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THE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1955.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

ANNE SCOTT-JAMES presents GIVENCHY in holiday designs for YOU

Pack a bit

of Paris in your bag...

GIVENCHY

IT'S ALWAYS A GIMMICK

THAT CATCHES THE EYE

your summer

holiday.

THE big fashion event of fore

is (All your good unca are gettin every woman's year

cleaned, washed, and pressed to her summer holiday. It is take away.) for those two or three weeks So 1 dew to Paris to talk to way that we shop and save, one of the work'a master de- liet and lan, try things on gners of the holiday clothes- and cut things out and run Hubert de Givenchy. Things up.

How da

$

yop berinnen! wave? To be right for your suminer holiday.

When

wear your do dest clothes? The week be-

you

I WENT to see what's new in colours, fabrics, shapes.

I WENT to persuade him to

soine

accessories design sprefatty for you.

The Begum Reveals

THE SECRET OF

REAL ELEGANCE

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Cannes. and occasionally lends r. hand VETTE Labrousse, who herself in trimming the sweet

started out as "Missing fruit trees. The garden K planted so that there are France" and wound up $19 flowers in bloom from the Begum Aga Khan, is spring to late autumm. now a faithful Moslem.

The lovely woman who is married to one of the world's wealthiest wer was brought up in moderately humble circum- stances, the daughter of a good bourgeois family in Lyon,

Her Orst claim to fame was In 1930 when she was elected "Miss France", queen of the bathing beauties,

It wrs roi until 14 усага later that she met and married the fabulous Aga Khan, spiri- tual leader of millions

Imat Meslenis.

of

re-

For love of her husband-30 Li- senter-Yvette years her brouns dopted the Moslem

ellien in 1944 and was christened "Ome Habiba," which is the name of Mohamet: last wife and means In Arab "mother of the well-beloved.'

Last year the Begum

earliest

She lunches with the Aga and usually, In the early afternoon, the Begum, takes a drive at the slices of her black Cliroon while her husband rests.

From time to time she visits an old people's home she hus founded in Cannes or drape in to see retired artlets and other old friends, many of whom are partially or wholly supported by her bounty.

VARIOUS HOBBIES

She is also an amateur photographer and has recently taken to sculpture and painting. She modelled a bus of the Aga Khan last year which has cen much adimired by her artist friends but now she has just about given up sculpturing for painting.

"I'm

better at modelling". she admits with a laugh, "but i the dificult and arduous pil- love to use colours".

made

grimage to Mccra which cach

food Moslem is required

to

make at least once,

THE PILGRIMAGE

The Begum would

Jike slay all year at Cannes, yet she is seldom in eno spot mere than a month or two.

The first of May, the Khans

Dressert in the cotton gown leave Cannes for London-the

for

to

of the pligrim, and barefoot as Britis derby-en it is

she carried Paris the law renuires,

horse racing the

and at Longchamps But each of the required rites season

1he for five blistering days during Auteuil, a short stay at

northern bailing which the temperature never fashionable rank below 118 degrees resort of Deauville, several

Fahrenheit in the shade,

It was so hot that the Begum was forced to remove her glasses burned reause the hot melo) the bridge of her nose and the colts of her feet were scorched by the marble walks,

The aging Aga Khan himself

weeks in Aix-Les-Bains, where the Aga Khan takes the water cure, and the end of the sum- mer is Frent in Switzerland.

FOUR

BRAND NEW PARIS ACCESSORIES ARE ON THIS PAGE TODAY, ALL WERE PLANNED BY GIVENCHY TO BE MADE OR ADAPTED FOR YOUR AUMMER HOLIDAY BY YOU.

and

"What sort of fabrics colours are you using for holi- day clothes?" I asked Givenchy first. Because fabric is always the key to fushlon.

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JIE TOLD ME he using massess of pastels, especially

white, pale rose pink, pale

turquoise. He is using mostly pinin fabrics-only a few small, delicate prints.

IDEA FOR YOU: Make your last-minute dress a plain one. Don't wear the ten millionth floral on the beach.

HE TOLD MIE about his newest idea in belts-it was still in the half-designed buckram stage.

A wide bell with a huge bucle is shaped to wear below

WHISL Kiving a long-body look to a normal-waisted dress.

IDEA FOR YOU: Make one pourself in a stiff, shing fabric. The diagram shows the cut,

HE TOLD ME that he loves 39 R fabrie for towelling accessories.

IDEA FOR YOU: Line the brimm of any big beach

garden hat white fowelling, Cover your, beach bag to match.

HE SHOWED ME his holiday jewellery, and the prettiest was spiky coral mixed with white beads,

coral (surprisingly) diamonds with fake

or amethysts,

IDEA FOR YOU:

A new way to mix your beads,

HE TOLD ME that his favourite holiday accessary is a cardi- gan-in fabric, not He Ilkes killing. shantung, with knit- ted edges and welt.

IDEA FOR YOU: Cut one from any cardigan pattern in cotton, tic silk, or shantung.

HE SHOWED ME all manner

of fan-

tasies, especially

PICTURES BY DAVID OLINA

PACK A BIT OF PARIS in the shape of towel cloth. Take a beach or garden hat (the

deep-crowned kind is newest) and line the brim with white towelling

• PACK A CARDIGAN 'of flimsy

fabric. Make it of pink slantum,

PACK A HOOD with scarf ends to bolt or fling round your neck. There's

♣ PACK A WIDE BELT to drop your waistline. Make it of satin. lined, padded and stitched, with a

Positively THE last word in

PUMPS

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gorgeous jewel colours, made of the softest glove-kid-leather, the newest and most popular deep V vamp heels.

with the latest of "FIRENZE"

These sparkling new colours will not only enhance your Summer Cottons, but will lend that added "zip" to your Fall cloths as well. Sizes 4 to 81% N & M

fittings.

LIMITED SELECTION PER SIZE & COLOUR —–—–

therefore,

An early visit is advisablo

at

Paquerette Ltd.

16a Des Voeux Rd., C.

Tel. 21-157.

THERE IS NO

SUBSTITUTE FOR-

MIKIMOTO QUALITY

Graduated cultured pearl necklaces or choker necklets" and jewellery

UNMATCHED FOR LUSTRE

Look for this seal

on your pearls at

YOUR SHOPPING CENTRE

Sole Agents:

mem gane Lane Crawford's

and knit the edgings in a Bne one- and-one rib,

enormous hats with big crowns—couch- men's hats, planters' hats, gardeners' hats, And square-lensed with sunglasses frames of bamboo or printed sucde,

And

square parasola, exotic fans, closed-in moccasin shoes.

AND I TOLD HIM about the biggest problem of a holiday In a seaside resort keeping tidy Whether it's on in the wind.

In September, they return to open ear or a so-called shelter.

November,od beach, Yokymour but in

there's always turn you into

A

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IDEA FOR YOU: A hood-

the Aga Khan, and the Begum breeze.. · to kave ter Egypt to spend the golliwog. winter. This year they intend

has never made the pilgrimage to buy a villa at Assauan in

to Meeen and it seems unlikely Egypt where the dry climate cum-gilet, light as air in pink

his health will permit him to agrees with the aged Aga Khan | shantung. make it now in the prescribed who has

rummer season.

If the Begum had her way years.

she would spend most of her

time in the magnifcent

the Aga Khan has built

villa for

Bevere

suffered ailments in recent

respilary

PICTURE OF CHIC

her at Cannes, in the hills over- The Begum Khan is a picture looking the Riviera. It is of chic. Of a majeetle carriage called "Yakymour," a contrac- with lovely dark hair ond an tion of "Yaky" the Aga's pet oval face, sho drests imply for his fourth wifo, and but with unmistakeable elegance, Amour" the French word for Her favourite colours in dress are green, cream and pearl grey love.

Tho cream-coloured house and che says simplicity is the benuty In dross, She with its terrneed gardens, a key to

wimming pool and its period has this advice to offer:

that furniture and works of art

"Be simple. Avold all

-

ig

air conditioned for the summer

make sure that the cut of what-

PLENTY OF SLEEP

months,

They all add up, these acces- sories to a lot of gulely for a little trouble, a lot of imagina- tion behind something quite simple to wear.

That's French dressing.

that's

a culling diagram below.

+++‘TAKE 11⁄2 YARDS.

*

+

J

TTERE'S how to cut the hood

and belt,

HERE The hood takes

big buckle (diagram below),

14 yards of 28in. fabric, the

thei All beit take 14 yards. pieces should be cut from double material, except the hood band.

The outside lines are the rut-i- ing lines, the dotted lines are the final tines. There are lin.. turninga the hood front 2/3in. turnings else-

panele,

where.

оп

The A's and B's of hood and head band should meet. O and

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