THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1961..
WOMANSENSE
FASHION
London.
FASHION is a good servant but a perfectly beastly master: that's the bitter lesson British shoe firms are learning this spring.
As long as pointed toes were in, they were only too happy to promote them as top fashion news. (One ad I saw last week was still sunnily proclaiming the new pointed toe) Now a new craze has sneaked up behind them and dolted them one over the head: and they don't like fashion any more.
Suddenly, their shops are filled with women demanding square-toed shoes; and most of them are abliged to admit that they just don't
BARBARA
GRIGGS reporting...
Ever tried
to buy a
square toe?
Burratis hastily ordered sup- yours?" I
ile samples to their
might have come
Second
plies from Italy: und displayed home with that mink after all. interesting.
mouth- have watering customers i neual A SALON WITH
any. (Meanwhile, at Charles supplies arrived. Jourdan in Bond-street Rape, who designed square- where the rush started back toed shoes for Gertrude Lag- '30's, have their in December, it's standing reret the
on design all ready-supplies room only, so muy tomers are queuing up for vanish as fast as they arrive. them.)
eus-
But behind the sinooth facade of "I'm afraid we have no de- mand for them, madam," frantie behind-the-scenes acuvity 3 going on.
Trouble in, for a long time most shoe firms blandly refused
to belleve that square-toes were anything more than a passing gimmick; by the time they came to, precious months had ticked away,
LONG QUEUE
ND, since top manufacturers, almost without exception, 10 to the same f
of last- mmakers, the queue for the new wooden lasts they need before
Inclories can
start their own turning out more square toes, is lenghieng, and jittery,
Saxone ordered their lasts last November: and they have
And Lilley and Skinner, who were reduced, Ike many shoe firma to digging out square-toed sports shoes (not quite the sams thing) and displaying Then under banner headlines, have matie sure of a good supply as the entral feature of the new
open in Knight store they bridge this week.
ONLY PAIR
DUT if you want them, you'd B
better be outside the door when it opens. Because it looks like being menths before there are enough square-toed shoes in Hraund
J.
WOTC
in
P.S.- 's any consolation the Lendun-bought square toes that
New Yurk pair 1 saw all were the only the time I was there. And if 1 had a dollar for every time envicus woman a.ked,
a
six styles in stock at present. "WHERE can I buy shoes like
A DIFFERENCE
A
COUTURE salon with a difference opened lust week in Mayfair.
and
much more
It keeps prices Lower, provided the material for the criginal collection one a couture house's biggest expenses.
s
M. Brines, who worked with Digby Morion for 17 years 11 the house was closed in 1957, has worked in between for wholesale house, but missed the personal contact with clients.
Incidentally, he may have started something. The models. in these striking cream outẞly,
straw hats with burnt coral and gold jewellery, were a very cool sight Indeed.
and
Couturier Roger Brines, starting with a small collec- or 20 tion of about 15 models (he plans to add in from time to time) and 11 And the curtains, made just pretty, flared look, showed for the opening them all made up in dress- fabric, are an iden I intend to
for copy at once maker's toile a rough fat.
cream-coloured instead of the beautiful wools silks,
fabric customary and rich
This, explains M. Brines, has two advantages from the cus tomer's point of view.
First, it's easier for them to decide on the colour and fabric they want for themselves when they're not being influenced by
velvet of the the rich plum original.
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Knarf's Indoor Walk
-It Takes Him All Through The House-
By MAX TRELL
nosť
STANDING by the window
with his
pressed agalust the glass, Knorf watch- ed the rain come down.
The drops ran down the win-
winding dowpane in
rivers. They fell in the street, 'They fell on the lamp posts. They fell on umbrellas and slid off the sides.
They fell and they fell, and when they got through falling more of them came and fell and fell. There were puddles of them.
He'll take a walk "I'm going to take a walks," sald Knart to himself as he stood by the window. But he must have said those words aloud because Dunkel, the Poodle, pricked up her cars ond said:
"What!"
It sounded like a bark.
dage. Alphonse and Suzanne didn't dare to jump out of their
tank.
Then Knort walked around the room.
Dunkel walked by his side. She looked up. She looked down, She sniffed. She barked.
The Cat lifted her feet dell- cately as though she were walk- ing on eggs. She didn't make sound. She was purring, But Khart couldn't hear her,
the
Passed geranium Knart walked past geranium standing in its red clay pot. He nodded and said: "Good morning, Gerry! How do you feel this morning?"
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"Take a walk with me, old Grandfather Clock," said Kaari
smiled with its face and waved with its hands.
Then Kharf walked through the kitchen.
in the same
my
own
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February 10): Swallow your prido and patch up your quarrel with a rela- tive before the rest of the family start taking aides. PISCES (February 20-March 20) A proposition with which you will be approach- ed will have decided appeal for you, and if you can apare the time and money, give it a try. ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Do your best to finish an irksome job today, no mat- ter how much time you may have to divert from other activities.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don't neglect to get in Lonch with a distant friend who may bo waiting anxlounly to hear from you. GEMINI (May 21-June 21);
An influential relative will' have a change of heart, and if you take advantage of It, your long delayed hopes may soon materialise. CANCER (June 22-July 21);
A remark casually over- itcard will put you on the track of an old friend whose whereabouts you have been vainly trying to locate.
(July 22-August 21): slight argument could develop into П
unless you
right up with dummy's king. but no one can blame South for LEO ploying a low
spade from
A Dummy. Fred docsn't blame him for that, but he points out that South played the wrong low spade. He played the Ave spot!
East thought a long time and | Anally went up with the queen of spades. When 11 held the trick, he returned the suit and South was down one.
Fred points out that South should have played dummy's eight. East might still have
quarrel,
serious curb your tendency to use harsh words. VIRGO
(August 22. September 22): An Idea which you
had abandoned
as hopeless may crop up again, and this timo you have a better chance of making it work.
gone up with the queen, butLIBRA (September 23. the chances are that East would have reasoned that South held something like ace-deuce, not jack-deuce of spades and that the nine spot would be his best play.
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broderie white anglaise slippers from Dolcis.
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GRES planned. Blithely dis- how to regarding the white make a dramatic en- fox-and-dazzling even- Nervous about this trance. This French ing dress tradition, get-up' for mingling in girl, who at 22, with Marie-Liso has settled the crush bar with the her willowy shape and on a pair of slinky tiaras and rhinestones? amusing Left Bank trews and matching "Not a bit,” says Marie- looks is a current pho. shirt made of very cool Lise. "I know what I tographer's dream, has white lace-an O'Keef- like and one of the her next entrance — a fe outfit bought last things I DON'T like is film premiere already summer before she formal evening dress."
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MEN ARE GETTING FASHION CONSCIOUS
A
London.
man can dress like the City gent with his pinstripe suit and bowler. Or he might dress more like the teddy boy.
But they're both individuals and they will both be borrowing, this season, an idea from women's fashion-the Continental influence in knit-
wear.
These
will
by Jean Wiseman
ing In and model.
ст-
And the Cat, napping in the ing Cinderella! Good morning Sink! Hello, Scap! Hello, Po's high necklines-which dispense with the need for ting will include fine flecks of gold! which includes filted waistles!
corner, sal up and said:
"What?"
And the geranium waved the ends of its leaves and nodded
Greets everyone
With their chunky-knit wool sweaters it seems & Co Ltd) is following suit with its red blossom.
Then Knart walked past the and Forks and Spoons and Nap be popular this summer-with every sign that greens, sults will be popular again. "Hells, Slove! Hello, Kalves nothing can be too bold or too bright. Purple is going to men's wear, and it has some in- terceting predictions, Two-piece
Finally, a Gerinan frm sell- bookcase, He smiled at the ins and Salt and Pepper and
Landon (Odermark books on the shelves.
be in deep olive, Plates and Glasses! Hello, Cups: browns and bronzes will come along later.
from Suilwell) "Good morning, Mother
Hello, Saucers! Hello, Hot Men will carry these colours in plain-backel sweaters bronze green, dark blue,
the tapered look, Goose!" he said, "Good morn-
Waler and Cold Water! Hello, with striped sleeves, fronts and inset panels, and new brown/black, and cloth patterns phasises Alice In Wonderland, and Heldi,
There will be plenty of checks, and jacket vents, and gives a (Bairnswear and Rothesay Knitwear).
over-checks and stripes. Solid general slim appearance to the and Little Bo Peep, and Jack and Pans! Hello, lecbox Hells, Broom! I'm taking a walk. And
wool Scotch
tweeds (also wearer. Even men's dresskick Spratt!
"Good morning. Jack In The Dunkel, and the Cat are walk-
Casual wear one of the most Quite a few Continental firms checked) will be prominent in gowns are shorter, They are Beanstalk! Good morning, Snow
ing with me, and so may you!" widely differing items of male now have London ofllees and overcoats, too. So will West of entering the fashion feld La
They all wished Knart and attire in recent years will one of the biggest from White!! Good incrning.
Italy England wool Вагом
tweeds and plain and brushed wools, Dunkel and the Cat very ring slacks
Finanziario without turn-ups (Gruppo Munchausen! Good
Tessile) degtooth-patterned cloths. Con- morning,
ст checked
striped fabrics, Bul none of
In most cases, and these, too, has both original and conserva- struction and materints will (Owen Green), Sinbad the Sailor, and Aladdin pleasant walk.
them could go, although the will reflect Continental In live wool clothes for men. One make sulls at least two ounces cold water tried and splashed uener. One Arm is offering of its idens Is the plain wool lighter, and a member of the Cowardly Lion!"**
There unexpected signs of out of the sink, and the frying slacks in Italian checked wool shortle' coat. This can have arm tells me: "Topcoats will fashion-consciousness And from the bookcase came
pon tried and banged against fabiles, or in British printed gaily-striped wool Ining. also have less fullness in the men should be encouraged by a chorus of volces,
wool fabrics a190 featuring other is a wool ‘autocoal which skirt to give a slimmer line." "Good moming Knart! Have the wall.
cheeks. The sincks will be un-zipa at both sides, thereby
where. It will make us alt tapered climiy. (S. Cnakel Ltd), giving
room for casy, If that doesn't sound like
feel that it's really worth while comfortable driving.
line from a woman's magazine, dressing up-even for the most
ensual occasion.
It sounded like a mew. And the Cuckoo in the clock looked out, and the Canary in Els enge peered out, kad Al- Two phonse and Suzanne, the Goldfish, stared out of the win- dow of their water-house, and Good morning Scarecrow and they all said:
"What?"
Many sounds
It sounded like whistles
chirps and glubs.
and
a pleasant walk!"
Knorf (urned around and smiled. He smiled at Dunkel, and al the Cal, and at the
to the
Then Knarf walked door of the room and opened
"Good moming, Door!" sald
u walk?"
Cuckoo, and at the Canary, and Knarf, "Would you like to take
1 Alphonse and Suzanne.
"But," he said, still smiling. "I'm not going out in the rain!" "Oh!" ad everybody, bark- ing and mewing and whistling and chirping and glubbing togelber.
All
No." cald Knarf. "I'm going
to walk right here, right in my house. Because a walk is a wall
Tablo can't wolk
"I can open and I can shut. But I can't take n walk," creaked the door.
Then Knart and Dunkel the Cat walked through the hall. Knarf looked into a closet,
Invites shoes
"Good morning, Shoes, Won't you come for n walk?"
"We can't walk without feel," replied the lett ahee and the right shoe.
"Good morning
Party pants
ww
extra
An-
Ir women ever doubled that I don't know what does! inen had such things as fashion trends take a look at men's ' Men who take their cowboy-viewing seriously
coals. Not those of people who may wear black to offset the grime soon be sporting western slack of suburban line trains, but
from made
checked wool
Ellis quite happily. there who face the dry-cleaning
Overcoal!" travelling rugs! They're calle gold Knarf. "Good morning,barbecue party pants. But, more seriously, the firm fea- next room.
Then Koort walked into the Hot! I'm taking a walk!"
"Good morning, Knarf," said turing these also shows slacks In many other materials, and "Hello, Table: Hello, Chairs! the overcoal, and it bowed.
"Good morning, nart," said notably in croft wool doeskin In olive green, sand, or brown.
(M. Beckman (Embee) Ltd),
no matter where you walk," Would you like to take a walk the Hat, and it Upped.
Then he asked: "Who wants to walk with me?"
Dunkel wants to go
"I do!" barked Dunkel, spring- Ing to her feet and wagging hor tall,
around the house?" he invited.
The table answered;
"I've got good strong lepi. But I can't walk,"
A chair answered: "I'm always standing others are sitting. walk,"
Through the houso
Most
Tapered 'look
are
men's overconta
and short now
even the con- As a guide to what the well- ventional double-breasted city All through the house walked
dressed man should wear dur coals have lost an inch or two Kaarf and Dunkel, the Poodle: Ing the summer,
One of the ene Regent ll the hemlines. and the Cat. Knarf greeted Street Arm (Hector Powe) has guest "shortio conta have while everyone and everyone greeted sports jackets with the new reen is in off-white and ginger Bul I can't Knarf.
'natural' shoulderline. These brown dogtooth cattered "Good morning, Bell," cald also have slightly wider lapels lambswool. It is entirely hand-
and Then Knart sold to the old Knarf when he reached the end
single-breasted of the hall. And the bell was Gndfather's clock:
bulton fastenings,
stitched. (Chester Barrio) (which are "Take a walk with me, old so happy that Il rung.
also to be seen in lounge suits And that was the inside-walk for next nutumn). An exclu- long been n feature of London
'Shops within shops' and Alphonse Grandfather'a elcek."
Knart icok with his ive line of This house is a and Suzanne. Only nono
"I can run," replied the old that
clock,
friends Dunicel and the Cat be-boucle wool "bul
Jacket made in stores, but these have invariably them could go. Mrs Cuckoo Grandfather's
blue/black
wehr only, women's cause the outside-walk was too olive/black,
and stocked couldn't leave her clock. Enrico can't walk, Thaile you for ask-
brown/black.
Now a Leeds firm Joseph May Canary couldn't yet out of his Ing me." And the old clock crowded with raindrops.
"I do" mewed the Cat, suw- ly stretching herself and yown-
"To!" pald Mrs Cuckoo, and Forico Canary,
of
I
three-
hove
among
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position may not improve to any great extent in the coming year, you will be able to indulge in an addi- tional luxury 3:01 have -long-craved;
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Rupert and the Paper-fall-20
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