1957-01-05 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1057.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Party Dresses For Teenagers-Designed Along Two Lines

Thin Jane's

Ling

Plump Jane's line

High party

bodice

Princess line is piqué

Petticoats

built in

Page

Luisa Spagnoli

The World's Foremost

Designers of Ladies Jumpers and Sweaters

Lots of skirt for girl's

the thin

denkin

pinafore

wom over a mú

and white shirt.

Sleeveless in Hatter

C'E

without

4211

ull

(lige kit

143465

shaved

In base and

tartan,

«braiders, inat ent comfortably high

A pleated sash.

green

In every dress its own pelileoat. A high bodice, no streven the Jaliri an apple tilossom priot.

A kind

*

One plampies of alk wages, £2 dress in

navy blue,

primees

bright

Sketches

by Demachiy

A 'waif's' wardrobe SPORTSGIRLS

H

AVING

gradou x

BY ANNE SCOTT-JAMES

secret

ittle wal-

like women, I don't wri

for them

should.

As often

write

11

But ILM they make formidate host (5,00€,000 Women

in Britain of 5ft.

Zinn, or ferr), I have buried my ill-fecting to study their' fashion problems.

i have been talking

one

WITH

the of

IL

foot. Lwo

to

best-dressed

London — five- inch Maureon

Swanson, whose looks

churm ་་ལ་ shooting far.

Maureen Swanzon

and

her

soon

confirmed what had long suspected aiut waifs.

like to look romantic." she said, "but i must warn frightfully com- you, Par

Don't let my little- potent.

girl-lost look take you in

for a minute."

I thanked her for the warning.

A Point To Insist On

"Apart from king Ith mantic clothes, 1 think the important thing for smail womon is to insist on well- Go proportioned clothes.

for a good waistline and as long-legged a look as you can get.

"Skirts, for instance. Day akirts must be short to make legs look longer. Aud for evening all my dresses are short or ballet length. Long skirts drown me in a tidal wave,

"Then I fight to get my dresses cut long enough in the bodice. Many ready made dresses are too short waisted."

Nwathed walut, ballet length, barefoot shoes: three evening pointers for small women. Maureen Swanson' (five foos two) goes dancing in g white atipper natin dress by Simonetta.

a wrap, just a stole-uguin, for 1 don't worry good proportion.

thing like eolit about a little arms,"

SHOES. **Naturally, very high heels And barefoot shoes make legs look longer. Even

I Rever in the country fatties. And country shoes

wear

She told me in detail how county can frown as much as it with some part of heel, and the she selects her waif's ward- kes." robe.

ACCESSORIES, "Small.

Thero new dresses (some are ketched above) are designed along two separate flues. There are dresses for the plump, and dresses for the skinny.

For We plump girl, Miss Chanelle has designed princess dresses with long vertical seams to alm down a thick waistline

waist.

no bunchy gathers round the For the skinny girl, there are drosses with fullor skirts, sashed or belted waists, and well-shaped bodices.

Built-in Petticoats

Great care has been given to petticoats and necklines,

All the dresses, are lined or have permanently “ stiffened

DAY CLOTHES. "I go plain, and simple. I can't stand for anything that gives amusing accessories." Plain small waist. Shirts with handbags, gloves, and perhaps short sweaters. Close-fitted just one piece of jewellery." dresses in smooth, fabrics. I found those fashion theories Or vory full dresses very individual and refreshing-not nipped in. I don't

all small women will agree with agree

them. that small women can't wear full skirts. I think they But having seen Miss Swanson petticoats built into them, sq around a lot in the last few that even the untidiest school- months, I promise you they girl won't have top clothes and unterclothes walking in diferent. directions,

Neeklines. These "aro alcoveless, ur" have: shoulder strap ("Müst

shoulders #MASTE

glvd. importance."

DE COATS. "I never wear. work..

thom, I'd much rather freeze. Coats ecem to swamp me and I prefer to suffer in a good suit."

Teenage Fashions

Well, it's happened,

are cut high even en party dresses, DongTVNE

HATS."I never wear I report good news for school- have

them, but this is nothing to girl

One of the cleverest, women look really parted, do with my height. It's in the fashion nusiness the nechtilde tiltaks because I like lots of blonde, firework; Euid Chanelle, cave

Cover the romantic-looking hair. If has

I have to wear a hat, I have of ones on a special range cellars or plumpre

It Black and minuto, so it

doesn't show."T

to may be Bit-about-it, la, that cotton, Enid Chapola; las a red-headed "gulnça k

EVENING BESSER. "Always clan Mhorts

short," and swathed of dartekt to ed she knows all the problems, 1 hope to too costs and

ver #beatatiha, walatiine - For- and most of the answers

equal talent" by

But the

UNT

NEW DEAL

By HAZEL MEYRICK

GET

A

London. selves around the edge of the TNTIL now, the girl who court.

Some

fabrics new, tougher actually plays games, for sportswear are on the way. instead of standing around There for instance, un arlon and watching them, has had and wool mixture, which makes white pleated skirt possible a raw deal from the fashforw

which for golf

cdn be designers.

laundered in a fify and dries that without getting Having found that the rg quickly in tenis dress which looler yellowish tinge about it. There's a now Bedford cord fabrle with so sweet doesn't leave room to

a water-repellent, spol-resistant breathe, The guy

shirt-blouse

doesn't mind K ides up and wrinkles every finish which

In Anish your

gitme time she swings a golf club, the you

and

failoring rainstorm, sportsgirl has had in the past,

cotton which looks refuses to

to remri to dull but worthy weighe garments which give her room bandbox fresti and to move around but which do crease. nothing appearance,

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all for tior

MORE COVERED-UP

A designer who has changed- Playclothes, generally, 12 all this is Toddy Tingling, who being given new stain-resistant makes clothes for Wimbledon Anishes, atuf a good thing, too, cants sturs. He Hos Bow for whats the use of the snow Inunched

playelethes whiter sundress that looks like his own collection

British a dream the first time you slop through manufacturer, and they out in ciress

bu!

-obstinately" wash-

it.

are on sale all over the s srid, refuses to shed, in the

There are good, workmanlike tub, the inevitable spolls of the beach--tor marks, sea-weed sports outfits, designed wi an stning and drips from tee-ercam

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on current fashion, and gay playclothes as well, fo the not too serious sports. like un- bathing and being seen on the beach.

IT'S SECRET

...

cones.

The benchwent look for 1957, incidentally, tends to be more covered-up. Better than the strapless sun-top, which has an

unpleasant haikit of Dorning is the cache-coaur-a

jow-cut

For the girl who is kee: on bright, abbreviated bolero which her game, Teddy Tiniing Hus is

now

perfected a sports

1 sleeveless, has irt neckline to catch the maximum

that, miraculously, looks well sunshine, and is darted to fit The enche-cocur atting and sleek, and styr pus, you closely,

of

I

even when its wearer is the can be worn on its own as a midst of battle on the enie sun top; with allor's or skirt, court. The secret

Ite or can be Buttoned over

gay success lies in the 19 ounningly platit dress to give it a placed darts

which At am look fatter you in action, without

becoming sponing the slape of the shirt, more, difTeuly

more-

and

to tell the

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Black and wilfer poptie is

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Rad

this call-length morlar-board playsuit with hot derigned by Olymplo Sportswear.

diminutive pants topped by a draped" bench dress, complete with stole, banded under the bosom, Grecian-style, It's for the girl with the perfect Agure, who likes other people notice it

Does A Pretty

Face Greet Your

Husband?

It comes in many designo aud difference between pyjamas, for colours, is an equally good buy the Beach and for the bedroom for the girl wito just pres to between the frilly baby-doll FN most families, dinner watch

haf In

revert to the

nightwear

Lingerie

Home

For the girl who He to looks yult and the frilly baby-time's the bright spot doll! Nightdres As beach that marks an end to the decorative on the tennis court, clothes

silli play and

a good game, look, and

becomes day's occupations, the be there is an abbreviated dress holder, it will soon be possible ginning of a pleasant do-as- with an Empire the foalk about to plows our heath clothes from you-please evening."

and it, made in quick-drying spun the lingerie department,

Mr Husband heads retine Own Terylene.. It

night in last for the short.

transparent

without anyone knowing the him? Terytone Organza, banded with years now-length beach suit, from the office and what greats palo bilo eatin ribbon, to difference: enable you to compete, at to For the girl who likes to be That's a question only you Is it a pretty, Interval time, with the noticed, there's a beach outat cor.. spectators who have merely in a typient lingerie fabricative wife or one whe fook# utterly exhaceted by dressed up and draped them white nylon jersey, or bra and

housework and the children? If the latter's the ease;.

Lady

"better", mend your word

All right, maybe you've had hardey day than her hac. But, let's admit this one thing; rid mintter wiat; a woman wants her husband'a atra- keep

tion and love⠀ The sure way. to...' haya" both IS to struction and cheerful,

Call & tries to troubles when the dinnan ⠀ hours att handl.

Forget

the day's occurestion 1. Concentrate my one thing that. {anum in your, Hfess

Make › mkrukum: to spruct up for His retur, from worki Put on fresh make-up, a pretty

trocit. & The Bright Im-. lon your make insure fo utshine the five o'clook inado w

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