1955-11-19 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1955.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

HOLA!

A portrait dress for i ball inspired by Spanish routurier Rodriguez à Velasquez dress with bands of black velvet appliqued Di to white silk. From Jacymar.

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ANNE SCOTT-JAMES reporting from MADRID

I'll

H

give in-black IS right!

Especially if you add

one vibrant colour

Madrid.

MET beautiful girl wearing a green Spanish jumper suit i found a fine collection of Spanish -sweaters. I heurd news of some Spanish-looking swimsuits, } saw advance sketches of some Spanish- inspired fabrics.

All in London All in one week.

So I now to Madrid to trick out of this was mere chance or

if there ne now bubbling of Spanish fashion

I spent a week in Madrit and Barcelona, with sorties into the mitry round about.

I've visited couturiers, factories, shouN. I've talked to well- dressed Spanish women and Pve watched the Jet-eyed Riris who strail on the sunlit streeta.

1 And masses of tasty and talent here

Quite a lnd to be learned and angud and bought if one could swim through the problems of doing business in a country where and it is always afternoon. affairs move with Orientał słownIENS

Thrilling Hobby

For Housewives

Kansas City, Mo. Patrol here and helped fami- Wright Brother arme CAP cadets in dying.

One of het Arst students was a

young man

Troved long ago

that

who

IVE SEEN the best jumper suits outside Switzerland helter, perhaps, and half the price.

The genes Labs are treated so they never stretch out of shape. The patterns are unique: Jacquard woven mesales, dowers, abstract pat- teins by arlast designers.

The new enlours are ethereal pinks and blues for spring, combined with a spot of dark colour for strength

"P

The suits are individually cut and finished by hund.

THEIR IDEAS Afor suede

One

flying was not just for the proached the plane, Saw her birds, and today 2111 ner und exc.almed,

getic organisation of women

is proving that it's not just

for the men.

ey are the Ninety-Nine, a Cothreadly - Pcognised group Women flic

who

were 1-

Wan driver?**

"What!

Flut be mude the fight and I'VE SEEN the twin set of the year

one

Tater faspel Miss Rea it was

Ruest flights" he เวส

of Lae ever made.

Mr Marie Kuhlman, Ruther

Panikud by Amella Earhart Kansas City Ninety-Nines mem- 1. fore her tragic disappearance ber, helps her husband, O. E.

BR veur agu.

The chapters of he Ninety-

Kubiman, by

Aying on com- for plastics

Nines are senttered throughout y business

the Vulte Stae. Camura anl

Alu kar They thy fo

barthes, famil

1

Miss Neva Rea Ja tent of

the 25 women

WEL

Isticke

The Kansas City chapter, that for the he use wife forsking for a hobby it's different, fer things can compare with #sang for excitement,

"Our chapter is sterticated

Ben he owNS.

Mis Kubloon

vigation, bud

le Tas wa

Best studied look flying

or so it seemed after the second ceremonial sherry. The sweater was blnek, patterned with white The curdigan was of block suede, like a silky pussycat.

This combining of suede and knitting is chic and exciting. like

The suede here is more

velvet than ke heavy leather.

I'VE SEEN a ferally dawn -

of the ready-made Spanish Jersey sults that Brilish customera аге fighting for, well cat and hand finished. From Rimad

I TALKED to two of the most famous women in Spain, And found each, in her way, pre-orcupled with her family.

1 TALKED to the young, proity Duchess of Alba, who is desernded from the Stuarts and has one of the largest fortunes und estales in Spain.

a few of next ed on me I was missing a lot year's beach things-too early.

She has three little boys and get, for the main collections

The towel cloth is outstand- ALDA her homes personally,

T

hy tka wing how to

fly."

Mrs Lauro Grmin, another

woven double, one set of meticulously. Outside her homo beautiful colours on one side one

of her

18 big interests And another on the reverse.....

charitable work for children.

T

is active Kansas City pilot, earn-

24 hr Jrence three years they tell me nobody else

the proposition that

for women

weld

String

17

The la

day

t

hu

men." said Miss Hea, a of 10 years of flying Inny have been

ying was fro

MR

the day IN Leling and Dust,"

Sho

eslimated there

Are

40 000 to 50,000 women pilets in the United States, with more and more women learning to Ay every day.

Miss Reu look up dying after she began wondering what kept the plane in the air while on commercial flight That led to dying lessons, und, unce started, she couldn't stop.

She said her Arst solo Hight "was the thell of a fetime" and feed her to get a ilcenes to haut passengers.

She later became the first wonian pilot with the Civil Air

! dues fying for her hus- ban 1. Mark, who is in the con-

business

do it.

She apologised to me for "all Between It's made into very Spanish- the confusion" In her upart- bausmess flights, she found time lucking beach cupes, beach ment, because she is moving to arteipate in three national tundes and

Laces

an

I have not seen a woman, old

shirts and ole house, back to the Palace of cwn's dressing gowns.

Liria, which was damaged Youngest of the Kansas City I'VE SEEN handbags so soft

the Civil War. Naely-Niness Pat Riezyski, and supple, so well designed, 16, who has Just attaine the thu I'd love to see them" in-

her

father

turo

are

!

gum,

But neither is it so vulgarised. or young, whose eyes were not The air is not tainted with the of American chewing Vonloads of priceless Spanish large and black and dominat odour

Tho beautiful mountain Ing. age needed to get Reence, ported into England (Spanish and English pictures and furni-

६६ She took up fying to find out leather is probably the best in

And they are heavily and roads are not blistered by why

for brother the world).

being moved from expertly made up. Long lashes hideous adverts And

stockings thought is interesting,

apartinent to paluce, and the are inked with mascara, eyes and tyres. And you can wander

with busy Duchess is

outlined supervising thickly

black peacefully through a cathedral unmolested by chattering touts the hanging of each Velasquez. pencil. How right they are,

selling picture postcards. Then, think of them wearing black.

The oldest jo "about 69," but Miss Hea explained that women pilots in their 60's are not un- common.

Learning to Hy 1: dimeult, Miss He said, but once you've learned's easier than driving a rar. In fact, she added, 'si much easier than driving and much less nerve-racking.

And you don't have so many men to razz you as do wonten nuto drivers-United Press.

Don't Scratch That Itch!

— Instead, See A Doctor

By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.

DON'T scratch that itch!

Continued rubbing

over

It gives only tem- long period of time frequently relief and it might which the skin becomes thick

porary be harmful.

results in lichenifcation in

and leathery.

never

expect

there are songs I don't know aboul, but tho prices scents 10 low that even if these bags arrived home # treble the price I'd still think them cheap. For instance, I've known what to do about an !! the evening bag-1 hate enes know, especially those nasty lttle beaded objects.

I've bought a beauly here, shaped like a big folding purse, in very soft black sueda for 28%.

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considered one of

the best- dressed women in Spain. She ITALKED to one of the

told me that four-fths of her best-known writers in Spain, wardrobe is black. Carmen Laforet,

WHEN I write my page from whose third

abroad I like to send The New Woman, has "I wear briliant colours novel,

You the nicest local she said, "but the recipe for Just won the £2,000 Menorca the summer,

dish. Most of the food bere always black in the winter." prize her earlier books sold

would be too exotic to translate above the 50,000 mark.

Even the young girls in the to the English kitchen. The shops and

black best recipes begin: "Take eight Carmen Laforet, striking They look chic and striding as different kinds of shell fish..........” and looking, intellectual, lives in

a individuals, rather sad fut full of water colours and sombre as a crowd puts hand-painted pottery that could just as well be in Hampstead

1 or Chelsea.

I'VE SEEN colours used in a wonderful way.

don't clash

The Spaniards coluura, like the Itellans. They pick ene vibrant use it with black.

colour

The couturier Pertogaz a short black crinoline under a fuchsia evening

lines a black cont peacock blue.

dress cont with

cafes

wear

and

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delicious drink served in restaurants: Sangria, Think of them in the country, Spanish wearing Tather astonishing which a light, economical, the Aweeds. Much more sport goes perfect drink for a young party. But she is far more domesti- on over here then

you would cated than the

literary ladica imagine, and many women, as

well as mon, go shooting.

at home,

I saw a woman in a restau- rent with a crimson satin scarf against black hair, black øyes,

"I am terrified of literary The Spanish tweed black dress, coat, hat and shoes. gatherings," sho told me. "Iere surprisingly good.

Everywhere black, black, never go to parties and I'don't right black SEEN little that inter-

often travel,”

What can you do about that

Itching, or pruritus as it is

itch?

called in medicat terminology,

is not a disease; it is a symp- Better see your doctor

tom. It is a disorder which away so he can find out what

cousing iL Remove the ested source and you remove the itch.

may be localised or generalised is and it may be from Internal or external causes.

There are numerous external

Among them may

deodorants,

CRUSCS.

insecticides, soaps,

dyes

be

and

me in, afternoon evening clothes. Even tho em- broidery is a pala shadow of Paris,

It's the sports things and

And she was too shy to ro to the presentation to collect her prize.

She has four young children,

so badly something always tyre at home.

He might suggest you change accessories that provide what "go, naturally,” she said, "I am pollens and physical your diet, avoiding fish, shell-wo need. changes such as dryness of the fish, pork, strong cheeses und a bit different."

chaling and tickling chocolate.

skin,

caused by furs.

Dandruff, excessive

dryness

or Irritating hair tonies general

ly are the cause of an

schip.

Before he can cure you per manantly, however, you've got Itching to break the scratching habit,

its cooling

Promod to halt. Itchin

THEIR

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"How do I at in, my writing?

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But

Spanish woman's lot of ice. shooting outfit-tweed jeans or light tweed toreador pants with pompons, a short Jackot, and a cape or tunic`over the top- would cause a bit of eyebrow- raising on a Scottish moor,

the fourth you've had plenty of i One sad thing I haven't seen prpotica,"

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HE women here are great home women. Thole life is effect is ono of the dus the mmily. And for Boralsh Woollen underwear, dyes ot.. too, is used a lot, by woman your socks, soap and cold water great care must be taken even in being role ne loneliness minder myself.

They have large familiey`s 204 THEIR DRESS phenol preparations. If applied to extensive spens, adore their children.

housekeep

vid —in dramatic beautifal(73) And Continued and vigorous absorption of phenol can induce scratching can causo even gangrene. So, don't use it men come-home "at midd

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