1956-09-29 — Page 9

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, † 1956.

WOMANSENSE

The New Autumn Outfit Goes With Different Accessories

By Joy Matthews

CIWAYING into autumn Come

the new

Uke the

DUO

aren't mulin al

... sulla. Some

in the picture,

vil, but dresses and jackois What's new about them? What makes them the took for autumn-winter 1956- 19577

First, it's a soft look-without being a dressmaker look. The jacket is too sharply defined The line is too crisp. The whole thing is neking In the gathers and gores that marked the old- time dress and jacket.

Secondly, the talorie is sunth. Gone are the noble, nubbly tweeds that we've had thrust down our threat's for twinsor fa Hit CT Mars. Some dry me in checked and fartaaj 1week. But the skirts are always solt enough to pient without looking bulky.

Thirdly, they do away with }}} + idea that you have to uve mut Fidscle to measure for 1 to luceers.

With their wide, full

ou two

24247741-3

131'

skirts.

tiny waists, tund loose, unfitting juckets ntic! Mandaway collars, There is no need to waste Ume three

Atting in Expensive alterations, Fur ti

years Brat ume we sts be fart konable, we can by pract cal, we can be content – able AND we can please the

Paris has comp tip w

Costabon that fits

me will Tinek

1

MORE MONEY THAN TASTE

She buy the latest and more expensive bal, Adds ahib ut praris-eight rows at iersi, the newest whip. handled umbrella. ALL seen in the closay magazines-and wears them ALL

Hauling in the latest nub- lors I hear that I'm not right if I have aweel or pudding.

Taust Move cheese +1 fruit.

I mustn't show off my roses. only my dahlias. 1 must drink vodka martini instead of gin.

Jerseys the niusta't have handknit

for the baby--or allow my hua- band to show the tiniest bit of

in told handkerch.ef

his brist w, pocket,

We've all haird wearing those

tight skirts that we're

to pull up when we sit to avoid sealing. We've all

WT

the

rasa

tted

kets that never tea ta They

were built by a master And we've all wither bated that backward look at the with Twenties -- psy

#1 worn apologies to cur aren frienels

TROM

SNOB WATCH

TV 1.1

1

H11

aude shoes

Sceni ,、་ been snot-watching for years. and I've found anubbery Isn't confined

the tu

debs

dowagers.

Expert says the wife plays an important role in her husband's success

and

und

It's Disastrous When The Wife

Competes

N York.

With The Employer

"And," said Klein. "if and tests, helps companies

that cide which man should be argues

what job.

ONE to managemen: the husband

consultan

too

many of today's women are innocently, but quite effec- tively, koeping their mus bands from developing into executives,

de-

In

for self-im- Klein not have

And whatever I do I must not send my friends pusleards from I'm Margate or Mujoren when

letters < on holiday. mothing.

Snobservations 1 other spheres of life come from: Frank Launder, Ilm director, wito

American

YOUNG AS YOU AREN'T

She's taking a new look at

herself in a cloth cloche. she's adding T bevy of braccieta, She's given herself the dromed-up look with a upiah of silk vol.tx. Take another look,

gives away the film foibles: The greatest nobbery in the

that dim world now is to say the stage is far, far more im- ptant than Bims. A film sordid commerce. The stage is The rage.

the "An actor with act in theatre today even in the small- ed part. But when it comes to the Alm-t must be Richard III or he won phy."

Q

Kenneth More. who has crack at the critics. "The greatest theatrical snobs are the critics. They send people to see

Women

Are Recontouring

At A Record Rate

W are recontouring our- machines home for sally sustin

WE

Lake the muscle stimulating

use. "We find there is no suen

selves at a record rate. thing as ari average figure,” The loss in our girth, in Ressler said. "It is impossible to A matter of inches, is weil say that a woman of one height

certain above the multi-million should have

ments, It depends on thu mark annually.

wensar."

measure-

It might seem impossible, Dieting causes other women considering how hard one to search for some simple way tighten flabby areas and woman works to get off one

he ought to be catching up "if a man is to get ahead in on some of his office work business, he must have some of inch, but figures (statistical off bulges. They lose an much as 20 pounds and And at home, the wife answers, his leisure time

continued. kind) show it's true, One they still need recontouring. Well, why don't you get a provement."

He

may

trouble firm of medical research job where you don't have to landing that other job now, but consultants estimates that

the time comes when a gel pany has to cut back, his head 1/3 of our adult population logement of the last decade," sald Ressler, whose company the increases in salary, but is the first to fall."

Klein said the wife isn' the some attempt at recontour- has

work so hard!?"

"She wants him to

com-

now indulges each year

in

ing.

They're doing H by in. sisting that n man's leisure

she doesn't want him to only culprit. America's increased time be devoted to odd jobs

time, especially vince around the house or hauling spend the time and do the leisure

VARIOUS MEANS work involved. The wife is World War II, also is to blame. beach or

"We have so many new out- the family to

competing with the em-

either This means lets

so many for our leisure,

dieting, Jack picnic grounds, says

templations." he pointed out. exercising. massage or one of player." Klein. head of the Klein

14-year-old

He said that most of the the mechanical devices avail- Aptitude Testing Institute. thraigh

NETİCK of Interviews women gulity of holding their able. Recontouring, incidentally, husbands back are doing so is the newest and most ladylike without malice-"they just don't way of saying you're trying to think,"

get back your old shape,

A deno

rock, in black Inow from -4218k 2no

· atraplona): hèdloe, and Rotribed

Art.

Women "do not visualise the future as a man does," he con- Unued. "They look to today and tomorrow. Not to what a man's devotion to a job may mean to the whole family 10 years

hence."

CASE HISTORIES Klein said some men have rebelled against the the lawn- mower and the gardening tools after office hours, "but only a few have the strength to do it. Most of them just give up after

Д

While"

said a wife's role in her

they

Just to check one area of re- contouring progress, we visited a Fifth Avenue

"The devices to assist in re- contouring are largely 1 deve-

becomo

a

multi-million

dollar corporation in that time. "Figuro maintenance is becom- a major national Industry." -United Press,

Fashionettes

colours, print salon WhereIKE pastel

dresses are becoming 12- women, plus a few men, stream month fashions. Many designers in and out daily to try and go showed printed silk and satin stim the easy way Most of dresses along with their winter them walk out carrying trim eweed suits this year. aluminium cases, which contain the rubber pads, electric wires and dials that produce the re- shaping effect,

The latest print promoter is the designer for Hattle Carnegie, The custom clothes created un- der the name of the late fashion "Are you a user?" we asked leader were shown recently, in- OF Reber Ressler, vice-presiden cluding an entire, group) of Relaxacizor, Inc., and the evening prints. man in charge of the plak- pointed salon,

Short and long evening dresses I husband's success in so imporlani"

Ican bloom with everything from "Before I wear my tuxedo," zinnias to lilacs, something that that most large companies now

off he admitted, I take

used to bo considered proper Interview her, too, when

couple inches when I know jonly in the spring. The printed are hiring a now executive, or

wearing 1. materials most often are heavy moving an employee to a top I'm going to be

Ollerwied the jacks' too toota or antin. post

fight,"

of

the

"The Institute's Ales are full of case histories in which n, wife's

MEN ARE MORE AVID.

number The increasing reluctance to move to a new. city has kept her husband from

Most of the women who come caused

back-plunging necklines has

reshaping in Yet, there are in, Resaler said, getting aliand.

want to do brassiore industry. Women are others in which the wife

We something about their hips or buying more bare - bicked fully aware of the part she must their waistlines. The majority brassieres than ever before, the play. One wife started studying are between 35 and 48 youre Corest and Brassiere Association Spanish the minute cho heard old.

Only approximately eight reports. And it's a strictly 20th her husband might be in line percent of the clients here and century engineering feat to de- for a bigger Job In South other cities witere the mutip sign a brassiere that stays up America will his oll company imulating machines are solt in front and down in back.

ore men...

employer,

Klein's advice to the woman ama

Jetla

"When are does got inters

“If your husband wants to estadi?»Rescit, said, “wa and · Green is the "most, popular better hirwolf, see that you and he is usually none; avid about new colour is sports clothes the kids let him use some of his lesingdinches tiên 6 woman is, Bhoes, shorta, slacka," coats and epure time to do" (1,"an

KATE PRAAK. Daparates come in a mosey, green mucca whether his wife, Tonin. walk into tie salon for inform son only

saked Klein about his ovyn | 10 Mahy refilliợc" people who called Joders: kreon for this sea“,

magassport Kloni look: surprisingly limpant, hap

Wo

"You buy ano i mala Kiehn, flirty menee, willy want toro One/dosgram ven food

"partner-in, the bust duces their Inch/measurement ball gown In Toded green

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Elizabeth David, cookery ex- port, frowns at the latest food fashion: "The barbecue snob bery seems absolutely ludicrous to me. Barbecue cooking is essentially out-of-door cooking. But in order to get in on the barbecue binge the English pre- pare everything indoors and then take it out of doors and cat it under an umbrella."

John Cavanagh, dress design- er, tells us the inside dress snob- bery. "One works in a shop. Not not A a salon, not a maloon, showroom. Whenever I say I'm off to the shop, people stare, But that's what it must be called. And, of course, we make dresses. Never frocks, gowns, creations, or mantles."

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