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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1955.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

A classic hairstyle from Alan Spiers.

I cut short and layered into loose curls; swept up into a suggestion of chignon.

Hair at the front

at the back in

FUR STYLES FOR

FORMAL AND CASUAL WEAR

-They Include Cardigans And Jeans...

W

i

Lalon. JHITE ermine Jeans

topped by a loose it ting, alip-over-the-head black

make smart the ins expensive range

ter af models in cheaper fürs 14

alamonstrate his theory. That For reat seed not be expensive

be elegant. One very attentive

erine shirt

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Next spring and summer you'll look fashionable wearing Designers Advise:

Gay Cotton Prints From Stick To

Dawn To Dusk

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By DOROTHY BARKLEY

London.

AY is the word for the

new cottons to be seen around London's showrooms just now. Splintered diamonds, Paisley patterns, Chinese puzzle designs, white splotches, vista prints, coloured squares-these are

few of the eye-catching prints.

Fr 40 SATEL that British women are at last taking to the idea of collons from dawn-to- dusk. The Julest collections show cutions for every occasion. There IN the Diga abirt for beachwear; sheath dresses matching jackets for day wourt fall skirted drosmes in Black er pink cotton taille for evening.

The toga shirl It looks rather uke

wardwin boord Is simple to mke and should prove one of the most

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casily

is pied styles. It consists ed two squurtsh The very " material.

joined on the shoulder to make abont neckline, and belled in at the watst with no need fow side scam. The more com- plicated versions have pushed up sleeves and suck-like fronts gathered on to a fund shoulder yok".

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them.

Sheath dresses have a variely car Jackets to partner Foremost

art which stop at waist-level,

fertig!

Sheath drets and matching Jacket in cotton patterned in grapefruit, lime and black.--By Fredrica

in

Your Type

New York.

THE well-dressed, woman

Tis the one who drenges

her type, no matter the current fad.

of most

what

This is the viewpoint of three the nation's youngest and successful designers--the winners of the 1983 fashion *Winnic" presented by Coty, Inc. Selections

made by tashion reporters.

are

The thre wero asked by United Press to describe what they consider the well-dressed

woman.

Mrs Antas Klein, a New York nitive and n designer for 12 yours, sold: The well-dressed women is the one who sticks to her type. She may be in- genue, the talkred, the athletic, or the very sophisticated women. But no matter what the occa- sjon, or the Lune of day, she dresses to provide the setting for her incvual personality.

COMFORT AND CHIC

"A wuman can venture from type, but then she really isn well dressed, because she isn't comfortable. You can't be un- and chic at the

comfortable

samic

Mrs Jeatine Campbell, a native of Pittsburgh now with a New York

and a a apocialist in sports-wear separates, said the smartly dressed woman the one who "chooses her clothes for

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three-typo of life she leads."

a woman who rarely gets to the city, the wardrobe should feature casual clothes; if she's strictly an urbante, clothes then should have city ways-clogance and

sophistication

bout provided for himself in meas kely to feel a treube

growing you own bun, he says, floared salon newly opened have edge-to-edge fronta and The idea is to have a thignon Berkeley Square, where yellow,

Ught

sleeves;

your red and black Anger-tip of nylon, dyed to match

are the colours. meacts, to hip-level, with long hair, or If you prefer, to com- Yellow for the venetian blinds, desses and on collar; and thave. trust.

lampstrades, wirdriers: red for unarfry length Chinese Tunies.

the "marbled" linoleum, and 1t you have puburn bar. Mr black for the formica tabletops. Outstanding among the rtals

evening is a

"fooled Spiers suggests you match it for new rotten in gold and brown, tif evening with a lian red chig- with a poovess gives the effect Ct ning or if blonde hair.

at worked

Winte. engren that into vellum.

salmas!

addition and brown hair 1 slightly darker one.

after-ski wear for Europe's black seat coney. Straight and † The rich material Books is best Brunette hah gets a raven bluck beauty salon, trichologist, tim- the well-dressed woman as

winter sports resorts

season.

A real fur cardigan woollen

All three motels are to be seen in the anions of leading London furriers who are deter- mined to give wonien A

change to keep warm this winter and look smart at the same time.

even

Giving

Mal D

LATEST LINES

to the

This is in the interests of fun and glamour, for Mr Spie: os- serts we are too uilitarian An or evening hairdos, But will gentlemen prefer the two-toned blonde?

with

whose

Tho third winner Is Herbert Kasper, whose career in design began with the armed forces in World War 11 when he costumed Army shows. Now with a New Services Introduced include a

York manufacturer, Kasper de- fines ing room, children's corner. He STRE

clothes aro the also provides refreshments, tele- phones, and will devise a hair-ultimate of simplicity,

"She never over-dresses," said style to go with your new hat,

sbe under- But, as in so many other hair-Kasper. "Rather,

how to dressers' just now, the quiet plays. She cosiness of the individual cubicle co-ordinate accessories with her has been abandoned in favour costume. She never has hat, of the more casily-run salon belt, shoes, purse and jewellery where all clients sit in the same ell shouting for attention." big room.

United Press.

buttoned with two rows of biach jon a completely plain style and this bone buttons to give a double fa such will be kind to home breasted effect This cont 13 dressinkers. Mostly these typient of the new winter "long dresses had fitted budlers

And aline". with

full skirts. buttons coltar, brass

Featuring The populer new But there have been several and stit pockets or blue-dyed pastel shades in fur is a beige other styles which bear no re- moleskin jeaus and jumper are Australian opossum, also but.

whatever semblance Ideal for television sennces in toned in double breasted style. numan ügure, Looking more like gold country houses.

A cosy model in ivory braver a suck druped (b) a tailor's has large patch pockets and Idunny, they fit at neither bud, 6172 the sleeves, wartet for hip, and burst into a

But there are other less flam- thoroughly it

"go- | force at knee-lavul. walking-in-the-country" air.

Another new idea this week bayan suggestions for evening.

Mr was to demonstrate

Spiero that these Chignons,

feels, durably pleated exttons do sur-

emphasised should be

flowers vive the washlub. Two dresses Jewels, Jewelled bonds,

and feathers. And since he has paraded side by side, vise A combicoflon of neelot and new, one six-times washed. The a bouque to supply These→→ original pleats on the old were not quite even dyeint them to match your

He affering for country wear.

will naturally o crisps those ret the new, but dress-this hus a Aled coat in neelot with the difference could only be goox for business,

Jeaiher red

Basically, if the chignons, belt back and sported by close comparison.

adornments and whatnots are One of his models in

disregarded the cut is one more suggestion of what to do with the in-between-lengths hair that London hair-***

is neither long no

ΠΟΥ short. Gold Medal at the International YET another

dresser, Alan Splers, hus hair in the front provides Coner Fur Show in London in

to urned September. It is a particularly

classic

soft styles frame for the face with

Il dendri curls. At the back it is ww.un-locking

cuat for much of his inspiration.

The fur jeans come from Mr Albert Hart, the Mayfair furrier who is engaged

In campaign

11 better and brighter window dressing. His own small win- dow,

for

leather is MT

11

Harl's

at his salon in Mayfair front, and gloves to match. featuring the harmony of furs is a delightful example of what

Coney

CA be done with little spaced a neutral colour which he and much restraint.

ther

The cardigan, claimed In the Best "real cardigan" in fur. comes from another of London's

WEDT.

V-NECKED

SHIRTS

describes as greige,

won

Juli-kogh

cont

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was a

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The A

knows

Adversity Is Often Good Luck In Disguise

By Anne Heywood

Y grandmother's her vision became blurred, but

was, "God closes one door spells. only to open another."

It used to burn me up, some- limes. Whenever was coping

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She went to her family doctor, who sent her to an eye specialist. After many tesis, she was told

In other words, the with her

real су, was, was psychogenic from mental or

it

Couture furrlers Mr S. London. with large double cuffed patch shows in the Grecian chignon waved to the shape of the head,

Furs this year are more than k

pleats double breasted button which is balanced by soft wispy or flicked up into a stiff duck's ever fashion garments, whether

is low haif bell

jeurls round the face, the whole tail, ing and Tier Incel for formal or Cuspal

But the model which won the effect reminiscent of those cool. Mr Spiers feels that hair-with adolescent disappointments, there was nothing organically

dressers who plan these schemes she would try to comfort me with wrong. Digest

kgest applause the opening elegant ladies in marble.

But Mr Solera claims we are should work in stimulating sur-that comment. of his winter collection

And it rarely trouble These he has in soft one up on those Greek ladies of roundings.

Just comforted me: because you lovely full-length

knew how tragic a disappoint --or pastel nunk worked on the very

is at that age.

causes. But this didn't ment Lashiony lines with a deep latest

But now, of course, I and my-hee well

Eleanora at all, since she And Atled "lon

self thinking the same thing and handle her library work. It was enough to the typical square, Inose

into and there-quarter raglan sleeves full skurt :1

kner-kvel.

Lecoming more and more con- und One of the most popular furs

1x shirt this

the Renson

Thus, the

Jumper which matches the blue fur jeuns has cape

coller

out ne daring line body ne

of the smartest of casual sports weit.

a

medium

Mr Hart

The black ermine worn over the white jeans 18 priced, hard wearing South West aleu lonse, But, with a smartly African Persian inmb. rut V-neck, a trim collar which can be worn up or down and shaped to stand

elbow-length sleeves worked in

one

line" across the

back 10

stress the ragion effect, it achieves being chle as well casual.

ns

Th sharp contrast to these

truly

marchels for casual wear are two mingnificent stoles in that

uses

In black for a cape stolk round but ID away from the neck at the back

and folded to the front where STEPCL

can be fastened with three

it

or

four large bone bultons if re- quired. Accompanying this very

nitractive stole is a muff-bag in 招 mixture <f South Afrienn

royal fur, rarely seen in London antelope. these days chinchilla. Mr Lon-

Persian Tamb

West

and

Mr London pairs a muff-bag this fur with one of the

fashionable suggestively season's

don's is an authentie Empress in chinchilla bolero

med Reveillon (the name caps.

given by the French to their

all-night celebrations beginning

on

Eve and Now

GL

MOST

Cossack

POPULAR

Christmas Year's Eve.) Mr Hart's is deen case atole in Rex chin- In the winter collections of chilta.

every one of London's "Big Inshion desimer, the Mink is as popular as ever- Twelve" and as expensive. Mr London members of the exclusive In- features it in all shades from corporated Society of London emba ceruldan natural blue. Fashion designers, South West fl-rough cmba nutumn haze African Persian lamb ras an 'trimming brown to black and Important place for

on hats, conts, Jackets and even dresses.

natural white.

CHEAPER RANGE

One striking Jacket in black mink is faced with white mink cuffs, collar and tuxedo-like front. Another in ranch mink

hon

One couturier, Ronald Pater- son, recalling no doubt the ley which con blow draughts through the ancestral homes of his native Scotland, has entire sult in dark green South Inmb West African Persian

an

a flat round collar and finished with a knitted band. in front edging in omba Brutumn haze natural browh mink, while matching wool at the base of čun the' jucket and cuffs of the

third, Twilight, bi silverblüta mink.

Luxurious Evening Ensemble

A lovely stole worked like

Hardy Amion, one of mest of My London's stoles, this Queen Elizabeth's dressmakers, winter, straight across the back usen i for toy upstanding without a centre seam is in a collare and capo runs, which now smoky brown colour called appear to be part of the mit of 'erevle

coat but which can be slipped La his range of full-length off at will any time. Lad wearet couts, Mr London, although And them too warmer wants known in the trade the to change the look of her outat. 1 worn over a fornísi wyenkig dresse

Laster-Agence France-Frame, Mink Man", in ihqering a num-

-China Mail Special

vinced that it is true, When a complete tragedy, involving not one thing folds up, it is often unly her livelihood but her main preludio to something interest in life. Both doors, it

#cemed, were closing on her.

just

Lise.

Take, for example, Eleanora J. Eleanora was a shy, studious, introverted girl who never could

She gave up the job-she had make light conversation and who to.

And when she pulled herself suffered a great deal when she was in her teens.

she together and talked 16 her family When

doctor, the discovered that the finished school Eleanora to be a librarian and was

WEO We offe as a receptionist. Sho Since she was accurate and met Bure it would be impossibic, ticulous she did most of thy be she had no skill with people and bind-the-scenes work, and was thought. But with her eyes as rarely asked to handle the front they were, it was the only solu desks.

a good job In her local?ly

kind of job she could take

was scared to death at the

tion.

That was three years ago. As the years went on, the bo- Elinora fould a job ob a recep came more stukdious and intro- tionist. It was a nightmare ot verted, never seemed to seqüire Brat, but she got better and nny acelal gructs. She Shed better at it. And, white che is the job, did it well and édvanced. no extrovert, she has learned to In fact, to millgate Her loneliness, like people and work well with she put in lots of extra time. them. In fact, she was just Then the tragic dóy, Eleanora's mode desistant to the bico eyes went back on her. At first, mariagerf

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