1955-08-27 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1955.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

What Paris Did To The Fisher Girl

BEFORE

IN 1953

Starling off my Paris fashion alphabet

with..

A

It

And THE LESSON BEHIND HER NEW NAME.......ORCHID

BRING back from Paris today story with a moral for all English girls; the story of the

Most HOW Beautiful Girl' in Paris.

A

She is MONA SIMON. Her picture the right. She is pale and mysterious, long and thin, with coiled red hair and cool green eyes.

Two years ago Bona Simon was a fisher girl who lived in Brittany, lanky and long-haired, pretty but undis Ungulshed--the girl whose picture is on the left.

are. Don't try to look like the next girl.” So because she is long and pale and thin, ale makes herself look longer and paler and thinner. She uses palo make up; she coils her hair off her neck to show off her fong, thin nose and her long, thin neck; she dresses to emphasise her long, thin figure,

Today theY SAY of the io fisher girl: "She looks like an orchid. She is so different from the others"

The moral is this: In England the beauty people and the dress people have. only one standardised ideal girl in mind, and every woman is measured against

her.

One day she came to Faris and learned the French Rule of Beauty, Then she went for a job at BALEN- CIAGA (the famous designer)-aard In Egland, I suspect, Mademoiselle learned the French, Rule of Dress. In Simon would stilt took like the giel an Paris the rules are these: "Be what you the left,

ANNE EDWARD S

for Aline And now, Twenty-six Tips That Paris Taught Me from A to Z

the Paris

model girls wear

thum when they are off

duty, quite a different affair

from the A lines they wear when they are modelling the clothes the famous de- signers make,

salon, off

Once out of the come those bodies too tight to breathe.in, skirts too tight to walk in. Om go thetr Own clothes, which are just as chic a far more comfortabic.

THE DRAWING shows how two of the best-known manne quins in Paris use the French woman's talent for selecting and adapting new fashions. Lucky (right) wears a modified A line: one

Bie new Cashmere

sweaters-loose, hip length, and scarlet, with a straight skirt in charcoal grey.

DRAWN IN PARIS DY PIERRE GIMON

cream,

past

E

"I don't know what the that would bring the money his women think of it," said the way. taxi driver, "but the men like C for Coup de solell (hair brightening) the way they do it now. So many different strands are bleach ed over your head that it gives the effect of an all över lightening. It takes time, it costs money, but goodness, how pretty it is.

And sure enough, the ideas come along. sequinned shoc", gloves puler stockings, apricot in washable docskin, white and bronze pearls, ...

D

for Danish restaurant,

the new, smartest place to

me.

E for Entree which is new to

A dish of baby mushroom dipped in cug and bread- crumbs, fried in butler and served with suce tartare,

F

for Famous inst words have lunch in Paris. Which which have a special significance goes to show how easily the in Paris: "That looks a nice, Freneli fall for what is new, even to the extent of swop-

delicious ping their own stenic bearnaise for Danish sulami on bread.*

D for Dietrich, noted three times in Paris, each time in the same beige-coloured suit.

to

the

Lia (left) ignores the A line little table, eat fỗie-gras, steak, altogether, wears a white poplin and strawberries and

for Empire. An industrial shirl

full linen skirt drink cloret, coffee and brandy: Empire is hanging on with a striped in grey and white; flat and glide ki the twilight

earlet shoes; and a scarlet belt. Notre Dame floodlighted through Dior coat-tails glove many

emerald trees. Cost: £2.

facturers, stocking manufae turers, ipstick, scent, bution, umbrella, jewel, handbag, shoe and fabric manufacturers.

B

C

for Boat trips in littic glass-sided steamers which sail for Crinoline petticoats down the Selne (this used to which the girls wear under be considered very tourist stuff: their cotton skirts to make them now it is chle). You sit al a sway like a crinoline,

They were all there last week watching his shows, each hold-

little restaurant, let's go

Run dear, and Auntie."

on ahead,

train for.

the Keepwere quite suje

AFTER

IN 1955

PICTURE MY RUBIN

here, we're on a zebra crossing." named the Brigitte Bardot siyle, crowds. A story of castles and after the film star who started hunts. Rolls-Royces and dances the craze. The hair is fronded no more typically British

"He said he wanted to pragtise his English.”

G

for Girl in a corset shop settle France's who helped to

on to the face in front and then twisted up into a bun high at the back.

long-standing political grudge for Inches which against America by deliberately

are

than those films Wo get about farmers in Provence are typically. French.

ON

V

for Victorian jewellery squashing a large woman from the berline. Wherever you go coral and jet and jade-all back Wyoming into a corset that was to buy a dress in Paris, they tell in fashion. miles too small and making her, you that long skirts 13la. from buy it.

H

for Hair style the young

the ground are most elegant, W

J

for Jackets in bright colour- ing out his cap for a new idea French girls are wearing-It is ed felt which sell in the shops

FOLKLORE IN FASHION

Symbols taken from Sicilian and Sardinian folklore are among the many attractive pattern motifs of wool fabrics that are being used current Italian boutique collections.

in the

By GINA POPESINA

only were the Also very interesting in this Italian fashion collection were the full,

gored skirts in large-grained tweeds.

NOT

the

boutique collections as the fabric of which was stress- bright and sparkling as ever ed by geometric or arabesque this year, but their method patterns embroidered in thick

braids of black wool. of presentation was equally

Paisley-patterned printed wool guaranteed to attract

textiles were favoured by attention of the most Clans of Milan for tapered trews very plain blouses skirts with flowing pleats worn in black jersey and for' full with low decolicte

blouses lightweight wool jersey. PERFECT CUT

hardened fashion reporter.

For instance Emilio had three prolly mannequins skilfully bowling a big wheel from Siclan cart over the silvery carpet of the platform in the White

Hall of the Petti Palace This was to cm-

worn with

Another dosigner who turned

in Florence.

the fact that the de- to folklore for Inspiration this time from Sardinia-was Umba, who used it for the designs for hand-woven wool textiles

phasise signs on the fabrics he had used in his collection were inspired by Sicilian folklore. Big wheels lite these were printed on number of textiles.

A

Another gimmick that he used was to have the model girls carrying stender columns draped in textiles printed with a de

avoro

HAND-WOVEN

Perfect cut and fauilless malding distinguished the collec- tion of Avolio, He used much ness and simplicity of his models wool jersey and felt. The plain-

was underlined by double double-breasted scams at the

Bign based on Sicilian Monreale fastenings and armholes and on mosales. The mannequins placed the pockets and half belts. The the columns on the platform, latter were sometimes fixed and then turned gracefully round to sometimes show off the full skirts which

removable. One of the most attractive they modelled; these, incldent-

ensembles in this collection tally,

made out of the

consisted of a suit in light- same printed fabric,

weight Shetland wool thinly checked in fuchsia and green and a full, looee cost of resida from Florence green wool. Tho olongated made great use of hand-woven Jacket of the suit was edged in wool textiles for casual tailor- the plain fabric of the cont. ed clothes, combining them with The bulls of the collection at other fabrics such as tweeds, Spagnoli corgiatod of slender plaids and striped or checked tailored suite thick knitwear. Wools. Suits and overcoats were These wire designed in collaTM cut on straight, simple linca. boration with one of Italy's Two-piece ensembles had long foremost designers, thus bring- bodices and full, box-pieated ing the couture touch to clothes skirts.

Valditevere

#redcommble price.

BEAUTIFUL SKIRTS

1

Crochet edging was used 拉摩 trimming on the collars and culla of some jackets, white an Mbres showed the best knit- interesting seven-eighths length woor ensembles in any boutique Very coat was entirely hand-crochet- collection which I saw, ed in thick white wool flecked attractive was a blue and while with sparkling beads,

siriped jacket with large pockels The most wye-catching gar at the sides, accentuating the

in the collection of straight, alorisatud Vine, .ments

Myricac were home

There were very

some besurtiŸial feminine and romantic blouses sicirts in wool fabrics at Bertoli. in light wool musiin, printed in Thoy nvere trimmed'. in, a exclusive designs. These were variety of different warp-by Krimmed either by u

pleated, barels of Bootch plašil, knit- bond or by frill of loce all wear bruiding, embroidery/med round beneath the bustline, by frilled ribbons. These were giving the effect of a very short worn with’simple jersey blodere ekket. Braiding was also, used us, with novel-shaped necklinen and trimming on these blousCE,

Emilia

Mynical

Bartol

EMILIO: This dream is in midnight blue. Hght wool fabric. A sash of yellow dotted surah is slotted through the round decollato neckline and the tie ends fall to the hemline.

MYRICAE: The top sketch shows a skirt, in heavy, hand- 'woven black and white tweed embroidered with stripes of bright: knotted wool nord. This, is word with a blouse af black Jersey. The lower sitetchou show a sumando UZSUM blouse in printed woot muilin with a gõested fri sil Found

for £2 105.

K

for Kingfisher blue, the colour that every dress-designer showed..

La for

Mary Moder

for the young in heart......

sets the scene for summer with youthfully sophisti- cated dresses done with flair and distinction interpreting full skirts and slim sheaths

the long torso look and the flattering natural waistline Paris-prompted

fabrics.

Ideal for young and young-in-heart figures and budgets.

$95.00 to $195.00

Seo them at

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for Waists, In

city which had done its darndest to make us all wear dresses with- out walsts, the local girls still nip theirs in tight.

X

for XXXXX's to

their porters of Dover, After discontented, grumbling, cross grained colleagues DYLT the Channel it is so nice to see

Left bank students them again, who wear the new Marlos

Brando haircut-brushed for- Y

ward on to the face all round.

for Y line. My advice Is

to give it a males. But if you

M for Meton-instead of a want to wear it, narrow the

slice they serve a whole mclon waist, and make the top of the

with the top sliced off and a

spoonful of port inside.

N

for New blouses which

are draped and dressy in chiffon and Jersey.

10

for Oh! for a good cup of tea. The one kitchen still that still cludes the French.

P

for Pearly nail varnisti

still the craze.

P for Pleated skirts in every variation; fine Picats, jenife Pleats, accordion Pleats, in every material from fine cotton to Amanel--and

.every Price

level too.

for: Queenies. Why is it

tha when smart French friends take you to a smart now restau- rant it always has a strictly suburban British name, like the one that has just öpesad called Queenies?

R

for Baincoats in proofed poplin palest pink or lemon yellow-which the girls woer as summer coats. ·

IS

for Sweetpers-when you buy them in Paris, the flower shopa always arrango them in a boliquet, one colour in the contre | and the others ringed, round.

B for Stoles still in fashion for day and evening.

8 for

Helf-survice at thà biứ atores--the only cheap meat I

MOLESTON and

[ found ⠀ in Paris-two

and salad, Wrebah bread wine, chocolate, gafonui, Sa..

beneath the bust and looks along day, stance T

BERTOLL "Tisla banda bë vit, blus said

for

y

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with a stole or a big collar.

for Zany--the only word to describe an incident at Dior's when an overworked show

journalist fainted in the heat. The models hesitated, the show was held up, and in stormed the manigorts9.

"Just look at her face," said thb man beside mc. "Sho's thinking "What's

"

dead

journalist here or there? Let the show go on!'”

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