1956-03-17 — Page 9

THE CHINA' 'MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1958.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

PARIS

CALLS IT

"OPIUM'

From Pierre Balmain's Spring/Summer collection comes this luxurious evening gown of stiff white А Јарапене- silk ablaze with scarlet poppies. Its fitted waist billows out into a bell-shaped skirt.

inspired obi of black silk taffeta runs from the bust to the floor.

"LOOK LIKE A LADY" ADVISES DESIGNER

Three Rules For Good Dressing

BY JEAN WISEMAN

GCIHAT is it that men

most desire to see

in a woman's appearance""

be planned and placed carefully. Fit is everything

And although great designers are an inspiration for jewellery

According to Helen Rose, and accessories, their lines enn- head designer at the Metro not be followed since they may Goldwyn-Mayer studios for date before the film is finished.

more than 20 years, the menfolk want their Women to look ladylike!

"They like prettiness more presents.

aro

What happens to the fabulous wardrobes when the Alm over? Some are given to the sturs

*pecial AD

ocension" Period costumes are used again. Some dresses are than elegance or chle, Miss loaned out and others may Rose told me. "and if only

bluck and white women knew it, they just can't used for a

secondary Alm. go wrong in black, while red.".

or

Miss Rose knows what she is talking about. She has designed Л and private wardrobes for some at the world's lovelleat women including Elizabeth Tay

be

Mira Rosa la so devoted to her work that she postponed her European tour in order to dealen

lor. Lana Turner. Ava Gardner nome 20 cutits for Grace Kelly

und Greer Garson,

to wear in the film "The Swan. "The sexy look hos tile to Set in the 1910 era, the fashions

Miss nro not unlike

#in

with clothes," thinks

got it. It's not a

Hose. "You just have or haven't present

neckline Lana Turner looks as

moment

*

FOR THE SUNSHINE PARADE

The Foreign

Legion Inspires

Parts. Result is

PARIS FASHION :

Take It With A Pinch Of Salt...

Says Anne Scott-James

AM THE GIRL who But thes, all the working were In menial jobs.

loves now in fashion, women

Now the balanco- has shifted,

who would rather buy next year's line than, last year's, who adores Paris and is not scared by change.

a

I AM THE GIRL who, this season,

snys: "Take it with very big pinch of suit, It is not a godd season in Paris."

The higher waist is the news, and a raised waistline

one thing. But an

Empiro fancy dress is quite another pigeon,

$1

and many of the afternoon and evening dresses are just that, The chief interest they arouse is speculation as to whether

the wearer is pregnant. (One famous French mannequin" is, and that may be part of the trouble.)

many

beautiful

be

There aro clothes this season, of course. But my general Impression was of clothes that tried too hard to be different. That was until 1 saw the last Collection to shown, Balenciaga.

Balenciaga's clothes were so simple, su perieel, so new but so un-sensational that they everything else look strained.

(If ever I have a millionaire

shall not ask for dia

around,

made

and women are bursting into the professions with success.

SHE TOLD ME that she is no feminist, "I was necessary, but ive old-fashioned now," She wears model

to odol clothes, goes many first nights and partics, loves fashion and food.

SHE TOLD ME that, although the Collections show nothing but alarmingly luxurious clothes, the real uniform of Paris is a shirt and skirt.

well-to-do woman these may be expensive and beautifully made: bas even the smartest WORTEVE wear them.

"Who wears the negligees and the terrine afternoon clothes?" I asked. She said: "I simply don't know,"

AND SHE TOLD ME that shù in desperately depressed

with

the state of France. So much so that she has sent her son to school in Switzerland because she dislikes the atmospherė the Paris schools.

"France is decadent," A A phrase

you hear so often In Parts that it hos become П melancholy cilche.

WHAT FOOD!

monds or mink or a Rolls. shall say: "Darling, buy me a for a family Balenciaga,"

raises Balenciaga, too,

the waistline in some of his clothes (by no means all), but he does it quite gently. Often, Just a ribbon sash two inches above the normal waist.

THE TUBE LINE

for evening wear When he designs an Empire evening" dress, he sees that the dress partly its the body below the bust, instead of billowing out in the sicklike style of the old fashion plates.

IF you want marvellous food in France for a reasonable price, go where the French go for their Sunday blow-out.

Go to one of the check- tablecloth restaurants where the whole family aits down to a three-hour guzzlę, from grand- វរ, with her napkin fucked Inlo her ample black sath bosom, down to the tot in a black beret whose face just clears the table and whose tie gets into the gravy. I had such a meat in the Boule d'Or, in a very slummy quarter near the Gare de Lyon, His dresses are narrow tunic (imagine going for a gastro- dresses

for day, full tiered nomic pilgrimage to St Pancras dresses or narrow tubes for

of Waterloo.)

The Bottle d'Oy is run by a

night

That

And his suits are real sults woman, stout, charming, com~ with loose, brief little Jackets fortable Mamade Chambrette, take off. So much more who knows just about all there practical than the false jackets, is to know about food and wine. especially for those who adore

Her husband is the chef, but" to wear shirts.

madame manages the restaurant But I don't want to sound un- and the money bags. sympathetic to the rest of Paris. There were many new ideas many pretty, desirable

These are over 200 elasto clothes. Summing up the whole, French dishes," she said, “and sensoo, these Are the which I think matter mos

and

lines

She serves no specialite de la maison.

it you can do even half of them perfectly. It should be enough.

"However, we are a little bit

proud of our sauces here, and I recommend you to try the Sole an Vermouth.

WATCH for the raised waist, BUL, but take it easy. Don't be over anxious to make your waistline meet your bust. Often a belt worn a little higher will do the This wis i trick.

a sole in one of the best (and strongest) wine sauces SHORTEN your skirts.

I ever tasted. Madame Cham- HAVE A SUIT with a short, brette let me go into the kitchen. easy jacket, a short narrow which twinkled with copper skirt.

saucepans, and watch It being HAVE A SUMMER DRESS cooked. with a matching bolero or chop- When I say that the Foun ped jacket.

LOOK AT the adorable baby dor is cheap, I mean that a superb meal costs about 30s. a dresses Paris makes for sum- head. But I assure you that mer afternoons.

DAVE SHOES to match your dress, print gilk for stummÉT days, dyed satin for evening,

HAVE BIG HATS in pretty fabrics. This can't be said too often or too loud CAREERS

Women move up

TN Parts I met one of the top

a glamour hat carcer women in France, for women plan- Francoise

In

ning to bask

this year's sum mer

Deine.

by

Giroud, joint editor Mendes-France paper,

the of L'Express,

I had lunch with Francoise. Giroud and asked her some Genevieve Fath,

questions about It is made or more serious

We in France. straw the colour

SHE TOLD ME that the ex- of deserb Band. The deep crown pects to see many women reach

the top

of their professions in i trimmed with 10 years time.

black silk rib- bon and black spatbed white musiin fails from the shady brim.

London Squeras Bornico

There are only a few as yot, because it is only since the war up that women have taken

medicine, journalism, the law.

Surprisingly there are fewer women working now in pro portion to men than there were 50 years ago.

DRY SKIN TREATMENT

this is veTY cheap for Paris, where the inflation is so alarm- ing that it makes our verslon stem like a mild puff of breeze. SOLE AU VERMOUTH (four people) Lay eight fillets of sole side by

side

lo a wide flame-proof dish, just cover with dry ver- mouth

andi

poach. When cooked, take out the fillets and keep hot. Reduce the vermouth in the dish to a jelly, then turn the flame very low and stir in lb. butter, then four egg yolks. Do not let the

sauce Como tiear boiling point. When of a thick, creamy consis- tency, pour over the fish and

• serve.

Not an economy dish, I admit, but wonderful for a celebration.

NEW IDOL

in long hair

VER on the Left Bank the

students have a new idol. No more nibbled hairdo's after Leslie Caron. Now it's Brigitte Bardot with the provocative smile and waist-length hair.

I talked to Brigitte Bardot who is a naughty little minx, and

while mazio

she

по mistake

being WHS

up

at the film studio. She manage to look, ravishingly pretty in a blue wool dressing-gown and a schoolgirl plait.

· SHE came two hours late to the set which few stars dare do,

wera 30

By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.

The time passed quickly those

of the

To help clear up the condeing for Bardot because the RY skin is a common chores require great use of with high DR

winter complaint. water, strong soups and dition, it's probably a good people in the studio cleavage Empire bustlines and slim skirts.

My favourite was a idea to avoid soap and water tecentric. Not only is this duo to the detergents. Auch romantic film,"

as much as possible. Sponge bearded man to a fur fabric Grace relative low humidity, but exelling in a high-necked Sloppy alghed Miss Roso, "And Joe sweater. With her, It's a honka exactly tireom-goda teniso to the fact that your vary from only a slight, un to regular tub baths or nearly landed a job as an extra The skin dryness may baths are usually preferable moc toho was interviewing

some Suedes for bit parts. tongue-in-the-check sence of think her ice-cream-soda tweed circulation is somewhat humour plus tremendous pretti- riding habit will definitely start

comfortable feeling to showers, ness."

a trend. This is the ladylike slowed by the cold.. look indeed

the feminina Frequent and prolonged annoying roughness. Some- look that every woman should bathing in hot water, a com-

times your finger tips or mon winter practice for The Alm camera esn't lie-in For herself, Miss Roso consen- many of us, might also lead fact it magnifes every Hittle trates on N Interchangeable detall a thousandfold, the

TO

for to dryness of the skin.. wardrobe, the minimum woman who designs and super-travel and lots of black, vises the largest wardrobe in

A ALKALINE SOAPS established "Itave. the years

rules for good cross-

the world, pays ng much aften- undergarments

work for."

tions to enter clothes. Zins must ingres should say that be concealed dad aro umially at they hayo, wald Miss Rose. the front, since a star with bad have only three rules, first and posture will reveal the back zip foremost, simplicity. Next,

Too frequent use of alka he soaps, and detergent can be a contributing too Thin la denseially

un she moves, Beams have to famininity andy, finally, ikia,” of homemakers, whose dai

CHAFED HANDS

- BEE, seenis charmed, at the struggles of all the young giris in Paris to grow their hair from few Inches to a couple of feet.

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