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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1960.-

WOMANSENSE

POSTSCRIPT TO THE PARIS SHOWS

A thing happened in

extraordinary

Paris last week. Fashion stopped being a tyran- nical dictator, and be came a friend to most

'women.

Almost all the clothes shown might have been designed, lo make a woman look prettier and more evidently feminine, in- stead of as they have done for long-mercilessly exporing The worst, and wenk points of her Agure.

Until this season, and for almost as long as I can remem- ter, the lelt-molific the Parks

It's the end of fashion

for the freaks

to one young girl whom women

story has been that this season's all over the world were envying

and

is the most exciting, original und demanding new line ever, you'd better start dieting right away becaure otherwite won't get a look in.

you

Beanpole girl ITs the beanpole girl (the lex-stemmed rose, as the her), the girl American call with the skinny Audrey Hleburn gure, who has dominated the last ten years fashion.

For her the lean man's trousers, wwealers and narrow for her the endless hip-sktrmining straight skirts that were, de rigeur if you had any pretensions to chic; for her the skinny little dresses and

demanding the blouse-topped sheaths.

For her in fact, the best of everything.

It has been an age in which the mannequin's freak figure with a tiny bust, unfairly small walet and boy's hips has been for most women--the impossibly remole idea.

All this has now been changed and in retrospect this breaking- wo of the fee is to me the most astonishing feature of all about spring In Paris. Whatever

FOU

Hatters

most, whatever you're happiest wearing, what ever makis the most of you as a woman-that's the fashion form for this spring and summer.

And I would say that a great deal of the credit for this goes

BY BARBARA GRIGGS

three months ngu: Farah Diba, now (ueen of Persia, whoar delicious rounded womanly heruty has been a clear inspira- tion in at least two of the colleċ- Your PRETTIEST AFTER- black dress, unless you really tions in Paris--Lanvin-Casulle NOON DRESS could be made of can't live without it. and Dlor--both of whom turned chiffon

blurred printed in out thousands of pounds worth colours, or one of the thousands of dreves for her collection. of beautiful printed silks, I

will be sleeveices with a round

Picking out, then, the points [JTE which almost all The couturiers are agreed this could be the wav Parts sees pou for spring and summer:

YOUR BEST SUIT will have short steeves (just-below-elbow is the mit in length and most were much shorter) ind Cusy collarless cardigan Jocket and a shirt that is slightly flared gently gathered, or box-pleated.

Your favourite

TTS COLOUR will be

your

I favourite, barring navy and lack. Pick from all the pinke ream, china blue, grass green of Time.

apricol, crocus or phoma

violet: or grey.

high

1

collarless neckline, rashed waistline and a finely pleated or gored skirt to flutter round your knee.

1.

Flanlly, the LONG EVENING DRESS is very decisively back (though there are plenty of too). entrancing short orteg But cleavage and crinolines are out.

Instead it could be slinky in onstel empe or antin; or it could be a Gibson Girl shape, with a bell-skirt, a deep cummerbund and sleaves to the elbow, made in organie, or clk, or rustling gingham-checked taffeta,

Your SKIRT will come to just (only just) below the knees.

ACCESSORIES are: pale stocking; much less jewellery und all of it colour-matched tu

All in all, this ought to be the your dress or sult; long plain

And gloves white or colour-matched pactilest summer in years. again; black or white shoes by if it isn't, don't blame Paris. day: colour-matched the rest of the time. You may wear a slave bracelet high on that bare arm.

Inspired

one

ND the

KNOCKOUT A HAT in your wardrobe- thanks to Lanvin-Castillo's in- spired designer, Bernard Devaux

proli will be huge-brimmed, neganza, net or silk, sown with ably white, mude of fulls. tiny white flowers.

Your BEST DAY DRESS wil be in soft bright wool with no sleeves or short sleeves, collar (a mujor Paris casually) high burl, and a flared skirt.

The only BLACK in your Forget about dinching in your wardrobe night be the black waist to the last hole. Paris milk top to a white wool suit this year is nut to demonstrate or a white organdie evening that you have a wast without dress. This summer, there are shouting about it.

plenty of stand-ins for the little

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Why O'Scowl Smiles

-He Was Helping Others Instead of Himself—

T

By MAX TRELL

collect logs and kindling for the evening rc.

hate

more

US is the story that Knarf "Now if there's anything that

and Hanid. the Shadow I

thann wishing Children with the Turned-About clothes and scrubbing floors it's Names, heard when they went cuflecting, kindling and logs for to dinner with the Pixies in the evening fire," he said. "But Q'Cheer Hall, which is down this morning it was my turn to under the roots of the Old Oak do li, so as soon as I had on the other side of the garden falshed my breakfast I pul on will.

my heavy coat and my boots and look my axe and off I went to the woods.

"Now when you come to din- ner in O'Cheer Hall," Pixie Me- Spry war saying "nd a cold winter wind is blowing outside, you're always sure to find a Air, cheerful re crackling in And who do you our Breplace, #uppose collects the Jogs kliding for our fire?"

Shouted together

and

At this all the other Pixies sitting around the table shouted In one voice:

"Pixle O'Sexwlt He's the one!" "But where is Pixie O'Scowl?" Harid asked,

Bitterly cold

"Well," continued Pixio Q'Scowl, "it was bitterly cold this morning. The snow WHL3 fulling and the wind was blow- ing. I kept wishing I was back in my warm bed instead of out In the epen hunting for kind- ling and logs,

Pixis O'scowl peeked through the keyhole.

"Lying on a bed was an old sick man. And tending the fire were his two Grandchildren, a Boy and a Girl.

'Grandfather, the Boy was saying, 'is the fire warm enough

-(London Express Service).

Off-the-peg Parle for spring 1980. Nina Ricel's wholesale collection includes this gay outfit already selling in French shops; and it has most of the 1980 points to it: the light. weight gray wool, the sleeveless box-pleated dress, and the easy jacket. A snappy adaptation of the same look will be selling in London soon, made by Rhona Roy, at 82 guineas (approximately HK$100).

LADY

your

LUCK

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THE SIMPLE WAY TO MAKE

MARMALADE

Tinned oranges can

save you two hours

war:

Wash

oranges

COOKING COLUMN

ed rice. Having washed it thor- cughly, cook it in a lot of boil ing water.

"The moment the rice begins

by Helen

Burke

350 to 375 degrees Fahr. (gas nurk 4 to 5).

With the rice and vegetable Wiener garnish, Marl served

"This dish," said Marta, "wl |

2

READER writes: "I But the easiest way is to buy

a tin of prepared bitter oranges, to swell, I turn it into a colan- Schnitzels (very thin Allets of never know why BU

peel shredded and flesh puiped. cer it gives me such pleasure et, egged, breadcrumbed and many cookery books make To make 5141b, marmalade add to see all the starch draining fried in tasteless oll). auch heavy weather over 4-pin water and 3lb. sugar to away! I stand this, covered, over making marmalade." the peel and pulp from the tit, Kently bolling water, but not

of Food bring to the boll and simmer touching it, and let i Anish oft not spull if it has to wait fer fron guests. And, if you like. It can Here is a Ministry

in advance and re- for about 15 minutes as directed cooking. 1 test a grain the recipe I published during

time to time by biting 11, and be cooked

required. on the label.

It is when there is no hard piece in heated when

equally pleasant when served The whole operation is carried Seville G

cold, especially

buffet foL (weighing about 13918.), put out in less than half an hour. the centre, the rice is ready.

upwards of 2

"Meanwhile, I have halved meal." them into pan with 2 pints as against water and simmer gently for hours. two hours with a lid on the

When enot, pan.

cut up ani slice the frult, taking out the pips, Return these to the water

work J dined with lb. green sweet peppers, cul in which the fruit was cooked

the seeds and inner delicious side dish. Drain a Morto Eltler, the Hungarion- strips,

large tinut Dutch sauerkraut. and bolt for five minutes. Place

Italian violinist who is malting ribs removed in the first place lee lib. of fresh pork slightly the sliced fruit in a preserving enviable more for herself. because they can be very hot.

larger than

Fry sugar cubes. pan with the liquid strained

"When the green peppers are them in a little tasteless all or

Vib. I add free from pips and 31b, sugar. She is also a gifted cook.

She told me that she never a le softened,

fat. Stir until the runar is dissolved

incti 112. mushrooms. eals a meal before a concert or sliced and bolt rapidly until it will set when tested (about 20 minutes). Field sib.

My reader claims that there in ro point in returning the pips to the water and bolling them for a further five minutes, since they have already cooked for two hours, I agree.

Mince peel

I know one woman

100lb. makes

THIS

Gifted cook

Side dish

end very thady sliced large feled it in uttle cnion and tasteless cil and lb. sliced stealty bacon until translucent Eut not coloured. To this addZEKELY GULYAS makes a

immediately afterwards because halved skinned tomatoes, These When the melature from the it is necessary to "unwind," and vegetables, of course, must be meat evaporates, add and work this she can do only when she seasoned with pepper and salt in four teaspoons has not had food.

And that, I imagine, couplid with hard work, is one of the secrets of her so-slender figure.

Not only did I enjoy Marta's dishes, but she also showed me exactly how she prepared and cooked them.

Strangely, Marla had no name who for the main dish Allets of marmalade veal with of

rice and vegetable "But the Grandfather said he each year. She skuplife the garnists.

First, the rice for 4 to 5 I passed a small house. Smoke was very cold, so the two Chil-job by parsing the peel through

servings, allow b. long-grain- dren threw more wood on the her mincing-machine,

"Then, het as I was getting for you?" close to the edge of the woods

was curling from the chimney, And just outside the door I saw Are.

She pointed to the empty something that made my heart chair ni the foot of the table gind. it was a big beautiful pile where Pixie O'Scowl usually of kindling and logs.

fal.

We'll be here in a minute!"

***O'Secw},' I sald to myself,

one of the other Pixles said. your work is over. All you

There's still lots of logs and kindling outside, Grandfather," the Girl said.

They'll get more And If there isn't enough, "Here he ecmes now!" several have to do is help yourself to we'll go back to the woods and Pixies suddenly cried.

that beautiful pile of kindling Hanid Knort and

turned end logs. It doesn't matter that collect more, sald the Bay.

"Dear me," said Pixie O'Scowl, around to ree Pixie O'Seowl it belongs to whoever lives in coming into the dining hall. that house. Just help yourself, "I Just couldn't help myself to cane They can always got more for that beautiful pile of logs and and limping. One urm was in a themselves, And if they can't kindling after I heard that. Bling. His face was scratched hid enough for their fire, well, and there was a bump on the let them be cold. What's the to passed you?' lop of his head.

He was leaning on a

He's smiling

linuse.

"So I spent on. And then I And another when I saw the pile of logs and kindling outside the door I was "So," saki Pixie O'Scowl, "I about to help myself again. But was just about lo help myself then I looked inside and saw a making a Aro for her "But look!" Knarf whispered to that beautiful pile of kind- Woman

He isn't scowling! ling and logs when I decided to Children's dinner. So I trudged to Hanld. He's got a anile on his face!" taice a peek through the key cut again.

dinner, Pixie hole to see who lived in the Later, aftor O'Scowl told everyone what had house. bent over and looked happened after he set out to And this is what I saw.

· Rupert and the Snowball-—38

smile

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The toxes seem none the worse the all they have suffered. "Get your coat on. Rupert," Freddy. "We've something to show you." distant bedes his brother Feedly. alaria explaining. "It served me right to have that accident yester, day,

*." he says.

Theaning to amach your wwwININ. so now we've made a special one all for you, Rupert gares with delight at what they're done, **1 say, you are clever 1" he taught. "It's just like our 1 It isn't a snow man. It's a anow Rupert |" THE END. "We started out A new advenilure begins tanto? FOLE.

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"So finally I resched the middle of the forest. I cut down trees. I chopped up branches for kindling. I had enough wood for month. And then I came back to Oheer Hall-"

But all the other Pixies shout- O'Seowl hadn't ed that Pixie [teld the right end to his story, They paid that he had pllod all the logs and kindling on his beck, and on his way home to O'Cheer Hall he left a fresh ulla of logs and kindling at the door of each of the houses. And ho had worked so hard that ha had hurt his leg, his arm, his herd and his fact,

"But it chased AWRY MY Iscowl," said Pixie O'Stewi.

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Guaranteed To Impress

A made-at-home dessert with of paprika. a professional look is ice cream Add the drained sauerkraut, cake. Cut a square spouge cake cook very gently for a few into 3 even layerя. Sprinkle minutes, then gradually stir in bottom layer with rum, top with fub of smetane specially slice from squaro plai of fee

from ercam. stured cream obtainable

Top with second slice

Altogether

altogether for a few minutes. then add and mix la simmer gently for an hour. The rice, and turn them into a Surge casserole, and serve."

The mixture can be reheated, without damage, in the oven at

delicatessen shops). Cover and

Cartway seeds are already in the sauerkraut, but some people like to add a few more,

London Express Service).

IT'S THE LATEST..

AN OLD-STYLE

KITCHEN

THE trouble with the streamlined labour- T

saving ultra-modern kitchen is that it is the sort of place where only a robot could feel

at case.

So it is good news, to me at any rate, that kitchens are going to be old-fashioned again. Kitchens I have seen recently, and talks with kitchen planners in some of the big stores suggest that people are moving away from the super-func tional in favour of something more human and con- genlal the old-fashioned family kitchen with all mod. cons.

Homely materials are back in favour.

Natural wood (if you

alford it) for kitchen units, laminates for work- reserving

спа

THE SHIRT LOOK

nicest

Ing surfaces. The kitchen I have seen has walls and cupboards of plne, knoi. aholes and all.

and pots

casseroles,

To wear

with

tight pants, pleat-

pans,

Delft

ed skirts

Co-

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cooking good play for it. Allilll unbeatable as a nceded. was

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London Express Service).

briak little jacket shaped

ilka *

man's shirt. Made From almulated leather with = pearly finish, it is waterproof, comes

In three colours - flax blue, am- ber and natural

and coste 4

*nt (approxi matoly HK$07),

cake and repeat process, ending w cake layer. Freeze unt}} serving time. Before serving, cover top and sides with whip- red cream and sprinkle with brushed nut beltile,

by Jocasta

Innes