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WEEK-END
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Designed for autumn-winter 1957-1958, "Velotte" from Pierre Billet is a cheeked woollen ensemble, The loose three-quarter length jacket is highlighted with a wide black leather belt and buttoned-up mandarin collar,
-- Acence France-Presse,
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1957.
WOMANSENSE
WHAT IS THE MAGIC OF
THE WOMAN OF FORTY?
London,
[7AS there ever a time
W when men round older
By Sylvia Lamond
Боопет
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Half those world-weary young clothes, but so often wear them women HD fascinating? "men who escort the debs say in a tasteless, appalling way.
"She talks, which exhilarates When that old comforter that they would much
by esceriing the deb's mother! und recharges a man. Whoever "Life begins at forty" was
around that men only At so incredibly true?
coming-out canopy (1 13
wen; to be listened to, was the wamen who have settled half-wit"
to have a· quiet · fotsip DOMINIC ELWEB At every party and social down
among themselves—having flest betri. Siman Elweg), who Jovent of the year the wo-
taken the precautión of dress, kurvived 80 deb dances last men who drag an adoring ing to kill who are besleged reason:-- quene of men after them by men begging them to dance. "Molners are more stunning thum the dois every time. They ... carelessly, like a sable stole. are the women we once called "matrons."
The
at
MRS JOHN WARD hat the have the three vital things. experlance of lunching onc of Good Looks, WI, and that
"It's the old man-trap known BR the mystery of wom()*---- which few women have.
to
*The modern girl tonds cut off her hair and behave like BOON playful, kitten which becomes boring."
a
on
JAMES LAVER: fashion and beauty hlaloring
"Older women make much
of (son of more.
their felrure atit pleasure-they give more lo il, "Girls in their early 30's are a very serious-minded lot these days. They are BO keen careem, charity work, and bring- JUA up their children (over when they can afford nannies)
the cheer vanity of to enjoy being feminine.
"The older woman often has
girls at the moment seem to be is q compelling attraction models--and most of them can't met." write their own nume, Their ROMANTIC BREAK magnetism goes phut once you
her daughter's boy-friends to terrife Poise which acts as an they don't give themselves time
kmooth over
between
them, and innding herself with exciting challenge. The chummy n much trickler alluation: the girl who flings her arms round boyfriend fell Byronically in ***The only beautiful young this relaxcd awareness, which love with mother.
40 woman around tracts the photographers every time from her younger rivals, Men leap to light her cigarette, to get her another glass of I has reached the point champagne, to dance with her. where a girl who has passed the age of dancing pumpa and They are under her pell pigtails, but isn't yet nudging and blooming youth could stay 40, feels something of an awk- quietly at home. for alt the ward in-between. Celirious Impact i making.
If you think I am out of my mind. h:1 over the names which slitter most brightly: Mrs John Ward, Mrs Ian Fleming, Mrs Douglas Fairbanks, Mrs John. Profume, Fonteyn and Markova; the Ladies. Olivier, Eccles. Lowson, Shawcross; the Duchesses of Argyll and Bed- ford.
ENDLESS LIST
The Hot of the Fabulous Purtles for very nearly forties)
endless.
Who are the magnetle young momes?
There are very few which spring quickly to mind-milke the 1920's and 1930's, when the
bright young things had it all their own way.
Where
is the dazzler with mure than sheer youth end a Tuse in her hair, who can hold a candle to the woman whose hairul for the grace of д Mayfair coiffeur-would be turbing peacefully grey?
your neck esn't compare.
try talk to them."
for
the
My own vlow in that NICHOLAS EGON, painter of older woman was lucky enough beautiful women:-
to enjoy that tush pre-war to "A woman with the vitally
when romance had a fair. and determination to survive chance; when women were the battle with youth Into her cherished, put on a pedestal, forties is then the most fascinat- and could scarcely help growing ing kind of woman.
up to feel desirable; when man put his mind to romance wholeheartedly the way ho Bow puts it to raising the morigago er checking his in- come tox.
MATURED ATTRACTION
Why is it
that so many men find the older woman attractive? I went to the men to find out.
Sho has learned everything to leave the handsome bachelor
LAURENCE HARVEY (Boon about how to present herself. list when he marries Margaret
"Allcla Markova is a great Leighton, (8 years his sentor) at my studio and sat in a corner She came to a party example. The okler woman must be
-every beng in her body purring with delight. It couldn't beautifully composed. ever have been easier to out- shine the young-who seem to- day to revel in being puddings physical and mental puddings without any lovely Julky inside.
Fruit
"The saddest, groyest thing about this country is that we don't have any young dazzlers. " any age, I think I would always end the mature woman more attractive. Her experience smooths the way.
"She knows exactly what to do, roulally. It is a bore looking after a gauche girl, unless ง man is a dedicated Romeo.
"She wears beautiful clothes ..young girls may have the
WE MISS THE VANISHING DINNER JACKET...
WHEN do most women
W
look absolutely at their best? Discounting a certain purely Anglo-Saxon type that looks staggering in tweeds, Miss Pat Smythe who looks breathtaking
when dressed for riding a horse and Miss Brigitte
--Says Amanda Marshall
A bizarre
Bardot who seems to be juxtaposition of dressed for the beach, that diamond twink- permanently more or less
leaves the rest of 18 and ling women and
we usually look, feel and ure polo . necked at our best when dressed for
party.
English women, in particular, blazom in the most extra- ordinary way when areoutred for battle in full-skirted saun Upra and six-button white kidi gloves.
nien...
OPERA
FAX
Tho occasions for 10-1, who has ever attended a Hunt Mason, Clive Brock and, of party In Scotland, and a glaner jacket have a good
floor evening dresses being few Bull or
and far between (1 haven'! crammed with 101t-tall High- cent in conunos. owned a long evening dress anders in lace and jewels and course, Fred Astniye, who was since my undergraduate day), yelvet and heaven knows what, born in a tiny white do and top most of us get by prettily and knows that on such occasions int. practically with "itüle evening" the women have the strangest With Mr Coin Wilson it is a dresses that go out to dinner, to habit of simply fading from ease of love me, love my roll the theatre, to restaurants 10 sight.
Mich the same thing necked fisherman's-knit for all occurs when the well-bullt
Occrsions. Only the overwhelm- Englishman puts on white to Ing Louis Jourdain among the and tails and adds a whole lot young lions looks as though he of Orders and Decorations;
friends's houtės,
THE ONE FACTOR
But no matter what the con- against such opposition only a text, no amount of door and 17-year-old ́raving beauty lá 60 flattering subdued lighting sets a yards of white tulle can be seen party-dressed woman off so well at all.
is the one factor that is now,
mare often than not,, missing - When your hostess hastily a man similarly dressed to kill. warns you on the telephone: "Don't bother to dress," what
Just ng women have thank- she really means is: "You dress fully retreated from the full fer- up to the nines because I shall mality of down-to-ground hem- and so will all the other women, lines into the chic comfort of but all the men will just looks a the short evening dress, to have though they've had a hard day men more and more given up the at the once.” effort of changing into a dinner- jacket for evenings out,
SAD SIGHT
I thought
and a dinner
Q
deni
Jacket hove good
m commen. If women are to resign them- selves to tagging around in Bro leathers for the evening, closely followed by something that looks like a fugitive from A board. meeting, or, even worse, a long country hike, then the least men can do is make up for it in some more subtle manner,
Mr Laurie Lee, the poct recently had to get special dis pensation to attend the Cannes Film Festival soirees in a cordu- roy jacket, no possessing the dianer variely. But Mr Lee is of on the mel company gualismon bhead with that special, nover-to-be-belleyed, wholly Irresistible gift making each and every woman fcel that she alone is a perfectly delightful combination of Juliet, Cleopatra and Marilyn Monroe- atud such men may wear any- thing they pleace, as far as I an concerned, for they please me.
Los skilled and experiencel hands at the gentle art of charm- ing would find that the occa alonal dinner peket la received with a great deal of gratitude from any dressed-up woman who knows that, like a prize pearl. she looks best nexi to perfect black and white,
-{London Express Service),
GENUINE POISE
"Much preliler younger wo- man were there-Fiona Camp- bell Walter, with that gorgeous red hair was one-but Markova stole the show. She has that cool poise, not the cold, empty polse of a mannequin, but the genuine thing, suggesting bank ed down fires and passions.
A
Women under 38 today havu had raw deal. No femme has harl a fair chance to leam about being folate.
Here is the suggestion I put to them. Give your women the big romantic break. Sily, the
into
their mindy thought occasionally that for them you could
de. write poetry, cruse zoris, or turn to drink.
That's
the manpower which makes a woman radiate.
Ask the woman of Forty!
This loose dost in white and navy blue checked woollen fabric is named "Portugal" from Nina Riccl. The small collar matches the pocket flaps in shape,
- Agenes France-Presse,
The Body-line Is Definitely Out
THINK Miss Dora and Miss Ekberg did it be- tween them. They killed the fashion for showing awful lot of body.
that clings
By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
frend
flowers
You
won't do....and dia- minds #10 impossible," con't think of a single occasion FOR DAY, the wolf-whistlo always maintained that my myself when I would have to An dress is the one
diamond back in the the moat ing a that's dying, sterious women are Out goes the knitted tubo dress alluring, makes a bee-lino for sivera tooth.
I don't go much for asking like a wet glove, the nudest woman on the beach. Men may deplore it and pret- (You never felt happy in it). I'm not her promoting the actresses for beauty tips. Covent Garden has for longy
ty girs regret it, but the docade Out goes the low-cut cotton iden, nor crabbing it. Just re- only got the same old corn, been about the only grand opera
an important
But Nadira, the lovely Indian one of the saddest of the plunge, the cleavage, the dress that's pretty enough for porting house in Western Europe where
Elm slar, now in London, in so ights ground the really ritzy midriff, and the skin-tight tube the seaside but never looked which is on the way in.
graceful in her walk and move- you find the bizarre Juxta New York late-night clubs and is going, going. gone, (Come smart in a town.
ment that I asked her how position of diamond-twinking restaurants was the absolutely to think of it, cactly 18
of floating
Eastern women acquire
their women altting next to polo unvarying patterTi of dress-up-years since the first plunge ecme Art-dress that don't eling
carriage. necked men in the red plush or-bust women accompanied by stalls. And now the last bastiun come-as-you-azu
• SUCCESS STORY OF THE in with Dior's New Look; and anywhere, that cover your arms office-suited
WEEK: Briti Connolly hot bor falen-the "400"
FOR HOLIDAYS, it's a cover- signed up for two now Cul, in men, as crumpled and dispirit 10 years is the life of a fashion), and are high at the neck. the name of "a more leisurely ing as yesterday's newspapers.
up story again.
missions. One; to dress Ann way of life," tus agreed to make Even the contemporary
herves evening dress optional.
have stopped looking ns though
In CONG MAKOON
Com
I don't mean I'd recommend Todd for a Broadway play, Four and confident to be graceful,
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She said: "Ia parily our dress, and partly our shyness, European women are too brisk "If, when you lift your hand I don't say the now summer those freak Edwardian bathing. Winde, about a Poor te to ay hullo or good-tiyu, there's What a waste of Englishmen they even own a diner Jacket clothes are dreary—they're any suits' with legs and sleeves. They Millionaires, Two: to danign
are hat, uncomfortable, --where almost
other Think of auch a thing on Presley, thing but. every
and a uniform for an Irish convent little shynem in your gesture, your hand immediately falli lily.
achool. nationality in dinner-Jacket-und- or Brando, or Tommy Sicele
What vermillity, But the knitted malijat, the
into a deilgate, shape. But they're not as all blatant. black-lle has the falniest possibic, and i Richard Burton ever
the halter-top ⇒ MY FAVOURTIE QUOTE "Then, is impossible to They mugece you have a figure sarong playsuit, lonk of the most expensive kind' climbs out of workaday clothes, without royoning acres of best, bosch dress look newer
than OF THE WEEK: "No father walk wall in a tight skirt. You of hand waiter, the Englishman they find a nice suit of gold- FOR SVENING, the will- the bikini and the eternal strup- or mother grudges the expenan jurt move your legs instead of
starbed looks supremely plated nemour for him to change power siwe la definitely waning, loss cotton, dress which had to as coming out, that all the walking with every muscio in The Univis Lons Company, U.S.A.
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You can medly breathe aul be bound,
Bostantation le to be cœplored."- your body. incffebly porrect..
Only the Old Marlors
know The halion tap, la, power, or 1 don't know how you feel Me Heuer Ticks No one, I might add, wants how to wear formal evening dress shoulders covered with a dwakho about all the respectabilly ■ MY FAVOURITE AD OF ing on your head, which brings tho really good-looking English- with the proper sir-Maleam of chiffon. If anything is bate, I do know you'll be furious THE WEEK (A lipstick as to the blood to your face and stirs
19 go. 999 fat. Everyone Surgiat, Laurence Olivim, Jamné it will be your back.
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