1956-10-20 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY,

TOBER 20, 1956.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

HATS versus HAIR

-and what's your verdict?

TATS

After all you've GOT to wear

Hans Veraue Hire the

since hairdressing became as big a money-sp'nner hat-making, the struggle for a girl's pin money hus been getting keener. Today it in fiercer than ever.

Today the most fashion- ablo HAIRDO a girl can

have

The new style Kndubout hers-to-be I noted in the cws ready give a jolt to old views abouil se stufy

in rwagger conte and wrap-around drassen

The final lups,

ipping around

Molra Shearer, her baby due

monik, turned up

a lented

and con silk dres whi'e Tut a the first sight of

a medium-length the Bolshoi Ballet. bob, brushed wide at the

It on

Outsize

twou

Princess 10, her baby de side, curling and waving any mirute, playa ping-pong in

herknit her face, softly round needs constant setting, over slacks, and goes swimming. Grace of Monaco, shaping, shampooing, perm- ing, brushing, and watch ing.

most girl

today Andl

the HAT 11 fashionable can have is a deep helmet that rests on her eyebrows, and obliterates her hair, would look just as smart if she were bald,

even

With hats and hairdos at such cross-purposes, the few girls with enough for both haven't money salved he problem.

Yu stream in the evening gong all out for Hair, newly ahuped, sit, and shaispeurd

Princens

baby due in four months, weur, gl semi-led jackets n dark, narrow skiris with high feels, prat glove, and email, pily bun,

MORE CARE

John Withers (Mra Google Melum), baby In six weeks. "I try to look more rays thi

legant than usual, I take more tale when I am dicasing up.

1ke hats, preferably small and lo of jewellery... and gold, pearls, rhinestone, alert the evening.

I

"In the day I wear this usual and traight Trow skirts but I wear them rather

waterra noel replie think they lock gayer and I

to me that as the Loor And you see them in the old berly dienaars from sight yourself up a you hould guy all out for a s daytime going wah al wat captave sham- bit"

ellaig, snd pooing.

stapiok canoned cut of sight.

THREE CHOICES

So what is a girl o co whu that kind of Twy? ust

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Milliner Simone Mirman, who made at in the picture, Chaby due cny day now) says

padder Fox jackets to sucks. Inock you wear a At 101 63

is though you are you kok

Sten uke one of three ways going to have a baby,

aut.

SHE CAN elther cut her nale

10 h. u. testtiotale

10-173d look gooch

new hats

OH

SHE CAN Lake

shi

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Whe

Fuch irl's way out, grow her

"I hy one sull, wh a box Jack and straight skirt, copied kur tmesin ravy nen, ravy black Ok, grey olpaca, and

This ou silk, and I've worn

the time

always

The 13

效率

1. longnough to twin celour all through, with white

La important-Icoking buo, and touch:s-4 while collar,

FLY god bye to hots.

CAN take the OR SHE milliner and a delight to the Lar, geta and look a guy to lo by Lythg Ise сусгусто combine her new hairstyle with hir new hat.

Per orally I'd advise pulling your money in o your hairstyle,

whi'e

hot, white camellls, and white gloves,"

So these are the answer of five degant women coping with luom which is a situation legant and very often cornie, dor.'t manage to look They

But they go look radian!, riim. pretty, and well groomed.

DY JOHN FRENCH RUM UN THE TWO EMPHATIC PICTURES #PECIAL QUALITIES OF THE NEWEST HAT AND NEWEST HAIRDO.

LOOK, NO HAT

on three counts. It is THE Widenwake Hairdo is new booly waved seross the top of her head, it is medium- To look its Jength and It is brushed wide at the sides. best it needs u soft perm, constant setting, some back- combing and NO HAT.

LOOK, NO HAIR

THE mink busby is new on three counts. It is tremend- ously tall, I rests nearly on to her eyebrows, and it is made of fur. And to look its best it needs' absolutely NO HAIR.

THE LADY-LIKE LOOK

IS

CATCHING ON

like

opals,

back the not-quite- London OUT-goen the casual, little- brings

shiri and

stor.cs jeans way of precious

zircons THE look that Bernard boy

baker-boy beret, tourmalines, dressing, the Shaw started and the sloppy sult.

amethys,s for heavy

THE

and

Paris copied-is catching on IN-comes the pleated, ruffled jewellery, chandeller earrings. like wildfire in Londen, It's bleust. the top-heavy the lady-like look, Inspired laden hat, softer. by the Edwardian-style length skiris.

costumes for 'My

Lady'.

the New

musical show built

Shaw's

'Pygmalion'.

period

Fair

mcons

look The lady-like York pale hands (use a skin bleach- them and pale around ng cream on

The 13 varnish, Ang rs pearl piece made to look decepively fragilo

by heavy, antique rings,

te.

tea-

costume

Watch for the return of the flower-

chiffon blouse, decorated rear ankle- 3011

fine tucking, with

of rows trimmed with act; the

the peignoir in fine, and the Kown "ppearance of frilled fobrics.

The ludy-like look means the flowers-roses piled return of bigh

wide picture

the collar of rests pinned to your suit. It means the return of foral perfumes too, instead, cloying of the sophis.feated kind, the liberal use of cau e colognes and lavender water.

lady-like look menus The smoky, pastel shades for spring

д

hat,

The look that's going OUT———¤ ̧ summer shirt in woven cotton in red and white stripes, teamed with fears and an urchia cut.

But the

the gamut of grey-blues and children became too much for soft-grey-greens, pale washed her, Mama could always retire cut illue and sugar-almond to her chaise-lounge and leave

rote Them You'll pines.

nancy. the rest to Cepecially in

the new rof.er lady of 1950 will have to be looking evening dresses, made tough enough to cope, and still of draped and sty feminino, I'm all for

from yards

pleated chiffon

It heralds the return of the

trying,, anyway.

A Dark Challenger Comes Into Your Life

THE colour of the season double it

TH

is the hardest colour in the world to

wear.

It's

the colour, that drains the

(Bye shadow in two colour, none streaks of bright

of those subtle touches, please. And tote of mascara.)

Use an opaque creamy foun-

life out of your face, that dation with a tinge of pink. Atrong Bp-tick with An makes you look tired even A

Iwo layers under-tone of blue, when you feel terrific, that of it, outlined with a pencil.

makes

ր

ma.ch.

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deep nall polish to The light no urai

is dejected and dowdy, that And puta 10 years on your age.

The colour of the season polishes they always tell you is the kindest colour in the are coming into fashion are a

dead loss with black. world. It's the colour that It noed an unorthodox hair-

plain woman do.

swept- Last year's neat elegant and a pretty woman back coiffure won't do at all- This year's wilder, superb. It's the colour that too severe.

will do.... colifutes romantic brings out the best in other marvellously. For evening, you colours, that is the Ideal might need the extra glow of a setting for jewellery and bit of fake colour in your hair; ⚫ chestnut or "prune" rirse ti delicious accessories.

you're dark, a silver rinse for blondes,

NEEDS KNOW HOW

Tens of thousands of fashion- coracious women are going to wear black this winter, by day and by night. Lovely....50 long of they realise that black needs more

know-how than any other fashion in the book.

It needs a new approach to make-up. Take the eye make- and usually up you

wear

A Glass Of Wine?-This Solves The Problem

A

It needs a lively hat. An all- cast deadening black hat can shadows. But a dotied veil will auften them, or a light coloutCu brim, which lining to the

Or throws a light reflee.ion. get away from black altogether -the prettiest hat I've seen in 1950 made entirely of very small aquamarine feathers. FABRIC QUALITY

1

or

A

fabric

with

noods vitality, Black tweed rather than dull, smooth wool, black velvot Jace Father

thac chiffon, which Is always preitfest in the pastel shades.

In general, a black fabric should have surface interest of H looks limp and dull,

It needs brillant accessories. Always earrings. Always light, ine stockings. By night, light gloves

and a jewelled bag, MOST extraordinary scene

roses between in London took place in a perhape creamy

By tunnel under a bridge recently, your dress and your skin.

More than 200 women were day, belgo ot white gloves, Invited to taste the finest perhaps loss of largo, vulgar French wines.-

pearls.

in

the

seoñilese Bmart and

(the

assurance bouquet of the wines must not wearing. A quiet black suit is a tasted ceitain blomide. A difdent be challengody thay

Is a Bure, bordeaux, burgundies, cham little black dress pagne in an astonishing sejse- mure flog,

of vintage.

The party took place at mid- day in Lebegue's huge wind cellar's loss with thousands of bottles of wine;

It was it like an eighteenth- century palace with hundreds of white candles. Thein, wern long buffet tabing tottering with hugo barces of beef, lobsters, game pie, leg of ham, cheese.

This is the Are time that

women have been invited to this notable October occasio

The only men there spark from the host were low chatouts ownerk, the Marquis Bertrand

„Laid-Baluces

Comte Hubert de (Chateaus Latolir), |

among others

I left wondering if perhings here was the clue to a question |that Has been bothering the

bare for some time: What do worten rially like to drink?

More women are drinking in

bus Public

ever before,.

IS WHAT they are drinking | which important.

14'a beka The

för years

"ein and something to order bow.

But I believe a lot of women don't Hke the taste of

they did be too sling, sheepish about ordering whisky: And a thumpáźne, cocktail is too costly.

Is the best answer simply this: a glam of, wine?

------JOY MATTHEWS

Fashionettes

Edwardian

1. Way of. halr

I hear that British cons NEW handbags are as slim as caught dres:ing-soft waves back into a loose chignon, or turler Victor Stiebel-he designs a woman after a long-term colled at the nape of the neck. Princess Margaret's dress diet, which is going to make it Latest recruits to the chignon, in making off-the-peg clothes at dimoult for the girl who London include the Countess of budget prices, which will soon und her purses an előkel Klongated

Margot Fantern.

The lady-like look means label Bebel as

length gioven elbow long, Prushed down to your wriJL

that

Hareword, and ballerina Dama be in the stores, will entry:+8} away from home, a bouches |

Jacqmar Iquares, rectangles of the are the favourite shapes of coples

them water thin. But the monster-sized handbog Grace overity of design, usually face handkerchiels and para:cls, Kelly took on her honeymood softened with tucks, drapes, daric, cobweb-ane stockings th are selling Uke hot cakes in the long nips or shaped handles. make your ankles look slender, London stores. Buy why Contrasting texttires also sad and litte shoes with poimed wonder, did one woman buy softnew Colours include such toes and mid-high heels.

of them all in colour

off-beat abs66 zn curry, baffeding mustard and ochre,

„that film wiar The new, longer lady-like clothes shown at the Parts Williams booked a hair appoint collections are on their way in ment at French, Lordon's mout

(and expensive) fush, ons of the stay Some London dress style-conscious

But Simon hairdresser," house Chapman and Massey among hem, already wonder, did she insist have new style, multa on sale,ing and netiing her Others plan to bays them in the only wanted the use of a hi

dryer, and an assistant to

stores within a week or L/TER

I'm all ki évour, of the

Blice.

But can

-ANNE SCOTT-JAMES

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