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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE FOR OFFICE WORKERS!

VERONICA PAPWORTH

Just a little blue pill-but how I

floated through the Customs!

TRY

as I will, I cannot preserve that nonchalant, "just waiting for a passing bus” exterior that every other airline passenger presents. What is more, I have only to set foot in an air terminal and the cool, take-it-or-leave-it cry goes out: "BEA re- gret to announce a delay of X hours in the departure of their flight to so and so."

"Owing to the presence of a certain Miss Papworth which is guaranteed to gum up any given schedule," they do not add. But I know.

It happened again last month. So what to do with an odd hour at Le Bourget? I had swallowed the peacock-blue "confidence pill" pressed upon me by travel-wise friends in Paris. Since there was no getting it back, I certainly hoped the effects they had described--"disembodied and utterly carefree"-might see me through.

What, meanwhile, was every other passenger doing?

The way to look smart in shirt-sleeves

UIE problem of how te

Tok rully well-turned-

cut in shirt-sleeves has been very neatly solved by young David Riche, rising hair

of stylist son father.

"I had to be free from the

Croissants In

A buying fever seemingly grips many delayed travellers,

for handfuls of odd quanlity are consumed. Pockets are turned inside out tranes to be exchanged for tancy key rings, dolls In national costume, or per- time.

With the rest I went shopping-settling finally for brandy in a tall bottle: curved, it was, as if for some elephantlar hip pocket.

I could scarcely elose my bag upon it and it weighed a ton,

For from "relaxed and care- free," I boarded the plane.

I was only as we tightened our sent bells för arrival and I happily looped mine, through that of the chap in the next seat that a great ware of con- fidence swept over me.

Toated In n nebeoclt-blue pill-haze. My finger tips were iniles away and my legs went on for ever.

Eight feet Fall and grinning from ear to ear. I driford through to the Customs where I languidly admitted to owning "some brandy.

"A half bottle or a whole one, madam?"

"Oh. "a half-l′ think. Us Curved."

J

"Curved, madam? What did you pay for it?"

RANG TRUE

Relaxed, legless and utterly bank minded, I opened my mouth anci out popped the words: "I don't know. It was

present." As soon as I heard them they rang true,

my

In u Rashback 1 saw famous

Cragite. silver-haired godfather (the Comte)"Take this bottle, to sustain you on child, wur perilous journey.

Or was it my distracted admirer who had presented it? "Darleeng, dronka toast to the memory of our 'uppiness together."

restrictions of a jacket -- but customers won't stand for the unditessed look of a shirt in Mayfair," he explained,

"A pullover was out of the question, and a waistcoat Ine

square for my king. So

vented my Woister"," He now has half a dozen fuvented my 'waister' in various chevig and stripes.

Or could be some sinister stranger had forced it upon me? "A man in a homburg hat and tan kid gloves will contact yal on arrival".. and the whole bottle. for sure, would be From these selected and jam-packed with opium. Sketched (above) a black and The Customs man sült faced white houndstooth check with me patiently-"A present?" he Aller buttons.

Seems

prompted. "May I see it?" 1u JU there's *smarter than the average oflies worker" idea rere.

A pleasure

IT is always a pleasure to loss

out a big bouquet of praise particularly when the praise has a "three cheers for US" ring.

A

I hauled it from my handbag and laid it on the counter.

This is a whol bultle, and you must pay duty on half. That will be 14. Od." suid he.

'A PRESENT'

The live haze was clearing

Therefore I delight in con- rapidly. I had Ked To the gratulating our ton accessory Customst designers in being no absolutely "Actually it was bongo and three weeks before Paris,

In particular, my praise for!--

✩ AAGE

THAARUP, Who

ΠΗ

showed

his bathing cap" hats, saying: "I may be a scaton loo soon, but they are a coming tasblon. I am certain of JL."

who

0 present

frin me to ME." I told him

Armly. "With my spare francs

I didn't want key-ring."

for

TOP RIGHT: A trio of

"favourites"]]

FOSO

pink siubbed silk, with pockets; Dorian Leigh wearing apricot shan- Hung, and Pierre Cardin's pleated white

crepo.

Dorion at ease in a

pleated

skirt set on a bodice and a matching

white over-blouse in tangerine and

patterned tio silk.

AT LAST-THE END OF

and out

THE SAD SACK

har

bou ece. To cheer me up be- WHAT with Me Hardy Amies She does.

saw it in a magazine and cause was so frightened

For taking an active Intoreet in સ્વ.

experience ranges wont daching off to order it.

Her eldest "it's not intended for mater- maternity active in the sense, over many years. "Quite," said e. "And the that he is designing a collection child in a son of 23, her youngest nity, but it could hardly be bet

tered. duty on half will be 148. 9d."

mothers-in-waiting -- and rising five. "I know.

*His last season's suite too. I don't care about Princess Margaret looking. Do

Barling around her long gray: Divine! I've a pink ons that is the money. It's just that Travishingly pretty as she fits and green drawing-room which want to confers. Nobody

of theatrical alves on to a cool, leafy court.

quite perfect. It even has A Bane in it to me. I bought it,"

Elda entrances, maternity is in yard in the heart of Paris, the wrap-around skirt, it's this loose "Madam," said the Custom: the news.

sipped a stiff gin and tonie ( look, of course. man patiently, "if General de The death knell has sound like gin. One of my husbands Gaulle and the Aga Khan haded for the expectant mother's sad

who un italian. The ghastly mix. clubbed ty to pay for it, the ROK,

tures they drink!"), posed for a duty would still be 14s. Od." What is to tako its place? moment to be sketched in her

"Thank you,"

said I as I

There is

scope, there pleated skirt and, foses top, ex- pald up. "And a very good interest, there CALMAN LINKS, who evening to you."

galore. The thing I What do in alx weeks and deplored the sketched a trio of her favourites

are customers, plained that her now baby is due pleased he wasn't,”

1 said that I could indeed and forecast a senson of fur 1 fooked back as I reached the customers want?

averags maternity outfit. troupers hats and "astonishing the exit, amounts of fox,"

EDWARD RAYNE,

displayed his modified square toes, predicting: "All the warm brown tones from a dark golden shade to the colour of black coffee - especially brown patent,"

Out of the squiggies that cover

He was eyeing me cautious- ly, and I don't blame him.

the pages of my Purts notebookc The peacock-blue mis had

I have been talking to Bury Parker's sister, Dorian Leigh

"Why are they always, 90- dark? Black lo ad alimming,', everybody saya,

wild and wilful beauty who, with four husbands and five pro **111*0 right for A 10xy

four words are persistently vanished and my legs had gnancies to her credit (debit?), cocktail dress, but otherwise it's discernible. They are "bathing returned.

caps," "brown" and "fux."

Smart work, boys,

might well be expected to held the most depressing.

felt five foot four again very strong views on the subject."All my dreace at the moment

and rather dizzy.

of maternity clothes,

A room at the top

THIS bright idea for a "spars room"

In his one-bedroom town Nat wAR. thought up by Peter Saunders- tweed designer and ex-Gardonstoun boy whose fellow puoli Prince Philip sometimes, eports his more notourful creations,

Along one side of his bathroom runs a big, búflt-in wardrobe with gold and white painted panela

On the top of the cupboard he has contrived an apartmant de luxe for one, The mattress hua hàệŋ baxed in to it and there is a hook-on jadder that, folds away when not needed.

Up on top in everything to keep = guest content reading light,, radio, telephone, bookshelf, and a bell to rings for early morning tex.

What happens when the Qounders want to use the batht

quite forgot to ask.

are platal — lamon, pinki pste: batge, white, 1 borrowed a couple from Buzy tog and my favourite sun-dreas made from a sheet with scariot bindings.

"No. I'm not particularly crazy about dress-making, but 1 rarely find what I want and I can make anything. My rish friende are flabbergasted they can marcely thread a needl but i came from the Deep South, remember, Down Bouth every girl taught to cook and new.

"Thla sun-dresa tise with bbw

shoulder. on each

Maternity dress 1st bang from the shoulders. Designers seam. In- capable of imagining the agony of anything tight round wida bit. And I da love daring necklines. One's shouldera and, borom are at their, bunt: during; pregnanay.

New my other white drawn Je from Platra: Cacitin's inei.acti faction.......... White loropsi

"What a year for mothers. "I told Pierre: Your clothes are marvellous for having babies (n."

Imagine

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