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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1960.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

NOW MEN GET IN FASHION

and the striped staste-bitarted double breasted evening Yart th th grey worsted for frock overcoat bay collar and immer wear. The jacket lapel facing of grey check is cut fully and the trousers

sova slik.

are tapered.

ENGLAND...still keep the JAPAN Edwardian look.

...and Britain takes

the top honours

By IAIN CRAWFORD

HESE photographs from last month's style parade held

Test congress of the International Federation

at

of Merchant Tailors in Brussels give Britain a clear lead in design and tailoring.

Clothes from 13 countries The most significant general shown at Le Concert Noble point is that turn-ups are right after the Congress show out. The only country which great deal of enterprise in at retained them was Israel, which tempts to capture the Interat displayed some of the ugliest of the increasing number of suits on view. fashion-conscicus males.

the

Two-button fronted suits with

button fastening

on

а

But many of the ideas ste more eye-catching than elegant clearly defined waistline feature

or practical,

BELGIUM.. for the

A aporiing Itok.

com. pileated pull-though, cross buttoned Jacket with flaps, angled pockets and a high- set pel line.

in several garments, and a broader, more pointed collar lapel also makes an appearance. Britain, Italy and Switzerland were the only countries which produced original and stylish variations on the classic men's styling.

France offered a rounded, leg of mutton shoulder in a light- weight worsted suit.

The Belgians shorved a com- plicated pull-through cross- buttoned sports jacket with flaps, angled pockets and a high-set lapel line.

DAZZLING

From Japan came a dazzling variety of stripes; the Greeks produced a long-pleated wool overcoat; and Sweden introduced a tail suit with a black jacket and pale grey trousers worn with a soft shirt and collar,

British tailors raade a con- vincing plea for the return of the double-breasted suit with a beautifully cut example of tie style in light-weight worsted with long, generous rolled lapels. The frock coat for evening wear also makes a come-back in grey with silk grey-checked inset lapels and turned back cuffs, Few other clothes shown com- bined elegance and enterprise so successfully.

Losing Weight

~(London Express Servicz).

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VERONICA PAPWORTH IN PARIS

For you this winter, the long, lean look

THE message from

Paris ring out loud and clear the winter of the TUBULAR WOMAN lies ahead.

Tall, cloche hats, curls curving like scimitars under the cheekbones, chit-high collars, blade-etnight wrap coats, three foot "clutch" bags, hemlines that cover the knees, kind darker legs complete the picture.

Rarely have the leaders punched out no firm a mes- sage.

It is tube....tube TUBE Not a skin-tight tube but a narrow, willowy the that reins straight from tradidine, barely acknowledging the warst, caressing the hips and ending in some kind of forlänge at the hemline.

The nonsense varies with the designer's (anything from scol- lops, for téra, plaster frills or a two-foot "Kibble" skirt) and will depërti “entinly on YouT height and hipline,

1

Fox is brok

Fur, glorious JUR, is every- where--especially black fox.

True, there is mak (but then and there is always mink!)

chinchilla too.

The fox is so very much in

1930-ish the vaguely

manner that haunts almost every collec- tion,

But Take no mistake, the resemblance is only vague. The look is not, positivdy NỮT, "back to" any period.

Any Woman was hopes to ap into the

Bok die

HIROKO a pint-size Japanese model discovered

by Pierre Cardin-is currently enjoying in Paris the kind of bewildering success overnight that once was reserved for actresses.

We photograph her (above, holding Cardin's three-foot "clutch” bag), to a background of telephone calls demanding her servitet,

"No, she cannot give interviews, she's terribly shy

*No, "No, she doesn't sperk Exgitsh" you cannot take it photograph" "Yes, she's been signed up for New York."

This list is the dream contract for every model- girl.

Fees for model-girls in Paris this season start at 100 new frames (10ghly # 10s.) an hour. Which is not bad at all: Particularly as rumour has it that Hiroko is only 15 years old!

I understand

out Auntie Farel's Atte 1980 Britain's leading

mbler said big it up to date with

a string of beads must

think again.

Fashion History does not romantic novelist

repeat shell.

As for the fur, it is loaded

on bolster-collars for narrow writes the post-

wrap around top couls at Car-

din, lavished en tuffs and hem-

lines at Balmain, and used with script to the Most

such abandon at Nina Ricci that

the overriding impression WES

of great owl eyes staring out Human

over chin-high pelts and feet

Like little mice staling out from

Story of

evening dresses with hems 12 the Week.

inches deep in mink.

The key

THE

HE woman of 49 whe marries a boy of 19 and

an

LADY LUCK-

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13

AQUARIUS (January 21. February 19): If a recent promotion draws you into A new rocial circle, there is still no need for you to drop your old friendia. PISCES (February 20-March 20): A lively weekend will take your mind off some serious business, and you will be that much Yadber to resume it on Monday, ARIES (March 21-April 19): If a plan has gone wrong, you have only yourself to blame and should learn what pitfalls to avoid on your next attempt. TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

Follow expert advice on a financial matter, and don't sign an important docu- ment without due consulta- tion.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Meet & newcomer to your with business

courtesy, and try to put him at ease in his unaccustomed sur- roundings. CANCER (June 22-July 21): No matter how busy you are, don't neglect a friend who finds himself in a tight corner.

LEG (July 22-August 21); Postpone a new venture for a few days, as you may be asking for trouble by going ahead with it at the present moment.

older

woman's passion

for a

younger man,

BUT

Men, perhaps more often than women, do the same thing. One is always bearing of the mah f so taking a girl young enough

The first thing you must do kills him in self-defence 11 to be his daughter to the altar.

is GET A HAIRCUT for the weeks later has gone free.

key to this new bok is the head..

Stick to your bouffent top i But how many thousands will you like (indeed, most crewistall her foolish and Bondemn are "set" on rillers) but the her in their hearts for making back must be short, sleek and such a marriage in the first feathered into a neat little fan- place? shaped neckline. The sides: They are the soft who don must curve forward over

she the top to think that what cheeks.

must have been through, both With this cul, a pale face, before and after she shot him, eyes heavily ringed with black was hell enough. and a cloches hat jammed why do I pity her? Because defiantly down at a slight angle, know the kind of relentless You could probably get away compulsion that can drive an with last sensant clothes. Folder woman to fall in love with

But only if you have tol

n man younger than Herself,

Abiding

I

That

accepted more kindly. They call it a "father complex." other men envy him.

"But the world is intolerant of A woman who makes such a move.

by

DENISE

ROBINS

22. VIRGO (August

A calcu- September 22): lated risk that you are about to take will turn out to your advantage and bring a very worth-while return,

LIBRA (September 23- - October 22): A very old

friend will turn up unex- pectedly and have some useful suggestions to make about your future acti- vities. SCORPIO (October 23-

November

21):

A job which You have been putting off must be tackled now, and you will wol find it as distasteful as you · anticipated.

SAGITTARIUS (November.

22-December 21): Your correspondence ought to bo attended to over the week- end; otherwise you may lose some very valuable contacts. CAPRICORN (December 22- friend's January 20): A promise of help may prove unreliable, but you quite capable of doing without it.

are

LUCKY ENCOUNTER: I

today is your birthday, a 2 woman meeting with named YVONNE may have some special significance.

JACOBY

on BRIDGE

Today's hand was played in the finals of the 1936 Bpagoid Cup and became a "cause cele- bre"

It seems that before making the opening lead West groaned and remarked, "What can lead? They have bid all the suille

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Then West led the ten of dia- monds. South won the trick in dummy and then went into a long huddle in an effort to find some hidden significance in West's remark. Eventually South decided that West was trying to protect three trumps to the queen so South led a Emall spade to his ace, West Ehowed out and South's grand slam was down one trick

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uncouth boys and delude them selves into believing It is lasting love?

No woman does wrong to fall Yet, isn't it the same driving in love, Love at any age is force? And in the woman, as a dangerous and the worst way the man, it isn't all sex but the to react to danger is to be desire to cherish almost a ofrald. parental urge to spoil someone

Vanity so much younger.

Miriam Hill called Dennis

PUT what a woman should he

BUT Dim-stør type," He fear 造 herself. This brought back all the romance special vanity which seems to she had lost.

thrive in some women even after Women of her age are afraid they have seen themselves frat I did it

that their youth has gone and thing in the morning in their My marriage has been a they are slipping into the mirrors. success because the man I elderly era," They clutch Women reed courage not married is only 10 years younge desperately at the admiration the courage to marry Very young men but to see them- VEEN through the faint haze and there were 30 years be that is offered them.

This I understand but I do selves as they really are before of fashion indigestion (not en Miriam Hill and Dennis,

And I know my husband for find it hard to comprehend how they do it. surprising after four days of

we someone like. Mis Hill can make Mrs Hill paid bitterly for something like 1,000 dresses at least a year before

I made the mistake of believing that a accepting "love from a stran- day), the abidog Impressions reached a decision.

sure he had every chance to mere boy will always love her. ger," a young stranger whom

At the other iable the North- consider what he was doing. Even if the had been very she met on her doorstep when south Dair bid ex spades and made. THAT the All-skirted ball I made a point of introducing beautiful she would have been he was inquiring about some-even and the board was protested. gown is old hal

Needless to say, the protest was There ere him to my

teenage crazy to imagine that she could where to live. dwm

The first masses of full-length, slinky daughter who was so much repay the love of such a boy.

And I think all women risk not allowed. but the hand has bean

given for two, zessoKLE, little numbers, and a pretty, younger and prettier than my Had he lived, Dennis would failure and defeat if they can't reason is to point out that defen new, two-inches above the self. Yet I pity Miriam Hill only have been in his 40's when take off those rose-coloured der should never talk about the hand, He really should keep quiet ankit, vtraight-aloited · Ure..... Because I understand how a the reached 73,

spectacles when they look at entirely, but if he has to inlle, he woman, can be blinded by her Why, why do elderly woman themselves.

should disetor some striple subject accept the attention of these passion.

(London Express Service). 150e the weather or the mlock mar-/

ket:

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are;

THAT Charles Jourdain's shorter, sturdiler heel. may well persuade women out of stiletes,

THAT beads the size of Ding- Dong balls strung on all- stowed nechanéh will be we girl's Christinan present,

THAT there's in de amount of brom everywhere particularly a Walth, Bright chestnut.

THAT Zay. Uzroches Teather $160ch hat to just the Job for the youngsters.

THAT you HMI have wont Thug Við, Puros, port wine, dr violet-coloured in your winter

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