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THE CHINA. MA

SATURDAY, MARCH, 25,

FOR YOU-A SUIT FOR

THE SPRING

QUDDENLY it's spring-with

tho crocuses spreading like stars and the almond treer an almost indecent frath of pink face.

What every woman want Is a suit, I present four tile

beautles-Paris inspired.

Inspiration BALENCIAGA (right): Black and white chock for a straight cut jacket and skirt, bordered with black fringe,

Inspiration CHANEL (below left): Dark sapphire blue braided in black for a collar- love jacket and a skirt a-swirl with pleats. Under the jacket a matching overblouse makes

a jumper suit for warmer dayı,

Inspiration GIVENCHY (be low centre): Double-breasted Jacket, fringed edging

"easy" skiri in s

and

variety of

vivid colours, "Everybody's" euil this one!

Dior

(below

Inspiration right): Four-butiqued Jacket with A modified version of that highly controversial "ared from the thighs" Inc. Marvellously "young" sult in

navy,

Hats by Chex Elle: Italian straw handbags from Harvey Nichols "Little Boutique,"

Pictures by John Adriaan

Cockroach Trap

To keep cockroaches out of your home use this simple trap. As you clore the buck door before retiring just sprinkle a thin layer of

Pea Beu across the thres- hold on a sheet of paper which can be lifted and re- Jald roch evening. Any night intruders will have to cross it and be wiped out. The beauty is that t is

and non polsonous

odourless if it blown about or is carried on logs and feelers it does not matter and cockroaches walk into it without suspicion. Do this in addition to your normal Pea Beu cockroach proofing and you can then forget cockroach troubles.

WEEK-END

WOMANSENSE

VERONICA PAPWORTH

INSPIRATION BALENCIAGA

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NOW - A LOOK TO

END ALL LOOKS

-including THREE pairs of eyelashes

"BEATS"the diamond-studded, grade A variety are currently mak

ing fashion history in yet another new look. With great black- rimmed eyes, bloomers just reaching their knobbly little knce-caps, two- foot cigarette holders, and gangling off-white legs, they wowed London recently in a spectacularly successful parade of What the Younger Set Wants.

for "dustbin"

Never has there been a dress parade quite like it. Here for the strident minority with their passion theatre, absolute frankness, lost causes, and exhibitionism is the look to end all looks.

With no half measurest For it is a chape that allows of no modification.

Flatten that bust. Ignore that waist. raise that hem- line! Strut defiantly with your head down and your hips well forward.

Pout and #lawer mean, moody and menacing-that's the way it goes.

Maybe 11 sounds ghastly, but It does have a singularly defiant charm and on apparently limitless abllity to caricature itself.

"Not me," said I firmly if ungrammatically. But she swept on: "Now everyone's mad for Dior.

"And let's face it, darling, in general, English women have practically no legs.

"What is our average height? Five foot two or something.

"How can you possibly put a low bloused top and a nared slcirt on that?

everyone had to have a written permit for any foundation.

"But there's nothing ‘surgical' about us. Today we're building bras and belts into custom- tailored bathing suits and sell- ing them to well, example, Lisa Gastoni's having one."

...

for

Stella likes to look ruffled.

MODELS, however M

classy, the generally arrive hairdresserS looking slightly dishevelled with not a scrap of make-up on, flat-heeled shoeg shopping baskets full of acces- Bories

tired-looking sear! round their troying set.

Stella Grove la an exception to all this, but then she has the Lidlesk set of features plus the most manageable hair I've seen ...so much so that she asked Dumas to create a style speci- ally to give her the "Tufted" extra look.

"Visited in your own home, you can take your time... ali On the platform a girl in a that is needed is a list of ten grass skirt pirouetted in the simple measurementa ... “aqua-bra" with "double nylon panels of elastic may be atted tricot sandwiching nylon cups in front for additional Batten- as built into every model” and ing. the commentator, in a rather The guitarist strummed on rakish white hat, soothed us and it was blissfully waim with a reminder that the end- under the are lights. less chase from store to store swimsuit that really fits is a thing of the past.

"It's a line that positively cries out for legs like a slurk. "And to belt it round the The widest point? IL hips! Today's arch-exponent of cuts the Agure at its least in search of a "the look" is Lise Denise-a becoming level. model with wise, owl-like eyes set in a little girl's pouting- pretty face.

"How many pairs of false eyelashes are you wearing to- night?" asked 3.

"Three," she told me. "I've had them on all day. I can scarcely lift my lids. And, I've got that black, Indian stuff around the Inside edges, agony."

Fatter today

"Remember too that the relaxed lines we've all been wearing have encouraged wo- men to let their figures go.

***Understated"

... easy and so on.

'casual' Women

It's are fatter, today. No doubt about it. Everyone's talking dicts!

"I enjoyed the clothes, Lise." "Ummm, marvellous, aren't they--so staric,“

Stark is the wordi

"So, darling, hip belts won't do."

"Yet the tell me,”. said. 3, Maybe doubtful parents, con- "that there never has been michi templating their daughters a season at Dor, They say similarly dressed to kill, may British and American maau- toke heart from the thought facturers are evidently going that the stor

tura of the wild about this now shape. What previous parade (same designer, have you to say to that sama placo last year) was Bronwen Pugh, **

"Happily our boys arc And look what a nice, quiet said Olive. "By the time the absolute experts at adaptation," pecress she's made.

Terrific

but it's not Dior

AYE

W were pulling Marc

©

trade has raised the hip-belt to comething near waist level and modified the dare or sub- stituted pleats, it will be mag- nificent."

"But," said I, "it won't be Dior,"

Tailor-made for the beach

a

LUITARS strummed and Bohan to pieces over synthetic golden sun- cup of coffee - Oliva shing filtered through O'Neil, of Dorvillo, and mock-up of a South Seos myself. In the kindest pos- sefting as we sat in a deep- sible way, of course,

the

and

Coming up to Oxford-circus in the sunshine seemed

quite chilly in comparison.

-(London Express Service).

INSPIRATION CHANEL

INSPIRATION GIVENCHY

1 feel he has only just BLC- ceeded, but It's a consoling thought for the average woman who wants that model-girl look for easier for us to look ruffled, than otherwise, isn't it?

--(London Express Service),

INSPIRATION DIOR

HATS! NOW IT'S BACK

TO THE THIRTIES

"for carpeted basement beneath TTIGH above surrounding They vary from seml-saucers to being "promoted." boy is brilliantly Oxford - circus

con-rooftops, in the pont clever," said Olive. "No sidered next season's made. house of the new

Carlton doubt about it. His dresses to-measure swimsuits.

Tower, John Reed-Crawford are divine,

showed his latest hats. "To so many our name stands "But those suita I blame for corsets-on-a-doctor's-pre- you girls for all the hou-lis. scription,"

said an carnest "All very smooth and round," Those extravagant, headlines young man in a Guards tie. sald fr Reed-Crawford who is and the television talking of the "Ours is a hangover from the rather rugged and thin himself

restrictions When and greatest thing for 10 years."

well on to the head.

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not like it at all. "Pulled hard down too- Think what they have done cloche-wise, One does hate to for Christmas, with their pre- their plastic mention the thirtles-it does fabricated trees, scund so terribly as it one were holly, and their big business doing historical costume but greetings. the look is there.

How long, one wonders, be- "Lady Lowson wears. It to fore the Amalgamated Baby- perfection, She is one of my Bottle Washing Company and” a most favourite customers. couple of dozen more are going 1 Нарру "Yes, there is a great feeling to be wishing

-enclosing for the Breton shape, but I fear Mother's Day--and It's a popular craze.. It will their price listel burn self out in no time."

"Flower hats?"

"I have quite a few in my collection, but I'm not absolute- ly wild about them.

"They do have to look so fresh. Few things are sadder than mp cotton "flower petalst

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I want no part of this, I -will not move with the times.

My cards of greeting are made for me alone and, sent- mental clot that I may be, I adore them.

ever

Nothing, but nothing, printed compares with a pic-

Wobbly labelled

Spitfires

in crayon "Horay, Horey, Muthers Day,"

"In feet, you cannot beat a lure of a battleship and two good, big felt hat, especially for Ascot. It stands out so well against all the frou-trou."

"But isn't it rather hot?" "Hot?" said Mr Reed- Crawford, with evident surprise at such an irrelevant question. There's nothing like it for an important effect!"

*

TT looks as if "they"—alony- hearted, commercial-minded THEY-am goiting. airangic- hold on Mothering Sunday ... Suddenly the whole thing

Spare me also all SULATY verses,

One of my special favourites, written for ine, reads:- "Every boy shud have a muther Enfact you have to and- alud

love her

Muthers are useful in so

mierny ways,

And so to them we raze Our capo!"

It's copyright by the way!

BEAUTY HINTS

· Remember that any action, whether drawing off a pain of gloybe or smoking a olgerette, can be graceful if you put your mind to it. If you are not sure of yourself, practise in front of a mirror. You will rood so whether there is room for improve.

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