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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1955,

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

The party season is upon us - so take the trouble to dress 'Just right'

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DANCING in DECEMBER

HUNDRED

By Anne Scott-James

to

one the

line so utterly wrong for garet or Dior's famous diminu-

ive mannequin, Victoire, night.

you'll be dancing in December.

In the next few weeks there'll be office dances, club dances,

private dances, charity balls, New

If you want more coverage But I have said that fashion

to it.

make yourself a cape or a cloak. Both shapes are back in fashion is for the slender-and I stick and both are easy to construct, GO DANCING in plenty of

Fat women can be charming, jewellery, the costume variety

gay beautiful, alluring, but it's the shops are full of it, big. terribly, terribly hard for them Eve balls. night-club sparkly, and inexpensive. There to be chic is nobody NEED

glass necklaces, be fat, this should hurt purtios, roll-up-the-rug are splendid

handsome Italian bracelets and body's feelings.) parties, children's parties, really beautiful earrings, either and you'll be a miserable dangly or set close to the ear. So it seem to me logical to DANCING with dancy show clothes on slender women. GO ok sourpuss if you don't

accessories. Two to three petti- go to one of them.

As for the sort of clothes 1 conta under

dress (so your

110-

Dancing in December, what many dresses are ruined by not choor, I have never believed in

are you going to wear?

long

171 00 DANCING dress. 1. who love short even- they re ing dressos and think the smartest, prottiest fashion of the rules, say wear a boat dress this December. geat compliment you can pay to pty is 10 wear a full-length dreae.

The big

GO DANCING in a dress in on comphy sort of fabric,

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fabric that has spirit and style.

clothes for special uge

Those careful clothes "for the older woman" are a pain in the neck, So are those fluffy, tatty for the young. ranges designed

enough underskirting). Shoes speela) not dyed to match your dress groups.

far but-newer-made

you to the netual material.

and Gloves, of course,

the longer the better. An evening bag, of satin, or gold or silver mesh. Maybe n twist chignon cap at the back of your late,

or fr

But above all, go dancing in a long dres.

FASHION

Some materials are cosentially for the slender dismal. I think of the lin crepe dresses or of net, skimplly arid cantly crumpled. 1 1. Ned think of the brocade that looks like a piece of an armchair, or

HAVE had a cross letter from

a reader asking if I am in- terested only in the "young, tall

A good dress is a good dress and suite nearly everyone.

Good fashion is good fashion, whether you're 20, or 30, or 40, or 50, or more.

The clothes in my pictures today-who are they right for?

For all of you. others and daughters silke.

HUSBAND

of lace sugging in straight lines and alender." She says I show seen impersonated

to the floor. (Lace is a beauti

fabric, bui it must be

mifened and lined.

My own choice?

i

Chiffon if you like surt fabric, satin If you like a stiff

ዲት ኒ” . Chiffon to float, set

swirl,

QO DANCING with

R

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repl party-going wrap. (How rad coals do tuse old musquash took piled up on your hostes

needn't cost

vory much: billowy fox, in fluffy mohair, in

bed) A thick, wartn stole

even

¿

in

too many clothes for the willowy woman of 25.

tail,

HOW

TTOW does it feel to see your

for husband re-crested

I've never said fashion WBS only for the young. On the contrary, the greatest elegantes of our day are mostly over 40, The Duchess of Windsor, the Duchess of Argyll Marlene Dietrich, the Begum Aga Khan come instantly to mind.

D

Now. And here a great con- film? To watch him belag im- fusion of idens.

personated by a stranger?

And Do you feel you know understand the character on the screen

the whole provess quite impersonal?

I have been talking to Lady widow of Rear- Harwood,

Henry Harwood, Adenira! Sir hero of the Battle of the River This battle with the sinking of the Graf Spee, was one of the the noval battles in great Netson tradition light forces superior outmanoeuvring strength. It is being filmed now at Pinewood with Anthony Quayle as Admiral Harwood.

Wah There are

fashion

velvet, or thick hand knitting. I've never suld fashion

the tall. believe

strip of only for Army blanket, worn atolewise, plenty of pocket-size would look better than your plates, such as Vivien Leigh or daytime fur coat, the length and Margot Fonteyn, Princess Mar-

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ADD SPICE TO HOLIDAY FARE

By Alice Denhoff

EXHA Christmas

of

\XHAUSTED after a day After the doughnuts are cooked, split them open and fill with shop-

pineapple fluff, apple sauce or You could crushed cranberrica. make your culinary reputation at dinner. Instead, prepare the with these

ping?

Don't short-change the family

evening meal in an easy way! Dressed-Up Sweet Potatoes

Just open utin of pressed

No matter when they're ment, and garnish it with whole

hole served. candied sweet potatoes cloves. Sprinkle with mustard

www have

holiday #

and brown sugar, and dribble over it a spoonful of frukt jules Slavour about them.

-pineapple, organge, or what

and flavour.

Hot Cider

aroma

and

To serve 4 to 6, peel and cut in lengthwise halves 4 medium

Plate.

one

Just I intervlowed her

ngo in Paris. She was

Ludy Harwood told me that, year

to her, the hero of the film is then 10.

great naval leader, but not her husband. And

a

way she wants it.

the America that's

Since then, she has toured with all the panoply. of film star. has been offered Anthony Quayle did ask me thousands of dollars if she will about my husband's walk and only set gen to paper for news- Pis movements and his voice. papers or magazines.

But she is bo But I thought it would impossible duplicate them, he Francoise, had so many small mannerisms. Bohemian, Besides, Anthony Quayle isn't a bit like him, he is much younger and much darker.

"But I am very happy about him in the part. He is a real

and I didn't แก

wannt netor. meaningless film star.

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"When I watched him on the ket, I felt he was, like my hus- hand, the best sort of English- of man-be had the right air quiet authority."

Admiral Harwood was one of the rare men who is a legend in his own home.

Lady Harwood's two sons are

In the Navy, and her cottage is filled with

navel

photographs

and portraits and ship models.

who

still the

on

the

bruseque, scornful, defensive,

FRANCOISE BAGAN

talks in short, stabbing of which she understands every sentences that make the ques- detall. And in the hall there tons you ask sound frightfully stands a cracked lamp from allly. the Grat Spec.

have you. Place in the oven to Kized sweet potalocs. Place flut heat through and brown evenly side down in skillet with 2 c.

The cloves

Summer and fruit

Jules water and tsp. salt. combine for

aroma wase a holiday

covered, until tender, about 16 min. Combine e, light com syrup. c. brown sugar, thep. For something spicy and hat orange juice, tsp. grated orange after a busy evening of address rind, and 1⁄4 tsp. ground cloves. ing carda, gift wrapping, or Pour over polatoes. Dot with when guests drop in serve a tsp. butter. Simmer, un UNCHANGED sliced Apple Toddy.

covered, 15 to 20 min.

In the bottom of cach glass, glazed well, basting frequently-by success

cloves,

of

dissolve a jump of sugar in a top of hot water. Add 2 whole

piece Ye-in, clutamon stick and a twist of Muddle with a lemon peel. swizzle stick or the back of a spoon. Add. hot apple eider, and top it off with 4 tsp

butter.

Doughnut Trimmings Bakery doughnuts are bolter than ever, but just the same, at this time of year, you may want to prepare a batch of the home made variety.

with syrup.

Sweet Toast Here's a nice tidbit to serve for breakfast or with a cup of coffee al stack time.

amounts of

and

Combine equat butter and brown sugar, spread on one side of toast slices. Top the toast with chopped walnuts, and place, spread sidó up, on an ungreased cookto sheet. Toast at 350 F. for 5 min. This should be served im- mediately.

You might prepare a batch of To give a holiday touch to this delicious toast in advance, doughnuts, start by adding a to pop whole clove to the frying fat. need it.

into the oven as you

The World Will Look Brighter If

COMEONE I look forward to N

the extra- meeting:

Froncolse ordinary prodigy

whose first Bagan,

novel, Bonjour Tristesic, has rotted

comes £50,000. She her London for the first time.

You Can See It In Clear Focus.

we know

know one pretty miss

WHEN you hail a truck We

it's a taxi cab, the diagnosis tinually

Consequently sho

con-

to wear SPHICS,

passing friends by is easy. Lady, you need without so much as a nod, Sho glasses and don't wait to get didn't recognise them, but they

Just them.

sho naturally assumed It's surprising how women was stuck-up. manage to postpone a trip to. They only cure for needing tho oculist. It's pure vanity glasses is getting them. You'll end, poor dears, Instead of be surprised how much brighter preserving their beauty they're the world soeme when you can

working up to some big actually see it in clear focus.

problema. good-look

What's more,' glasses aru In the Best place, there's longer grim. Not on your lifel nothing

pretty about being, Fashion stylists have taken make them And quinty them in bandĪ, #yuinty-eyed. eyod is fast how one gets when bright and beautiful accessorice. it's zoocssary to peer intently, They come in various colours, at people to 800, who thay

your ore. so you can match them to -Point No. 3 is this: going wardrobe. You can have without glasses don't ebience silent ginnnow and glamour

personality, or popularit

Just

10

to

She was asked to Christmas story.

"Christmas docen't

me."

write a

interest

Was she likely to get married? "Why?"

What did she think of young Americans?

"Didn't meet any."

What is her new book about? "A woman and a man." Hos she learned any English? "Ten words,**

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G with a real perly

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turquoise mous mohair stole (above). GO DANCING with long,

white gloves and rhinestone jewels. GO DANC

in a a long dress,

this

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pink stiffened satin. GO DANCING 1 satin shoes and plenty of underpetticoats.

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PICTURES BY DAVID OLINS

Like all people who hit the top very young, she has aroused frenzies of jealousy and criticism

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