1958-01-18 — Page 9

WEEK-END

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY, 18, 1958,

WOMANSENSE

Has Balmain ever been to

PICTURE BY JOHN FRENCH.

FOR THE MARINERS OF 1958

For the one-time Sport of Klogs (well, nditionalse grocers anyway) that ia fast becoming the sport of millions- BAILING—) prescut a truly practical Dutfit.

11 hørt just a matter of money, it's a matter of knowing what not to wear- which includes

ever-so-slightly-fancy-

dress saltor sults, and alinost anything with brass buttons on.

This striped denim middy top started as a Bellish version of an Italian man's play shirl-with matching denim pantK

the

Suddenly the WOMEN were buying t-like mad.

50 Play Sport. who made masculine outil planned a feminine version-identical top plan straight denini skirt,

For those who hare learned their salling the hard way... who now kn that though some bõals may boast hang- lug cupboards, there's seldom room to nłów a crushable dreKS

that there

are Umr ashore when slacks simply WON'T DO... I offer this sick, chlo alternative.

Top and skirt. s. Men's top and slacks Box, ed.

a beagle ball?

NUCKER that I am I cannot resist

the "make the most of yourself” appeal of so much that is written for women.

"Birds in the hair, false buns, back dip, front plunge, up hems, down hems, eyes right, left drape" what-

ever the cry you'll find me in the front ranks doing my darnedest to keep in. step.

Off the beam?

Yet now and then my other self (the mickey-taking one) catches up with me: “You know all the answers, but are you quite certain they are the RIGHT an

awers?"

Is there a possibility that the world's style setters are the tiniest bit off the beam? Or is it simply that, thinking fashion-wise, my life at its present pace is a very different cup of coffee from Life as it Should Be Lived?

Take the Hospital Ball DRESS with for a start.

Into the mad swirl of a waltz...with a fearful rending sound

knobs on), me tell you that things are

"don't skimp it. Balmain a thousand times more "Make an entrance," say is exuberant with one tricky for the tiara sch the experts-"dazzle them hundred yards of tulle in

with the drama of this satin wrap."

this exciting model.”

Balmain hasn't partnered the keenest beagler in the 'county.

It's wrong

See the arrivals at શ state reception, bent double

in one

But the Hospital Ball is held in an old coaching in

all very sixteenth cen- tury and quaint. And what

Oh, unforgettable even- in an agony of extrication with chaps shouting where ing, when we swung into as they manoeuvre their the blazes do they park the the mad swirl of the old once beautiful and billow- car, and women elbowing fashioned

ing skirts, waltz with n their way up the stairs to fearful rending sound.

You can't get out of the icy bedroom. which

("I always keep a couple vintage Rolls

anything apart from a serves as a cloakroom, the

of drama of one's entrance is of cards of safeties handy Balenciaga's balloon skirts. left to make its only im- for this do," said the girl pact on the stout woman in the clockroom later as who, posted at the top of she pinned up my tattered the stairs, cries at regular tulle "exuberance.") intervals "Down the cor- "Or are you the slinky nylon backing, ditto of ridor and second left, type?" they quiz me tulle to cover the backing please."

"The Duchess looks divinely AND a stiffened petticoat That striking stin wrap avelte in a sequin sheath to be settled somehow into is bundled away with a with a fishtaŭ train."

two square feet, little pink ticket pinned to ita "burgeoning fulness" and I spend the rest of the evening wondering where in the world I put the other half of the ticket.

Ripping

1.

"If it's a long dress oc- casion," say the experts (and for a beagle ball even- ing dress means EVENING

See the "best dressers” at the opera squeezing side- ways into row Call 14 yards of brocade, 10 of

I wouldn't give much for There's something very the duchess's chances at wrong somewhere. the Young Conservatives I kuched a few weeks ago dance when round about with Eric Crabtree - boss of midnight, everybody seizes one of the bigest groups of top every other body from fight dress shops in Britain.. behind

not and they

Fashion snake

ឃ. simply moving with the times," he around the room in a good told me by now we should old-fashioned conga.

be showing plastic dresses with built-in air-conditioning skirts that deflate and change colour at the touch of a switch.",

Show me the fishtail to stand up to that.

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Go Red, Young Lady

By HAZEL MEYRICK

If you want to follow a Don't forget that 'red' covers auburn, stay away from

pink,

fashion that is sending whole range of colours from but try turquoise blue instead the sales of hair rinses, so there is

prie, copper-gold to derp 11- Panicking about your hair shade to colour? These as the dress rocketing in London, and match everyone's natural colour- shades that kill' red, and make causing queues at the hair- ing. dressers', then join the

craze look.

loatt less noticeable: the mud- dlest browns, greets and fawns,

The Marmalade Look is for and pastel colours such as pow- for that red-headed the girls with fair hair. Fine der blue or muted sage green.

bleach is first combed through They will te hair, and one or two blended effect of red hair. sirenks netded, in front, to lighten

Everyone's putting a red tint

In their hair-ke the high

powered woman executive of an

and brighten it. Then a taway- gold rinse is applied to give a

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deep auburn, and top model Pal than normel, so use only a weak. switching to your legs, and

O'Reilly, a natural blonde, who solution.

has gone carrot-coloured, just

for fun.

The True-Red

becoming important to chocse exactly the right stock- Look-Nume ing shade to Datter them.

cop-

Avold too-bright desh tones which make your legs look ginger lobster-coloured, or the shades which can look most

What Is it that's making Lon- coloured hair is for the girt don women throw eaution to whose hair already has c the winds and change their pery sheen. Use à concentrated hair colour? It's the new copper rinse such as copper super-rinses, as near to dyes as gold, or flame red', und change finttering, unless you are na

but without

they can get, dye's permanence.

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red

your lipstick to a

clear coral turally sun-tanned. colour. ilke Revlon's 'Persien

Dark stockings look dowdy, Melon'.

and for from disguising plump SOME MISTAKES

The Dark Plum Look is legs, draw attention to them. strictly for brunettes, and I gives Stick to pale and pretty colouTE instead, and look out for three Unlike the old rinses which the darkest hair a rich.

new shades; dawn, sand and came off on your pillow and sheen, Clioose 'deep chestnut or

mink. often tinted your skin as well rue auburn' rinses, and wear a

dark red lipstele.

The type of stocking you -the new ones last through

Having achieved your red chouse can make half a dozen shampoos. It the

or mar your One large Bellab horrifles

appearance. colour really

you, hair, hare's how to play up to however, it can be taken out it: Check that your make-up is stocking concern think this is so

need to important right away, by adding a chemi- still right; you may

that they've asked eat to your rinsing water, change to a creamiér powder Ferragamo, the famous talian four I've seen some mistakes, of base with less pinic in it. Choose shoo designer, to choose

flatter course like the brunette simply-styled clothes that don't perfect stockings whose hair glowed red only detract silention from your new different leg-types. under artificial light, and the hair tone, and plump for bright blonde whose hair turned bright clear colours. orange.

These are the shades that make

to

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The wrong red may make red hair look brighter: white super-shoers, designed to show you look

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