1957-04-20 — Page 9

WEEK-END

News In Carpets And Glitter Furnishings

Lonton. easily spongeti, In off-white,

THE arrival of spring it tunes with any colour scheme

this year before t

Is particularly recci in.nded for the nursery because

The sainc

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February WIS out has cleans so rusily. started the British house- wife on her annual the

moths" some weeks carlier

"Dent campaign than

In Britain, the appear anee of the first daffodils

fo The Karden and the blossom on the fruit frees, is always the ignal for the annual bat et pringe el sue ing lever.

For Two or three weds cnch year, husbands hurry

hai 150 launched a new all-purpos 100 percent viscose carpet with a dense, cut pile a1x1 Krent resilience. Although mole only in plat shades, which include crimits, blueberry, willow and mal, the carpet is resistant to back mork, in well so being molligaung at. I rusy to clean.

DO IT YOURSELF

"Duit Youne, vif” uchdigis will et Reynar Car- welerine the De Tis intrested by the manufhelters

LI UK ulready

thanktulty to the other in the morning, or arrange 71 well-Ratown Haymar and Vel- business trip away from mar carpets. The idea is that home, while the house is you cat build your carpet to pattern and in the scoured from attle to cellar. You wi Every

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THE CHINA MAIL, SÁTURDAY, APRIL 20, 1057.

WOMANSENSE

KATEY ROOSEVELT looks forward to the coming

season with apprehension

Oh glory,

those

shy

Englishmen!

lish

her hobbies give

her

asked.

EN minutes late, but Would TEN your with a completely dis- subjects for making polite Eng- and ermany, chce nuok

conversation? with either 10-inch vr arming smile, the late "Well, let me see, there's riding drawer and cupboard, is 12-inch square tiles made of

Franklin D. Roosevelt's and tennis and photography and turned out and strategically forymar nedeloom carpet,

granddaughter breezed into shooting" "clear"

moth with some

The file, made twelve the stately Blue Room at

A POT-SOT replant insecticide.

Pojatlar evlour", ate nylon rein- | Winfield House, Regent'a This

the time, tou, fazend, nothproof and damp Park, with an outstretched when wives consider it likes the use of underfelt wi- Hubler bucking

"ShowUng?" I queried, with a guulek picture of Katey whir- ring a one-camera. their husband's bankerssary, provides heat insida

exclud draughts, account to buy new cur- The Thes can be stuck direct pr. If the carpet BOW carpets, new to the few

be movable, tu or anything need to covers

vetal pape backing.

timate toshake an assault

011

tains. Jonse

else needed to smarten up the house before too much sunshine shows up too much shabbiness.

It is of cents, nu voineplener that curin fis textile tis

Homes extitions are held at this

plays, Jorul unel the fales time.

es the opportune mant to catch the housewife

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at ber most vulnerable

and

bring to her notice a tempting array of new wares and work- raving ga gets.

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Any tile which is damaged by terenovable studes or burns, for example, can be taken up and affecting the replace.t without whole carpet.

Bran

To help prospective buyers to plan their eclour schemes, "Colour-fl- this yourself" charts for dining room, lounge and bedroom, on which the floor is squared

in this way, the purchaser can work out palterna which apparently ar shorten Die room, lengthen lead the eye to a desired focal pital.

demarcate ON

various areas in 4 multi-purpose rvom.

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NON-TARNISHABLE

hand.

"I'm Katey Roar velu” 10 But 21- sald. I law she was, year-old Katy, silm, brown-

urna step-daughter

of Mr Whitney

reccully appointed Ambasinder to the Court of St. Jame, is used to making her own filhuetions. Ard, after mik morth in London, the gin upped to be the hit of the season just beginning now, is still finding it Siffeult to acclimatise herself to the chilling ceremony that the potle Briton insists on

SHE GRINNED

"Guess I'll have to get used to the idea of not speaking until I'm spoken to," she grinned. "Back home in New York it's the most natural thing in the world to go up to anybody who looks interesting at a party, tell

ask who you are-and them who they are. But it's got ten me a lot of oth looks In London."

them

need to

mix

is

mafoglirera operale cara, is determined to de

viere, aurikan, libtojant and abeoque ration even ons which 4 tot percent His has now been nylon.

"Yea, you know." She took an imaginary pot-shol at a cardolabra, Rim, OUTE BANG. I've done a lot of shooting down in Georgia."

Katey Roosevel!

Why WON'T they talk

about themselves?

by LISA MOYNIHAN

specialty rude if I'd turn up half an hour later in New York. It's roughly 45-minute deadline after the time they ask you to a mcal."

LONG GOWN'S

She has other ambitions "If I work- ever get the chance of a ing permit In England. First, she'd like a spell in a day mar- sory........"I Just adore children." Then another shot as a înger- In-all-ples associate TV pro- ducer--a job she tackled for a New York TV programme,

In strictly off- Katry was duty dress-bright red corduroy

DRESS: "I can't get used to skirt, blue and red sweater and ow." But she had this to say long gowns at dinner parties. blue moccasin

ubout: "flalties." An

And the garden parties I'll prob vibrant Incongruously

Agure THE ENGLISH MALE: "They ably be going to! We've against the spacluie elegance of aren't natural conversatkinausts nothing like them. Most suitable

whose a room

French A bit shy, I guess. The number dress in my wardrobe for them lofty windows look

sloping of times I've been asked Are is the bridesmaid's dress I wore put or

in London? tree-ringed lawns and a host of you enjoying life

to Sara's wedding. Guess that? and I've said 'Yes,' and they've have to do." dancing daffodDs.

said, 'I'm so glad. And when I ask

Q man what he dots for a Hving I never seem to get straight answer. Ai panties back homo you soon know who's who and what they do.”

PUZZLED

the Blue Room "They call but you'll notice it's really pale green," sald Katey, with the puzzled frown of someone still getting used to the idea of a subway being a lube, an ele- vator a lift and a drugstore B non-existent.

DATING:

in the realm of more conven-

Katey has a big secial round manufacturers carpets, Now, man-made Mora are making a determinal cifort lead of her in which she will diplomacy with Cities in of overlyng charm. Her mother, former wife

"by- at James, FDR's eldest son, The delays

"It's so much less Lilness. And reich-eat-lengh & red which i

recovering from an

spontaneous in England. At home who has ong married

it's kinda casuni, A buddy rings retailers in

and you may meet for a start in extential

a drugstore and decide to do her best as "a gort of mother's

I show or

movie on the spur ablours, my che con help-unpaid, uninsured-and

in the better partitie inexperienced."

of the mument. In London It's all planned way ahead. And you're an er for nine

at a lot of "At Homes" and LorkBon the, "Oh glory!" she really supposed to be pumetual rak carpet squares of "Wessex"

matches, said (her favourite expression). Eight o'clock for dinner means Para Hom Wilton, ordered by a Ambassadorial return arm in Stockholm from a frm But not too exuberant a part. "I'm supposed to be diplomatie that. Nobody would think

Kilderminster one Thursday evening, rtarbed the Swedish

mid-afternoon capital by Sunday.

Baader cont de prringe, ther least of the nuvantages at 9630- made Abris for carpel

Hart wening.rilend, rusalan to golling aut virtoully 11 14: sale bermuse of the use of a pun-dyed yarns, there no attraction for mothe--a most important consideration where a Atley carpet J$1 A centrally- inse is concerns,

casa la also have

Most of them, too, are ladiel That is to say, they are way. : D. inexpensive heselan which then given a latex backing, Tatt acīs strength and reduces 1. deney ku slipping. Some evt have a fost rubber back- It'

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on

Howie, eun baya as much Cand at of tarnish- s they wish, Silver, gold 1. L

coloured Larex metallic read can be had in everything, from the curtains and gocainer texylene window coverings to ité beaspread and the eider. down, from the tapes The tww płastic Venetian blinds to

the bath mat and the towels.

There are able mats with coverings ly 41 Kusse gold, silver and coloured Lurex

One of the newest develop- meats in these man-made fire

"Shaggy Dog?*' rug, featuring

a long Indian-type plle.

threads hundwoven by Swedish Made folk weavers, and elaborately

of 100 percent viscose, tufted embroid:red table cloths and and backed with latex, this rug table centres from Portuga),

has all the soft cosiness of the

conventional wool rug but is

#180 mothproot for life

and

-The "bubble'' line is apparent on this afternoon dress "in' = very sheer work's in a lovely shade of coral, Xi has a high- necked plain' 'top. — FromS Jacques - Helm,

NEW DUSTER

I asked Katey to be frank

a

It will mean playing her part about her first impressions

of

Favourite

Spring Ensembles

TT

By MAGDA MEYER

a

seems that the, en- semble has secured permanent niche for itself in German fashion. Pro- moted by the couturiers for

Even the kitchen pluss cloths several seasons, ensembles con glitter with gold rond silver, have been popularised and or red and green and blue, these days What is more, in are now available at prices tion tu being untni-hable which the even in the damp heat of the jean afford. bathroom, this TIOW

litter

thread can be boiled again and again without it effect.

in

the soft

average woman

The most widely- favoured form for an

on-

Wide

A small, but not insignificant,semble is a slim dress and ald to the housewife's spring a matching toat; the latter cleaning in 1957 is a new duster can be of varying length. which ensures that the gleam of It is upon this form the wood, metal and paint in the wholesale manufacturers home matches the glitter of

are concentrating. metalle thread furnishings, It is new Cod-use is made of wool fabrics polishing cloth, and simplicity is the key- the counterpart of the traditional note of styling. Trimmings one impregnated with silver are kept to a minimum to polish. The new cloth looks allow full emphasis to be like a duster and is used ilko a cluster. But as it passes it placed on the matching, all. leaves a thin fim of silicone on of-a-piece effect. the surface of whatever object it

dard silicone

touches,

It can be used to polish

and plasticware as

it

A clock chimed like a diplo matic cough Kaley glanced at her watch "Oh glory. I'm go- ing to be inte," she exclaimed I half-sum after her to the im- pooing front door under the raised eyebrow of a passing footman. Then she was strooidog above stairs. I could imagine her grandfather's how

exyca twinkled after her. would have

And whoever she was about to keep waiting would, I am sure, be disarmed by a girlish smile and an explanatory, "I'm Kaley Rousevelt→

London Express Service.

CAMELLE

SCHWICHTENBERG: Featuring the trumpet line is this cont of marine blue fleecy wool with a mandarin neckline. It is worn over a slender-skirted, Prinonas-Hno dress in the same colour but of a lighter weight wool. The dress has short sleeves and a draped neckline which is out in one with the bodice of the drem. HORN MODELL: Very simple and very chlo is this dress and cost ensemble of stelped flannel. The only trimming on the sleeveless sheath dress, with its high, straight neckline and firmly-betted waistline, is a single patch pocket on the left

hip. The cost, which is equally severe in cut, festures a mandarts collar, short sleeves, a allt up each side seam and a patch pocket on each lip. LAVER-BOHLENDORFTY Here hip-length cape is used to form an ensemble with a matching, drew in a fine, grorsted. The slender, three-quarter-sleeved dress has a narrow bow thas irim the neck and ■ panel at the centre front of the bodice buttoning on to the top of the wairt. The cape in wide, and fulk and fastens to the neck. 8. & E. MODELLE: Jaunly and youthful in this will and cost. ensemble. The sult has a slender skirt and a short-sideved iscket heldi in as the walli by a tied belt. Ju white wool, li features much double seaming detail. Hi is worn with a focet. fitting coat of crisp-handling wool, galty gziped red, white and bine..

And if the ear is to be inclut ing a square, round or V-shaped smart and youthful are im- particukinky attractive for the saving dishes, sama, colouri

and

com-

towards the at the front, it hangs in salt eremble. It is fastened or lust full but, tapered fekta which taper off and dia- rots on the shoulders, and tem

varies from hip to full-imgth Fabrics, naturally, play an metal, glass, leather, porectal, The couturiers, too, continue appear at Impe-height:

well as to four the ensemble' this Now that the waist

There is no specific Line for Important part. It ensembles, hos wood, and is just ny hood for season. The favourite style for returned to its future position, coats in ensembles. The narrow, The various item comprising the car as for objects in the dresses in these ensembles is bolts again play an important tubular coat a chic version of the ensemble are sometimes In

military retont house.

simple arxi attractive, embrae- role, particularly on suls Very the i

and but most : designer with Jackets young and slender. Very eary 10 davour more Ingentotta

EndI looso, but, robinations.

possibilities the spring cleaning nookline, alightly bloused bodies skirted

falling softly over the belt and a featuring very short peplums wear are the

4hom operation there is an attractive sicire with its greatest fullness at and held in at the waist by a very wide costs with on this theme present rubberised viscoso cloth with the hipline that gradually de, lontiser· of eckt-fabric bel

collare, pocius anal, solves-fabrics in different tones Lurex interwoven, Cerigned creased towards the hem.

The cape,

Then there are of theme colount, large and which, was so trimming especially for its upholstery. The Dutch sicirt Introduced populer in Germany last scop, those coats which feature small version of the same on chuck, palu é anik - paštored Another now cloth designed for by Christian Dior last season is has not disappeared with the trumpet line, widening in the same purpose is a bold chock much devound by the German ED WW Baina: both outer curve towards ther bens, ocios having a common colour, with foam rubber backing.----| coubueters. Draped from ir elegant and practical, 12 la cottoes "The very loland model woo different welbta dei flaw mazda, | Ching Mall Specked.

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