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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1957. |

WOMANSENSE

WEEK-END

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Bare back dress.

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Elegant

Fashions With Go in with A French Finish

By EILEEN ASCROFT

London.

A

dresses to ankle-length. In Paris this reason you could count on

the two hands

gowns that Gaited the floor.

The sheet. eveal: dress and more of a fnthion favourite. Many smart

TUE really elegant French

chooses woman leday coat-dress for spring, slim tailored, the perfect foil for her how Easter net. Im happy becomes more to see it tashion catching on here.

women do not even poisess

m

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In the rond departments I

kung evening gown, Most useful And exelling adaptations of the numbers have bare tops and louse wrap-around from Paris, in tightweight fabrics, brilliant y Jackets that do duly for

Infermal and formul dingers,

colours and small stardaway Small, floor-sweeping Trains Collars, Those, too, have the make their appearance on some new shortened sleeve.

of these shart frocks,

Sign of a luxury party dress these days la that it has its owa matching coal or Jacket. No Extravagant us it sounds, as the cont can usually be worn effer- tively

black cocktail dress as well.

over

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THREE LINES

The mor datig part of phy woman's word be is her hat. A good sult, o impl

exten tonf,

There is 12 x.rurg

oriental influence, too, in the evening clothes. Chinese-silt tuule skirts, Jaune Obl sashes, kimono- like conls and wraps. Forest landunarks in changing

Top med toes are the season's

heels

1ashion. Just As hats have Devalit tonised their shape, so stres bear the stamp of 1857. Tous ar pointed, lines slender,

higher t meuc.ute and slender. dress will do

Good

colour seasons. But there is nothing shoes are the musliten, olive- more like last night's leftovers green or Madeira blue shades. than a bonnet of two

Companion handbags have ago.

changed their faces, too. Gorc

it well-chosen

duty for

lock tedangely

evenin

mony

SEASON

and

sunnier

Lart summey we were wear is the wide envelope shape, in ing there delicious meringus-ple its place a long, square shape concretions of tulle or chiffen, vel à a decorative handle. detted with roses.

Play clothes from Fence are But pretty as they were, diy uniuine and gay. One s.pre has have a

old-fashioned a mouth-watering collection The new hats have from the

This Cote d'Azur, Includes pure-hugging cotton First is the Sou'wester-large, faster swimsults in dramatic face-framing and a rent flatterer, leopard prints, with boned tops with brim that turn back off and detachable haller straps, the forehead and dips behind to

ince pulstanding lines.

the hope of the neck.

Equally

effrelive in fire and เยส! STRYVE or felts; stunning in white plequ.

Aly

choice of the werk.... heney-coloured straw, banded

with champagne salin,

IDEAL COMPANION

Second: the tile pugoda or the happy position of English geisha girl hat, with high crown women

a splash

this year

WHETHER

"

it's Capri or any other YY resort this summer. go in with splash. Black rocks, blue pools and sand scream out for pretty women in adven- turous clothes.

Not the right figure? Try to get one. You've weeks to lose the bumps,

Self-conscious in beach clothes? The feeling will last one day. Then, with all those bure bodies about, you'll regret your limit dresses and too-modest shorts,

Not very young? 1 agree you can't strip so much, but you can still wear terrine colours, exciting fabrics and new shapes, (How about a violet towelling beach wrap with white hair?)

clothes This year's beach

newsy.

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striking, well-constructed, with ideas flowing in from California, Italy, and (important source this season) the Cote d'Azur.

Just right for making a splash. Make your splash in

A BAREBACK DRESS. The backless tep is a big incoming line, shoving, out the old trapless line that's done to death. New to go under : the backless bra, a feat of architecture.

A BUBBLE WRAP. Newer than coat, jacket, stole or poncho is a balloon of a beach wrap gathered in at the hem.

A DRAPED BIKINI. More decent than the G-string bikini, this year's two-piece

has a thoughtful bit of drapery. Everyone with

n human shape will wear one in the South of Bubble wrap in tomato-red towelling: the new beach shape imported

from Italy.

France.

dress can

I have been talking to three The Marchioness of Anglesey smart pretty women who are (three children) agrees that the expecting

are much better than bables this summer, clothes All three fave Had children when the had her last baby. before. All three say the shop when "manufacturers used ping is 10 times ensler now than make everything mites too big. es though every mother becomce a year or two ago.

a mammoth."

*

Not Sacks!

to

She, too, gots in for the U- front skirts3.

... DEAD BLACK, A black

I shall never believe that Lady But believe me, the mator- "SHff materials are best, I knitted swimsuit, a black jersey Macbeth ("I have given suck, nity fashion market has taken find, tand strong colours-no

suit or a black

Minen beach

muddy colours like belge. and know How tender is to an upward bound, show-stopper be n

love the babe hat milks me") among all that colour.

is a suitable role for a girl et SHOCK

WHITE. No 12. (1 made my debut in the white is dazzlingly part). argument, attractive when you've got your Ideal companion to a swim- tun. And I actually mukes a Or that Richard 1 ("Hnth

Try on pale tan look deeper,

now struck So many blows sult is a wraparound dress of

face bench dress with a upon this

of mine And Holoth sleeveless and

all-white 11.mmed

printed sash,

nine no deeper wounds?") is with seashells.

within the comprehension of a Parisienne clothes CO 2

A SHORT TUNIC. A happy Uttle tadpole of 14. Londen

budget--that is on clothes

unile playsui Is that much

The Counters of Lonsdale I asked John Fernald, Presi~ Like the

than shirt and shorts; newer that much more comfortable; dent of R.A.D.A., what plays (we chlidren already) says:

designers have cot and that much kinder to all he would command for children. "At last,

toned on to the fact that preg- shapes of leg.

ating to put on "NOT mannered comedy," he nancy is not A HOOD. A hood to your raid, and NOr Shakespeare, a sack and hide.

must of course wrap or beach sult is new, fat- The children

what they a understand and practical tering breezy beach, You can pin up kaying. your hair and hide it while it

The best playa I know for dries after swimming.

children are those of Nicholas Λ SARONG. That Stuart Grey, who has drama. Hewallan hileht on the hip in Heed the Grimm and Hans

swimsuits, skirts, Andersen stories i with us for

turning a which is simple sed urwhimsy." dresses-somehow plab plecs of sportswear

Betoota with a leaning for something feminine aṭxi sexy.

Sheridan and Congreve, kindly note.

today. and strong oriental influence, milotairess and the lin star, thia cluse, too, come the

we can if we like, dress in the enchanting mob caps in tulle er neight of French fashion.

Chiffon,

But if we prefer quitter, more Third: a shape that gun right serviceable clothes we can stil back to the 1930s, made rather achieve a Paris finish at prices Be child's sun

a

hat with a fer ready-made clothes that the backwards tilt, This is the French women are the first to

mast dificult shope 10 wear Lavy, effectively. You need to be The best compliment paid to

cur London ready-to-wear col

ultra-smart to carry it off.

Evening dresses are as my cellens is surely that so many nud frothy as over, The two smart French women who can't important trends here are the rfford to buy couturier models return of the strapless top and And it cheaper and better to the shortening of full evening shop right here in London.

THE

SHAGGY STERO

LOOK

This smart town cloth from Juan Patou, want

-back on the head

-and ferves the

fhichead bits. It

i in

RSY

,whiła. strow. trimmed with multicoloured.

uši, tlkbana,

Curtain Up

on

Into

This week I went to a prep. school play.

A completely sucessful occa- sion, because the play wna specially written for the boys of 12 to 18 who were to act it.

It was a Tudor adventure story, well within their grasp. Bonis blood-and-gute, lend explosion and • Binish plot

Gre

She, too, buys as tow clothes as possible, and elfucks every

thing out afterwards.

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