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Length
height to No. 1 (short, thin), No. 1 (sporl model)....
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Anne Edwards
explaining here the Robb Silhouettes in action
HRISTIAN DIOR'S latest fashion child- the Tie-On Apron-in time to give the Robb Silhouettes their first test.
The purpose of the apron style is to turn one frock
the The purpose of
Robb Into several fashions. Silhouettes la to show how any one fashion can be adapted to suit a number of Agures.
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First THE FASHION: The original Dior apron is in plaid taffeln, has the bunchy hip and small waistline that he first måde popular and looks best on the slender mannequin Agure.
Now, THE SILHOUETTE: 1f you have not already done so, choose from the nine silhouettes at the top of the page, the one which most nearly represents your Agure. Silhouettes 2, 5, and 8 are model sizes, and the other numbers are two varlants in each of the three height groups.
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You en wear the apron in its original version (the large Robb sketch on the left), if you are Sirouette 1 Model), 7 (Tall, (Simali, Thin), 5 (Medium height, Thin) & (Tall, Model).
For those with leas perfect measurements. Robb's smaller figures show four veralors fashion each one specially to a different figure type.
Frilly pina fore jelps thinness on No. 1 (short, thini, No. (medium. modely.
No Need to Have Sore Feet
When buying stockings, make sure they are long enough or toes wil curl up and rub on shoes.
By HELEN FOLLETT
[Ein girl is going to make progress The answer to all these ills is not along the beauty way, she must to dispense with high heels, sinco
the
And have her feet in
requirements of fashion good condition.
good looks make any such solution Feminine feet Lake a lot of punish Impossible. The answer is rather ment, and it is not to the credit of biot to wear high heels all the time. imembers of the frail sex thai But avoid a sudden shift 'to' stais. they don't take better care of their Such inove would cause a violent stretching of the muscles of the calves with unpleasant results.
the
trotters.
A recent poll, revealed that one out of every three individuals con- fesses that she suffers from hurting feet. Pretty silly, considering that podiatrists and chiropodists Inform us that there is no need for most of the discomfort that exista,
One reason for twinges:
women do not wear heels of the right height. The forward thrust of Cx-
of the
adapted
Cartwhat pink straw mode with a bright green scarf.
Paris plumps for close-fit hats, turn-up
brims
Mang-blue straw, while ploaded chifon,
Spring fashions are more feminine: Skirts may be
slightly shorter
From ISABEL COTTON
HILE
ing
signera now-old
PARIS.
last year the lead- Paris fashion de- tho concentrated on
"New Look" and the
sensational, this year they aro concerned with refinement of line, cut, and colouring.
On the whole the Spring fashions are more feminine, mare in keeping with the times-and younger.
Jackets or lafor-mades are alight- ly longer with hip-in waists
and sometimes slightly flared basques.
Pockets accentuate the bip-line. Large
really pockets, sometimes
nf enormous, decorate the length the Jacket. There are long, curving collars revers, also funnel-shaped and always the sloping shoulder- jine,
Grey seems to be the most popu Haven- lar colour for day sults worn with
all-white hats and gloves. and navy blue are the colours for
Black
-WITH DINNER Skirls remain very much the same
length,
or If anything slightly INING In the same restaurant shorter. Mostly they are slim and D'in werk were three celebrities:
ittle fulness straight. Some show Orson Welles with a pretty girl-at the back. Bonar Colleano's wife, Tamara Lees; the Marquis of Milford without a pretty young girl; Noel Coward--notably effusive in his greetlust to Orson Welles which was not so effusively acknowledged.
Coward's comment to Joyce Carey, sitting next to him. on a fellow diner's headscarf: "My dear, fancy coming into a West End restaurant with a shawl wrapped round your head."
novellst
Since the diners included Walter Crisham and friend: Hermione Gingold; Alec Guinness, and Graham Payne the dinner-table cracks catne lust and slick,
"My dear, with all that hair you ought to wear a hat."....
"Don't you think Margaret's pal Rul beauty ought to be painted?" "Oh I do. But what colour?".....
"Darling. ! love your short cut.
look ten. It makes you younger!
"You'd think with £30,000 a year he could afford more than a ten per cent tip."....
cars
"My dear, you're so lucky not to know what it's itke to be really at tractive to nien.".
GAS-RING
AS-RING
to
more formal sults, and tartan for sports wenr.
Blouses pre very plain, generally in wool or silk, jersey cut, and with pastel a high neck line in a pale yellow or pink,
accord
COLOURS USED
Large brown
straw, trimmed with white muslin.
There are some sensational even- ing dresses In most beautiful material and lovely soft colourings, mostly cyclamen pink, pale bois de rose, mauve, silver-grey and gold. A few have fantastic embroideries and applique lace.
Over many are worn long, stiffen- ed satin fallile and sometimes chit- fon evening conts.. Others are worn with 1afetu stoles in brighter con- trasting colours. Many of the even- ing dresses are shorter in the front, houses extraordinary
In
some
materials are used for evening dresses. Sacking, Jute, and hemp embroidered with gold sequins, coloured stone, straw, roma, glass, and nut and almond shells.
Day dresses are slim and straight with backs which give a rounder line, tight fitted corsages with open fitted revers and cuffs. These dresses are accompanied by bl Joose ccats or short loose jackets,
All dresses and conts have the kimono sleeve more or less tight according to the fulness the de- signer desires to give to the bodice, Black, navy blue, some greys, and beiges with a note of while, yellow, or pink are the colours used.
shows a new scarf Jean Desses dress. The scarf is attached to the the and wrapped around dress bodice or worn as a stole.
Some houses advocate
straight the Jacques-Fath.brings crow fronts with fuincus at fulness forward on spiral mave- ment.
STIFF SILKS
MOST POPULAR
For 'the warmer summer days shuntung will be the most popular material. There are some VETY benutiful ensembles in black linen, and many of white linen dresses to be worn under black linen coals.
For bench wear the shorts are shown under very full and draped printed cotton skirts er nu overall type dress in bright linen.
Hats are mostly emali, closely fit- ting the head, with small brims up in the front and down at the back. Straw of fine texture is used, and svine of the new straws have a silky the-uppearance.
of
Beautiful afternoon and cocktail girl will be glad
mostly In stiff silks know of a new Hadget-com-cusembles are bined gas-ring and grill-that does such as faille, thick taffeta, tie-silk bacon, tomato, toast, and coffee all material, and furah sillt. Most
those are in black. There are a few at once. Price: £3 10s.
in navy blue or grey.
There are very few prints. and those I have seen ure mostly In
I
ON MY CUFF
SAW: The first all-bride dress shów. A firm which is making direct
couturiers' copies of Paris wedding gowns offers un Empire line copy of a Balmeln wedding gown for 11 gulneas....
A NEW waterproof paper for cooking several different foods nt the same time. Put the food in the paper, tie up the four corners, and drop into the pan of water. Roch food cooks In its own juice, and the favours don't mix-even if one is fish. Price: Five for is.....
PLASTIC MILK belle tops to re- place the tinfoil ones that crumple when they're removed....
PACKABLE unbrellas-the stick unscrews to pack alongside the shaft....
BOW-TIE pearl chokers that the loosely In front, and thin glass bracelets up to 20 on one, krim..
THAT THING CALLED-
PEOPLE
.:-
will say you're in love
trunk call HE puts through i
IL after 0.30 p.m..... orders you second plate of oysters Benda postcards cables instead, of picture
suddenly falls tor Moonlight wants to alt cut every dance exaspt. "There Ought To Be A ...rings up to say there's Society" nothing to say.... goes with you to intellectuni fitms instead of Betty Grable.
At no time are sloppy, flat, house slippers to be recommended. The best shoes for maintaining good Sinater posture and food health
are all- leather oxfords with one and one- half inch heels and with feather soles to provide suficient support for the foot together with the flexibility its natural movements require.
Stockings that are too short can also cause sore feel. Buy them long enough so toes won't be cramped and rub on the top of your shoe.
SHE says, "Let's go by bus".... worries whether he is cating too much starch....asks his mother for a snap of him as a baby....laughs uproariously at any joke of his about an Englishman, an Irishman,
treme spikes car' do dreadful things to feet and posture. It may cramp the big toe, cnuse calluses, 'corns The average individual walks and'n Russian,...accepts his invita- and Ingrowing nails that are enough 70,000 miles during a lifetime! Wotion to wet walks on Sundays...
to drive a woman crazy with pain. It throws the body forward at an abnormal angle, has a deplorable effect upon the spine.
wonder whoever figured that out, does his queueing in her lunch but there it is! If your feet hurt, you hour....s genuinely pleased to get probably feel that every step you his photo as her only birthday pre- take is the last one.
sent.
Paisley design.
Leather is also used for day wear. Trimmings arc simpler mostly ribbon, chiffon, ond pompens. Not so many flowers or feathers, and when they are used they are put at on the hat to keep the small- hend effect.
The all-white hat looks like be- ing popular this spring, but hats have also all the colours of autumn leaves from yellow to light___coppers and the light pinky brown known as Inca.
SLEEKNESS FOR EVENING.
THE TUNIC and the draped halter neckline are two fashion accents for evening which it is worth remembering. Here is a dress by Mary Black for the woman who likes look clothes. The slim skirt is accentuated by the wide, flared tanks, which is finely embroider- ed, while the draped bodice to cary to wear and very becoming.
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