1957-10-12 — Page 9

WEEK-END

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1957.

WOMANSENSE

Blustreanustio QHDH¬KIEL,

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YOU CAN STILL BE SMART ELAC

Without The 'Sack'

The 'suck' is only one of many curront fashion lines, and H it is too extreme for your taste you can still be smart by wearing up-to-date accessorios and fashionable fabrics and by introducing -couture detall Intorost into more conventional stylos.

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and grey.

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are among the combinations are brown, violet, und blue, violet, green of green muny thousands women who like to keep abreast of fashion and yet wear clothes which are at tractive and flattering, you have probably been greatly disheartened by photo graphs of the latest models this season,

However, it is a strange fact that the clothes which hit the headlines are rarely truly representative of the general fashion trend. fact, they are often merely designed to attract publie ity.

In

If you feel that the latest lines are too extreme for fre

your taste or if you working on a strict budget which will not permit you to buy clothes which may Icok very dated riext season, there are a number of ways in which you can still keep up with fashion and fulfil

all the other requirements.

fubrles Sholland-type plain colours such as dark red, ruby red, sage green, pruvnek blue and the neutral tones are much used for dresses and te piece ensembles, while for the sports cul, wide comfortable piant herringbone - patterned Tweed and houndstooth checked wool arc among the chosen

fabrics.

Thirdly, there 18 detail interest. Even the moci cx-

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treme model usually has original detall Interest well worth copying for use on a less staring style,

Such idens can

be used to bring some of the clothes in your wardrobe up to date or they can be incorporated in new clothes which you make It for yourself or have made. Is These 11te tuttcher that

make all the difference to a model and, indeed, it is often the only means employed by n couturier for altering designs Irom one senson to the next.

Here is some information on

Interest of models Italian designers which cere 10 adapt for

Firstly, there are accessories, the detail These

can be used to bring from last year's outfit right up to you might date with a minimum outlay, or your own use, there, hals are the most im-

Let us take collars Arai. In portant and from the turban, many cases, they are absent berets of varying sizes, wind- altogether, but when they do socks, helmets and "back-of- appear they take a variety of the-head" cloches, you can forms. Sometimes they are surely find something to suit wide and flat, even covering the. you. Next in importance come shoulders. Some stand up, handbags. While the deep bag while others are rounded. On with a strap is all to be seen, sume counts, hold revers are at- the newest type is like an en- tached below bare necklines feature larged, clip-top purse, Inclden- while some dresses tally, in Italy for is being widely round oval or draped necklines. used for accessories rather than for trimmings.

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wide and

Sleeves are mabily wide and ruther short. The smartest are bracelet-length and without Culfa or buttons. The kimono Secondly, there is the choice sleeve is seen again and again. of fabric. One of the most Armholes, too, important fabrics this season is dropped. wool tweed not the hard, coarse type, but that with soft rustic appearance and good draping qualitlos, I can be in a plain colour or can have un uthier colour or colours in give it a flecked, streaked or boucle

appearance.

Buttons are quite an 1- portant feature ci many models this Leason and they tend to be und fat on couts, and farge

mull and found our suit jackes, On some dives and suits they are concealed bend a double- of fabric, ad on other

·cm- models they are used to

Bows, 100, hatice style poluts. are used for the latter purpose,

As regards cont fabrics, one fold of the most popular (In Italy, nt least) duvetlne. This heavy fabric is ideal for the current trend in coats, which emphasises the Importance of the back by various effecla such as doubbo folds, blousing, gathers, drapes and fares.

Pockets ere, not much in evidence, Patch pockets are For suits this season, the only sien on sports coats while

611 the regular fabric choice of Italian poets

loose, full wornen is a Cheviot-type wool copeouts are mainly of the slit fabric with a canvas weave. types. Many models have none Beautifully soft to the touch, it at all.

the new adapts itself well lo

Knitwear trimmings are very suit jackets, which are slightly Indented at the front and loose fashionable at the montent both or Baring at the back. These on sports garments and on coats

always, have mbrics nearly

a and suits." Such trimmings are number of well-blended colours usually confined to the collar to give a shot effect. For in- and cuffs which are hand or stance, green, bronze, brown machluc-knitted with a bold and black are combined to- siltch in a heavy long-haired Knitwear is also being gether, or blue, red, black and wool. gold. Other attractive colour used for berets and handbags.

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Collarless and straight, this coat has a mock knotted belt at the Walt, VENEZIANI: Black knitted braid is used to trim the collar, evers and pockets of this coat in herringbone tweed. CAROSA: This coat in heavy tweed is dominated by a stand-away collar which covers the shoulders. SIMONETTA: A small buttoned-on belt at the collar and another at hem at the back of this wool velour coas draw atten- tion to the deep inverted picat running down the centre back CAPUCCI The cross- aver bodion of this dress is emphasised by a large flat bow, SIMONETTA: In this twend sult, the classic jacket is replaced by an overblouse with a wide fat collar. BARLI Hero, ha helmet-style bat fa in the same checked śweed as the drags ANTONELLI: The unusual detall interest at the front of this short, unfilled, black wool crepe sull Jacket, is edged with matin.

Protect me from these WHITE WEDDINGS

The

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Thankfulness

by

SYLVIA LAMOND

IT'S supposed to be the since she left school, eyeing the when the last guest has gone- when they agree it all went off Greatest Day in a Girl's clock and wondering how soon

very well, and get out the Life... but tell me blunt she can get away to change.

pictures of the bride us a little ly:

Is there ANYBODY

reception knocks

that the two who enjoys a white wed. cocktail party into a grey topper girl. And their main emotion? one and for sheer discomfort. A ught months of planning and arguing ding? I am

packed room, women's hats are over. It only needs a wed- there must be millions Jog for alr in their hired ding-and the mikicet Of whose heart dropa a noich morning suits; drinks coming familles splits into opposing when that white invitation very slowly-partly because the

warm fotti in her paits all the way nervous tension and no card with silver bells is walters can't get through, part-

ly because the caterer is spin- Men argue about

the champagne, just good clean church-although, as we ora popped through the lettering out his ration of three a

drinks;

women argue about gin.

all aware, there is nothing this box.

head. Every olive and nut has to the

children jus!

stirs up the acid in the clergy be fought for, and you discover, argue; "Well, if I carry her The only wedding I really like a speck or two of litter... Just let's forget the sentiment too late, that the bride's pake- train--why can't I go on the enjoyed was celebrated in a attached to o wedding-and boy since removed from the honeymoon?” lool ut it coolly.

parly got to the chocolate

As a party, it's the world's mousse first,

Teampa,

private room at Landon Alt port. It was completely modern

GET RID OF IT

rid of first,

And at the erid of it all and streamlined. Twenty of us. And that's only amu aspect | thero is The Hill, Now whether all on speaking terms, ato a de- cf wedding tradition that worst Whether it is at THE TALK FLAGS it is £800 for a reception in Ecious buffet meal, flown over docan't wash any mortg Claridge's, W.1, a church hall

Mayfair-dr £100 in a suburb from a Paris restaurant that I know exactly what I'd got But what really tells the party

morning. I'd suggest that it would be spirit are the people. The hoteh...

The bride strangers second put to botter use it it wero potch

wore a silk suit That towering cousins, business acquaintances, handed over to the bridal which was also her goitig-away cake raised mon possible god-parents, the doctor couple: to buy car, some suit-it, you step from the re- columns. who "delivered the bride, the furniture, a luy honeymoon ception straight into a cleari blackmailing old aunt who holds or even to spend on a house- eliver airplane that's possible. the family voll of Brussels Jace, warming party when they gel

in Stoke, or a hired house in Chelset (30 guineas for the day with a view of Battersea Power Slation) the trappings are the BAITIC,

THE SCRUM

We wouldn't tolerate them at any other Mind of party.

"There's a quete a mito long

of

No wonder the conversation flag. No wonder the wine-cup

back.

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made to last 12 mowina witho Lot's burn- thood, redding low and demora pf mouldering under, M. taniden's etiguotio books.

to get loto the reception to tastes deld--and so many guests Wring the hand of the girl go home with a cracking head-- you've known all your life. She scho. Do the bride's gumity en- the bride locking, twion={{0} stands there, dexed and un- joy, the weditlagt 1 bej if this radient. (7 perenciame communicative in the most parents are sentimental people who hmundry, loused her bost maldenly, froskatie has worn they get their full happiness on the Grens - Day); will no phool. class should scatter con- forg

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