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THE CHINA -MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1960,

WOMANSENSE

Women in Trousers

Nobody seems to have noticed the fantastic switch this year

WHO wears the trouser in your household edly be

"During and, 7ve never

THO wears the trousers in your household? By the "During any 12 years as a buyer known nything like it." you and I am not speaking motaphorically, either.

The girl who rocks the cradle nowadays wears the pants to do so, for the women of Britain are buying more trousers than ever before. What is more, they are buying more trousers than shirts.

It is the biggest change in feminine

since Eve fashion Arst sewed together her Ag leaves, save her female des cendants a uniform, and called the result a skirt.

I have been Lelking to the manufacturers who make their Ilving by keeping a good fashion jump ahead of you, and their autumn crder books read ke a successful Savile-row tailor's.

Mr Bend, designer for the firm of Slimms, told me: "Our tumover on slacks has increased by at least 60 per cent,'

Not enough

Mr Peter, a salesman from Dorville, said: "We are selling very few skirus it's trousers, trousers all the way. Skirts just

BOY

ACA

aren't in the running any more. During the past two years the upsurge in the trouser trade has beer tremendous.“

few

Mr Ratkin. production manager of the firm of Alexon said: "During the "pust months the sales of slicks have more than darbled, whereas skirt sales stay steady." The arm of Windsmoor report twice their usual output of slacks..

But the women behind countera complain that even this terrife increase in, supply hardly keep pace with the can new demand.

the

Mrs Fowkes, who buys the skirts and slacks for a large chain of stores, says that during month her shops, the past

throughout the scattered country, sold 75 per cent more slacks than skirts. She added:

Chirpie's Problem

-To Fly Or Not To Fly, That Is The Question--

By MAX TRELL

"I DON'T suppose I will, buj

7'm thinking about it, thinking, thinking, thinking.”

It was Chirpic Sparrow say- ing this to Kharf and Hanid the Shadow Children with the Turned-About Names.

Every morning Chirple came to the window sill for his good- morning bread crumbs.

He had come for his bread crumbs all through the delight- ful days of the spring and sum- mer and autumn. But now the weather had turned cold and

blowy, Chirple's feathers shook

in the wind as he stood pleking

up the crumbs. It looked as Knarf and Hanld maked Onieple-

though he was shivering.

if he was cold.

Royalty too

My muliering male colleagues zivomily suggest that no really feminine woman would be ween dead in the things, But take a look at some of the lovelles

LONDON CRAZE by JILL

BUTTERFIELD

rapidly building up their trouser wardrobes.

Mangeret Leighton told

me:

"I should think I have at least half a dozen pairs, and some specially light-weight ones too." Mrs Christopher Chataway boasts seven paire, and, husky-

voleed Georgia Brown

has 2 for whole wardrobe of them rehearsals and a specially smart velvet pair for Sundays..

wear

Even royally dares to them in public nowadays wit- ness Princees: Alexandra And Princess Grace of Monaco.

Intriguing, isn't it? But just WHY are we becoming a nation of Nancy Spaina?

Pants

and I

by Nancy Spain

Swe

10 Jill Butterfield thinks are becoming a nation of Nancy Spains, does she? This makes me a fashion leader.

Fashion, I ask you. Apparent

ly I am the only woman in the world who believes that clothes. the пле there to keep out draughts and the rain and for no other reason whatever,

I can remember only too well when and why I started to wear trousers. The year was 1950. I had broken my ankle and the agony of getting in and out of nylons and a suspender belt had to be felt to be beleved.

IN JEANS

MOREOVER, that year, I had

money at all. Jenns, at

19s 11d a pair, sent to the laundry, Were A Jolly sight

If I thought that putting a woman into trousers would make fers "Nancy Spain" of her.

I would give them up today.

In fact, I think it significant that in 1900, for the Arst time

tho Paris IT because 18 couturiers who give the lead in

-50

mety branches of fashion showed that trousers could be soft, clinging, and seductive?

To a certain degree, perhaps a bankrupt many o: bu s manufacturer has found to his cost, it takes more than a pretty pletume in a glossy magazing to influence the women of Britain.

IS IT because our saturated stanmer has made the bright, full skirts that aced a cup. boardful of petticoats and a day full of sun to look their best, cold by look limp and fdel comparison?

Maybe so, but such a demand is bound to be activated by more than climatic conditions,

now

Sophisticated

2

FT, as a number of manu- facturers suggest, that slacks different, appeal to larger age group?

Certainly the new stockB "sets" trousers teamed with being matching tops are

by

older the up snapped

the well 43 13 sophisticates teenagers.

Or Is IT due to the gradual change of Sunday best fo Sun- day casuals?

I think it is a combination of But it is significant the lot. that the new demond

of the trousers stops Border.

south

Jar

In Scotland, where the sym-

in my life, I have come beck bot of masculine superiority is from the Paris autumn collec- that certain sort of skirt called and a new a kilt, you just do not find the lassies in trousers.

tlons with a dress

skirt,

SPECIAL FISH SAUCES

Seafood Ple: Combine 1 (10 oz.) can undiluted concentrated celery soup, (19 oz.) pkg. frozen green peas and 1 (3 oz) with can sleed mushrooms liquid.

Deviled Seafood; This may be made with canned arab, lobster, salmon or tuna. If crabmeat v lobster is used, drain and re- move any shell and shred the or salmon are ment, If tuna used, drain of the oll and use Add 1 (6 cz) cart flaked tuna it to replace the butter in the

crabmeat, 1 tsp. parsley. following recipe. natoes, 4 tsp. scasoned salt anës. 1 tbsp. prepared mustard,

or

Melt 2 tbsp. butter or use the

tben flour and 1 tsp. dry mus-

cheaper and cleaner than hairy Divide 'into 6 well-buttered fish oil as suggested. Stir in 2 cardboard tweed coats and individual casseroles. skirts that had to go to the Balce 20 min, in a moderate tard. cleaners. These were my only oven, 350 F alternatives, because 1950 was a

enve

When smooth, gradually stir iz'1 c. milk. Cook-stir until the sauce boils. Add 1 tbsp. minced parsley, 1⁄2 tsp. salt and

tsp. Tabasco,

1.

wet summer too. By sce Meantime, prepare

of fate I then lope Instant mashed potato, ac strange quirks became accepted as a trouser cording to pkg, directions. Add wearer, The pants for me beaters egg yolk and, if neces-

Sur in 1 egg, beaten with i became a sort of heraldic badge, sary, a little extra milk. Khart and Hanid had asked

Put through a pastry tube, or tbsp. milk. Add the contents 1 Chirple he was cold and me that there was a litle hole as the lion of Scotland or the

use a teaspoon, to border the (0-7 oz) can crabmeat, lob- Chirple had answered that he in the window. It was just blgharp of Ireland.

the ster, salmon or tuna and 1⁄4 0. casseroles with seafood for

squeeze the to enough was, a little.

Ten years went by, and 1.

Brush with soft enriched bread crumbs, through, the Robin said."

Fill crab shells or individual When they heard this, Knaer made a little more money and potato mixture.

this mixture. and Hanid told Chirple that actually went on TV. Occasion-melted butter.

Fish Cocktall Sauce: Combine casseroles with

tomato sauc into dress. TV sroducers; e. seasoned

2 Top with 4 c, soft bread crumbs ally made an effort to struggle tald me to stop it. It seems tbsp. lemon juice, 4 tsp. salt, mixed with 2 tbsp. melted but that people could recognise tsp Tabasco, 1 tbsp. prepared ter, Bake 20-25 mini in N. Spain, and she relaxed belter

horseradish, 2 tbsp minced moderate oven 375 F. T in trousers.

celery ard 1 tbsp. grated ordon. Pimicuto Coleslaw:

Hanid's suggestion

Then Hanid had suggested they were afraid that living in

an attic wouldn't be

that he do like most of the olker Birds: fly south for the enough.

winter.

That's what caused Chirpiec

to say:

but

"I don't suppose I will, I'm thinking about it, thinking, thinking, thinking."

"But why do you have to think about it so much?" Knart asked. "Why don't you just p your wings and fly away?"

"It's not as easy as all that," said Chirple, "I'd have to fly a long, long way before I got to a place where it's really warm."

"Robins it," said Knart. "I know," said Chirple. "And so do my friends the Swallows. I guess I could do it all right. But then I think to myself that If I were a really smart Bird I'd be able to figure out a way

to keep warm without flying sil the way south."

That's a wonderful ides, Chirple," Hanid said.

Can't do it

"Only. you, can't do it," said .Knorf.

"Oh yes. I think I can" sald. Chirple. "People don't fly south. They keep warm,"

They live in houses," said

Henld.

You live out in the open air," anld Kinart.

"But I don't have to live out in the open air," said Chirple.. "I think ve found a way to live in a house."

Chirple had three or four more crumbs before he went an. "Now I know very well," ho sald, "that People wouldn't want moflying around their "rooms. And to tell you the truth; 1 wouldn't like that, efiher. And I wouldn't like living in a cage

ke a Canary body

Xesterday afternoon I had á talk with a Robin. The tobin told me ble nest, was just op posite the attle window of the honise next door, The Robin told

be

win

IN SKIRTS

A

Won't be cold

Flac- Chill... not

warm "It might

shred enough crisp cabbage, to sold. enough for you," Chirple

Beafood Mayonnaise Sance: make 4. c. Add 1 tbsp. grated "but I think it will be warm

In a small bowl, combine 1 c. orion or mined scallion, 2 enough for me. And yet I'm not

NOWADAYS the very people mayonnaise, 1 isp. dry mus- tbsp, minced parsley, and 3 can- c. ned pimientos, cut in short sure.

who used to implore me tard, 1⁄4 tsp. garile sait, 14 "Maybe I ought to fly south N with the other Birds, anyway to put on a skart, for heaven's chill sauce, isp. Tabasco, 2 strips

e. French dressing, mixed with That's why I'm thinking, think zake, now raise their hands in tbsp. tarragon or cider vinegar, ing, thinking, thinking of flying horror when I do so. They tell 3 tbsp chopped olives, 14 south and thinking

living in me to get straight back into my chopped sweet gherkins and 1 er dairy sour cream, and a tsp.

extra salt. tsp. minced onion. Chill. Danila

the attle,

"To tell you the truth."

Even the people responsible Chirple said as he finished his Jost crumb, "I really don't mind for selling me clothes asic me the winter at all, I've got feath- in the end to wear trousers,

warm as a

ers that keep me thick warm fur coat.

seems that I am not as blicky when I am wearing them, be- cause I feel more. secure.

To tell you the truth the

"And if I can get a good night's sleep away from the wind and the mow inside an old thought that I might be a box in the attic, I'm pretty sure

fashion leider the first thing

I'll spend the winter right here that has appalled me for years. along with the Cats and Dogs Thank goodness, I don't believe and People."

it.

Rupert and the Gomnies-47

Hupert han hardly awaited a minute when he is startled to hear the same voice this time from the other side of him. The home ! has sapphared), again without

sound and is now looking very: hippy **Qur chief, says that you

kave, does well, kftat: Bil'; ka." "in

pederi and he la sorry, you have been tree-roubled 1”?? he smiles, You can go home now. We shall be there before you and will show.

you that we are pleased with you." Rupen needs no second: bidding. and AA saying he mood-bye, so he scampers, AWHY?

TANGLA

Toes with

c. not-sweet

JACOBY BRID

Finessing can provo quito 'a goos over to dummy with a club luxury on occasion. If you don't for that trump fusesse West will think so now what will happen let it work. South will use up. to declarer If he indulges in another olib to get back to that curs today,

dummy for a second finesse, and The defonCO atoris off with East will show out. Now, the three diamonds lends and South hand will be lost, South's best trumps, the third one. Now if he play will be to play one of his

LADY LUCK-

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

(January

21- VIRGO (August Your: con-

AQUARIUS

February 19): duct in a recent dispute has been above reproach blume and you need not yourself for the outcome, PISCES (February 20-March 20): Since you seem unable to make

mind up your about a personal matter, it may be necessary to take a friend into your confidence. ARIES (March 21-April 19):

If you are sure that a cer tain condition of your life ta injurious to your health, you must make a determin- ed effort to change it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your ability to mix with people in all walks of life ought to be most helpful in the position you are about to assume.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21): You will have to exercise a great deal of patience when In contact with #

person born under Pisces, CANCER (June 22-July 21)! Don't let exaggerated respect for the past hold you back, but be ready to change with the times. LEO (July 22-August 21): Your natural kindness and readiness to help others makes you

general favourite in your circle of friends.

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AKD:

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SOUTH (0)

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Past.

F## 1 NT. Pass

Pus4 V.

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Opening lead-K

lower trumps. Wost will take his king and lead a third club, ? South Will have no way to: muko

a

irick with dummy's last club and, will have to oso a, spado In the cool' of the evening.

How should South play the hand?

+22. September-22): An in- telligent approach to a dif- fcult problem will enable you to deal with it without

He having to enlist outside

should, sply. Jead the help.

queen of hearts at trick four,' !If... West : takes the trick he (September 23- won't be able to get anywhere. LIBRA

October 22): An op Any lead will lot South draw trumps and make the rest of portunity to conclude a very the tricks also. lucrative business deal

even

should be taken, though it may involve frequent absences home.

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♥÷CARD Seriseks

Q-The bidding har boeni South West North Best Peas 10

West's best defence will be to let the queen hold, Then South will continue with the jack. If from West lets that hold also South Thould cash his ace of trumpa after the clubs. Weat SCORPIO (October 28- and

November 21): There is will have to follow to threa danger of your present dis club leads and South will be agreement ending in a very able to discard his losing spade hot argument, unless you on the fourth club. keep a firm control of your tempor.

(November SAGITTARIUS

22-December 21): Use the weekend

1 for complete rest, and try to forget the JN.T. worries with which a friend. 5❤ has burdened you. CAPRICORN (December 22. January 20): After having aimed for a long time at something which you now know to be unobtainable, you ought to concentrate on things within your reach.

It YOUR LUCKY CARD:

birthday. today is your your lucky card, no matter what game you may be playing, ought to be the

EIGHT of HEARTS. .

AUTUMN COTTONS

IN

?

Pais

Pass

4 N.2.

Pass

Para

54

Park

You, South, hold: LA VKI 4932 JAKG 10543

What do you do?,

A-Bid five no-tramp. ; Your partner is undoubtedly showing you that he does not hold zu noć.

·He can't bẹ bidding spades" ́át this late éste.

TODAY'S QUESTION, ・・・ Your partner responds one dia- mond to your opening club bid, You hold:

'BARITE W22 90 JKQ10765

What do you do?

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