1955-10-22 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAÍL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1955.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Is A Man's Glance Worth All This? Grey Hairs Win A

A

-Yes, If We're Honest....

London,

SLENDER ankle slips

into view. A man's eye falla on it. And a love affair begins.

It happens again in the acreen's latest love story when Rossano Brazzi's first glimpse of Katharine Hep- burn is a shapely ankle curled round a

chair.

But it has been happening for cen- turies. And that may explain why, girla today feel the way they do... about nylons.

Women have rebelled, campaigned, starved, queued, fought, and fainted for them. M.P.s have made speeches fo Parliament about them.

Winston Church!I insisted on a top war priority for them, and even the long- suffering British nurses went on strike for them.

Ninety per cent

of all stockings sold in Britain are nylon.

Women spend £36,000,000 £ year on them. They buy 146 mil lion pairs from 50.000 shops.

Naturally

there

is a wide smile on

the faces of the

men

who

handling

stupendous

ness.

Are

this busi-

THE PICTURE

THAT TELLS

The core of the success story of nylons in summed ap in this picture of a pale of forely leg nylon olnd,

of course)

turing

plancua

CAP

MAN'S

The owner of

this pair model

June Dancan.

******REKORD

thing

Giving the customer what "Makey a leg look twice as Don Ameche is she wants means selling and exciting,"

quoted as saying in Collier's reselling her the most

"with that magazine. fragile and expendable item running up and down it," of dress ever devised, for an Two-thread nylons in 27 annual turnover of £80,000 denier. One thread is stretchy and one straight, so that If you 000.

one thread snag second chance,

there is a BEVED and nine devler 75 gauge

nylons, the finest yet made, which will sell at Christ-

"We are quite ready to make heavier, better-wearing nylons," said one of this happy to me.

band

"Three pairs of pervice- weight crepe nylons would last a woman a year.

added cheerfully, "But," he *women won't buy them. They won't even buy a serviceable 30 denler.

We

to

"Our biggest sales are in the very fine 15 denier nylons, and are being asked now make them even finer."

THE BARE-LEGGED PRINCESS

NevertheleKY, the makera kdow that they are in a buyer's market.

"One worry that keeps myake nigiri and day La that women will stop caring about nylons."

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There's always the

change that women may cross the thin line between wearing stockings ro fine that it looks ar if they have no stockings and simply wearing no stockings.

Especially when Princess Maxgaret, who can't care either way about the 158, involved, so often goes dancing barelegged.

Among the now

idens this your to make sure that women <lab DTC-

nins,

Stretch nylons in all denters. The stretch nylons in 15 denier have been the best-sellers this year. They are no stronger than the other kind, but they it better.

There will be 120 more attempts, I am glad le report, to sell us fancy nylons in bright colours, or with clocks, or with butterflies on the ankle, or black

hcele.

Most of these were withdrawn from the market without a squeak of protest from British women, who prefer plain shear nylons in beige,

British nylons go as far afield as Spitzbergen on the Arctic Circle, to Trinidad, where they are dyed a special dark colour, to the Falkland Islands, and to Fili, where retailers report that "Flans buy them but don't wear them very often." ALL SISTERS UNDER THE SKIN

Nylons have dono more than UNO to prove that women are all sisters under the skin.

hands on and send up one huge

I don't know what the Fijinns call them,

The manufacturers, so anxious to please in other directions, take a calm, shoulder-shrugging view of this problem.

are

of

"Wake stockings knitted fabric they will always Tun," they explain.

Laddered nylons

are useless to anyone except old ladies who make rugs and rar dolls out of them, decorators who strain paint through them, and polo players.

Woman's Heart

By EILEEN ASCROST

existence for Boro

mure most men would give their

LATEST Italian, heart modes

throh, Rossano Brazzi, yours, well, you've got a trea-

in London for the launching eyes for: though you'll never of his film Summer Mad- get them to admit it." nesa, is fortyish, and his

CHIT-CHAT

dark, well-greased hair is WHAT do 600 women talk touched with silver.

when they get

(

Wabout

ail.

De I

Years do not dim a man's ces together? Mancy mostly, appeal, as long as he keeps hia

observed at an all-ladies hinch, hair. Some of the most popir

then fashion, Jobs and children, lar male pin-ups todny pre MEN were hardly mentioned quinquagenarians. Among them.

.of professional he-men like Gary How smart women are when Cooper and Clark Gable, tough they turn up to meet one on- guys like Humphrey Bogart and other-I bet every one of them James Cagray,

and charming had spent more time on her dilettantes like Henry Fonda, toilet than the would in dress- Cary Grant and Fred Astaire.

inst for a man!

SECRET APPEAL THIS Idolisation of the middle

aged does not just apply to the stage and film world. It's. the came in public life.

Archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler,

who ranke near the top with most women TV view ern, is 65 and has a shocks od iron-grey curis

Conductor

Sir Mulcolm Bar- gent is 60 cd geoying round the edges. So are political pin- upt: Prime Minister Anthony Eden (58)

Str Hartley and Shawcross (53).

Momo to organisers of women's lunches.

Women do not like sweet wines, fried foods or goody desserts.

IN THE BAG

A HANDBAG should be à fash- container for everything but the irea accessory, "not just a

kitchen stove." So mys 35-year-

Geoffrey Wickham, who old spends a large part of his Ho designing elegant handbags,

or

He Lavours shoulder strap

for the working girl bags for bousewife, as he thinks clutch" What is the secret appeal of bngs look ugly with an armful these

of parcels and ageing charmers for

anyway Lent women know how to handle a women of all ages? I asked a girl of 18 and she said: "I like their air of experience." I ask- ed a young woman of 25 and shr said: "They make a woman feel she really matters."

whe

ond

I asked a woman of 30

said: "They're the only ones with charm and good manners I asiced and she said: "Some are con temporaries of ming and they make me feel younger, too.”

strapless bag."

the

a woman of over 60 WOMENves with, an

an

And here are four tips tròn a man who never passes a woman in the street without looking at

bag she's carrying— (1) Consider your size when you buy a bag. Tiny bags look ridiculous when carried by large small women swamp overlarge

(2) If you can't afford several handbags buy one really

good A TEST

overyday bag and something

nod How do you recognise the inexpensive for cocktails

much-married father of too evening.

children in a crowd? A many

boo (3) Handbags that are "Jolly

useful thing, these young father.

Peler Duncan, violent a contrast to an outst nylons," the Duke of Edinburgh answers the question in are never smart, Something that lots of men are wearing them with his wife, Sylvia, remarked. "Do you know that amusing book written

tones is smarter. jointly

(4) Don't spoil a good bag by Even the most "He has a harassed air," says overalling it. Mr Duncan, "because he knows expersive bag loses its shopo there will be no peace. when under such conditions. be gole home from the office," Mr Wickham advises carrying And he adds this ominous warn I like this idea and I've poen "shopper" for odds and ends. ing "That new job may go to a rival who can afford.

to dress some nice matched handbage better and whose wife has not shopper sets in the shopt. forgotten to take his suit to the cleaner's because the baby was

FOR THE HOME Juretful."

LATEST recult to the special are. however, There

anual fortnight brigade are New names are given to col-compensations for the family the

Carpet every year (champagne, man. Families should be enjoy- Fortnight has just opened.

carpet industry. pair of nylons, and four and a Capri Toujours, Sunstar), but ed, is Mr Duncan's motto, then quarter miles of thread go into 80 percent

The most interesting develop- of all nylons sold are in the same three shades of you'll shed that hurussed air.

They're also expensive. "Make ments in carpeting recently are the broadloom type, which can stitches to the row,

ent below what you think you widths and any length new family man, can afford y la his advice to the quired, cuting down, and the might break even.'

and sewing

Somehow, talking to them, I don't get the impression that they are going to stay awake at nights worrying about THAT. COULD YOU HAVE GUESSED . . .

THE

UTE best customers for nylons are office girls between the ages of 16 and 25.

It takes 40 minutes to make a

with the foot cut off under their riding boots"

A well-fitting nylon has 30 or more narrowings or darts' in the cair.

The arch enemics of nylon stockings are cigarette ash, stift petticoata, rough skin or nalls, tough edges of furniture, exhaust fumes,

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A girl who goes dancing a lot will wear out a pair of nylons a night. But the average for the country is eight pales n bead every year.

or slightly brown.

Queen Elizabeth I was the first girl in England to wear lik stockings and they cost her Just about the (headknitted) some as nylons cost us—15%, a pair.

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order.

to

But he adds this promise to dyeing of special colours swepton the worries, the bills, Another idea for brighter and the noise: "If it means a dining-rooma. Bone china is

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IRATE BACHELORS GIVE

LIST OF PET PEEVES

All over the world they buy WHEN a man commenta on, curing about nylons

the finest they can lay their Wabout women, you can polyglot wall over what the be sure he knows what he's Americans call "uns," the talking about. The stronger Frenchweren call "chelles, sex spends much of its life With this in mind, we Con-

Seamless nylons: Tho new fashion in America, So far they have never caught on here, për- haps because men are known to prefer the kind with seams.

the Germans call "laufmusche,

subject, By JEANNE D'ARCY

rale

as experts.. We asked them what their ideal and beauty was like. It added up to Bcientific) observation

a composite of Marilyn Monroe, research on women,

Jane Russell and Marlene Diet- rich

and flad her!

Bulted

several bachelors who, we asked if they had

and the Bellish call "indders." engaged in serious (if not because of their interest in the

FASHION CONSULTANT SAYS:

A Best-Dressed Woman Can Never

London.

¡AVE you ever been in a

By DOROTHY BARKLEY .

Hallen wished there the dress type. They usually "Hoole scraggy."

For, newly established as CL

Relax...

any pet peeves; it, thero were any

special things they'd noted that detracted from a girl's appearance. They came up with n sizable list. So, it

you're try ing to snag some unsuspecting male, boiler go over the follow- ing points carefully,

Crooked stocking seams and rundown heels were a phobia with one bachelor. - Another objected to allps that show.

They look sloppy," he said, And so they do.

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Some may like to be brand- ed in this way, but it means you can never relax, she says. So she usually "You can never tie an old scart was someone who could ad- have fur too many clothes, You wears dresses. This is where round out and go out to the in public, spreading a and mist head, put on your Girls who powder their noses vise you on what hatto con really manage on very few her personal plan comes in. oldest coat wear to so-and-so's wedding? clothes, provided they Inter- "I plan my wardrobe around abops. My partner is always of powder over themselves and appear with a their escorts, also are irritating two day dresser, one cont to go worried in caso Or someone who could plan change

with them, and. two evening. ladder. In my stocking; she's to the gents. And, as a man, a new outfit for you? If Mrs Lambton herself has outats. One day dress is in a afrald one of our clients might they all vetoed the girl whom you have, forget your wor travelled a good deal America, basle colour, usually black, and see me, she said.

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She also passes as a tip for gines. white way.

if you

find They also objected to unildy, climate and way of life abroad wool." For evening the chooses relaxing tension sufficiently well to advise people what she calls a "combination yourself overworking. With this handbags.

"Geef The things women carry fashion consultant is Mre Anno planting a wardrobe for a trip job" (a strapless black dress now, job, with running a flat

house. In Lambton, who was chosen

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or conversely, trans with a cover-up top which can in town and one of the year's best-dressed forming a tropical wardrobe to be worn at the office, too) and as her kande are full. When they never can find anything! frate male." "Azid her husband mented women. Fashion consultant sult an English climate.

a full length evening outfit. farma,

there's too much to do in too It's no wonder."

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