1957-06-29 — Page 9

WEEK- D Holiday Styles Collections

By Marie Fontaine

THAT should one take

WHAT

on holiday? That in a problem which

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every year about this time and causes Bome people much trouble. It is

All-

noying to find that your holiday activities

are

limited because you failed to take the right clothes with you. It is equally irritating to miscalculate and take an excessive ward- robe quite apart from the difficulties you will ex- perionce travelling with cumbersome luggage,

Of course, your selection wil depend greatly on your choice of holiday and also on your mode of transport. However, from the current Paris collections I have picked number of clothes which could And their place in the average holiday wardrobe and which I hope will

use to you by way of suggestions.

A suit or, better all, a dres and Jacket ensemble, is Ident for travelling. It should be supple, comfortable and - crushable, ሲዳ well Light;

therefore, you rannol do better than choose a very fine tolle Weave woo! or a lightweight wool jersey.

can be

If you

brave

5. Ligh

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1957.

WOMANSENSE Current Paris The FESTIVAL

of WOMEN

1. JEAN PATOU; Ideal fun this ensemble consisting of a chemise dress and matching middy binuse in 11 y. The top of the dress is while with a band of Hayy and a band of red shunsetite the skirt is navy. The middy blouse is plain navy and frateres bracelet-kices and a cowl neckline. 2. HENRY A LA PENSEE; For cool evenings and diuitof-df 24, this two-picee dress of sand-coloured wool taon srould be perfect. The top eat, sterveless 'and decollete. This skiet is pleated sil rou, LOLA PRUSAC, Lo Reeveless sweaters are very popular

beach- wear in France this year.

work with shuris, trews or shorts. Typical is this model in white knitted wond with raly i spot desiru and a narrow, scalloped, navy edging round the are. 4. CALIX errat craze for draping has found a way on to the beach as is seen here in the red wool jersey held at the waist by a wide draged bell in a fancy fabric,TENI A LA PENSEE: This bare-backed sweater in fine wool Jersey is horizontally-sti, mat and whille, fi reaches high at the front; a plain white band encircling the net all bow at the nape and then continues down the

entre of the bark & the Bay of the sweater about half-way down.

By SARAH ROTHSCHILD

That

THE Festival of Women Wembley Is Α festival for career, girls. The other day, as a de dicated career girl, I set off on its marathon mile of atails and sideshows.

By the time I got to the last lap, an inch or two loss on hip and heel, I was con- vinced of one thing: that a woman's place is in the home. •

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THEIR SLOGAN But this is not the opin.

BT-

ion of the Women's or: ganisations who have ranged the exhibition, To them, "a woman's place is where she wants to be--a slogan they have specially coined for the Festival of Women.

And where, according, to the evidence at the fes tival, Ho we want to be?

As regards style, it your Journey Involves citing down for long periods, remember that a too-light waistband most uncomfortable, have not already been anough to have one, this would be an excellent opportunity to try an elegant straight dresa which ignores the waist, topped classic colli and buttoned selle e tretki is the style trend in a fel and whlte honeycomb moving production belt.

În a occluded bungalow I met two staunch femininis having emancipation over their ten and quite an argument about feinnie shortcake,

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They were Mias Weal, the only female director of the Festival and Mrs Margaret MacKay, Chlef Woman Officer of the Trades Union Congress.

*We're trying," said Mra Mackay, her dark eyes flashing with trade union zeal, "to make the indigestible focls palatúble."

And they have certainly tried -though the coating of sugar is this. Stall after gally coloured

stall, pamphlet after cheerful pamphlet blazons the happy news: that for every two work- ing men in the country, there is one hard working, but sometimes equally paid, woman,

is

Sald Miss West, who believes

menial job that the most trying in this exhibition to show worthy of a vocation, "We are

the importance of women to tho national economy."

The Festival of Women has convinced me that I am Im- 'portant to the national economy

I now know that I am part of

vital those

statistica the women workers

8,000,000 paid

Wo want to be rolling. cigarettes in arithmmoth in Britain, and the 65 per cent factory in Staffordshire. Or of the daily spenders in Britain. sorting mail bags in the And Big Slater, that rotund local post office. Some am- body of Women Trade Unionists, bitious housewives appar Is watching me. You are alone ist dann to

combination of foundation Karment to look ently crave to stitch seams

NEW IDEAS use for an oxid kitter" and ute is in Paris this well.

in a shirt factory. ally, phated

Other As ham, and how its Influence is

regarde swimsuits, 1 twin-set in a toto sell av of elines for particularly like two

But the women I saw at the to models career girls are eager wool in a pla as those in very in Shed: nd

Festival did not seem very in- toria right

to from Altix. down

Both are In

a carry suit cases

the terested On

in

her Henry as Penser; and a pair

returning Stitch, an #wear

Janitted fabric. One is stripod station platforms, or lift maternal stare. A few curious in Blue and white with very shirt in striped jersey with equal in rutanee to this well-defined waist; the other is nute and bolts off a fast- housewives pecred at the Trade Union stalls as if they were rather doubtful sideshows at a Irapin which has even pallern with a plain white hand

fair. 1 Its Way into the beach in underlining the bust to create a THE GREAT PRIZE

The stalls and stands which ensemble from the Jean Patou form an important part of ver meals Sleeveless. It is is often cool in the evening and really want?

the side, beach and swing we will of a litle sult of raised waist effect

redwBoj Jersey by Callxto Even in the hottest places, it But Is this what women rally drew the wamen were the boutique in line wool

Or is the house of a thousand now Ideas, Jersey, holiday wortisole, Very malar red de ech side from the you will be glad of something a truth that the majority of the make-up and hairdressing chemise top shurls and news me long, long the opposite little warmer, especially if you the 8,000,000 paid women displays, and the fashion show.

by a matching straight jacket

or,

even more up-lo-dale,, looks very smart with elteli

middy blouse.

For instance,

there

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If you are going to the

a novy this season for wedding

The slender, dress hus skirt and a white with a band of navy and band of red round the waist, The middy blouse which can be worn over it is in Davy and features bracelet-length sleeves and a cowl neckline,

As an alternative, you would have one of those tube dresses in ribbed Inkwear with either thick or very fine ribs and a stand-away roll

collar.

Over

bus n sleeveless wealers. Lefa Prus number of them heve the appearance of being hand-knitted and which teature all-over alved design

out-of-doors as one does fer, foming a V-neckline, dine held in at the waist by a

so often on the Continent, or bright print. It has for this fed belt in a contrasting

Wool lace is the perfect fabric en onde in a tine, light glamorous and light,

purpose and it is Henry i

colour for a very attractive,

workers in Britain go to work because they have to?

Touse are mainly in black bláèk wool printed with la Pensen has used it in a sand. The great prize, dangled

white ne mey and while,

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sleeveless two-niem dress, The like a carrot before the tially loose fiting top has a rounded, housewives' eyes by the

for decollete neckline and

Fred post an worn with a of red wool jersey.

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and figur ind

us re right --

reaches

In the models changing inom I talked to some of the manne quins before they showed clothes to a pocked house of enthusias- tic housewives.

Blonde model Merrill Cale

embroidered

brook was struggling in a blys,

evening

dresă

This once a bare-backed ser in Saing. Mover, it requires to the hips, the full skirt falls Women trade unionists, is called "Sour Grupes," "I WE

Hy-Papad navy and sho

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could be topped by a boxy jacket In Nemc of matching colour, or other wool fabric of similar weight. could even take the form of a blazer in a knitted fabric. would look very new striped in the conte novy and white or green, and the t navy, but the classic ploin navy half-way down, with gilt buttons Is sill very smart.

to the neck at the front. A plain white basi varicling the Lurk has smell bow at the Rape, and then continue, down

1. b.rk to Have

ane zakutos about

From what has gour you will realise just

Ever fascinated by the stained glass windows in the church? Meet one who

makes them

Windows Make Her Wish Come True

IN her apacious Terente sind, have turm finished some ting, in

Yvonne spoke of the enjoy- 1902."

Barker

of this

ment and deep sense of sath- She explained it is imposibl faction she ima derived during is put off the work, * two decaduis as

of the time off to do something else, country's loading artists.

when deling an under A alim, gentle woman with a size; swath of

grey through oned- Yvonne has made ained brown hair, Yvonne sald her glass windows for churches, greatest wish has always been chapels, and

universes

good in pleats all the way round.

The

Safari

Slant

ARIS es airy-fairy in hats for 1957. Frothy materials Bound in nastel thaties. Many

Sats are onall, with deep crowns

Yed baby brims But there la also

S return to the larger, more

tportant

functions

bat

for

summer

On right Spotted belge and hite drgandio swathes this beige Bengal straw, reminiscent of the

itz

ngle hunter's vafari hulmat. From Maric. Christiane.

to leave some defalte imprint nearly all 10 provinces in of her existence in the world, Canada and has three windows and this. is what the windows in All Saints Calandrat ul Yvonne has designed and made Aklavik for many churches throughout Territorie the country have meant to her,

LAND OF DREAMS

Boru In a land renowned for

"It In

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The widows are shipped in scetions and then re-assembled into their

before they are se window-frames,

get

and

its dreams Yvonne's first "Surprisingly few over memories are of brown-skinned broken,"

Yvonne zaidi, natives atrailing through the course, we keep a complete the "OL byways of Trinidad,

of the window's design a wonderful place to makeup here, and if one plece grow up," she Fald of Port should get broken during the Spain, but added there was no trip, it's just a matter of re future in the sleepy South Seas cutting and tiring Istantl

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know which is the most wom out, us on the clothes,” she said. "But, the women's enthusinsri has been simply overwhelming,” srid Michael Whittaker, who organised the show especially

for the career woman. *

Fastening zips and doing last minute repairs to tulle and hems was no real trouper of a carder girl, Jackie Jolmston, who has been a wardrobe mistress since 1921.

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UNTROUBLED

As each model danced grace- fully on to the stage to a special- ly written musical accompani- ment, I could hear the clapping,

happy housewives →→ un troubled by the shadow of nationel economy.

of

Towering above their heads Blood vast pictures of the carcer girls of the past: Boadicea, Florence Nightingale and Jane Austen.

Yes, It's fast becoming a woman's world-and there's not much room for Adam. As I was leaving the exhibition I saw in the foyer a large nikde statute of a woman "Femina." by Dora Gordine. By it stood a solitary man, scratching his head with perplexity. Behind was a sign reading "Emergency Exit,”

It seemed - The quickest, way out.

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But, the salesman ccasional roller provided by mer at hope that perhaps even excreted",

collars and cuffs, the most successful bustries said, you have no sense of being vary cut of from nil

#ff white this," said Yvonne,

have one feminine exercised, no datigue which nor- which can provide a clean, fresh women can

show thing hiding in their masculine mally follows a herd day on **What do I remember

yang look, but at this best The glass is arranged on Days

the golf coupe. Or at least, pity her if ly edded to what the com- cupboards. about Trinidad? Why, I sup- In the design of the

It was a end show for the girl "Instnad," he says, "you are pose the most memorable scene window and

eventual she follows the "authorita- mentator happily shounená na

with ambition She would dis refreshed, relaxed and toned up of the pro-lenten Carnival" parks so it won't warp

in plaer of tive" le foisted on her at the authoritative look,"

well to think again if the bust- for evening diversion," she said, "In Trinidad It's the

Then

Business tray is pushed inte

executive," ness efficiency experts, speake Olympie big called simply the Carnival,' but massive kiln to be an

*For the woman the

the commentator confided, "for truth is fashions. Efficient fashion show,

Paeliblly manly pack Ja very much to New Orleans' temperatars

people Express 'Annual traditional Mardle Gras,"

For 1e, in a selection the woman who has arrived at Now a good secretary work have 6cm given a boost toward Rupert Annual of 40 dels for the nue the top of the tree, there are ing for a good boss can put in independence, However, the old that the mood of the celebration was, the whole operation, eerling low-pi and so, it

The Inost rewarding pobit of cessful and a few for the one

certainly rewards. "And here is 18 halog of golf, or several acts »

An English physiotherapist, Rupert Magaxinos of tennis, or half an hour of after tuparing a car tyre p Ten Foints About Poprie

Stamp Albuma 2. unlike the Mardis Gras, more to Yvonne, is when the complete

squash all at the office.

ture, has developed à special African than Spanish

The natives adorn themselves on the girders at the first of buisnes man,

window is assembled and hung sugges

That "ana" was a long tunic The Business Eficienty show chair operating on the principle Points on Judging Jade unsuccessfu?) with fervo war-like masks and her studlo just before it is hardly attempt to

there was dress in royal and bike face at Olymple sports a sinaug new of the penisile juck,

Don'

Outlina Relief Map of China the calypsos to the accompani- shipped to its permanent home, what hion

do' cloth over alouger than usual exercire-conscious chair. ment of scores of drums.

The designer and he But the arts are almost ni areistants checle it from

experts ad-black skirt, it looked trighich ask me all the detalls of "how" When the person in this chair A cimply don't understand words to miệng up, be moyes a ingly authoritative.

Only real cucapo fróm : the “sha. All I kotiin in-thrak. 11 : Handle 'to and fren, still the seas | Macmin: Music Sheat Trinidad." existent in

every vise the brain and added

Julty mother· Korsan Artists'. showth, springs and Doom, Fibbertham

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of

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she angle, to make sure the rolours | glorify this femininity, world al business was offered in chikir is cunkdruty" cordeived at. Khame to media and

and detalls convey the donor's dgrumon.ty take idea or, if it is made for an

atvairab years" she mold.

a delicate off-shifte Thé a of which, we were evening drom

the moment we are making 17 to the overall design of the not burely few, were putere, Sud Small Bull re "At architect, to ste that is conforms told, the sincewoman should swathet chiffon top, des windows NT 4 convent in building of which it will be a and fusted from dull, buler, offerty .mod reventeen. Ontario and expect to part

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