1956-01-21 — Page 9

· THE CHINĄ MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1956.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

THE JENNIFER HOWLAND

New

GLAMOUR STYLE OF

A

GIRL FOR

WITH 1956.

Two Scotswomen started a salon for offs in the world of Haute Couture. they receive orders from near and

ANOTHER

Page

HERE'S THE PROTOTYPE Paquerette

OF GLAMOUR FOR 1956

NECIL

C

London hend, A ridi-

re- culously small waist, plenty of

BEATON marked about that

famous beauty and fashion

curves, feet,

ilny and

leader of the 'twenties studied disdain. Mrs Dudley Ward

Now here the Into the lead

that

had she appeared on

girl who would

London scene 20 years in the fashion earlier she would have been seene, domes u described

under- fook ridiculous nourished messenger boy.

2 an

Twenty years before she

in the kind of

clothes that made

Barbara

with broad

hit the social scene the famous==ā beauties of the day were shoulders, and

llam-

Б

capable flat

large. Curvaceous, boyant, and feminine. And hands,

win Was

more bosom,

of Long. skender

yet she. copied than any woman her Lime. Was a flat, quiet boyish figure.

For looks, be so much

and

Way of wearing

clothes

else,

Each

way I school- blazer.

wuty

is a question of Uming era has its on glansour its uwa girl of

the moment.

of

John

On tir.

today 1 French pleks his girl manent den, afe Howlats, the prototype of glamour for 1938.

SEE WHAT I MEAN 7

And since she is the girl who THE siimmed is a clinic in

looks the way most fashionable women will want to look by the end of 1956, here's a top-tv-los analysis

(by John French of his girl of the moment. ---

She has the kind of fner that

with looks best

medium- bob. Her girt length, Garbo-ish

woman

HE new smart place to go to London where they

claim to fat girl under 25 fake 20lb, off years old, and up to 151. off her if she is over 26-in one Curse

of six treatmen15. A gy figure who has

to get weight off "It's easier been around the fashion scene

young girls," says the unsoliced for two years, the s

head of the clinic.

buy suckienly the lops. And

usually have a "They

In view and will be strict with a dop of hair, an average broad shoulders are perfect for

Ands the new loose straight couts.

Older slimming. She has the kind

the of long, about

women usually won't be so fr elegant lines that suit the new

with themselves. But mind you, slack-waisted clinging skirts.

if they cheat, I offer to stop the And a general air of unfuss- ness which sulls the new easy treatment and give them their

which are on

money back." casuuj tashloas

treatment the way.

wals, and

Garba

K4t

urself boukset France

Here

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wii la girl who the

next 101

is

First, a thermal bath (from the Mayo clinic in America), This is a box you sit in and perspire. Your head sticks out

1 the top and you can have a facial at the same time.

Second, in oxygen bath with under-water massago (this is part of the treatment used for curing polio).

Third body massage. And fourth, a diet.

"Most of my patients," says the head woman, "are women who want to keep their hus- banda, or women who want to

ket a job."

THIS PARTY

BORE IS TAPED

A

NEW Incance Brrives--for the family friend. In addition to the maps, the colour trans- parencies, and the movies, he may now have the tape recorder.

Tape-recording companies in Britain report that half the hundred per cent increase in sales over the past year is duc tu sales for the home, where young people now record their wedding, their parties, even the baby's first words...

A GIRL'S

BEST CLOTHES

NOTED in Picendilly.

NOT

Two

French mod:1

Kiris

laying

men's cashmere overs which had

pull-

been

dured pounds,

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eight

10

four

They

and sloppy season's

Each era has its own glamour, Barbara Goalen pul over fashion with the help of a neat cropped

That's Jennifer Howland,

The new slimming is a four-port affair.

TAILORED SUITS HAVE

-J

wear them loose with long sleever pushed up, over straight tight with a while, high- skirts; collared shirt showing beneath the V neck of the sweater. -London Express Service.

BECOME

A POPULAR CHOICE IN ITALY

THE

THE tailored suit is the

nverige

woman's

or more

By GINA POPESINA

colours

Muf

to-

the

Most of the overcoats shown by this house were loose-fitting and full with a curved shoulder- in soft, stand-by for between season two

mixed quality wool fabric, It can be line, and were made wear in the spring and with bluck, and

One of the heavy worn equally well in the day- piled wool fabrics.

most attractive ume et in the evening, accord- the autumn, but this year weight grey flannel. Often they

by Naide comprised to what accessories

ore ensembles

a coat in lemon-yellow AW DOI having are trimmed with small round Italian women are

However, some collurs of black Persian lamb worn with 11. suits made up 131 warm, or a scarf in the same fabric or of the models are intended only Shelland and a dress in fog- grey wool. The high-waisted for the more 'dressy" occasions, heavier weight wools for in occlol fur.

out gradually of cont flared

wards the hem from just winter wear.

The very latest tailored suits being trimmed in a variety

beneath the bustline and This seems an excellent idea re Influenced by the tune line. ways with rich silk or velvet.

elongated jackels

dress also featured the high- cast- to copy heemse

as always They have

TURIN BIDS FOR

waisted Empire look. flat- FASHION FAME

The long thin spaghetti-look Now looks smurt, the career woman, widening to the hemline and a particularly, always looks right slightly-marked waistline.

ened bustilne and

the sults double-

was emphasised in Florence and, to shown by SOLARO. Here the brenaled fastening over narrow far.in tatlored clothes.

Italian women have quite

Biesser extent, Milan, have al- jackets managed to be both number of different styles from skirts.

wear ready established themselves as straight und yet fitted at the For dav-into-evening which to choose. There are, for

come the ever-useful dress and centres of Italian fashion. Now same time, by means of clever instance, those with full. pleal-

la vertical darting. con- another Italian city, Turin T'hese ed or bell-shaped skirts and jacket ensembles.

Coats in this collection werd short jackets which button from sist of a simple sheath dress, making a bid for fame in the

Informal same field.

either is ideal for

three-quarter have small which neck to bem and

And a semi-

three wear,

Recently,

of Turin's seven-eighths length and were or rounded evening lapels and classic

tho

Solaro and typical of the "bare" line--0 designers Nalde, collar. The favourite fabric for Atted jacket which makes

of trend which is so noticeable in this type of suit is a Shetland ensemble into a suit. A number Panle-held a fashion show

of colour of the jackets B these en winter models at the Carignano Italian fashion this season, being wool in two tones

feature the Thearle. piso

The models displayed devoid of all unnecessary trim- or sembles. such as blue and green

the high mings. Instead, the clothes rely elongated basque.

certainly maintained brown and beige.

Lastly there Then there are the suits with

tractiveness lead-

skirls und straight, and silen

These are to The waisted Juckels.

be found in wool tweeds, with

Their Business-Second-hand Clothes Of Quality

a

be

Glasgow. Seufland people night surprised if

T first glance it's they knew some of their cus

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t

butser who range from

ng lights of the sochil salon that holds the entertainment worki fashion secrets of many. a wives of professional men. well-dressed woman.

a quiet ton at cul-prices is a lure You nip down lane-not far from Glas- women from far and

towns Scotland, and from beyond her

The attraction of being able to keep up a fashionable repula-

gow's famous Sauchiehall from the cities and

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near-

Street and climb a steep borders to cities like Birming- stairway to enter it,

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ham in England. On reflection you realise

*kidly enough fashi store that its location off (but buyers, who like to dress well

out of nut

their not too far off) the beaten but

stock), are among the regular track has been carefully patrons of Mrs Morrison red chosen, because the oh-so- Mrs Redford, Some of them discreet manner in which make the trip to Glasgow from the business is conducted the cities

is behind its success.

The two women running this concern are. in fact. in the second-hand clothing Trade. But this is an uld-clothes shop u the de lære level.

It deals ins

of the UK, ut Tre- quent intervals, showing up at the pleasant premises which thoroughly meril the tie 'salon.

ORDERS BY MAIL

The agency

k

the cast-offs of the "very best" orders nowadays. gels overseas

A former

people-and only slightly-worn cilent air-mailed a request from clothes at that.

the Far East for several cock-

Six years ago Mrs Elizabeth Anil dresses. Another recent

a second-hand order was from Canada.

Morrison and

saw scope for

woman friend

iri Glasgow

dress agency

specialising 11

model clothes,

HOW IT BEGAN

"We keep our standard high, That's why we've been 80

couture and successful," said Mrs Morrison. "We buy nothing costing under eighteen guineas

in some lines twenty-five guiness. And we purchase only from

new.

It is a place where socialites people introduced to us, so that who can't afford to bo scen more than two or three times we know where

come from."

our clothes

in one outfit can dispose of On the salon rails I saw their clothes, and where other

and duywear Avonden with dress taster above evening-gowns

bearing the labels of Hartnell,

their income can buy the

clusive "hand-me-downs."

-KO

Worth, Hardy Amies and others.

Response to t circular nd- priced at third do a filth of

original cost.. freshly

dressed to women noted for their and

their expensively elegant dress- cleaned

brand-new.

ing was such that the enter-

prising Mrs Morrison and her

be no difficulty

R

stock.

The wall-gowned ladites

"Somo

Often

looking

of our stock has

A

For

is the

POME,

of

or

un tailored sult. This is enjoying standard of originality and at- for detail interest in the fabrics

black

line.

a great revival

Made in a plain, good-

at the present expect favoureri”

we have come to of Italian fashion.

Consta

Guidi

Maricelli

Capucci

friend were assured there would actually never been worn," ex- in building up plained Mrs Morrison. "That

this wall with a silim skirt and vieni silver lame evening-gown, for instance," "Apparently the lady

·butions tram pook" to "Bam small fortune jumped at the chance of mak- have it made did not like her-

who paid a solf in it when she got it home

And often this agency's cus-

CAROSA: Heavy wool fabris in a striped design is used for

ing their 'cast-offs' pay offl

Then

bojan. customers

to

to

· they

the straight" isek

flecked with

come along, in a furtive trickle tomers romp a bargain because at first. Now the total rung into a husband has disapproved of thousandalen

Who buys the couture cast his

wilo's expensive drena

offs? Mrs Morrison and her choice, and

partner,

stellas lost, her

Dundee born Mr arte dor it in bocquencom

Hiod jačkes which

shed verlion)

of which they are made, either in the pattern of the weave or the low- variations in surface level waisted semi-filed look for the pile. Ideal for this purpose sults. These, Incidentally, were are such fabrics as tweeds

in different all types, boucles, chines, fabrics

of

01

executed mainly

types of Shetland

and

herring bene twoeds.

way,

Elegant simplicity

was

or wool tartans.

Wool tartans, by the

the were used with great effect by

her and

theme of the dresses by this PANTE for some very youthful- designer. Made in light, velvety looking suits with full, pleated

Also included in jerseys skirts. or wool draps

with printed

richly collection were straight

they simply-styled topcoats in

in wool fabrics and set of smart alernoon dresses in wool jersey.

wool (some coloured Chinese motifs), spindle-like all were appearance.

Solara

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Maide

soft

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the

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NOW

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the matching cardigans are either trimed

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