1956-06-16 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1956.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

WIDER...WIDER...WIDER

That's the way hair is going

this summer

AIR-STYLES for sannur 1956 11 getting wider. Whether you favesur scort or long hair, you can still have the

Parti sides dressed nut wide at the site.

cularly Battering if your fee is long r thin, as it gives an illusion of width to the head.

ta

If the face is long, the smooth top 1301 I parum 2) is atore traming.

if the bra.. low, or the face is small or slaan, diere the higher top dressing Cas in pacfury and 5).

Aut tors

another important. fa non poter. The smartest head li season dispenses with all partings.

The

hair flow. lack smoothly over the head, Darlaed more easily by dri brta she ing than coming

Crusthwaite,

ours Paris artist, semis sulme in- teresting 314-16 of the -lupe val hair to coIRE.

he

**Caillaume,"

the undombitel master

French

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hair

styling. Most of the top mai.

aud

Meqs

WD31 I Tastuvi

coiffed by him."'

Future trends. are still longer.

still wider, with

sleek barks,

¢{re's8w

down

t[F¢»a* top

according to the

shape of the face.

For the girl who is still struggling with Krowing hair, he designs an

Above lett: Sloch pageboy style to a young giri, with her shading trom Right in front to darker ands. Centre This is the bid debutante bob with a very new look. Fiat on top. with the hair brushed vutwards wide at the tempter, then broughs in to lay flat on The cheeka

On right: It lacks at 17 ft has been inflated with ate, actually it I just slever cutting. A good WAY ot achlaring the now wide took while the hal in 2019

short.

Swanlake sketched by Cristhwaite brt Path, charming Drap, wide side suggestion for disguising growing hair.

wives touch the cheeks and the back is bathed upwards Into an amusing pointed cerl.

by EILEEN ASCROFT

amusing duck's-tail buck, whle at the sides, but brushed up behind

a pointed curl.

CANY

EASY

**

into

10

Holiday hairstyles can

Fificult manage it is all a ques- tion of pluuning.

to puck expentials in

Do not forget One or two

your holiday beauty box. A goodl Hair-conditioning cream will guard against

the strong water.

sun

and salt

A fine sequer hair spray will keep curls in place on a windy day. And, most important of all, do Lake # really waterproof swimming cap

H

their hair

Esch a gleam

can be printed or sprayed give on to the hair and brushed under electric lights. out easily mext morning.

CLEVER PACKING Sunlight makes the hair How clover some girls are look drabber.

I you at packing for a holiday. want to intruder little have been viewing the one

more

28- enlour before your suitcase with which holiday, why not give it a year-old model and radio colour rinse with your pre- announcer, Sue Franks, helklar shampoo?

her taking with her for month's holiday in New But the best tip of all next to brushing regularly York and Hollywood.

twice a day is to polish For evening glamour it with a pivee of fine real there

sparking hair silk. This is a trick most are

that of the model girls use paints and powders.

The British collection of autumn

wear

currently on show in Moscow consists of

High-fashion Models

A

"Shock-Absorbers"

anci

STALWART band of sheen) has elbow-length British model girls flew shocking pink gloves, out from London recently to the prize for sheer craziness give a mannequin show to goes to an anthracite grey the world's newest fashion suit with a ring of white Russian fox tails round the throat-- audience the

tled at the back with shock. woman shopper.

ing pink ribbon. FURS, MUM'S DRESSES"

i

Own

Headed by Cherry Mar- shall, an ex-model girl who now runs a well-known Lon-

I had imagined that in don model agency, the team of six are giving two shows Moscow you could trap a fur day of British-male coat almost in your clothes at the Park of Rest back garden. But furs are and Culture, Moscow. The more expensive in Russia famous Gorki hall has been than in London. So the specially redecorated for model girls have taken with the occasion with flowers, them a collection of high- strenmors and strip lighting. fashion fur stoles, capes and In order to enable the jackets which would sell in audiences to get a closer look at the clothes, some of them are also displayed on dum mics...

SHOCKING PINK

The London Model House Group, sponsors of the show, have set out to shat- ter thair. Russian nudiences with shocking pink. One of tho first models on display coat-frock teenage D

is

in screaming pink corduroy, worn with a white beret, which would turn heads in London alone. There's

too, in winter overcont bright pink with big balloon- ing alcoves and collar, and an evening gown fn pink ervatal organza with

a capo

a huge cowl neckline.

A party dress in pancock

blue blown acetate (a now

Moscow at a lower price than the home-grown variety,

Throw in for good mea- sure at the show are a few of what are known in the trade as "Mum's dres9C6" simply-cut styles in crepe or

and

fine wool with nice long

sleeves,

course,

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RV neck and, of plenty of side drapery on the skirt to give These slimming line. garments are the mainstay of the Russian fushion trade at the moment, and being included in the English collection as shock-absorbers until the Russian women get used to the idea of smart clothes.

are

REACTION

Fashion in Russia is not dictated by a series of Diora who decide to altor the shape radically from season to season. The State is the fashion dictator. Each year it prepares

of a kind catalogue of useful, suitable garments for the typist (who earns about £4 a week) and the semi-skilled manual worker (better off at £7-9). The unfortunate dress manufacturers are then sum moned to the Centre of Fashion and havo to pick their patterns from the catalogue,

Altering a scam mny well be deviationlam of the most heinous order. So what will

to

button-ihrough Jersey tweed drem with Empire line trimming by Marcus, now on show in Moscow,

of London's gloester magazines was recently photogmpling si Dior dress in a Paris otroci, Members of a Russian delega

to on passing by stopped watch, They shared at the ghi for some time, then called tho photographer over and said in broken English "Why don't you Inko that girl out somewhers and give her como good meals to falten her up?"

SURPRISE

Perhaps I will be nylon stockings, pratically unheard of in Moscow, which will bo the greatest surprise. Morley's have sent with the dress show a selection of all their now styles including the sheerest possible 0 denier stocking, and stretch nylone which look like! midget"a stockings in the hand, but give a made-to-measure; fi on the leg.

mide

In

Latest stockings by Morley the Russians think of our are coal knee-length nylone it dresses curt strictly on party, seam-free stretch nylon which línea with full rustling means they it all sizes like a

glove. They aro. mad ahirts and plunge neck- colours-scarlet, royal, lemon, lines?

blue, and black and are fi in Britain, where everyone. is tight for wearing Lukke podal- on a clot to try to reduce them pushers and mid-calf jeans. Eat Ives, to model proportions How I wish they had made them in normal stocking shades (bust 342. walk:/12", Hips: 34) there is much speculators well They would have been an to how Autogues will roses welcome in the hom tawaver

Knee-high nylon - stockings ~ 10 the gray multider

party fabric with" "uliky ́ ́ ́ for teenagers,

quin

A, photographor on one

Jill Carey

SUE

FRANKS

Off to Americo with only

one suitcase.

Wer

ix

was made from one yard of material, is un- lined, and can be easily laundered,

No. 1 is in denim, 'in]

Page

French Couturiers Favour Double-duty Wedding Gowns

Parks. The Empire line is strongly DARISIAN couturiers have endorsed in Paris, featured with created romantic new bridal encrusted bodices of laco Kowns for the classic wearon of marking the high waist Anjozi June weddings which was given set draped sashes and cummer-

ત auspicious start with the bunds. presence of President Coty at two family seremonies.

Jacquea Griffo uses an Empire corselet on his gold sequined, white polat d'esprit gown with barrelled, ankle-length hemline.

DIOR'S VERDICT

linens.

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His rice, Mile Marlo-Claire Auvigne marrice M. Pierre Chiche a docter of law and a well-known breeder of harves.

The short dress gains ground, For her Jacques Helm created a featured anywhere from bal- gown in delicate white lace. lerina length lutus in tuile and The second Presidential family sheers to standard street length wedding was that of M. Octy's in the charming school girl grand

daughter, Mile Anne shirtwaist dresses in embroider Marte Egloff. Heim designed ed organdy and handkerchief for her a town of silk organdy

lightly trused with embroidered Pierro Clarence does such stalks of wheat,

model in embroidered voile, with a deep Bertha collar to BASICALLY SIMPLE rtmove after the ceremony. The dress is sashed from waist Designers feel that a woman's to bustline with a draped girillo wedding gown should be as of face powder pink satin personal as her signature. Thla Dior's beautiful wedding is her day, and no mass-pro- gown summarises all the trends

an ulica- duced dress will be good enough, of the season it is

Thero is inuito chelee and simple skirtwaist style in while variety

embroidered of style in

everything organdy.

with from

Cathedral mall peonies, styled with de- magnificent

and ample mure high neckline and ribbon KOWIIN, to short

from the unestial head-dress; a PUT

navy-and-white stripes; No. sheers, destined for quiet coun- belt. Fashion Impact сотен

оп

A

overall

2 is patterned with flower try sprigs

fresh blue

strade cloche contrived of ing trends, French couturiers prefer caught at each side under the draped veilig. symmetrically ground: No. 3 is in shock- Ing pink with big white simple style, featured in lavishly brim with files.

FOR BRIDAL ENTOURAGE

spots.

ACCESSORIES

For

very

Two lacc

sheath eventing dreses (one in coffee and one IT MRC) with tiny inckets so that they can be worn, too, for cocktails and one cotton dress complete her wardrobe,

Juxurious

embroidered and fabrica.

Dresses are frequently desini-

look

11

of

thest

chosen for

ed to do double duty, and strip Colour appears in the picture

delicate pastels <HT hot weather

Spenett ur in U VET-UP

Thero ere there is a blue silk suit and Canezou to serve as an evening bridesmaids dresses.

basically muted pinks and pale pimento dress. The gowns are a sleeveless pink silk

simple but achieve the special greens, oflen veiled in white or subtle todo, dress.

by means

contrasting Styling in these gowns tend: 10- effects.

ward Infanta

Empire lines, with cm- gown thut

panels and slops straight from the Goya Phasis on floating painting, proves to be nothing short cropped off jackets,

More and more French brides but on austere Princess dress

are making up their entourage in rich while satin. after the

with children as allendants. M double tured and puffed siceves, and exolic Ulae strewn kerchief a recent prominent wedding la washable white nylon and veil have been removed.

Parts eight little girls ranging gloves, In all-purpose black

The same idea is seen in the in age from ten to four years Handbag and two pairs of Givenchy bridal gown in heavy were the only bridesmaids. shock. One pair of calf courts ribbed ottoman. The "entrance and one pair of silk mules, look" is achieved with the liny har special spring: rofės to pre-pillbox cop and beekeeper's vell vent slipping

Accessories include nylon un-

diles,

Sue's suitcase

caging the head and shoulders,

streamers weighed 441b. with

from cach the classic fully packed, and that included shoulder replacing

011 Underneath

the Royal vell. . Worcester coffee set, a present frivolity is the restrained ligh

necked, long sleeved gown).

mink stole

for her hostess.

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