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THE CHINĄ. MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1961.

WEEK-END

WOMANSENSE

The most talked about team in fashion-making it all make sense

There's a 'Dior' at Dior again!

-AND THERE'S THIS, WITHOUT WAITING:::

The face for you-now

HERE is my step-by-step analysis of the new Park Look. The make-up is the new flirt-face designed by Charles Parker for Nina Ricci's models; already it in to be seen on the go- ahead girls of Paris, All the emphasis is concen trated now on the centre of the face. The make-up is soft and smoky-brown, grey or slate blue pre- dominating. Robb's draw- ings below. show you how. The hair style is the heavy fringed shaggy boy cut designed by Rene,

THE MAKE-UP

Smart... and straight

from the heart!

THE eyes... Start with

a sharp stroke following the curve of the eye socket.

SOFTEN this off with a brush, keeping the muin

emphasis on the inner corner of the eye.

IT'S A SHAGGY BOY CUT

THE hair... Set the top hair in roliers, winding it backwards,

ARROWS show the direction brushing for finished effect.

of

THE new sharply pointed lip line.

BRUSH out contrary to the intended Anished movement of the hair. Back comb the top plece you set in rollers.

FRONT view of the style for day. For evening you can brush the hair in a downward sweep almost covering the

ear.

HOLLYVOGUE California ties

for

your

·Valentine (Feb. 14)

KUNG HEI FAT CHOY

SLIM

MRS OUTSIZE

THE MODEL

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Her name in real life is Lily Hamdi, and she is

famous in the Middle East dress world.

BEAUTY HINTS

White silk dresses will look lovely if they are rolled in a towel after washing, and then hour before ironing.

Recently, in Cairo, she modelled seven dresses, put in a refrigerator for as

coats and housegowns of her own creation, and thousands of fascinated women watched her parading as nimbly as any slender manne-etten be made to Aisappeari quin from Paris.

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Picture shows Mrs Slim in two of her own crea- of bos water pip a nail brush

tions at her Cairo dress show. -

AT LAST, WOMEN CAN BE WOMEN-

AND THIS IS THE FOUNDATION FOR THE LINE

By JILL BUTTERFIELD

PARIS.

Q Dior THERE is

at Dior again. Recently, 35-year old Mark Bohan's first collection for the House of Dior rocked that sedate building to its very foundations,

I have scen Бол pretty which the vagaries of its pre- hysterical scenes in this world vious designer, Yves St Laurent, of tulle and temperament, but put right out of the serious I have never heard cheers ring fasition pleture for a few 8c4- louder, seen kisses showered so 60119. freely, or felt the atmosphere of tension lighten so quickly into the stratosphere of tlumpla.

Influence

To understand just what nuch success means to the fashion world, you have to realise the immenso influenen the name of Dior still holds-even though it In more than three years since Dior himself died.

It is a name that can, And docs, sell anything corsets and perfumes, men's ties and wo- men's gloves, handbags, furs, and jewels,

It is a nome that conceals a £5,000,000-a-year empire and boasts a payroll of more than 15,000 employees.

It is a namo that rings a fashion bell in even an English husband's mind, and a

DRAWINGS

BY

Robb

TIJE founda- ston beneath the phape: Dior's new ledio with strong ide roin forcO- ments, and -his bra cut to go ba-

in 100 mixijita sud jhau brujaði 14 rently on the 'anit,

neath tho new plung-

ips asckline.

Authority

Today It is a rame, whleh give a final, undisputed stamp of authority to the line which the rest of Paris has been toying with.

new look "The Slim Line," I For although Dolian calls his christen it the "Feminine Finn-

for his is the unrestricted Lodice, the lowered waistline, almplicity shown, the ring skirt, and the easy with differ- rest of Paris designers, ing degrees of success, by the

What is it then which whiris the new Dlor collection to such dizzy heights?

hip

FIRST, I would say it la the authority with which Bohan whoms his new line home. He carries

message through every category of clothes, from sults which fit closely over the hips before breaking into a fiare cr a furry of pleats, 'right through to flouting chiffon evening dresses which are the prettiest I have seen in my Me. SECOND, he has inherited Dior's superb showmanship. His perfectionist's eye turns every dress into an outfit with the addition of exactly matching accessories, or an impeccably placed jewel.

His senso of theatre makes him how his prettiest numbers In triplicate, sending his model girls waltzing on like the front row of a very Ritzy chorus,

THIRD, and, above all, he makes women look like women again, for his flattering chilions, enchanting embroideries, and the only really daring neckline (it plunges down almost to the waist in front and preda ณ revolutionary new bra'beneath;) in the whole of this newly prudish Paris are the kind of clothes we have been missing for years.

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Shimmying

You will probably hear that this collection is "evocative" of, the thirties, "reminiscent of the twenties; brings back" the of Rudolf Valentino the Bright Young Things.

era

and But

I promise you there is not on outflt In the whole collection that would feel like fancy dress,

The props of past fashions pre thero in fall force chiffon and handkerchief hemlines, shimmying fringes, and the glitter of bugie benda - but the whole thing was put together by a man whose feet are firmly on the ground, and who draws lls Inspiration from the 20-year- olda of today, not the shadown of 20 years back.

In short, this was a bit show,

I battled through frenzied crowds surrounding Bohan and h enchanting young wite, through beaming waiter, րու ccntatio inkdinofles.

Outside, now powdered tho streets of Paris, but the news had already spirend, and even tha taxi, drivers, mufted against the biting wind, scomad happy. Mine greeted

A mo with Gauloise and a grin: "Ah. mademoiselle, there is a Dlor at Pier skak.”