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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1960.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

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It takes a mile

of real silk to make

THE BARED AND THE COVERED SUN-WORSHIPPERS one woman beautiful

PICTURES BY ALAN BOYD

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secure and show off a tan, white cotton bikini, tied with poppy red ribbon. By Sun and Ski. (She FOR protection, towelling beach robe with puffed sleeves.

By Thocolette. (She used a tan deterrent.)

used Helena Rubinstein's Tan-in-a-Minute.)

Men looking at women

THE slightly raffish air, the easy relaxed charm, the military moustache and the tall English bearing: these are assets likely to make any woman turn for a second look at David Niven. Any woman, therefore, might be pardoned her curiosity to know, in her turn what are the qualities and the mannerisms of dress or appearance likely to arrest the Niven gaze and awaken the Niven interest.

Inevitably, perhaps, his standards are high. Inevitably, because his wife Hjordis is herself a beauty, tall, dark, sparkling, full of gaiety and surprise, who loves clothes.

"But I'm afraid I don't go along with her to help her choose her clothes. I feel ass in a woman's shop.

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"Anyway, once she goes in. she's there for the day. But I do help when she's wandering what to put on some evening,

Blondes.

" USED. to prefer blondes... then I darkened up. 1 met

A dark one and married her. The dark ones can be such beauties: like those wonderful Eurasian girls wh are the greatest beauties of all.

"But do with wonderful dark girls wouldn't spoll it by wearing washed out blues and pinks. They should go in for lovely brillant oranges and reda and greens

here aren't any colours I particularly dislike. But I am a bit jumpy about blues. And I can't bear the cliche of blue eyes worn with the.cbvious blue dress as bad as redheads who wear green,

"The first thing I notice about a woman is her expression.

"Beautful jaces are often the dullest ones of them all because there's nothing behind the eyes,

"And I can't stand the poseur who knows all her best angles -or those dreadful women who because it never dare smile gives them lines round the

mouth.

"Woe betide those glassy-eyed creatures 1 feel I want to stick a knife in them, if only to wreek that dreadful fixed look...

got the whole thing going again

rather like abstract art - 99.9 per cent nonsense and the rest of it a tremendous stimulus.

"Oh, the Suck! That's the one fashion I really hated. I'm all for stimulating the imagination

that's one thing. But to dis guise the figure as something awful and ridiculous....why do they do it?

and

Hair styles? Change and variety I love, My wife experi-

constantly, ments

I'm always about two styles behind: I've just got used to the one before the last

"Actually I talk bravely about constant experiment and change, but the day my wife walked in a platinum blonde, my knees buckled.

"She had been staying with Grace Kelly in a yacht off Cor sica and they had nothing to do so Grace bleached Hjordis' hair

"I think the prettiest fashions in history were just before the for her. French Revolution when you had to guess

ot a

woman's

beauty. I love the mystery of it

ell: I can't bear all this midity.

Brave front

"Recent fashions? I didn't reERE was the other time,

care for the New

NO. 4:

DAVID NIVEN

OH, HOW

ARTIST Juck Whitsett's impression of a beauty The Niven

Roze ought fol. low. Grand even- Ing--

-and the Komplete works: abundons lewef- lery (the real thing);, the

hidden art at make-up brought to a high pitch; beauti fully dressed hair-and the warm expressiva face that turns a static beauty into a woman any man might

want to get to know

I LOVE MYSTERY!

longer than usual to get used to that one,

"Women should try avery art known to man or bear to look wonderful and go on looking it: `every pill, every lotion, every

rings or whatever.

"They should keep their ching up till the cranes are lifting them, try their hair every possi- ble way. That's their job and they should keep at it, all the time.

"And If they have that thick hair that always looks wonder- ful they should go down on

knees their

every day in gratitude.

"Make-up? I don't care how miuch a woman uses so long as I don't know in which case she can use every trick under the sun.

"But I do hate loads of that pale blue eyeshadow, or those graveyard lipsticks. Some scents I love but heavy musky ones I find sickmaking.

"I loathe uniforms. I hate the cocktail party get-up that almost too, when she had it all all the women seem to wear Look, but you've got to hand it cut off, I put up a tremendously black with pearls (the only time

much

to Dior. I suppose the New Look brave front, but it took me women-ever get into uniform -

THE GAMBOLS

THANKS FOR A LOVELY EVENING,

GAYE

DO YOU

LIKE MY NEW DRESS DEAR?

POOR MAN HEY HAD A TERRIBLE COLD

ALL WEEK

why do they do it?) and it's the cut skirts Marlenes and Tallulahs who Thai silks. triumph in dazzling red.

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-in those brilliant

"I loathe the beatnik uniform;

suppose the shirt-over- they're supposed to be the non- trousers look can be wonderful conformists of our generation, on a woman with a very good and they're the biggest con- figure (it certainly doesn't others formists of the lot, all in black wire) but if her figure is all and shaggy sweaters, all filthy that good, it should not be given dirty, all filled with pseudo- the shirt-tail treatment. intellectual hatreda.

Sensational

"I don't like bikinis either - all those acres of flesh.

"I definitely prefer full-skirts

- so much nicer for the legs tou. I'm all for those absurd petti- coats that shove a skirt up like

mushroom.

THE most beautiful dress I ever saw was worn by Cyd Charisse in last year's Academy awards. It was so beautiful that an absolute gasp went up from the audience. "Evening clothes? I quite Uke "As one of the nominees, I them short, as long as they don't was in no condition to notice produce that muticned-dressed- But on the whole much that was going on around lamb look. me but even I was jerked out I'm either for the full works, or of myself.

for very comfy chic clothes.

"She has a sensational figure and this dress was shimmering gold lame, very finely pleated rather straight, very long, with a light bodice.

"Hats we don't even discuss please; the most appalling ex- crescences they nearly all are apart from one or two timban "Im not mad about satin shapes that show off a pretty but I do love cotton." "Beautifully face:**

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by Barry Appleby

WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME BEFORE

·HE GAME

YOU'LL CATCH COLO

"WOULDN'T HAVE WASTED JV LEXPENSIVE PERFUME

If It's Japan that you seek

Fly AIR-INDIA

Three flights a week.

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WITH GAS

"Jewellery - let's have lots of it, when a woman is dressed up so long as it's the real thing But otherwise not at all

I loathe charm bracelets. I once suffered at the hands of a girl who went in for them --- Uttle gold Eiffel towers, um brellas........ugh,

Tweeds.

...

THE country, tweedy look?

If one is running after the beagles. I suppose it's the most sensible thing to run in. Otherwise no. Some tweeds -- beautifully cut, supple ones; can look lovely.

"But heaven, defend me from those assorted sweaters. What do they call them? Twinsets?

"Please not twinsets!"

Barbara Griggs

-Landon Express Service).

BIG HUNT

NANCY a fashion store sending its buyers to Udhametir and Srinagar in search of new trends.

This season, Liberty's sent their jewellery Expert there na part of a round trip to the Orient. She lived on chupatties and buffalo butter before re- tuning to Regent Street laden with sparkles for customers.

Liberty buyers are great globe-trotters...At the moment they have the carpet department man in Teheran, the rugs man tocking, at matting in Spain, the umbrella mani in Florence, the knitwear girl in Ireland and the? Ingerie buyer in Manhattan.

Not bad going for an all- British firem.

Adds one of their lofty officials: "We'd be at the South Pole if it had something Interest.

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