1956-07-28 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1956.

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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

FASHION FORTNIGHT

EILEEN ASCROFT reports from DUBLIN

in the first of her stops at the world's fashion centres. In the next two weeks she will cover the autumn shows in Paris and London

Connolly's Collection Gets

Connemara

world

receives that

In the full goes

Sybil Connolly's collection TIERE is a hint of Irish

laughter about the two must be the only one Dublin couture collections. Church blessing before it

Asherwomen's on parade. All the models (the not the girls) Wiene shawls, band-spun tweeds, clothes, red flannel jacket lining and sprinkled beforehand with holy hund-crochetted cottage lace mingle with French silks,

water.

Sybil Connolly feature the

Jook. Cossack

It Curves out

English wools and wonder- over the bosom, clings tightly

In Italian colouring.

to the waist, then bells out over the hips, above Q slem-like The International Fashion skirt. After several seasons of it is pleasurv fortnight opened in Dublin easy fitting suits

again to me emphasis on the with the two Irish designers, feminine figure. Sybil Connolly and Irene Gilbert.

Per nutty. I love the lothes. They may not be style mut their simple lines. hand-woven materials and ele

detall Inake them the kid + dress that lusts year in year out.

Irish air

Trish Leng, waisted tunic jackets of by accompanied sus are

turbans end Eastern-looking fezes, Coeldtail clothes follow the Cossack-line, often with sharp- coloured waist ly contrasting bands.

Irene Gilbert show A culler- on withnu, bells for autumn, in deberte hand-woven tweeds.

Casual wear

Or

Coats are mostly of the clutch and wrop variety with soft back fuliness, Iked particularly the two hooded models for theatre wear.

As always. Irish air about

there is a real Sybit's evening

Many of her dresses and suits feature diamond-shaped panels models-gossamer pleated linen. Tweed, velve! taffela. hand-smocking and crochetted lace. One thousand pink, Cordian sults-perfect

roses are casual country weur-make an important

fcord-crocheted lace

tx-

return. Connemern used to make one shortening with gown with a tiny matching muff. fanged shawls are used

Black and white is the theme Toti formal and Informal outfits.

with pink For evening there were

of this collection, Bainin wools, and red as secondary shades. eding Hossainer

draped handwoven

and en liked best the floppy berets in broidered like chiffon, Perfect white sulin, blue velvet, plented for rally social occasions in the ith linen and hand-crochetted

lace

A Church Blessing

My Autumn Forecast

IT'S a black outlook

for the London Top Twelve designers thin autumn. About 70 percent of the fabrics they have selected aro in binck,

I

have

had 门

preview Interesting of fabrics from Engiend's most BUO cessful slik mišta. Those will be used by all the London bouturiers, and by many of the Parle houses too.

Silk and wool mixtures Are the now fabric story. Light in weight, crease - resisting for daily wear and packing, they have an intriguing ahven

electric light that makes them wearable right through the day.

Checks and stripes

under

Most materiats have A smooth finish. with many minute basket weaves, tiny self checks and stripes and hopsack appearancos.

are going to make The lighter weights them much more

with popular

Overseas visitors, Some are 6 or 7ox., others a fight a 302.. Ideal for houses that enjoy central heating.

Becondary colours for autumn and winter will be winter navy, dark chamois. red and elephant grey.

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TRIES THE MELON SKIRT

highlights from the

scout cables the American couture

collections:

HATTIE CARNEGIE: Smell sleeves

from the day grace dresses right through morn till midnight Many suits have demi-

and

blouse Tres ostend of jackets.

new "snitur akiri," which evening there is Follows the outline of a tramdy glass.

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Introduces The mejesti

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Curves outwards, then inwards to a slim

Jerzi.

For evening he takes stark black and white sabo sheaths and contrasts them with white and black satin bellboy jackets.

Brass bullons and buckles trim his clothes for every hour of the day.

Piped with tweed

MOLIJE PARNIS stresses the return of the completely natural belted waistline and presents the "stipcover blouse," in silk, wor aver a dress with a drawstring waistband.

But best of 1 Hike the sound of the matching tweed skiria and orion sweater

phævd blouses

with the tweed from HARRY FRECHTFL collection.

Harvane Hits The

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By HAZEL MEYRICK

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the

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Ton Points About Pearls

The Egyptian Look Gives You A Dramatic TouchPoints on judging jado

LO! The Egyptian look is

with us! Maybe you'll Hike it, maybe you won't, but, anyway, it's new.

Remembering Cleopatra, who was quite a belle in her day, you might give it 4 bit of thought. Happily, it'at been modified and given a 20th Century touch.

The severe haircut isn't part of the picture, though to look Egyptian, your hair will be worn on the straight wide.

out. Fancy curls are But BU are the severe Egyptian-style bangs.

be

Eyebrows should

1 bit slimmer than we're currently used to. They should be twąɛzed out a bit und cjungated at the ends.

Liner pencil figures important- ly in the look. Draw a black line across the lid, close to the

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London. Coumley hats to please hubbuck

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milliner who can be

mille cualianess

never atter of course, and their

wer: the usual shapeless fen

relied upon to give us a chaing sluck straight un 10p

or, worm stil

fight over one eye, threaded

series of shocks, it is Ed- of the head, ward larvane, This won. der boy of the fashion world has an inexhaustible fund

of ideas for crazy headgear, And thin season, he doesn't Jet us down.

EASTERN-INSPIRED

throw pro.grain

with

Weather

or

Other curluus hats included draped pink jersey turban with

a

Two hats from Edward Harvane's new collection. Left: Pastry-cook's hat in velvet has deep stiffened headband trimmed with a bow. Bight: Gay cocktail hat of pale pink velling is banded by deeper pink satin ribbon.

bow-tied peephole In the crown, for ventilation perhaps. Another hai in illae velour was shaped Exnelly like a church པ་་ bell.

There was a beachcom-

the compere was June Mallett, Vilene lined to give Harvane's inspiration for ber hat in melusine, and a coal-

heaver's hat in bitter lemon a Sydney model who has been good shape, 11s new collection was the velvet, the

for some months brim cut away in in London Eastern hemisphere. He tront and dipping down to the 'showed Russian-inspired nape of the neck.

Cossack hats and dipped into

The craziest hals, ond

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now.

Glunt pancake which cimply a length or fullo

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News flash from two eltics: A London preview of fabrics to The swimsuits were, in the be worn at the coming couturo the main, alick, tailored one-picco shows, features roecs all the Egypt's' ancient history for castest ones to copy, were his costumes in acetate or woven way...Miniature roses scatter

Jastex, with such nicoties as ed on brocade, heavy-headed felt edifices that Queen extravaganzas in coarse veiling. ruched panelling in the front cabbage rares on blacks. New Nefertiti might have worn.

of contrasting for

for evening: A silk that is and pleated onto the material,

patterned with raised velvet There were pot cloches, double

crown, and a tered cloche of There was a guy one-piece in roses while look as though they too, in vivid furry melusine overal Inyers of velling that checked woven lastex and a bre hold against the fabrie and mouflon, rammed well mercifully obscured the wearer's slim-fitting it in royal blue instead of being part of it.

wonderful with a tanned skin. Colours are sober dull brown. over the eyes, and, most face.

Another

was in a www shade, and tan, sharpened by black, curious of all, a series of

watermelon pink.

ted vineyard shades, including inflated velvet baga - Hko

A notable feature about

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By JEANNE D'ARCY lashes. It's quite dramatic but for evening only.

That's the Egyptian look and, Add to the Egyptian appear offhand, we'd say it's for you

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