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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1957.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

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Suddenly a NEW woman steps into your life Luisa Spagnoli

THE SACK — DO YOU FEEL EQUAL TO IT?

If you do, choose a really gay, bright-coloured wool and keep your accessorios simple. This dress is in canary; the gloves are brown, By Dorvilla.

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Anne Lambton, One Of Fashion's Pace - Setters, Tells You The Secrets

To not that is the buy a waistless dress,

If you are going to feel twice is happy In a dress with a belt, why hesilate? The wide-shaped variety made in leather to both new ́and sminet. But I must fit from the walst down into the hip-bones, or rise from the waist up on to the' diaphragm.

question near to every woman's heart today. On the face of it, fushion seems to hinge on this and this alone. To such an extent that any girl who feels re- luctant to rush into a com- pletely shapeless frock faces a serious worry: Will the effect by accident. who look hopelessly out of date if she doesn't?

Frankly, YES. But there is no need to panic because you feel unequal to chemise.

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This nipped-in waist is coll mutton ro watch out you don't

Be sure to wear your belt Łuckled back to front. Bought separately a belt fa un excellent way to pull together an inex- pensive jersey dress, A double.. knit in a size too inrge anel taken in with a narrowing seam to the hem in one way to 11 now, wide, soft-topped look without spending በካ UN- necossmiy amount of money. It you are small and are going to feel overwhelmed by the line, follow the example of Lady Margaret

Cutam, She has added inches to her height. by wearing

dress a waistless dart to indicate the with a waistline, and two bows of matching material set Jiko new pockets on the hips. Over attitude to dressing. To this goes a matching unfitted fight against it is ignorant Jackot. and off the ball.

While the "sack" has been hogging the headlines, variations on the loose to look-at dress have been bought up by the girls who know.

The vital point to ap. preciate is that the line represents a whole

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Any girl who accepts

this situation must use her imagination to turn THE LOOK to her own advan- tage and quickly,

Do this and you'll have the winter of a lifetime.' Oddly, there has never been - better moment.

Clothes with an away-from- the figure cut will be smart to look at long after the hullaba- loo has died down, So mako the changeover as simply and as ceonomically as possible.

And do it noto.

Let's discount the attitude of those.professionally connected with fashion; inevitably they must wear the latest line as part and parcel of their job.

For me, the unbiased choice of someone who dresses purely for pleasure · is a far better fashion guide.

Take Lady Willoughby do Broke. She is slim and smårt enough to wear anything new that might come along.

She has picked not a Back but a loosely-cut mid-brown woollen frock with p wide belt set low on her walst.

GIVE YOUR DAUGHTER A CHANCE

E since no

„XAMINATION results, one has yet

invented anything betler, are still the deciding factors in how much education, and

of what type, a child re-

or

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What is the practical use

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you lucato her or not (cynics much might say she will go further if she leaves her mind alone), and Jayne Mansfeld is rich girl today, but, not so far as I have heard, by cour- tesy of educations.

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Nevertheless, If you Just because Cambridge has responsible for a family consist- at last rather shamefully allowing of an obviously bright girl full University and not-so-bright boy, would dits women status and the dublous privilege you autoŕnatically come down in of wearing gowns, it does not favour of sixth-form for the mean, that a battle has no lunger Boy only, if funds would to be fought, much earlier on, stretch enough for both? in the home.

Better off

I am very far from believing that more and more education is the right sort of tonic to pre- scribe for every growing school- girl. Some will always be peace- fully happily incducible, wil! placidly resist. all frantic and totally pointless efforts to cran learning into their mild, rumina- tivo minds, and will be far bot- ter off in a home (of their own; I mean it kindly) as soon as possible.

Now I know all the argu- tage in the Education War calves. A newly published ments in this old, old battle Between Men and Women. report called After GCE, which will probably never bused on 76,000 "sample" see a truce (even if and children who took either when education at all levels Ordinary

Advanced

frec). Boys have a Leve! examinations Inst living to

earn, and will day have probably one year offers statistics how many of them pressed family to keep. Girls even on to sixth forms and highly trained academically- thence to universities.

inclined girls are fatally early marriage, prone to One fact

that with its famillar sequel of particularly intorests me, a baby and an abandoned Where there is a question career. of school fees to be aidered, parents still prefer

If a choice has to be of a pair of blue stockings put away in the top drawer, mude-to spend money

boy's education rather be washed and lunch to be when there are rapples to than a girl's.

cooked? (And yet....a girl may never marry, may always have to earn money). In other words, if a girl

The does badly at the Ordinary

early Victorian lovel GCE, her parents pioneers of women's educn- would feel less inclined to Hon, with their chaperonage send her on into the sixth and tennis in wasp waists form than they would in and long skirts had more similar circumstances for a dedicated, fiercely feminist 'boy. More boys than girls material to work on. Some tako Advanced Level, and a times I feel that far greater proportion of femalo undergraduate, the 1956 school-leaving boys thinking, of Finals and than marriage in the same gasp entered universities girls fin the grammar for breath, is not schools, it was 67% boys to product of victory after all, 20% girls).

but merely an uneasy hos-

More boys

or

not

Or if both children looked equally promising, but it would mean a certain amount of sacri- fee to keep them both at school for as long as possible, would you incline towards economising on the girl?

Too late

How many women do you know who regret not, having learned even a certain amount of disciplined thinking, or who fool, a little regretfully, that they would like to know more, or learn to do more with what extra-dornestle talents they have, but fool they have loft it too late?

Likewise, there is always the exception at the other extreme, I spent several years respect fully watching classice prires and scholarshins without num-

An extra year or 'two at ber being collected by a girl of school, if necessary and It really unbelievably plain looks, there exist the facilites-work- who suddenly-and very pro- ing on subjects that are not all vokingly--turned overnight into purely academie might at married"

beauty, straightway least give a girl a breathing- a gentlemans of our space to get to latow her own passing wealth, and, as far as mind and its potential, if it the know, kissed classies goodbyo did no more. At least it seems

for over.

to me worth a chance.

the

a raving

A rich_girl

markable girl is going to make It can be argued that ́n re- her way in the world whether

And field-work on erineÍMA Bocioty ardi the contrasting styles of Blecia and Dontogaia: bood be, till later. will always keep, if absolutely

---(London. Beprem ›dervies).

Van

What are the general lines to follow if you want to stay in the fushion?

FIRST, THE LOOK.

This is just the beginning. However you decide to inter- pret the new cut one thing is quite certain, Whoever you are, whatever your shape, a top-to-toe Багу,

overhaul is neces-

Get rid of now:-

THE SUFT which has fitted waist;

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THE HALF-WAY STAGE

Neithor fitted nor foosa, with buttons to givo a

slimming effect.

Deep pile fabrics, fur fabrics, and tweeds that are coarse and hairy yeb soft to touch, essentially part of The Look.

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Without this cat-like qually the now lino is hopelesslý For the larger women stark, this might represent yet another hurdle were it not for the fact that there are any mum- ber of heavy looking herring-

bones,

Tiesa come in smart dark- colour combinations like black and brown, or dark green and navy.

They are available in all the new materials and they have a splendid way of making large frames look more delleate

Worn on a alonder bulkl they'll make you look in need of protection-as good a way DS any of pandoring to the male ego,

FINALLY, THE FEET.

For the simple reason that most men sum us up in a foot to-head Intake it is wisest to details Uko

THE DRESS with the Peter spend money on

shoes, Pon collar;.

Put another way, any girl with ALL YOUR HATS they a good pair of ankles and aren't worth the ribbon they pretty smile can dress to please are trimmed with, so post the boys. All she need do 10 them off to the nearest jumble pick a frock in a colour that sale. If you leave it too long the sults her and wear the thing as organisation won't even write though she owned the world.. you a bread-and-butter letter. Buy ONE new hat—a hair covering tob to take care of the odd pompous occasion. Or go without a hat, and SCO what transpires next spring.

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THEN THE TEXTURE,

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To end on

encouraging note. Few of the world's most elegant women can honestly be called ravishing beauties. There aro of course, notable excop tions, of whom Mm Johar Ward and Marlene Dietrich spring instantly to mind.

But in general it is the plain

As important as tho cut of Janes who dress with chic and your outst (alightly wider distinction who tequire a re- thoulder; unfitted waist; nar- putalion for dazzling

good looks,

row hem) is the material,

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