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FASHION NEWS FOCUS

by Barbara Griggs

THE CHINA MATE, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1960.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

WOMANSENSE *** JOINS THE GREAT

NOW A HAT STAYERS

La donna e mobile, so they sigh: fickle, novelty-loving, most apt to change her mind. In no sphere is this truer than in that of fashion.

Mode after mode comes up, to be ding Bettishly aside the following summer. Ides after perfectly good fashion ides, is tossed away after what would certainly be considered, in terms of any popular musical, an insultingly short run.

There are, however, a handful of privileged exceptions. For instance, the twinset, born no one can remember when, and still growing old gracefully.

Time honoured

THERE is the Little Black Dress, whose

times over. But it still clings to life. hurling defiance.

EVEN HAIRDRESSERS

well which comes in 15 different feel there a thing of the pos calours Sales of it rim o But we keep being asked

Brave

effort

Every deb WEARERS of the birdcage TN an effort to breaks away Jenny Fisher has denied plus best-dressers, like heiress delicious little chanting pl Sylvia Casablancas, the Duchess Sets for this summer,

HAVE A GOOD WORD W Lochude almost every da

FOR THE BIRDCAGE

Originally # New For I: Seps your hair in pince

squash fashion, it seems impossible now BUT doesn't

baldressi remember a time when it guinea's worth of

There is the printed silk headscarf, to fashion By Appointment and as accepted was not an integral part of the as bread and butter. There is the V. scene: at garden parties and weddings, a cocktail necke sweater, one of the earliest victims art to feminine rapacity in a man's wardrobe. Parties and dressy chains,

And, gently but firmly over the last two years, another fashion has crept for ward into the ranks of the Great Stayers. It is the Birdcage Hat.

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Birdcage over high-piled hair (left): cluster of white flowers, a fine black veil, Henrietto Tiarks (below) shows off a bows-and-veil Birdcage taking just as kindly to hair worn long.

MILK, natural source of

Energy

3bet popular version of the Birdge Bet (or coiffure, 25 same prefer to call it) is a veil that curves prettily across the dose and round the back of the .head with two or three roses

bling about on top. Sometimes the veil is studded with idle bows, sometimes it bursts from a band of satin.

There are birdcage hats that are a mere scrap of reiting and there are others where the veil is carefully moulded and the silkes roses have comb or Fin-anchors.

into a flattened mess.

Which gives it one more claim to attention. It is about the only kind of hat known woman for which hairdressers have ever had a good word.

Date and place of the Bind- coge's arrival are shrouded in the mirs af antiquity.

Harrods have derated entire bar on their ground foor ribbony, petalled, feathery or Bowered and sales climb Aigber and higher every

to

Ferris who claim to have picnsered them-have a sizeable and corner set aside for them report all-year-round demand, with steadily rising sales.

And the hat firm of Dalores

The great appeal of the Birdcage Hat is apparent at a glance: It doesn't look like who have been making them hat. BUT you can wear it for all the occasions when you've got to be hatted..

By MAX TRELL "GENERAL TIN" said Karf,

to the Tin Soldier, "have you ever been an explorer??*

General Tin looked at Knart for several mindes of so it seemed to Kaart - before he answered: N

"What?"

"AR explorer," repeated Karl. Somebody, who gods far away and finds some un- known country-ike Columbus,” Kaart added.

Again General Tip was silent for quite a long time before he said:

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for two years, have a best-seller on their hands which nothing can dislodge; a silk-rose and

of Kent, the Duchess of Rutland, a small veil that protects the and Princess Alexandra

hair: af the back but doesn't cover the face at all-a brave Among those who are anti- and pretty effort to head her birdcags: almost every miliiner, dients of the Birdcage. particularly those who have to, Miners, of course, are all keep turning out the darned for change. They wouldn't be

milliners if they weren't. "We don't encourage themBut persenay, I think they: very much." I was told by the shouldn't be in too much of a directrice of millinery at Jenny hurry to kill a goose that lays Fischer's salon, because art, such lovely golden eggs

Rupert and the Snowstorm-23

says.

As length Tigerlily stop laugh ing and tries to comior Rupert Me tell you got to warry the "See, I bring my Daddy's broom to get you free. Magic circle need magic broom. Me show you quick" Waiting until the far-lined boots have run past, again

she works rigorously to sweep all now away from part of the track. While Rupert watches anxiously the boats came ramng round agam, when they rich the deared patch they give a jezt and a thudder agi seile grudly on the

ALL RIGHTS RESERTID

CHILDREN'S CORNER

All About Columbus

-General Tin Has Never Heard Of Him-

"Let me see now

what voice sounded surprised was, his name again?" asked he said: General Tin.

Christopher Colum

Kruit said.

But I thought you knew him.

sand you

"I only know about him Said Kaart. "read about him

"What book?" asked General

***Columbi said Knar.

Christopher Conimbus.”

General Tin repeated the, in a book." Oh-him," said General Tin name several times to himsel Knarf smiled gladly. see as though trying to remember in. "You do?" asked General Tin. where he had heard is before.

can't remember the "I mean, said Krarf, feeling Then he spake.

*me of it," said Knert who that he ought to explain 2 fiule, "You say, Kharf, that this felt sorry that he couldn't,

hat you know him."

friend of yours, Christopher especially as General in now Columbus" he started.

seemed to be looking at Him "Wait," said Kaart, as he in in a very stern way, terrupted General Tin "Chris-

"I don't know him," replied General Tin

Knart frowned.

"O course I didn't mean that you really knew him, like You know "

"No," agreed Genera! T "But you know about him," said Knarf hopefully. "Don't you, General?"

"It was a fat book," Kaar! topher Columbus wasn't any pic in hurriedly. "It had a red- friend of miner

General

Ti didn't look su

over-

"Are you an explorer,

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General?” asked Heart

"The book said Knari ans-

Toice,

Дет

Erst

"I don't care about that," said wared in a loud, clear prise That was because his General Tin. What did the That Cristopher Columbus was face never moved or changed its book say about Christopher an explorer. He was the expression. Being a tin face it Columbus? Do you know, couldn't change at all. But his have you forgotten that, too?"

a man in the world to cross the

Atlantic Ocean, the book said, and the first maa to discover |Asterica!”

"Very good," said General· Tin. Very good, indeed!"

"And are you an explorer, General Tin?" asked Kaari "No," said General TnL And that was the end of the conversation.

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