1956-11-24 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1956.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Designers Handle The Jersey

With Ingenuity

Woo

By GINA POPESINA

mounted on the world TOOL Jersey is one of newest of all,

the most versatile wool a stiffened base, it can be jersey and fabrics. It comes in vary used for full, flared skirts, ing weights and can be used Wool jersey is a particu. for all types of clothes from lar favourite with Italian uvening wear to tailored ready-to-wear clothea manu suite, It can be draped; it facturers this seBAON, The

moulded:

and, Arm of Spagnoli famous

can

A

Add An Italian Touch To Home Dressmaking

- ne

the clever

Loft, quite plain except for the gentle swathing over the right hip. The ideal fabric would be A wool jersey or a middle

RE

0304 who can cut can material without using a pattern and working only from ʼn sketeh? Or have you a good dressmaker weight wool crepe. The original who works on these lines? I also has a short bolero to make more suitable for daytime so, you may be interested in the it

various models shown above; wear. For really glamorous

they are frem the current collection of Giuliano of Milan.

touch add a fox fur collar.

ita

over for machine knit.. wear has launched, for the col.ection of first time, a dinner, cocktail and short evening dressrs in very fine pure wool jersey. Horizontal wool draping, to which Jersey lends itself ad- mirubly, l

important

feature of number of these models. Comparative. ly inexpensive, they are designed with the average woman in mind and give her supreme elegance at a low cost.

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In the winter collection of firm specialising in ready-to- weur teenagers' clothes, most of The dresses were in printed wool Apart from the familiar jt:I"

designs in bright, gay colour, there were other more usual riesigns to for as wool

Fuch Jerry is concerned} pol Hots, geometric patterns and its gular small checks. One w even models ven foutured Jertev printed with flowers. pados multi-coloured fans en very light background shades.

W9%) jersey also has another burtent role to piny-s IK Thestrat for rougher surfaces fabrics such as Shetland outer tweeds. For instance. a three-

cont with J yuarter

wide postillion collar

sinte-blue Shetland la enhanerd by linbur of ane

wool jersey in the same colour, but thickly striped with a sky-blue cable pattern Il es with a blouse to match worn the lining, and a skit of The Tweed.

imper

MILADY

THE

Scientific

SPAGNOLI Study Reveals

Top: Slate-blue wool jersey is used for this short dinner drem with a round decollete neckline and long sleeves. Ruched panels down either side are joined across the front al waist and bust levels by a black velvet bow.

Lower left: This short dinner dress in black wool jersey has an elongated, moulded bodice ruched in vertical panels over a plain, stender skirt. A baw adorns the left hip.

The straight line of this engktail dress in Lower right: red wool Jersey is accentuated by the draped entre panel which starts from the cross-ovor neckline and extends to knee-level.

OF 1957 WILL GLITTER

FROM HEAD TO FOOT

Paris.

Took this enserime

opulent, glittering descent gems.

while

s

one

mosales. Another

Underweights

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'Undereat'

person

WHAT keeps the thin thin? In- variably, underweights com- plain that they cat enough anci conclude that there must be some physiological reason back of their fallure

to add needed pounds. But

in line with recent scientific findings, the fact is-under- weights undercat,

WAN

A study

recently made on this subject. Three normally healthy young men who were from 14 to IM percent underweight pricipated in the study. They were hospitalised s0 but food intake and all activity could be closely controlled.

In each phase of the study, these young men were kept in bed until 1.30 p.m. each day. Every afternoon they walked 5 miles at a steady, controlled pace. After this exercise they sat quietly reading until bedtime at 8 in the | evening,

A

men

Was

On the calorie score, cach fot the

young first placed on 2,100 fealories a day, and on this

food of { #LED]>[J**{

their body

main- weight waA tained that in, neither gained

nor

You'll

see

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Page

on his CHRISTMAS GIFT

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As advertised In VOGUE and ESQUIRE

Extensive

Range

they lost.

Next followed a period in which food intake Was nearly doubled and in- creased to 4,000 calories # day, with 150 change in activities. On this regime, all three of the men gained weight.

Metabolism tests made At four-hour intervals showed that

ab-

the

alitter Moral pirs, contrived of pearls

and glow are the the calories were burned at the keywords of the season, with same rate on the high and low Also, laboratory Braccicts, Dina whe

hair jewelled effects appearing every-calorie diets.

where on match 1912 styles.

from analysis revealed that the binaments

everything jewellery accompani: the Bracelets ciipiussy

morning until night." Orrate sorption rate of calories, fat and revival of 1912 styles in moulded sleeves, or are worn on

unchanged por novelly buttons are a highlight nitrogen was

Paris.

bare

with

on tailored streetwear, featuring centage-wise by the increase in steveless On with sheaths. Pins murk

the focal clustered seed pearls or cavlar daily Intake from. 2,100 to 4,000 beads, miniature watch faces set calories. In other words, accord- neck!Ine

or drape in "My fale lady" of fushion point of

rhinestone

frames, millinery

oring to this study, none of Jizz and is wearing rastumamnests decorate the twisted coloured enamel worked like three young men was thin be-

Florentine

of cause hair styles, Dior

poor absorption in the jewellery matched to her Foll

unlikely treatment for jewellery digestive tract. costume. with usca jewelled millinery pins to individual

The young men consumed colour and styling assorted match earrings, or trims small is a leopard muff and chechla

toques with fenther cockades with each individual fur mark-without effort all the excess to each ensemble.

ing picked out by burnt topaz food Included in mounted on jewelled clips.

the high or black Jet stones, My lady calorie diet, According to the AMUSING

report, this indicates that their head to foot, High vamped

pedrozular low intake of food patrician

not due to

to a limited capacity of HEADPHONE EFFECTS

docorated

with gem studded

their stomachs.. Algreites for evening fastened buckles,

matched to lower.

Since the Increased calorie in- to a welled brcoch, are shown ing heels solidly paved with a Balmain,

rhinestones.

Umbrella handles take resulted in an increase of

the and compacts are

Anal body weight, the report pointed medallion resort, and

Paris decrees That but that the obvious conclusion

The tra of The single strand pearl necklace to be Despite the unusual asym-rn with everything from metric cut of the dress shown a sweater to a dinner gown. lower centre, this is design h. ver. which will not date rapidly and would be

sultable tor many

on

the

Jewellery plays an integal

Dlor Introduces a

N

of 1057 glitters Illerally

court shoes

often

from

The slender, straight-cut top coat shown at the top left occasions. depending features the large cape collar fabrle which you select. For rule in the overall story of mide cent pink stones hang- even these functional accessories is thot the thin person just which is so fashionable at the day deess, 1 suggest a honey-with elaborato new effects ing on the forcheucl, mounted should capture the shimmer and doesn't cal enough Lo bring moment. The original mode! comb wool Jersey or a wool achieved in vibrant colour, on black fulle headband

Lanvin glimmer of the Christmas tree weight up to normal standards. IDA JEAN KAIN media, workmanship, and pinned at the brow.

Castillo feature amusing head spirit--China Mail Special. 'd world styling.

phone effects, with black velvet bowe suspending pearl pendants, altached to cach side of the wired hairband.

dark

brown fannal;

for the later hour, n it blue or tinek wool erepe or

J

a dark brown drap.

was made up in rough-surfaced tweed. but would look equally well in smoother woo] fabric much theecloth.

velour. drap or especially If you wait 1 fur more dressy occasions.

The

interest main

BCW

necklace There is shupe for every neckline, range Another design which will noting from twelve to twenty-inch

date is the suit shown lower graded strande with the lowest Another popular adaptation the right. In

This was designed to go strand falling Itside a low-cut from the pre-World War elegant sult shown at ton centre with the cout shown at the top decollete, ta geometrically period, is the black velvet Res in the elongatod, narrow left and was made in the sime shaped bib collars, collarets, and ribbon fastened tightly round lapels of the jacket. The original dark brown tweed. Other sult- elongated festoons suggesting the throat like a dog colins, model was made in peacock wool able fabrics would be basket carly Egyptian and Byzantine clipped at the front, with ene drop with grosgrain revers of weav

WERVER. Shetlan or Chaviot Influenod. tweed be a middle-weight face-

the same colour.

A plain wool fabric would be cloth. If you prefer a patterned | INSPIRED BY

the best choice. 103, for the fabric, a

a small check derign, D

dress shown at the top right, as faint herringbone pattern or CZARIST RUSSIA

whole effect depends on two-coloured tweed are per- seaming detail which would be missible, but avoid textiles

with

20

stresses

Important jewel or broodh,

n

The biggest colour newb comte in the romantic pastel stones and the Aurora Borealis diamond-cut crystal, or rainbow Dior Christian

treated rhinestones,

with Jost in a highly-patterned fabric, large patterns such Glen antique mountings and flogres

Iridescent with opaline shimmering settings teamed This design allows a baste model checks beztuce

process, patterns such

and dark. Con- brilliant Empire producing light and to be dressed-up cr dressed will not look well broken up by tones

trasis. "Christmas Dream" is down according to requirements, the

unusual elongated yoke, colours assorted to the costume,

of ore namo

necklace, effects on the Perfect for the purly rison quite apart from the fact that with frosted ahend is the sleeveless, high they will detract from this, the underside of the stone lending created by Franela Winter for necked sheath dress shown lower main featura,

transparency. He also introducts Dior and featuring a prismatic range intermixed with jonquli dark iridescent stone of diamends. Other effects volcarle

which he has "Butterfly Wing" necklaces Jewellery In

In Lio Jacques Fath combining a galaxy of wondrous blucs, and "frosted sain" collection is directly inspired by cabochon stores set in filagres, Czarist Russia and the Diaghilev

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

a now,

caller ori dis

balicis, There are outsized JEWELLED

It is wise to go over alt enamel A long-handled fork may be square cut rhinestones, imitation

medallion dangling

and metal surfaces of your icita used not only for lifting most and emerald and sapphics brillants, ACCESSORIES chen stove with warm auds after, other solid foods and for team ect in elaborate pendant neck- each mest. If you let grease and for doneness. Such a fork will laces, splatters accumulate around the elo serve to draw baked foods earrings, and baroque brooches liko burners and in the oven, the from back to front of oven. rango uses extra fuel or power. without benefiting you,

Unorthodox jewellery colours

smoke, topaz,

tortoise, which derive styling from copper, carmet and absinthe, Imperial decorations and appear in autumn-toned stones Ono good electric lamp in the insignin.

for wearing with tweeds in the living room, with a wide spread

daytime Antique type Russian Pierro Balmain likes costume effects appear in dark gamet When food is tried on a gas of light, can serve two persons Jewellery to masquerade as real stones used with black dia

often for reading or sewing. Arrange pieces. He copios the famous menda or Jet, range, popping greaso spatters the burners not in use, lamp and chairs so that there are carrings of Madams ... Do", Fie plater turned upside down no abadows on the pages of the Loules de Vilmorin's heroine, in- The antique trend in jetlings over the unlit burners protect book or on the handiwork.

|ellamones prudenty, matches to is found also in flagres work, them from splashes of grease,

chokortbestades, Balmain treats chains and smutedra in which and are easily cleaned.

length

noekideta perle alternate with beads, or occasionally appears on the sut in monotoned effects of graded, multi-faceted stones adus payed *To save scorched food, plunge face of orlonevestors, turo Irregular and pestle, an

Comigold or silver ion; frames. the cooking pan into cold water sweater inside out before, wash-

Inaryles dangling cloudy nad milllamé contrastar

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