1956-03-24 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1956.

Page

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

GOES PARIS

CRAZY

The main styles from the fashion centre of the

world are relatively sober this year... until you take a peep at another side of the business

[INETEEN FIFTY-SIX is Crazy Year in Paris →→→ at least as far as accessories are con- cerned. The look in general is lady-like, refined and quietly elegant-Parisians call it the "Grace Kelly look" — but it is offset by a touch of craziness in hats, in handbags and in shors. And there are other crazec ideas in this idea-packed city as well.

Thime are the Pust-in-Boots shoes, made of a new rubberized fabrik called Serolates. High-heeled shoes extend mto stocking-imgth tights and can be worn rolled down or up above the knee. Parisians are changing Their staow broly for these lighter, buckle-trimmed shoes,

ir showing in the Pith boutique,

Or what wout using a travelling dog kennel as a Dag-cum-shopping basket. That's what Madome Fath Other bags are made of coconut fibre and mounted on huumboo franies. Plain neck-lines are set off with pows and rows of wooden beads. parasols are matched up with sweaters mode of red and white filet other parasols have handles which imitate thick rose stems, plus thorns and are topper with a frill of pluk rose petnis.

High-crowned, wide-brimmed hats

of made

brightly coloured, paper-ne straw ure swathed round with matchingt chiffon through which an enormous, jewel-set Spanish comb is thrust.

And bench hats are the craz-ee-est yet

HOLLYHOCKS

Others are trimmed with toppling spires made of life- alzed hollyhocks and sure than life-sized poppies, or with Grunges that look as if they had come straight out of a Californian orange grove

A round, straw bag appliqued with half-oranges goes with

this one.

Now that one-piece swim suits have replaced bikinis, Paris designers have thought out a way of combining a turned midriff with a one-piece suit. They do it by linking up pantees and bra made of flowered cotten with a wide clasticised corselet, specially woven so that the sun's rays will go through.

costumes And as play-sults, they've borrowed Ideas from worn by clowns and pierrots. Made in striped or diamond- patterned cottons, these circus outats are meant for South of France benches this Summer.

Men are not left out of it in this Paris ideas race.

Gelot, famous hatter in the Place Vendome, has launched the "Sherlock Holmes cop" for men. This is made in palest banana-coloured velvet it in waterproofed and they are paired with similar caps made for little boys so that father and son will be hatted alike this Spring.

IT'S A SHOE

IVIERA PREVIEW

IT'S A BOOT

IT'S A STOCKING

CRAZEE... as a clown.

Monsieur Honry ala Pensco dreamed this one up. It is play-sult... due to be seen on the Elviera later this year.

OLD WIVES'

they should

bu,

Welled old wives' tales,

I will never know. They are

WORLD COPYRIGHT NESERVED.

CRAZEE ... but true. These are shower shoes that can roll up abovo the knees depending on the weather.

Betty Wilson

IT'S

(a poodle)

IN THE

BAG

CRAZEE... but clever. Madame's bag is a wicker travelling kennel plos purse. Toy poodles now traverse Paris in comfortable safely. If you do not see much of Madame it is because sho is on guard against the treckis

danger. Both ideas come from Genevieve Fath.

At a recent show in London, the umbrella, is seen as

A Future

Fashion Accessory

London fashion will be just as insepar HE English "gentleman" able from an umbrella as their Thas long been known the

husbands.

Some are long and slim. Some Many are shorter and fatter, have amusing covers with petal- shape corners, of "cuffs" in astrakhan or mink. Some of the covers ar embroidered with looped

Handles are hooked,

world over for his smartly Umbrellas of every shape and Occasion, from rolled, ubiquitous umbrella. size for every

early morning to late at night; Often, this umbrella is for men, women and children sequins, rhinestones and pearls. joked about. Sometimes it but mostly for women--and for crooked, straight, or just bent. all weathers, were featured at Some are in plastie, some in is even ridiculed. But every London's first umbreda show. fluorescent perspex; others are where it is recognised as

in tortoiseshell,

all leather, or

wood. the hallmark of its owner

In the past, umbrellas have One is in the shape been regarded by women 18 from whom it is

head clophant's

Many have utilitarian purely

accessories,

shepherd's crooks.

Some áre separated.

designed to protect them, often Anished with flowers or studded Now, if the umbrella makers rather madequately, from

with diamante. ravages of either rain or sun. women

In future, the umbrella is to become us inuch a part of every smart woman's wardrobe as her handbag or her gloves.

have

their

way,

never

TALES AND FISH STORIES

By W. W. BAUER, M.D.

"

the

of

Confidence and serenity

summer

new

in

the

the

A magnifying mirror on end of the handle of a green one in much-ruched silk enables the owner to keep watch on all

unnoticed.

A DITTY

"The rain it raineth every day, "On the just and unjust falla. "But chicly on the Just, "Becauso the

creating

..

quite a stir

the beautiful new

gay

Easter Bonnets...

a new collection of Spring hats higher, wider and more handsome than we remember

can , ever before flourishing in beautiful abundance.

from $25.00

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now

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The latest umbrellas are novel As well as useful. They may match your cult or contrast with it. They may extend over

And, after the musical fob, that

evening

comes the musical umbrella, A dress a

musical box concealed in luxurious canopy of cloth of gold y

enter calm relaxation and con- trimmed with mink, or over the the end of the handle

tains the

owner with a tune Ascot dress a pagoda- fidence.

Jiko

structure in lace, printed whenever she feels so it. cotton or schirred chiffon

Finally, there is the new ditty 236-7-8 Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon, of the umbrella-makers to warn not confined to old wives, greatly reduced by many reduced until most preg for the expectant mother

There are 12-inch long tele- all woman who tend to leave

umbrelins, not indeed to wives. Many means ranging from anes nancies now may confidently of today are fully justified.

embroidered

sequin their umbrellas lying about: case, designod old-fashioned spinster thesin through so-called be expected to result in a If she goes to her. doctor especially for handbag. has done her share in per- natural childbirth to hypnot- healthy baby and a healthy early her morning sickness brains of woven nylon in pastel

There are ordinary,

size um- petuating the evil of old ism.

and happy mother.

can be greatly relieved, shades, of black cobweb Ince wives' tales.

Not only has pain been Except for the actual shortened and sometimes Interwoven A glistening At one time there was minimised, but so has dan birth the modern husband eliminated. The hunger stiver thread and complete with spider considerable

with glass CYLJ, harlequin warrant for ger. This in itself is sufli- now shares the responsibi- stage in pregnancy can alsoja velvet Black Widow some of the stories because ciently dramatic, but along litles which go along with be controlled

effec striped cotton, and of white the things that happened to with the saving in lives expectant parenthood and its tively. Diet and weight broderie anglaisa reminiscent of women bearing children there are a good many other realisation. Less and less can be regulated and the grandmother's petticoat. were pretty horrible. The benefits..

does the expectant mother mother can be prepared for difficulty is that super-

have to face her pregnancy birth and the aftermath alone while her husband and a safe and happy re- goes about his business and turn to her normal acti-

stitions and old wives' tales about pregnancy and child- birth do not disappear as science

and progresses. justification for such stories

censes.

The loss of attractiveness, his social life as if nothing vities. particularly as to figure, is had happened.

more

with

FOR THE WEDDING

There are umbrellas covered with pleated nylon frills, with flowers--carnations от water

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g even

unjust

pinched the just's umbrella."

-China Mall Special,

All That Glitters May Not Clean Well

Silver Springs, Md.

silver. les or white nylon lace over All that gold and

plated lingerie of the holl ice blue taffeta.

a first rata minimised by modern ob The old wives' tales have

Unmindful of the old proverb day season poses stetrical practice in which been compared to

"happy the bride that the sun problem for the cleaning. in fish

shines on", there

diatry. weight gain is controlled,

The National Institute. pl Dry stories. Perfectly honest The younger mother-to-be acientific supports are pro-

Many women have ex-wedding umbrella in white satin

expect the impossible from those will not be cheered by being vided, and muscle tone and reliable men are known perlanced a greater state with a bunch of white Illes-of-Cleaning warned wamen not to to be completely unbeliev of wellbeing and feeling the valley once with coloured garments The Institute says told that after having maintained during

pregablo when they talk about good"* during pregnancy balls all up the centre spike and they can be dry-cleaned or hand baby she will never be the nancy and, after the baby the fish they have caught, than at any other time.[on each point round the rim. wet-cleaned if the garment de same; that she will lose her is born. The injuries and charm and begin to get old; damage to the genital organs Perfectly truthful women Perhaps this is due in a Another, in black and white sign permits, Protect the garment black cotton bobbler. Yet stain. Most of the materials used that she will suffer unspeak is minimised by more skill may exaggerate stories large part to the growing stripod cotton, has a fringe of from lipstick or other pot or able pain; that terrible ed obstetrics and the after about childbirth, or build habit of continuous prenatal others are adgod with matching, by a commercial spotter in a dry-cleaning plant to take out things will happen to her in math of childbirth is no them up for dramatic effect care beginning with the gilt or sliver braid and ever

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