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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

"I'm A Woman With Nothing To Wear"

MADAME SCHIAPARELLI, WORLD FASHION DICTATOR, WAS HATLESS WHEN SEEN RECENTLY IN PARK-LANE.

"It's the same old story,"troducing a few sensniional modela, "I myself have been guilty of in- she explained, waving her but I have only done it for fun." hands in despair. "Just met a customer who took a great fancy to my hat, and she insisted on buying it off my hend there and then.

"I'm always in the same predicament. Can't wear Auit for five minutes without someone wanting it off my back. I'm really д woman who's got no- ing to wear."

Dark, slender, petite Mme. Schla- parelli came over from Paris to London to get busy on Ascot crea- Hons

With her insistence on, sophisti- cated simplicity in woman's clothes she is orrified by the present-day trend.

"There could be nothing more absurdly impossible than the crinoline revival. You can't get in a taxi. Join in a dance, or sit down in a theatre stall without making yourself and everybody clat uncomfortabic, "Never have I known barly dressed," she said,

women sa

"As for those-what d'you call them?--peeping petticoats, It's per- fectly rulous to see a woman of | forty or even thirty parading in them.

In France absurdities.

you never sec these

CRISIS FREAKS "Now, ale madness, A ilitie extravagance may be forgiven when it comes to hata. But here extrava- gunce has gone to sheer ugliness these terrible 'stovepipes, the yards of veil, the clash of discordant colours.

Daughter of an Italian professor,

Mme. Schiaparelli studied philosophy and later look up a career in Paris designer by accident.

as a sculptress. She became a dress

"It happened that I couldn't find the kind of knitted sweaters I wanical. she explained, so I started to design my own.

"My friends liked them... To- day I employ nearly 1,000 people in Paris and London. No, I have made no fortune. There's

money in dress designing these daya."!

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Peer Was "Tried" For Irish Rising

Vikcount Wimborne, one-time Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who in 1016 wos nequitted by a Royal Com- mission of responsibility for the Irish Rebellion, dled recently at Wimborne House, Piccadilly, W. He was 00.

The Hon. Ivor Guest, M.P. for Brecon and Radnor, his only son, succeeds to the title, thus causing s [by-election.

Figures at, the general election in 1935 were: The Hon. Ivor Guest (Cons), 22,079; Dr. L. Haden Guest (So.), 10,010; Conservative majority, 2,160.

SENSATIONAL CASE

Ivor Churchill Guest, Brst Viscount Winborne, was known as the "Un- lucky Viceroy." After 11 strenuous months in Ireland be announced is resignation in the House of Lords, saying "My political position "la im- possible."

"After ten years in this dress- A month later he was reappointed

designing business I have come to after the Royal Commission on the the conclusion that women, with few Irish Rebellion announced their, And- exceptions, have no taste. no clothes- Ings, and he was Lord Lieutenant sen:c. Perhaps that is why most of junil 1018,

our dress designers are men.

Three years ago he figured in a "Perhaps it's the International sensational £2,000-a-day company tension that has given us such ease. strident, rapidly changing fashions.

"But, crisis or no crisis, women must be taught that they can only achieve smartness by shin- pilcity, nai by the sensational and Que exotic and the freakish.

Dead Giveaways

After nearly a month, he and the Hon. Ivor Guest were found not Ilubie for losses of £409,000 suffered by on automatie machine .company et which they were directors, with |coșts against the companies involved.

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