper

But now university pro-

-

Eat kippers after noon,

**

Tuning in

ACCENT? This is the most important test of all. It helps the Enlishmsdra to grade your familly-even if you are sitting beach, next to him on the

Call your main evening meal wearing nothing but bathing "tea" or "supper."

Drink cocoa without remem-

fessors are also studying bering to call it "chocolate." the problem. For them in-

Use your sideboard for keep- come is just a surface test. Ing odds and ends-letters, bills, probes buttons.

costumes. His ears are tuned, with radar precision, to say deviation from the best English.

What accent will he demand? Preferably B.B.C. vowels of course. But, to rank na good class, you may also speak with in the world-w accent any

Irish-

Rugby

excer

except for the accent of English dialect. Lancashire vowels, or the slightest taint of

a cross between a blazer (in most shades, including like "Cambridge" mud Invender), and a formal dinner jacket, and

for the is suggested

Gmort with

brown making a come- back, as a Savile Row tailor young man to wear when the

T was just before dawn None of the survivors remem-They push their said

"for those who can wear day's work is done. It is made

on a misty October bered them, however, any was much deeper. To test your it."

in Cambridge blue doeskin, has

SPORT? Prefer golf, squash, The runner-up is a new

Scottish, Canadian, months of fruitless Inquiry it was class they note every word fives, Rugby (Union) to water yellowish

morning roll collar, one-button fasten- cream shade called

and

suggested that the bodies might shupod Outside crescent

lee hockey, "gold dust" which looks attrac-in,

the oil-lit village be those of adults but Dr H. you say. They note your polo

(League). railway station at Charfield Walshman Ward who examined dress

and your address.

What They note the meals you eat

of the choice between. Southern cockney, will ruin your (Gloucestershire), heavy them shook his head.

The social rating. eyed men were shunting mains were of children, and Mr and the way you eat them. Rugby Union and Soccer? goods train across the main Archie Ayres the village car-They even pote what time shape of your football-round or

pointed is a social symbol in What is so good about good Tre.

penter who made coffins for the you eat them. Which tests Itself. Admittedly there are English? Then thundering out of the vletimsere children all right."

tive in small doses but becomes pockets.

The sundown jacket made in 12 ounce doeskin, is especially suitable for hot countries.

insipid when used on a large scale.

form.

Shoulders

narrow

The

Into

To this day he insists the re-

agrees.

cluc

The new silhouette makes the square-l-up military look us out of date as last year's calendar. For the chief trend is towards And something has happened understatement rather than to the Clly suit. Gone is

the darkness,

"They came the night mail overstatement of the masculine sedate pin stripe. In its place to Bristol. Nothing could stop

be told me: "The little shoes has come a dashing outfit made it. The goods engine was hurled showed that. All charred they are narrow, even up of single-breasted jacket and off the truck into a field.

were but you could tell by the slightly sloping, and bulky pad- matching waistcoat in black express tripped

size." and plunged

Otherwise the only ding is definitely cut. Jackets Shetland coating. contrasted

was part of a child's stocking 40 lb. frozen food storage • Alvare single-breasted, with narrow

with narrow trousers in blackmong the loaded trucks. minum shelves Roll-out shelf Inpels, one-tratton fastening and

check. and white sponge back

And into this seething mass of bearing the letters "G.S.S.S." wood and metal moment later one-button cuffs; frousers' are But whether the men about the crashed a second goods train.

measuring 18

the inches City traditionally

most The wreckage shot up in a of all in dress- round the ankle. For the really conservative convenience

up-to-date, turn-ups are omitted, will take note of this remains Jagged pyramid and burst

fames. to be seen.

Those

Sixteen prople were killed and looking for the very 41 injured. lalest accessory are offered the

There were sights and sounds Apart from these new postboy waistcoat in yellow which haunted the people of the features, the "New Look” for Bedford

is longer- lies chießy in

subtle than-average, buttons high and stone cottages and pretty gar- sleapy Cotswold village of grey changes of detail. Jacket is finished, unusually, with B pockets have

erescent-shaped collar.

dens long after the wreckage openings instead of the normal

When it

had been cleared away and the comes to evening straight

waistcoat wear,

Savile Row suggests a dead carried slowly up the hill buttons

are grouped in threes dress overcoat in black worsted, to the old parish churchyard. or twas instead of being spaced lined with white, satin and top- ped with a waist-deep persian The newest den of al!

lamb collar. But these are materials that most men will gladly leave to the fairer sex.

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A Mystery

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And when the shock of it all had passed away there remained mystery which Is still unsolved

His memories of the crash- the cries and screams sounding verily through the white mist, and the thudding explosions of cylinders as flames roared above the road bridge over the rallway are still vivid.

So devastating was the fire, he says, that there may well other bodies com- pletely consumed in it and per- have been haps among them was a parent or guardian of the children. And this theory is shared by another villager, Miss

Rocina Witts, J.P., who will never forget the sickening sound that woke her or the ghostly red glow at her bedroom window.

A

the importance of accent,"

Nor will she forget how the people of Charfield ran half- clad from their collages and scrambled down the embank- The other day I went up, the ment to drag the injured from hili myself and stood among the the Games.

of class do they recommend? Soccer-playing tilted tombstones. There was a

"It

seemed never

possible Here are some samples. high wind boiling in the tree- that we accounted for every-

of

+

Etonians,

that it's the You think traditional educated accent?

But Lord Ballsbury's anco- tors in Queen Elizabeth's court pronounced "players" in cockney fashion as "pliers." And Queen

*ine** said Anne's courtiers instead of "toin." .

No curtain

You think that always,

breeding?

accent is changed by good!

But France, America, Canade manage to get along without grading in speech. much cluss And even in England before the upper classes embraced the public schools there was n vocal iron curtain. Sir Walter Raleigh, prince of elegance, spake broad Devonshire till his dying day.

You think that "good"

Old

more musical? English is nicer,

But why is it ruore musical to Admittedly the Pogamus cleven-- gilded aces af amateur Soccer drop the altch in "honour" and tops, and I looked at the granite one," she said. "But even i THE CAR SEATING are all Oxford or Cambridge to keep it in "Harry"? cross marking the place where relatives died with the children TEST. Where do you and But the rich social colour The professors put the matter the crash victims were buried. why weren't they missed?"

Rugby is accurately painted bluntly. There is only one de- After the names of those iden-

your wife sit if you join in these commenta collected by

of the best English, another couple for a spin in a professor from his students: finition say. It is the English

No working man would be at they their car? The professors home in a Rugger club,

spoken by the best people. And then she told me about are interested in your

"Rugger appenis to women the mysterious woman in black answer.

more than Soccer." who used to come to the

“My C. C. insisted that all his

tified I came across the words: Wore Black

"Two Unknown,

That is the mystery of Chor-

fleld

Who were the two unknown

not

did abundant newspaper granite cross every year. |publicity produce the answer.

You settle with your wife

in

"The girls who are most attractive watch Rugger,"

"Only mobs play Rugby."

Embarrassed?

The neutrals

Yet in this wor of accents it is the neutrals who win in the long run. What expinina the success of Eamonn Andresía. Barbara Kelly, Ben and Beba Lyou?

police could not and out, churchyard and. pray by the in the back? Then you have subalterns should play Rugby."

But I heard more about this distinctly plebeian habits. And what makes the mystery so woman from a frail, grey-haired Social scores-nil. päthetic as well as perplexing is man of 70 living in a

white- that the two unknown wore walled cottage opposite the You sit in the front, children--believed to be a boy of ancient parish church of St leaving the two women 12 and a girl between six and James, Mr Maurice Withern the back to chat together? nine years old,

often saw her but her face was

Score-middling. Had they been alone on the alwaya velled,

They possess an asset which train? Where did they come

English entertainers can never "She wore black and used to from and where were they arrive in a big car with a 'chauf- Your wife sits next to

oblin. They have classless. FRUDERY? Are you a prude? voices, They can take part in golog? What did they look like? feur," he told me, "She used to your friend, while he Do Had they no parents or other kneel at the foot of the cross

you prefer to talk about popular, all-class programmes relatives?

with her hands together, stay

Obviously, you "odour" Instead of "bell"? Do without making Class A wince, Such questiona spring

other without sounding too much like

barrassed by conversation, which new questions; they are ques speak to anyone." tions which have been osked

⚫ is over-frank about the plain There is no evidence, of over and over again—always in course, that the woman hadi vain-since the charred remains anything to do with the two

in-

drives?

when

stantly to mind, but they are not boc w minutes and then go grasp the niceties of social you "perspira

back to the car. She did not behaviour. Top marks for people sweat?" Are you a tots to Class D,

you.

the

But for the Englishman who wants to succeed the infalliblo

"A"

thump's and

in often,

You can, oat kippers ek mids ANIMALSISSY, the profess night, brand, budgNclass, Un

THE TABLE NAPKIN espos will end to sals you with vila semaine, come in accent of the children were lifted from children, and she has not been TEST. Here the professors thờ lower middle-class. Plain Pronounce Bacat the still-mouldering døbris. seed for several years, but the put four different classes the top and bottom shelves in never sound: the

speaking, they and, is a mark of Compton There was just enough for village people always believed under the lens. At the top the social cupboard. positive medical evidence to be there was a connection. Was given at the Inquest evidence, it simply griet that brought her we find the class which uses supported by a Ucket collector back year after year, they table- napkins but who testified that he had clipped wondered or was it remorse? napkin rings. Next comes : it is better class to brunch, gour sideboard as a topuchnah jolnad the train, at Gloucester, (Conilaued on Page 19, Col. 6) Clase, Two, which uses both dogs rather than budgerigars of bus k you produce. the right

rabbits. And try, at all costs, syllables, you'll still pam.

the tickets of a boy and girl who

JOHNNY HAZARD

-BASZOUTS IR A LONG WAG OFF BHARL AND WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO OUTRUN GENERALI BEFALLEN IF HIS CAR IS STILL

ON THE OTHER HAND, PERHAPS THE POLICE IN THE VILLAGE ANDET, BE

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not

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