1960-04-21 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1960.

WOMANSENSE

The Featherweights Float in...

FASHION PAGE by Jill Butterfield

W

HAT is the fashion stamp of the year? It could well be a postage Stamp. For the clothes making news are feather- weight dresses you can fold into an envelope and send through the mall

shocs you can squash into a pocket and never notice the weight; sweaters that weigh no more than handkerchtet (and are twice as casy to wash).

Perhaps because Parts started the trend for filmy, doating, pack-in- a-flash dresses: perhaps becaus!! more of us take to the air every year and the maximum tourist aggage allowance is 44lb.; perhaps because last year's heatwave summer gave a taste for next-to-nothing clothes, fashion is a feather-light business this year.

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There are new light-weight bras, girdles, corsets. Not so long ago it took a mound of wiring, or Rteel stavs to hold a girl together. We suffered with bones (the corset's) digging into bones (ours),

the

We groaned with padding bra's) doing nothing to enhance the padding (ours).

Nowadays man-made fibres- woven elastics, nylon nets and laces, and a newcomer called Lycra-do twice the controlling job at half the weight. What is more, they look pretty doing it The up-and-coming colour for underwear, a Mayfair corset buyer tells me, la blue.

Shoes which weigh as ilttle as a bar of chocolate are coming in lace, shantung, woven mesi. and unlined call.

Fluttery silk, once reserved for the luxury level, has got cheaper, its use more varied. This year you can buy slik dressing gowns, swim sults, sun hats, and sweaters for the price you paid for their cotton equivalents last year.

According to my, letter seale, the lightest summer sweatera in man. made fabrics are made of Cryler. with Orion and Banlon merely nunces behind.

Lightweight, lightly honed corselette with detachable straps

and its own frilly basque. By Lejaby.

LADY

your

LUCK-

CHINA MAIL

horoscope

THURSDAY, APRIL 21

JACOBY on

A

LOT of bridge players get cared when someone men- tions coups, squeezes and und plays. Some of these plays are complicated enousa lo scary most experts; others so simple as to be almost automatic.

You find yourself in thrce no- trump after a spade overcall by West. He opens the queen of diamonds and dummy's king holds the trick.

You mole that six clubs would

AQUARIUS (11) (January VRGO (I) (August 22 have been a cinch shree you

21-February 10): A much older person may not share your attitude towards spending, but you should insist on your own way on this special occasion. PISCES (7)

ELIL

(February 20- March 20): No mintter what your personal opinion may be, try to be tactful today when asked for advice by a obviously person agitated atale. ARIES (6) (March 21-April 19) You may not find great deal of encouragement at work for an original idea of yours, but you ought to go ahead with it just the

Hamo.

TAURUS (8)

A

(April 20-May

20) By being pliable and ndjusting your idean to those of a colleague, you will develop a very useful collaboration.

GEMINI (2) (May 21-no 21): Take advantage of on invitation of long standing and spend the evening for- getting your work and your worrica. CANCER (9) (June 22-July 21) Heslat the templation to speculate on a rinky transaction. It's better to play anfe than be sorry afterwards.

LEO (5) July 22-August 21):

September 22): High praise could draw trumpa and discard from an unexpected source one of duinmy's spades on your will give you n great

In-fourth heart, but you are in centive to carry out the good three e-tromp and can count Also, you can 115p irleks. work.

assume that West has the king! LIBRA (12) (September 23- [of spades because of his vulner-

Be October 22):

careful able overall,

the so

spude won't work, but you a Anesto what you any today to

It person. very sensitive

BRIDGE

WEST

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NORTH A$4

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Both vulnerable

South 14 3 N.T.

Opening lead-◆ Q

West North

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Fast Pasa

Pass Pass

Pass

can mako 12 tricks by means

and

your remarks are misunder- +CARD Sense of a simple emi play.

stood they may be deeply resented,

SCORPIO (3) (October 23- November 21): If remeone interferes with a definite arrangement

Jinve you made, you hnd better tako him severely to task to en- sure an end of his med diing. SAGITTARIUS (10) (Novem- ber 22-December 21): tr you have some fault to find with a subordinate, discuss the matter calmly and nug- gest a proper remedy; high- handed tactics will not have the desired effect,

CAPRICORN (4) (December

Q-The bidding has been: North Fant South 14

24 Puss

First, run your hearts West discard spade from dummy; then run the club and discard your last diamond,

Posa

Double

2

? You, South, hold: A43 K87 Q 1932 4AHJ4

at do you do? A-Bld two or three no-trump. Elther bid is acceptable.

TODAY'S QUESTION You choose to bid two no. trump and your partner bids three hearts. What do you do

now?

Answer tomorrow

West will be down to three words. If he has held the bce! and jack of diamonds he will have blanked his king of spades and all your upades will be good. If he has thrown away either high diamond you simply plný dummy's ten and he will have to lead a spade up to your ace-

UGAY

In London it's Doner Kebab

22-January 20): The JUST spotter the succes one of the most

Journey which you planned

for the end of the month spit which will turn out to be incon- cating out. venlently timed, and you

prosperous

LEFT: Pare Kilk dress (8140Z. lined throughout) comes in siripes of sugar almond colours on white. By Spectator Sports. CEN- TRE; White pleated Trice! dress (92oz.) with a blue and white spotted buckled boll. By Bilances. RIGHT: Blik dressing gown (Goz.. three colour combinations) completely reversible. By Dynasty.

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• Light-weight (7 oz. the pair) unlined calf shoes cora in white, light and dark brown, By Saxone.

Sweater (3 oz.)

In

knitted Crylor, drips dry aral needs no ironing. Six colours. By Topict.

-London Express Service).

PICTURES BY NORMAN CALES

Lightweight pantie girdle with detachable suspenders and matching bra. By Triumph.

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Christopher's Friends

-They Never Talk, Never Walk And Never Sit Down--

don't know," sald "Oh, I By MAX TRELL

Chris. "They're no stranger "AST night," said Christ than lots of other falks 1 could pher Cricket to his friends mention. But I haven't told you

Interesting. Kart and Hanid, the Shadow the most

maybe Children with the Turned-Abou! you'll think it's the stranges! Names, "I had a vist with some thing about those friends of very old friends of mine. They mine. Once they decide to live live in the middle of the park." somewhere they never move,"

"Never?" asked Hanid. At this Kuart and Itanid, who

"Never, never, never," weren't must apologise for them) Ustening very attentively Christopher. "They Just stay to Cliristopher Cricket for, to there, year after year

tell the truth, they didn't think year?

Chris

said

after

it very exciting that

"Don't they ever take a walk?" Cricket should visit some old asked Knarf. "Don't they walk friends of his suddenly, when around the park?"

they heard him say that those old friends of his lived in the

park. turned and listened with all their might.

Never sit down "No," said Christopher. "And they never sit down."

They never sit down?" cried "Yes sir, right in the middle Hand in astonishment.

of the park, that's where they live." Chris repeated.

Knarf shouted: "They have "And they like it there, too," Everybody has to sit down."

to

down!

Chris Cricket went to the park to visit some friends.

and

to

They never talk out loud. They never shout. They nover sing. All they do is whisper."

It was then that Knarf Hanld begged Christopher tell them 1110 names of his friends who lived in the middle of the park, who never walked or talked or al down.

"Dkin't I tell you?" asked

Aurprise.

sit

he added.

"They never sit down," Chris- They lite living in the park?" topher said again. "Sometimes Christopher Knart asked in a way that they fall down but they don't thought you know. It's Mr Elm, sounded an if he couldn't believe like it. The only thing they Mr Oak and Mrs Maple. And any such thing.

lee, is to keep standing. And 1 now you know.' just thought of something else.

Christopher Crickel nodded. "They wouldn't think of liv Ing any other place," he said. "except maybe in the middle of a forest, or along some country road,

Vary quiet stroot

"And, oh, yes," he suddenly said, "I don't think they'd mind living in a quiet street. But the street would have to be fulet - very quiet."

Hore Hand asked Christopher if he didn't mean that his friends yor to the chicken-on-a- met in the business.

wouldn't mind living in a house revolutionised

to have Mr Jekmel piana

on some quiet street. He surely turning kebab-on-aplis busily

couldn't mean that they wanted to live in the street. In Ecveral London restaurants. It's the Doner Kebab, a glant 11 taker two hours for the chef

"That's " replied Christo I'm rolloved that Mr Wickmai had better postpone It. bombe of lamb and veal to thread the pit with alices of

shower

and lamb and

veal, spleed with plans to keep a sirlet watch on pher promptly. "They do want NUMBER threaded on a

the way the kebab is prepared, to live in the street. They YOUR LUCKY

the taste of those wouldn't live inaldo a house for Becaus Count the lotters in your roasted in front of a fine.

It in boing introduced

chickens that all the money in the world. Not

herb.

to

first name and add the letalondon by Navyar Hickmet, 1 The heal, from the fire fuses mouth-watering Some anticipated good newn to the number shown in fascinating Turk who opened n. the two meats together, and the brown and lxile in front of that they care anything about

delectable meat you varies from blotting-paper | monty, he rald, smiling. brackets after your sign of restaurant in Boho "because 1 result is n elow in arriving.

"You've certainly got alrange who may be But it won't be long now the Zodiac. This is your wanted somewhere to entertain "artwlel" which you eat by to bits, depending on

friends, Chria," said Knar. before you got it.

lucky number for the week. my friends," and who is now. Itself or with vegetables.

cooks them,

And Knart and Hanid smiled.

Rupert and the Snowstorm-3

The shapman urges Rupert to wait until the sleet storm us blown well out. That does not take long and soog Ruperi declares he must be on hu way. Belore many marater a change in the light makes him glance cord Ernusly "Whew. look at that

cloud, it's a black na ink 1" he explains. "What ever am I in for "

He soon known for: m blast of wind, more violent than before, suddenly bullets him and in a moment a blinding seawaterm is swirling round him. He just, reaches the siselter of a tres.

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