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Introducing

THE HONGKONG Telegraph, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1988.

CECILE LAVIGNE HAVE YOU FALSE

fashion expert

To-day Miss Lavigne takes you behind the scenes in the fashion parade, gives you the "low- down" on the people and circumstances that decide the style of your clothes.

✰ BENINGTON

fashion artist

BEFORE

TEETH?

Steradent 'STERADENT'

Prescribed by the Dental Pro

CLEANS-PURIFLES PALSE TEETH DENTAL PLATES

a

HAS MADE THIS CHANGE

FOR THOUSANDS

It will do the same for you

Exotic

these

Bowhyish

"lines,"

Look

for out sketched from left to right:

1. Bolero nit. 2 Reefer uit. 3 labı “. with print miærd-pleasing at back. 4. Shirred corset waist.

Prints

:

NE of the things which and so are pleated skirts

ONE

makes a fashion-writer

see red is to be asked by bolero suits .

a casual acquaintance, after she

has been to dozens and dozens

of dress shows, "What are the new styles like?" Film critics

倉

+

wickedly con-

trasting

colours

and the

feel this way, too, when, hot elaborate Victorian mode

from a week's picture preview-

ing, their wives say, as wives a month or so whether you have

do, "Let's go to a movie to- won.

night."

Here, in case you had wondered,

is where you and I really come into

For, in order to be able to tell you, this business. I do not refer to with authority, that suit coats have those

of you who buy original lengthened to below the hip-bene, models, you know all about it any-

11. skirls are that pleated

also way, but to the great army of women sills, lacey who are dependent, for their dress- prints, lingerie blouses, men's suit- ing, on the clothes in the shops,

stripes, spots, suralı

WHAT the buyers. go

for is, in the main,

ngs, corseletted dresses, off-shoulder American Influence evening gowns, hoop skirts, hour- gloss waists, and all the other things we have been shotting at you for the past few weeks, we have to sh on hard little chairs, day after day; and see hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of new models. Ribbed Weaves

HATING us almost as

what you and I are ultimately going to wear. Not just yet, but presently, when the models have been bought and delivered, copied, altered and adjusted, and made in their hundreds and sold to us, thank

price of the original.

heaven, at about one-tenth of the

are

Elaborale print frock, cut to the figure

untzial treat- ment of shoul-

dior-straps

Wor

with heavy bracelets and a spray of

flowers in the

hair..

season's hats are

Miss Benington has sketched to-day some of the "trends" deg- cribed by Cecile Lavigne -the new suits; back fullness frock; accen- and tuated waistline, one of the "Bali" print evering frocks.

· IN "

Glorify A Type'

MAINBOCHER,

who

makes a lot of the Duchess of Windsor's clothes, would not be human or the artis! he is if his collection generally did not glorify and enhance her type. I don't mean to say he doesn't do other clothes, and for every type of elegant woman. He does, few better. But the Duchess must be in his mind,

that. and the stiuation is

as the Mainbocher models are bought, copied, adapted, manufactured, more and more women are going to dress a little bit like the Duchess dresses,

Loes

A gentleman called Jean Schlum- berger made a sort of turbгn evening

jersey crossing on the shoe, and bandaging the fout, for

Mrs. Harrison Williams, a famous, white- haired, cat's-eyed American beauty. You can buy its twin in Bond-street to-day.

Splashy Prints

MOST important of all is the way contem- porary thought and events away and move the mode. The pictures In a big art exhibition lend their period lines: Juliana has kept rel- of portion of rich colours, fabrics and neck low before us, and tulips on our hats and dresses since the state of her Continuing this Iden, little dat romance.

nei sailors Victorian-have

veils English and American society reason tying and bunching down behind, ficcks to Ball these days. So English That is how it goes, one thing lead have splashy vivid Ball-ish prints

signers, and can spot a Marinell, a Some of this much as we are hat- ing them, mannequins sway by, Right now American women are Stiebel, a Peter Russell by this or frankly Foreign Legion; sort

topees with prolective flowing proud of their narrow bodies... enormously Influencing fashion. Since that individual touch.

on Paris

drapes, Walk, four steps to the right, smile, American buyers swoop walk, turn, four steps to the left, and London in great numbers and A Great. Help walk, smlle (if you can call it a with lots of dough. It is only natural that designers should dedicate quite smile).

lot of their art to creating the sort I beckon one nearer in order to

will of clothes that examine the familiar, yet unfamiliar, fubrie of her suit. I'm. Whipcord. W this Lots of it about

season, other ribbed weaves like it.

say

something

bi-colour autumn's

Remember when you first got your dentures? They were desh-pink, clean And wholesome, with lustrous, natural- looking teeth.

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jook

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CURRENT FASHION

LADIES' BLOUSES

IN A WIDE CHOICE OF SIZES BEAUTIFULLY EMBROIDERED

THE

we

of fleld

THERE is no

why the sweet to American buyers. This average woman should not knowing to another. Trains of Thought, for our slinkier evening gowns, gar- and explains the surging popularity of these things too. It is a great help you see, another game to play. Last land head-dresses. People go more schemes the and more to the country. Through- the bolero outfit, now at its peak, in good dressing. even if you only back of a dress blue, for instance, out the collections a favourite de- of the shirty type of dress nuti little dress at the guinea shops. Any the front,

red-has developed into coration is a large bunch Disdainfully, she submits to the jacket of the severely cut but gran- bookworm will tell you that a know- the really big news of this season, flowers. examination and I restrain the im- diosely ornamented dinner sult, of expe and understanding of the two fabrics allied in one dress. pulse to give a hearty smack to her the full, frothy evening dress. They classic helps your bread and butter

So it goes on. And how I run en, until I am suddenly pulled up short retreating back, remembering that are all calculated to go straight to reading.

by a dress which comes along and makes me and my colleagues go When the Buyers Game palls you

THERE are many other "Ah!" like you do at fireworks cán always work out why the de- signers are doing this and that.

reasons why the de- shows, because it is breath-taking Why, for instance, Is there such a signers are doing this and that. and utterly beautiful,

Victorian WHATEVER they ulti- strong

feeling running One day, one of them has a tue Detailed Notes mately pay for them, through the entire evening mode, in whimsy. Presently, women all over the thing of the moment to want to American women make it their some cases to the limit of crinolines, the land will be wearing the result

Schiaparelli, mittens, lace shawls, fans. Empress of

she,

and

too, must be tired of clothes, the heart and purse-of the Ameri- envying her that thirty-four can buyer.

hip. When you meet model girls off

duty, you will probably see them Origin of Clothes with untidy hair, careless shirts,

and chabby flannel ports the sort Gladys Cooper, loves to get around

in. This is not merely because it is

Get Away From It All, but just natural renction.

Spotting the Winners

And stic

COSTUME to make them

that

A Little Whimsy

Mme.

for WITH the

I others, pride and business to know about Eugenie evening hats? The answer example, has been to the circus.

feverishly make de the origin of their clothes. Far, far is the influence of the successful Consequently her new clothes have tailed notes, and think, with the more than we do.

play and film about Victoria.

clown-head buttons, merry-go-round others. "I must get that drawn Any American average woman can

and animal prints.

for my paper If only I can get la tell you, for instance, all about the A Word on Hats

I watched wonder-woman Chanel first." WHEN a few bad num- superb Schiaparelli type suits that

standing on the stairs, contemplating Somehow I sets us all to think bers go by, we whis- go on and on, only needing new

film

and her collection, and wearing, of all about ourselves and men and money fastenings

things, a sort of parlourmaid's block per weak wisecracks to each look this

and love and the life we might have She

stage successes knows that

en bow on top of her head. Yes, for had, or the life we are going to have, other, light a cigarette, think

influence our Molyneux is ace high, in cut and ormously

current daytime, and

It took Many of her very effective it was, and of the world going round. own dark thoughts. When you are style, especially for the over-thirties; styles. Not only successes.

mannequins

wore it, seeing clothes all the time, there are that Alix sculpts jersey into miracles us a long, long time to live down the too with day clothes. If it "takes," In other words, It makes us go few things as boring as bad clothes, of draped beauty; that Creed's tall flowing chiffon at the back of hals you will be seeing it around.

Or else, there is quite a nice little leurs are unbeatable; that Chanel's which followed Dietrich in "The

With a quick shock of remem- Then, again and again, you get game to play. I call it Spotting Isce evening gowns are simply too Garden of Allah." Indeed; we have the case of certain elegant, outstand. brance, we realise yel once again What The Buyers Will Go For. lovely to be true.

not yet lived it down. It has merely ing women influencing some particu- how terribly, vitally Important ¡Though is not very satisfactory at She is even beginning to learn turned a corner, and done something lar designer, with heaven only knows clothes are in what to so quaintly

the time, because you can't tell for the characteristics of the London de- a little different.

what wide-reaching effects on us all. called The Scheme of Things

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