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WOMANSENSE

FASHION NEWS

THIS is

the LOOK

LONDON (NOT PARIS) HAD IT FIRST ANYONE who saw the Paris fashion shows this season might assume ---- looking at the dress on the right that it was one of those lightning copies. For this is the 1961 look of long, flat bodice and down- sliding waistline, of short skirt and flaring pleats that all Paris, showed, taken to the 20-ish extreme that Jules Crahay at Nina Ricci designed so gaily and showed along with the complete flapper props.

In fact, it was designed by Mary Quant, of Chelsea, last September and has been such a best-seller in London that she's repeating it for summer in linen.

un-

In the collection she showed then, six months ago, the principal line was focussed around the hips, flar of bodice, fairly waistless, and very short of skirt: startled

that it wos all observers were heard to murmur nervingly reminiscent of the 20's; in the event it simply meant that Chelsea had, once more, got there six months ahead of Paris, and British amateurs of fashion can feel a glow of chauvinistic price.

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London liked this one: but when Mary showed it New York in her collection before Christmas, buyers who had snopped up her other kooky clothes with cries of de- light and appreciation, turned pale at the sight of it and them, (Which makes soid that it was too extreme for Chelsea one up on New York, too).

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heard the sound of the hammer- ing. Then he walked to the mid- dle of the block to find out what was going on.

In the middle of the block Knarf came to a big empty lot. To the middle of the empty lot was a stack of wooden boards,

A Man was taking the boards and standing some of them up, and laying some of them down. and every now and then ham- mering nails into them to make them stay in place.

"Hello, Carpenter," caid

Knarf.

penter.

"Why are you nailing those boards together, Carpenter?" asked Knart.

"I wish I wore a Bird," and Kaart.

the "Or take the Ants," said

"They don't LISI Carpenter. boards or hammers or nails."

"They live in the ground," sald Kharf.

"But it's o house," unit the Carpenter. "It's on Ant-house," regular "I'd rather live in a house," said Knart.

"And take the American In- Carpenter. the dians," said "Lots of them lived in houses, but they didn't use boards or hammers or nails. They lived in They called their teats tents.

wigwams,"

Used pillows and blanket "wouldn't mind being an "Hello, Boy," said the Car- American Indian," said Knarf.

"I'd like to live in a wigwam."

10 "There are, lots of ways

house," said the Car- bulld penter. "Once when I was sick in bed I built a beautiful house without even getting out of bed. The pillows were the walls, the blanket was the root, and the chimney was my plcture book. Sometimes, when my mother came to look for me she couldn't find me but I was ho home the whole time."

floor,"

said

I'm buliding a the Carpenter,

"A floor to walk on?" asked Knart.

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"I once built touse

by Barbara Griggs

PICTURE BY TERENCE DOKOVAN PARIS LOOK 1901-he way Chelsea has been seeing it since 1960, complete with long, fat bodice and short, swingy skirt, The dress was a best-seller right up to the New Year in wast now it emerges in summery linen and the Paris colours of pale pink, maize and deep orange. The sleeveless top slides down way past waist level, and is braided in white: the bouncy box- pleated skirt is, in fact, mounted in a full-length slip attached to the sweater-lop. The hat is by Reed Crawford.

-{London Express Service).

LADY LUCK

22. (August September 22): Inculcate a true sense of values in n younger person, and dis- courage him from trying to appropriate everything for himself.

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 17

(January 21. VIRGO AQUARIUS

February 191: You may have to cope with an un- asual anunt of work today, but you will benefit by it for the rest of the week. PISCES (February 20-March 20): An evening appoint- ment ought to be kept even if you are not looking for- ward to the encounter. AIES March 21-April 19):

You will derive double plea sure from an extravagant purchase if you shure its benefits with a close friend. TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

A

romance within your family appears to be deve- loping into a very serious affair, and you will just have to wait developments. some-GEMINI (May 21-June 21):

Kept hammering The Carpenter nodded. hammered some more,

"Now," he said at last, "the floor is finished." Then walked across it, buck and full, thing like that," said Knarf. "I stamping on it. "It's good built it out of chairs and cush- strong floor, Boy."

"Why are you building a floor fons on the floor of my room. in the middle of this empty lot?" Knart asked.

A

The Carpenter cmited. "There's more to it than that, Boy," he said. "Now that the floor is finished, I'm going to build four walls."

Knart watched the Carpenter

as he stood up the beards. Ile hammered nails into them, que after the other, so that boards kept on standing.

"Why are you building walls, Carpenter?" asked Knarf.

"To keep the rain and the wind off the floor, Doy," an- swered the Carpenter.

"I pretended I was Bear living in a cave, It was a won

derful house."

Kharf watched the Carpenter working away, hammering the boards together.

"Is that all you need to bulld a houseboards and a hammer

penter.

If you are doing somebody good turn today, do so without expecting a return of the kindness shown. CANCER (June 22-July 21): A social contact which has its basis in the hope of financial gain is not worth keeping, and don't fret if it is severed.

and nails?" he asked the Car-LEO (July 22-August 21): Don't be envious of a neigh- bour's good fortune. Your turn may be next.

outside of

"That's just the the

the house, Boy," the Carpenter sald after being silent for a minute or to. "But you need lots more than that for the in- side of the house.

house,

"Are you building a Carpenter?" asked Knart.

The Carpenter nodded.

What he's building "I'm building a floor, And walls, and a roof, and windows, and a door."

"That's a house," said Knart. "It will be when People live in it," said the Carpenter.

"I wish I could build house," said Knorf,

ter.

a

and Bomo-

"You need somebody Inugh- ing, and somebody singing, and somebody crying, body making dinner, and some- bady to kiss you, and somebody to put you to bed at night, and somebody to say, 'Good morn- ing, It's a beautiful day."

"All the boards and hammers can't and nolls in the world

house, moke the inside Boy."

Said good-byo "Good-bye, Carpenter" said

You can," said the Carpen- · Kbarf,

But I can'" said Knart. "I Carpenter, need boards and a hammer and nails,"

"No, you don't" said the Car penter, "Take the Birds," he Enid. They build houses for ihemselves without boards ne hammers or naila."

"Good-bye, Boy," said the

And Knart ran all tho

way home, all the way upstater, and sal watching Mother make in ner, and kest thinking all the things that went into building a house, outside and inside. ·

about

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(September October 221: You may have to deferl an associate against an unjust RecusG- Lion, and he will be deeply grateful for it. SCORPIO (October 23- November 21): Refunc even to consider a scheme, no matter how tempting it may sound, if it conillets

I foresee

problems below

THE 1961 line, a radical changeover from preced- ing silhouettes, hands out, as always, a great big bonus in some directions-a great big headache, in others.

The BONUS will be for every And if it does so, will it be woman who has never been able just i next senson in Paris - to buy straight-skirted suits or or for years to come? dresses off the peg because her ilguge curved. over-generously out at hip-level....... and to whont the rend-silm fastjurys of the last five years have been frustration itself.

No-panic front

So for, the big films are putting up a brave nc-pante front.

"We don't think for a moment sway of plents that the bust is going to disap- fattering pear" wald ong Brm...."though, flare ut skirta thut pusitively perhaps, a little toning-down NEED dps as a point ut de may be necessary".

For her, now, happiness, and the seductive from hip-level; the

parture.

The HEADACHE: for the bra bushess, that for years now has been living off words like

Lunatic fringe

"Possibly, we shall be think- ing in terms of a safter, more rounded kind of bra" sold on- other firm, "but in our enor- mous range we've always cater- ed for very diverse tastes, any- Way."

"Brux ARE made for women, Only the lunatle fringe sUR after all" said another firm, ro- advertise their wares with adjee- ther plaintively. tives like "Sword-Point" (which

1 have. however, seen). and They all see Brigitte Bardot swenter-girls nowadays, if they as a steadying influence. think of any in star at all, My guess, however, is that all think in terms of Audrey Hep- the major firms are working burn rolker than Lano Turner. flat out right round the clock But the fact remaina that in get the new kind of bra for Jashion hps Issued a steely the new kind of look to the edict: Away with the bust.

For the bra makers, the agonised question is: How likely is the Flat Look la catch on?

JACOBY on BRIDGE

RUBBER bridge player 13 only concerned with his partner and his opponents. A duplicate player has to consider everyone in the field.

A rubber bridge South would win the first club in his own hand; play the king and rine of spades with intention of newsing. West would show out and. Soath would make exactly three no-trump.

At duplicate, South would note that a lot of pairs would be in four spades, not three no- trump, Incidentally South stpud have raised spades in- stead of bidding no-trump.

market.

One house in Paris, after all, showed its collection on manne- quins who wore no bras at all.

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the way the cards nelually are. Now, how should Soul play this three no-trump in dupli-

cate?

He should win the firs! rub in dunny; lead the lack of epada and let it ride. Now he will wind up making four no- trump for un exceptionally good score.

Of course, Wert held the queen of spades South wouki Wost get a bottom, kart give the queen of spades and South wasn't going to do well any way,

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