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THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1960.

WOMANSENSE

DAY TWO OF A FASHION REPORT FROM THE BARDOT COUNTRY *****

On the beach

here I see why

St. Tropez really

matters

St Tropez.

IF you want to know what the London shops will be selling in summer, 1961, there's no need to wait till the Paris collections in January: just take a look around St Tropez this summer-which is why I'm here. This is the measure of its growing importance as a fashion influence on all our wardrobes-an influence that more and more is every hit as important as Paris.

At this moment every shop in Britain has at least one, dress-or pair of shorts or shirt-or skirt-or bikini-made of gingham; all because St Tropez was wearing gingham last year. Less strikingly, denim is making a comeback: St Tropez, took up denim at the end of last summer and is wearing it now.

The reason for

this rurprising importance is threefold.

First, because St Tropez girls want to look pretty, dashing and original.

Secondly, be- cause they want . to be comfort.

able they aren't interested in un-

wearable eccen- tricities.

Thirdly and

FASHION NEWS FOCUS

by Barbara

perhaps most important of all-

Griggs

in St Tropez it isn't done to sweater broadly striped-top brilliantly

flaunt your money if you have any-unlike Capri, where the more pricey, ravishing silk shirts you can add to your wardrobe the better.

Democratic.

colour choice is shadies of candy pink.

The St. Tropez scene,

as Jack Whitsett drew it:

in the foreground a dazzler of a sunhat

in citron straw, with roses. Centre, the blouse that's a blouse and not a shirt; with Elizabethan ruff pleating. Left and right, the vertically striped sweaters that are a 1960 range. To note: man dressed for after-six drinking at L'Escale- tan aareeably complemented

white trousers, deep blue sweater.

thore weary ocelots, looks just. like mink,

WHI

Bullfighters

WHILE almost all the girls are wearing their blouses out- side their trousers, almost all the mun 314 wearing them bloused cut over trousers cut as tout as a bullfighter's until ovching, when they emerge in snowy while trousers with loose, bright blue sweaters on top. FLASH FROM LONDON:

coloured

shirts. I even saw a bowler covered in O'Keeffe white broderie anglaise, flaunt ing a huge white rose.

a

have

Sun-hats are terrific: the one

They're raving about a new in the picture is tall, unifloppy, old fabric (which at least two in brilliant citron yellow with a green and a white roe; others to get hold of for this season). off-the-shoulder look and huge London wholesalers are trying are banded with * trill of broderie-anglaise, shaped like a old French peasant women and a

It's the coarse colton satin that stiff striped straw, or dashing on the Maurico variations Chevalier boater.

wear,

At least one firm I know has Kone overboard for broderie anglaise: Bea adid Manus produced 12 different 11 collection with broderie numbers in it: includ- tight-cut trousers, shorts, skirts, shirt with a blousy yoked back, a Carmen top with a wide ruffled sleeves, a Bardot shirt, blouse with a stand-up printed with an almost frill round its boat neckline.

Piccadilly and Simpson of invisibly minute flower design

And stock these. Bazaar on black or dark blue,

Bazaar's Mary Quant has de- Here, they make it into shirts signed her own broderie anglaise to wear with white pants, or winner, а dress-length shirt.' The sweater of the moment is

pants to wear with a white will no waist and double but- quite likely to be a cheap rayon one, selling for 25s; the star PRODERIE anglaise is a wow: blouse. Along the rest of the ton cuffs that you can sach with. fabric

a3s-a-yard material Brigitte Bardot has had a Cote d'Azur, they use it for coffee satin or wear coolly un-

bothered about shirtblouse designed with frilled bouffant skirted dresses with belted. nobody had

and the back finely deep boat necks and sleeves before . the pants that are collar

Brigitte edged with a ruff of broderia a must, a pair of faded blue pleated from a yoke, jeans. Fashion here is more de- wears this outside fight black anglaise. mocratic than anywhere else in pants, beled the world.

T TROPEZ fashions are made for the girls who holiday there-and few of them are rich as Brigitte Bardol.

as

But apart from the major changes, St Tropez is fascinat

Worn outside

with a huge

The girls are wearing their emerald cummerbund so tight headscarves

loosely very

that the pleats stand out crisply, knotted almost on top of their Jeanne Moreau has ordered chins-like the strap of a ing because of its preoccupation herself a couple of softly pleated Guardsman's helmet. Most of the the minutiae of wide skirts in the same fabric scarves are just plain chiffon, with fashion: the way you tie your which she plans to wear with but the newest print chasing out

even

a

headscarf or the length of shirt; the way in which all the girls are putting their hair up, or the size of sunglasses. Mysteriously, as the season ad- Must emerges a vances, there for everyone of these detalis,

With artist Jack Whitsett I've

been prowling and gazing, sitting

JACOBY on BRIDGE

in the waterfront cafes taking a TODAY'S hard was played in

good long look, and for

this

mummer, here's our joint report

on the St Tropez look:

The blouse that is cut just like

a man's shirt is taking a back

the a duplicate game at Fairview Park' Bridge Club in suburban Cleveland. My corres- pondent who insists on remain- ing nameless writes:

"My partner Dave Steigerwald

seat this year. Pride of place of Bay Village made a tremen-

very

goes to the blouse that is

dous decision when he chose to definitely a blouse

once more: let South play his vulnerable pretty, feminine, starchy, ruffled, heart siam. I still don't know sometimes with a wide collar- less decolletec, soractimes with whether he was brilliant or just big. Spanish sleeves, eyelet scared of my dummy play but embroidered round collar and anyway he was the only East sleeves in pink or blue or black. player to pass at six hearts.

"This left me on lead against The girl in the centre of the drawing above wears just such the slam and the one thing I

a blouse: made of starchy white knew was that there was no North batiste it swings loosely or can future in a spade lead.

be belted in and a huge ruff of was one of those honest players pietrill pleating stands up who would never cue bid with- around the neck, "But because Stout Arst round control. I would. Tropez likes comfort-it is worn have liked to open a trump but outside long black pants.

Favourites

VERTICALLY striped sweaters make front-pare news, with two favourite shapes like the ones in the picture; one is cut like a man's vest with a collarless round neck, a small buttoned tab running four inches down the in

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They sell for about £20 fine stripes of pink and violet and white, or coffee and beige and black and white, or emerald and rose and white,

The other favourite selling all over is a plain V-necked

♥÷CARD Senseķ♦ |

Q-The bidding has been: South West North 14

Pass 14

Pass

་་

NORTH None ❤KJ6542

• A 1003

20

J109

WEST

EAST

None +375

Q52 SOUTH (D) ▲ None

AQ100873 ◆K82 ABB

K108643 AAQJ9782; None +Q81 4K743

North and South vulnerable, South West North East 10 14 24 44

PRES Pass PASS Opening lead-43

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did not have one so that left me

a choice between a diamond and

a club. On the theory that when

in doubt you should come with East

your best I led my fourth best Pass club.

Dave's queen forced the Puss

Erce and South "threw me right back in with the king.

You, Bouth, hold: 4AKI VIZ SKJE SAKS54

What do you do?

A-Bid four spades. Your part- ...mer may be heading for a slam

but it will be up to him to go. past game if there 'is a`alam,”

D TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner goes to five clubs, What do you do now?

Answer TomorrOW

י

35 «I wasn't going to try any new sult, so I just led a third chub and eventually South had to lose a diamond trick and his contract. What do you think of fi?”.

I think that West could well have afforded to let his name appear even though it happens to be even longer than Steiger-

DRAWING BY

JACK WHITSETT

FRILLS

TAKE OVER AGAIN

X

The mannish look of tailored shirt over tailored

pants takes second place, this summer, to o softår, more feminina.guise; wide-sleeved blouse in broderie anglaise stotted with ribbon, frilled round the edges, worn over matched shorts. The principle stays the same: comfort.

(London Express Service).

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Building A House

-A Carpenter Gives Kuarf Some Suggetion

unless the wood is the right size By MAX TRELL

red the right shape. Otherwise "OOD MORNING, Carpen your house will look like a pin Uter." sald Knarf, the cushion. You won't be able to

Shadow Boy.

"Good morning, Boy," said

the Carpenter.

"What are you doing. penter?" asked Knart.

Building a house

Car

"I'm building a house," said the Carpenter, "I get some wood and build a house."

get in or out without hitting against a piece of wood."

"Fll get a saw, Carpenter," said Knuri. "Wood, hammer, nails, saw. Good-bye, Carpenter I'm glad you told me about bow to build a house."

Those are a lot of things to get. Boy," said the Carpenter. "Wood and hammer and nails

"It sounds easy," said Knart. and a saw." "I'm going to get some wood and build a house."

"It is easy, Boy," said the Carpenter. "But you will need a few other things, too."

"What else will I need besidies the wood, Carpenter" asked

Knarf

Need a hammer "You'll need a haramer," said the Carpenter.

"I get a bammer" said Kaarf. "Wood and a hammer. Then I build a house,"

·

"But how can I build a house without them, Carpenter?" asked Knart, turning around and coming back.

"The Birds do it, Boy," said The Carpenter,

The Birds asked. Knart,...

"Can they bufid a house with- out wood and hammer and nails and a saw?"

"They build a house to live in," said the Carpenter, "They find a tree and they build a house,"

"Oh, it isn't a house," satd minute, Boy" said Knart "It's a nest" the Carpenter. "You'll also need,

: "Just B

No roof

19-23

"You'll need a hanumer," the Carpenter told Knarf.

"Or be like the Bees," said the Carpenter. They live in wonderful houses with hundreds and hundreds of rooms."

A beehive "That's not a house, Carpen ter," said Knart. "It's a bee- hive,"

"A house is where you live, be like a Squirrel, He lives in Boy." said the Carpenter. "Or a wooden house. But he doesn't build it. He just lets it grow?"

"His house is a tree," said Knari

nails. Because that's what the "It's the same thing," said hammer does. It hits the nalla, the Carpenter. They have room Carpenter.

"Or spin a house," said the "You won't need

and the nails bold the wood to sit and room to stand and wood or hammer or nails or a If you didn't have nalls the room to bring up their children saw if you spin a house.","

a house," in. And the roof of their house "A Spider spins whole house would fall down."

"All right, Carpenter," said is bigger and better and more sald Knari.

"There are lots and lots and Knart, "I don't want my house beautiful than the roof of any

lots of different kinds of houses, to fall down. Til get nails, too. house you or I could bulld.

"But but there isn't any Boy," said the Carpenter, Wood, hammer, nails. Good-bye.

Houses in trees and houses roof at all on a nest," said Carpenter"

Knari. "I's Just the sky, Car In water and houses under- ground and housed under a penter

daisy. Bar. I'd better finish this house before it starts to rain."

And as Knart went away, he heard the Carpenter hammering „and sawing and and sawing... hammering. And singing, tool

"Need snow

"Don't go yet, Boy," said the Yes, just the sky, Boy," said Carpenter. "You'll need a saw." the Carpenter, "I's a roof with "A saw, Carpenter?" asked the sun and the moon and the Casters," Knart.

"A saw, Boy," said the Cars "I'll build a nest" said Knart, penter, "You can't tulid a house. "That's what I'll do, Carpenter,

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LADY LUCK

your

CHINA MAIL

horoscope..

THURSDAY, JUNE 16

AQUARIUS (1) (January 21- VIRGO

February 19): Accept the offer of some additional responsibility today, as the cash reward will be well worth while,

PISCES (2) (February 20- March 20) By keeping a cool head you will be able to help a friend extricate himself from a very tight spot.

ARIES (8) March 21-April 19) A neighbour's visit will be most enjoyable and will help you to forget the gap left by an absent friend.

TAURUS (11) (April 20- May 20): You may have to put in A few extra hours at work today, and it will be to your advan- tage to do it ungrudging- ly.

GEMINI (10). (May 21-June 21): Don't let petty economies spoil your pleasure tonight, Decide beforehand how much you can afford to spend.

CANCER (6) (June 22-July 21): An original way to make your savings work for you may be well worth putting to the test.

LEO (7) (July 22-August

-21): On being asked

special favour by an asso- ciate, oblige if you can afford the time.

(3) (August 22- September 22): Relax your activity a bit if you have the distinct feeling that your temper is getting on cdge.

LIBRA (4) (September 28- October 22): If you want to invest some apare cash, make sure it is in an enter. prise which could show you a fair return. SCORPIO (5) (October 23- November 21); A visitor whom you expected to- night will not be able to keep the appointment..

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(12) SAGITTARIUS

(No- vember 22-December 21): Don't let anybody per- suade you to start an un- dertaking which you know is beyond your scope.

CAPRICORN (9) (December. 22-January 20): Don't be tempted to gamble heavily on a tip from someone you scarcely know. Une the money to buy yourself something you have wanted for a long time.

NUMBER: YOUR LUCKY

Count the letters in your first name and add the total to the number shown in brackets after your sign of the Zodiac. This is your lucky number for tho week.

Rupert and the Squire-10

SCC

Bill Badger, calling to it for you." saya Bill cheerfully. Rupert, finds his pal frowning at taking a large bite out of it. "Ouch, you're right it's jolly an apple in his hand. Look at that. It's happened twice in a sour. Hello, who's that?" He few minutes." saye Rupert, rell- gazes up the field at a figure that ing Bill the story," Why should is moving briskly towards the it fall? I don't believe it's any. main part of the village. Surely. where near ripe." "I'll soon prove it's our Constable Growler."

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