THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1958.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Leg Show
JOAN COLLINS IS READY-Joan Collins takes time out for the photographer before going into a scene with Paul Newman for Leo McCarey's "Rally Round the Flag. Boys!" This is one of 26 intriguing outfits she almost wears in the laugh-and-love version Jonnne Woodward, of Max Shulman's best seller.
who recently became Paul's wife, also plays his wife in this romantic comedy.
Now Paris blends
curves with the
Lengthy Look
The
THE weather reports may confuse you.
political reports may confound you, but one thing is certain, the fashion news is good, good, good.
I've thought it all over. I've gifted the evidence. I've checked and rechecked my notes and I find that the chemise, the trapeze, and the sack are licked.
But Paris has licked them into shape -- and B
very pretty, high-waisted shape It is. With plenty of
curves,
Designers are united on the higher than waistline waist.
The only thing left in doubt is whether the new line is "Empire" or "Diree toire.'
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I THINK It is kinder to the ture than last winter's fushion, when the only place the dresses really clung to was the hipline. I THINK that all men wid tove it.
Yves St Laurent disappointed us all by growing up far too
soon.
After his first gay fling with the trapeze he seemed to be settling in well with the younger Bot-Laroche and Cardin-to give us the kind of clothes the
can wear.
-by-
VERONICA PAPWORTH.
GREEN Is The Top Colour
There are batwing md-up sleeves, and narrow sleeves set low.
sleeves, nimple,
Pyjama corda are, run through broad, natheted bands to mark a new high in waistlines.
And everywhere there are fudy coat in vivid colours.
And
For once fashion is on the side of the shorter woman, the truesiere makem.
Now what does all this gor gcous fashion gossip meant to DON?
second that this is the start of lighthearted women of any a sofi, nubbly, hairy or downright threaded ribbonwise, in and out
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Don't anybody think for one
awkward,
-unfeminine
fashion,
Never have clrs (ooked more girly. The long, lean, Hepburnish Bgure that was at its best in the flat-chested' sack gives place to the well-rounded type.
Laroche's favourile mode! Is Danielle Leder-a blonde with augur-almond make-up and full- blown rublage rosy good looks.
A
rood pretly
prototype Danicile,
ROSES
Added to this is a rosy trend In make-up. There are rozes, roses everywhere. nodding. from high waists and lower than low necklines-pecking at over the tops of collars and
through wigs.
Uk
the tumbled curls of
"Moth eyes" are worn-sott, smudgy, myople-looking make up that goes well with the general lushness of the look.
As for the Great Hemline Seare-take my word for it, hemlines will rise all over the British Isles to settle one inch below the kneecap thin
autumn.
MYSTERY
.
WHAT DO I THINK OF THE NEW SHAPE?
1 have only seen it on models who look dreamy in anything, The mystery to me is the way they can, seemingly, Matton or indate themselves season after
DEOSOIL
1 THINK the new
---This-season's showing-was-a-
depressingly adult affair with longlah skirts, long sleeves, and in impression of grey and binck throughout.
Sad, and indeed,
The new Dlor woman 23
between
Empress crust
the Eugenie in a sombre mood una one of the Bronte sisters.
But the youngsters more than made up for him. Pierre Cardin In particular showed a collection that was brimful of life and carour.
FUZZY COATS
is going to be a
halry
winter. Thick, fuzzy mohair copts and dresses are shown in vivid blues and greens.
Blue lined with green, or the reverse...or blue shot with green. It's a lively, lovely colour combination.
Green is the No. 1 colour with our old friend of a few season's back--Winter White-running a close second.
There is also a great deal of a a vivid orange-redi.
I
think the most exciting fashion news from Paris is the development of so many new- and unusual coat shapes.
A coat is no longer just a cont It is years since they have been so full of Interest in design, tex- ture, and colour.
I can hardly wait for the cold snap,
Grat
Add to these coats a tall scal- skin "Hat or a high velvet beret have something very and you easy on the eyes.
HATS
PLEASING
taller
ATS generally re
another happy thought for musl women.
A good six inches on the overall height of a girl eau make
a very pleasing difference. Manguin shows tall, bugur- St Laurent shows loaf hats.
hats. Laroche tail, velvet, fez shows huge leather chefs caps. Pity the poor hairdressers, There's rarely a veslige of hair on show,
aro
No wonder that WIGS news. Carlth has made some beauties for the Cardin girls all high "Empire" back and side curls.
SHEER-BLACK.
TOOKINGS everywhere
very mucli darkor. Castik shows sheer black stockings
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with embroidered alocks. They look particularly exelling with short, bright dinner dresses.
1 foresce a rage for them with the younger sel,
Lady Jane and Suna will be into them in no time, They'll love 'un.
hals,
To sum up: It's high high walsts, and long, dark legs, Never have truer words been spoken than when our own Hardy Amies told
me three
Huge, cape-size collars, tucked weeks ago: "The legs will begin
the bosom shape mushroom-shaped, collars, and just under
next
will give a very becoming filusion high fur collars smuggle up to senson and go right down to
The High Hat Look
of length to all women.
the ears,
the tips of the toes."
IT MEANS that if you have a jack or two in your wardrobe you need to add a wide belt. of alois, at the now high level. IT MEANS that you coulo A three-inch consider cutting band off the hem of lasi win- ter'n sack jacket and making Ji into a belt.
the
(Sior the belt through side scams-underneath at the back, coming out to the ligh in front),
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IT MEANS that one of you" first autumn buys must be waist-length bra with all the uplift in the world,
IT MEANS that fur halk are back-the prettiest in mink or acrlekin. Above
ali it meat that SHAPES are back-and some girls, ay over, will have good reason to be sorry.
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By ALICE ALDEN
· TALL and handsome hats are terrific with the current clothes lines, and the best of the specles are those trimly tailored with ribbon. Emme does such a model.in grass, groen Milan straw and finishes the chemise cloche with darker green grosgrain ribbon. Note the angle - up and away from the face and designed to produce this summer's "Hite" look.
Calmness And Patience Gardener's Reward
Are
BEHIND the universe, as
physicists are begin- ning to prove, there is Lini enormously complex and beautifully-planned order.
Nothing really is left to chance. What looks like luck-good or bad-always turns out to have rules be- hind it that are just as reliable us the formula for the square of the hypo- tenuse."
Once I became aware of this, it changed my thinking about a great many things. Where I had once, seen senseless happen- stance, I began to see reliable order.
Gardening A Hobby
By ANNE HEYWOOD
the kind of faith that cunos from knowing that, if we do our share, the chances are that life, nature, or whatever you like to call it, will do the rest.
Wonderful Job
For instance, I used to won- der why so many of the wisest philosophers, as well as the most successful contemporary and women, almost always had gardening as a hobby. St Au- gustine, Voltaire, Cicero, Pearl Buck-people whose lives wera I thought of this the other day
effective when a woman I know was tol happy, successful and seered fend of gardening. But ing me about ber experience in now I know that here's a rea- getung a wonderful new job. aon behind it.
It was one of those nerve Gardening teaches un several wrocking situations involving quila important loons Dost big job that paid a good salary the value of patience; second, and was a desirable opot in tho fuiflity of modeling, thirth every way •
Four people, including my friend, were being considered for it. They had all been given trial nesigrements to handle, in addition to an exhaustingly com- plete battery of vocational testa. They had each had interview with five or six of the top brass, had been informed that they were still in the running mad would be notified before too long.
This can be the most difficult | time, in a job-hunter's life. Tho temptation to keep telephoning and chocking is almost irregist- ible. As a rule, it is a case of altting by the phone and play- ing a waiting game.
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"But I'm downright supersti- lous," my friend told me. kept right on with my job- hunting and forced myself to apply at other places. Then I spent all my leftover energy and anxiety working on the plants and the bulbs and getting them ready to set out in the garden. Every mo I was tempted to pick up the phone and see if a decision had been made, I would go right down' the basement gardening and get to work on chores.!!
I don't mean that this is what got her the job. But I do know that the Jongérango habit of cultivating some kind of gar- dening has an effect on the por
maka sonality which tendes to ghings come out right.
Revlon's
new cofor excitement for lips...
-Engertips...pad tqe-tips-too!
"BUTTERFLY PINK
The part of pink that's the heart.of.pink
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· 100, degrees pinker than pink ever was before!!
A sun-pink, a moon-pink, an overything that's-June pink! The only pink with enough dash for the new crash colors of summer. "BUTTERFLY PINK' Roach out and catch it. you might catch more than you bargained for this summer!
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