1956-05-12 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1956.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

PICTURED BY DAVID OLING.

A GIMMICK FOR EVENING:

Lift your waistline with n

fringed orgaudio tichu santied under the bunt with

ribbon and pinned with a rosc.

velvet

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NEW CAPELINES

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quaring reatty 12, they have ulses mergured a row name, capes Bat-impotted Truth Banter as

of Landore's Madame Stone Altman.

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cut away at the back and pared somewhat in front to an oval effect. Some are

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GET THAT SPRING FEELING... WITHOUT BUSTING THE BANK

Let's Go Nap On Gimmicks

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cascading out of an

circle in the crown. AB

Fruit, dowers, ribbons, tulle, *ging te jessels are all seen ai purduan as brimoung.

Machinar Mirman banes of red currants ( it bushes

all shining black straw, while black cranks are strewn over a Luge white organza capeline with open er to give a ring !! A cloche is made entirely sat alay set and one evening ant

In enteredy macks up of violets and lasts green hows, Posy rings Jest bank and white jasmine fram opether, on a lated, a stand mem fitesides pee on a que

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BEEFEATERS' CAPS

By Anne Scoft-James

AXCEPT for the occasional gula party,

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I hate wearing fancy dress. Which

is why I've bought very few clothes this garak se 18. When Fashion becomes "ebs

b you can count me out,

I just feed in my English bones that the caftan, the obi, and the carnco were not designed for me. And I am giving The French Empire line a miss.

alamit a model in IAPE Py. Matale Market or an terhol

in 14 Abu: kage Govt.

Besides, F 1ml that the must wear- able clotno the spring are surch waloreal cleast 21 versions of the Empire style mostly the tube dreven with same sort

Thut the der the st contener of hestay F yone withexat auts. contemporary ehte to take its place.

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In other words, I like my old elest hom better.

ROMANTIC, UP IN-THE-CLOUDS

A GIMMICK FOR DAY: Get the big-haited look with swathed with a polka-dot scarf,

But as it's spring, and as I'm human, 1 Jong for something new. I don't want whole new outfits, because I don't like the now, distorting line.

That I do think it's a season te ATU bust CUTE gim- micks.

Furbeles indi AVERNS Nat

never been prettier Live fate. Busy as camry Dow The

Porky Potuntie and up-on-the

hared.

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hanya + organdle with a doppy collar.

BENCH yourself with fake Nowers Big roses, carnations,

of the valley

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fashion for the first spring for years

Fake roses elamber over hots, sprout out of evening heeldines, are launched on a tapet

straw beach

hat

Woman Photographer Finds Gallant Gentlemen Galore

New York Must of for portraits bear the who mark of her individual techni- those [EN, even

a deep contrast of light reputations for

and shadow.

She said

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woman.

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then uses

she the

Awadhe mund var heat, a softer being irascible, are likely to

catter stok. And if you be gillant to a photographer, ait bien subjects before

done if the photographer is softest of all

friendly rather than the awed She said she often rate, has approach. ALL ADY

of disarts them with a conversa- the your jewellery - been

experience

tional gambit they don't expect, ferently. A clip or brooch will Kathering Young to whom a sometimes even olt a contro-

has been what versial subject. engraved invitations are to shoes; social-climbers and magic senson. carpets to would-be travel-

look over of your coff, at your waist, on your hip, thun at your camera

kline or lapt

WEAR pretty-pretty they are a siga of the Podel shoes, printed silk adves, lers. free heels, jewels are worn

Mott-dressed for.

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Short Evening Dresses Can

Be Just As Grand...

By DOROTHY BARKLEY

London

MS is the time of year

when everyone scems to be planning holidays. Overseas visitors are already arriving in bown for the spring and summer Londoners themselvs are on the move.

and

What kind of clothes de Valovian wallpaper-patterned | designers suggest for travel ribbon in slitched on organza to and for off-duty wear this downward form a code bat Inished with a covering a largo part of the face.

Takes velvet ribbon year? rund the "crown.

the

brim

A new are rently upturned in reversed mushroom effect,

All are shallow. A low crown merges almost imperceptibly into

Madane Mirman goes back to

For travel clothes they offer

The two extremes,

Medieval and Raaissance as formal and the informal. land for inspiration for her

20th century Favourile amongst Lie version of the mob cap. One at- formal styles is the dress little charlotte in white and coat outfit, which has

delicately Chi-

rejuvenated broidered with anall flowers in been

the brim-or frankly rises from "charlottes" the edge to point in the centre without any clear definition.

Many

to

have

to resort to claws them

Clay, to the hood.

all comewhat

Large as they are, they are ai ways light, whether made

of

or

tulle, organiza or in one of the new feather weight plain fancy straws.

HIDES THE FACE

this

two shades of red. Ancher. season and is now no longer embroidered and trimmed with the preserve of dowager Tudor

a frill, 13

la reminiscent of the duchesses and the like. The ador eps of the "Beclenters".

well-known to all visitors to dress is either a slim sheath

Victor Stiebel's evening out- fit is in allpper satin.

heads of pretty model girls with and the coat, which is lined of the

rhinestones. For dramatic con-

No Hattery please

Miss Young said her experi- ence in photographing perso:1- Miss Young has met hun alities has taught her that they flattered are so used to being dreds of very prominent that they're bored with it, people-mostly MUNOVET a lens, and travelled a goot part of the world to do it.

"Being a woman is more of a help than a hindrance in this business because most men in the public eye are gentlemen." she said.

As silters she described fery labour leader John L. Lewis as "most

and co-operative,"

A Rustin's Andrei Vishinski #y "Lamb."

Celebrated sitters

Miss Young, who used to be 01) artist and a landscape architect, deserted her brushes and dratung board 15 years ugo to become a portrait photo- grapher. Now It is her ambi- tion to photograph all current prominent people who art making history. She has made a mighty good start in the past 15 years.

Her studies have been on ex- hibition all over the country, as well as on books jackets and maguzinie covers and on the pages of many magazines and newspapers. Her silters have Included such well-known per-

E

. former

Foralities as former President Harry Truman; secretary of state, Dean Acheson; India's Madamo Pandit, France's Vincent Auriol, tho United Nations' Ralph Bunche, sculptor Jo Davidson, and stage and screen star Vivien Leigh.

Individual techniquo

the Tower of London.

or a feminine princess style, evening dress in opaicscent slip- Helmets.

100, appear on the in a printed cotton or silk, per satin, embroiders the front kirt with pearls and upswept hair. But feathers 1-

Miss Young is most sorry place the steel of the mediaeval to match the dress, is, in the trast, he tops the dress with

print's main colour, version

loose coat in peony slipper satin, never to have photographed effectively cuffed in black fox. Britain's late Queen Mary, and Other designers use white India's Ghandi. Now she would Ince scattered with white min like to photograph President lace leaver, Eisenhower and Mrs Heanor bows or black. printed calion, and embroidered Roosevelt, shantung.

An outstanding example by Madame Simone Mirraan, who makes many hints for Princess Margaret, the Duchess of Kent and other members of the Royal back still, and produces a model In muted lime podal straw which

Mr Harvane harks

family, is in niched pink organza hat

Layers

of

2437

further

unmistakable resem-

with a pink ribbon bow on either blance to the beaddress worn by side, Another has

thin white straw with Queen Neferit.

underneath, Bicon bows

Reminiscent of

of the drawing

wafer

room lampshade are some models

ON THE FOREHEAD

The

Working conditions aren't al-

hazards of

Miss Young said she had just

a picture of the late Sen. Ro

which The informat styla came to us from Ireland is one that is entching on, particularly

In style most designers favour ways ideal for the photographer with air travellers sluce it pro- the long look of the princess or of the famous. Time and posing

Dresses have habits aro ttle bits of nonsense viden. warmth for the journey

the by one of London's younger which all milliners love to offer but will be cool on arrival in press style.

full skirts, and que unumal' | buşinem. inilliners, Edw

Edward Harvane.

for the cocktali and evening hot climate. This is a three- princess dress had Jovel.

at pockols Mr Harvane uses ruched fullo hours are mere nonsensical than ploco outit consisting of creem patch shading from pale to midnight over this meson: Or perhaps tweed skirt, paisley silk shirt, Other styles have the fullness eight minutes in which to take blue, or in tones of mauve for a is that they appear so because, and thick knit woollen jacket distributed in a different way,

Tiựt they are wom not only on the fin an unusual face-liding model which

peasant with a flat panel at the front, bert Taft. That photograph now from brim la centre point in a front of the head but even pattern.

and the skirt billowing out at a considered by many of his bairline straight line. In contrast to the descending below the

When it comes to evening the back..

Irlande as the best over taken of triangular effect is

clothes largo well on to the forehead.

favour the designers

film. Famous people also are "pints" in black crochet straw Madame Minsan, for example, trend towards the informal and The empress style is marked

socustomed to falling into stock trimmed with black velvet.

uaca groen

velvet and tiny here again the dress and coat by a narrow band or silk sash poses before a camera, and Miss tabria which looks like rosen, worn on the forehead. Mrx.popular. One designer who placed high above the waistline. Young wild the once had tweed is used by Renes of Foxy (larvant combines a flat green shows how the Informal short Next year, when the stylo may move Me Truman from behind for an enormous yellow hat with velvet rose worn far forward dress can be just as grand as be out of fashion, all you: do his,dule to a chair, is the bon- cut-away back, flat crown and with a large horizontal. bow in the full-length version is Victor is lower the wash to the normal tre of the room, to get a relax- brim covered with large toning organza-China” Mall Special, Stlebel He makes a short waistline or remove it alloguther, Fed afudy of him.

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