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COTTON CREPE

“VAN HEUSENTM

COLLARITE SHIRTS

WITH LONG OR SHORT SLEEVES IN FOUR ATTRACTIVE COLOURS. TOGETHER WITH SOME IDEAS IN TIES, THEY ARE NOW ON SHOW

AT

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13, CHATER ROAD

(Between Moutrie's and Kelly & Walsh's)

Revlon introduces

a

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WITH

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AND

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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

SPRING COMES TO PARIS She's lovely

Gardaty

Ras

The girl on the left wears a chunky black and white checked jacket over a fight black skirt, with huge floppy arilal's bow at the neck, and plain black beret. Next to her, the girl in the side-dipping straw lust wears a belted mult, the front of the basque alightly higher than the back. She'ls with a child whose long hair is looped back on her head, and whose suit la lemon and royal-blue.. A plain checked swazzer coat is next to be noticed, worn with thick brown and white shoes and heavy short socks. The girl watching her friend pick a book from an open-air stall on the Qust is wearing a short full coat with deep cowled hood, In navy and while tiny check, faced with while.

HAND-KNITTED HAVE COME

INT

DRESSES

BACK

by EILEEN ASCROFT

Skull caps are made of cardinal red satin, short cassock coats of violet velvet.

INTERESTING new fashion prelate's ring.

revival is the hand knitted suit and dress. The Americans are particularly enamoured of these smart, hard-wearing, Cosy gar ments, und are buying

Paris eagerly from London.

comes

Lingerie designer Then Tewi revolutionises aleeping wear with her new Bree-zee. Sleveless, it In one size to fit any figure. "Breakfast Skirts which tie on and the glant petal aprons, make

glamorous morning ensembles.

Walter Fiorell's spring hata sprout fruit and vegetables ax and even headlights. gas

illustrated seed

In Paris Madame Anny Blat! uses hundreds of home knitters to turn out replicas

of her brightly

spring collection. In addition to catalogues. A gay carrot perches dresses for on the brim of a straw brald sun tailored suits and summer, the

Includes many hot helmet (made incidentally of weather models in a gossamer feathers) and a downy peach lace design delicately backed decorates a burat milan roller:: with chiffon or not.

She reports that suits are top favourites with New Yorkers, then tailored dresses.

Best-hatted 12 in U.S.A.

with black

are:

bows.

QWEETHEART- Saulers In London Madame Made- favourites In New York, feine's sprint collection includes with heart-shaped brims. authentic tarian knitted sulls, Ruddy cocoa straw is some- beautiful pleated skirts and thing new, used for tiny bonnets Jackets in tweed reproductions scattered ຍກຕາ afternoon and evening Shantung straw is combined models in fine lace wool.

with velvet for summer specials, white appeara She says that one advantage and navy and

In of handknlis is that dresses can

again and again the woven There are also many be shortened or lengthened ac straws. cording to current fashions versions of Dior's Coolie model without hem troubles and, as and Desses's French Porter cap.

for they last almost over, they need to be adaptable.

Although Amerien buys almost her whole export output, one big London store has been able to persuade her to make them a

of collection ready-nudes.

For the first time since 1939 a famous Scottish wholesale Arm has produced a spring collection of tailored knit suits. Cinssically simple in design, they are made in a very ane jacquard stitch in blended mixture of angora hair Sults and super botany yarn. are non-stretch, non-shrink and

dry-cleaned can be either Inundered.

Colour combinations Include Highland green and while. Oxford grey with primrose and donkey brown with canary,

or

A classic kaltled sult by Pringle in A three-colour diamond overcheck pattern,

in

Leading milliners of New York have just chosen the 12 "Best chapeaued America.

women

Lauritz They include Mrs Melchior, Sarah ChurchB1, Virginia Mayo, Gracie Allen and Gloria Swanson.

Seven-day strip

THER fashion flashes from the U.S.A. tell of Pierre Balmain's Around the Week dress, which has seven skirts, worn one on top of another in a rainbow of bright colours. Dress outer. skirt of strips from an black ince down to a reed-slim white pique sheath.

Zabrettes Arc Intest nylon news. Striped across heet and From New York foes in black, green, red, navy and platinum grey, they look OLY YEAR : influencing stunning with short evening

New York fashions. skirts and cut-away shoes.

Ho many

Wayne Forrest veils cut hair

with a nun's colf and a fake Quick-change summer parasols stone over a glove, emulates a are being made with as many as

100-YEAR-OLD DOUBLE PURPOSE DIAMONDS

||EARRINGS

BREAKS HERË

DIAMONDS with a double purpose are shown in this

picture of a tiara which was auctioned in London.

When not in use:as Mothara, the five sections can be detached to form brooches and clips: the two large pear- shaped diamonds can be used as earrings,

The tara has been in. Lord Southesk's familly nearty 100 years-London Express Service,

50 coloured slip covers to tong with every wardrobe.

feature is the Spring fur circular-cut cape with bolero front, small slecves and cope back.

Оль of the first by Cyril Woolf, was worn by Viscountess Scarsdale at the opening of Parliament

The 100 percent_purchase tax. will prevent most Englishwomen: from buying the new too distinc- tive coloured furs so popular at present in New York and Paris.

-(London Express Service)

By Joan Erskine

*..

PARIS. bags, too, made of basket,

Wo

and

wrist-

– even

at forty

MIDDLE AGED" Mi There

a time,

was

not so long ago, when those words had such a dreary connotation that they must have made a woman shud- der with dread of reaching that period in life when they would apply to her. But or have you noticed?

PRING comes to Paris strengthened with leather.

Ilked the summer hats with and, AO they say, huge basket brims and draped it is the ideal time silk crowns with long scarf to visit the charms and ends. gulėties of tho native

Hat pins of fantasy are to be city of chic. But if seen, often topped with delicate birds, flowers, glass you drink coffee in the feather

bobbler plaited straw. Picadilly of Paris, outside bunches of groas. Tiny the cafe de la Paix, hoping length gloves aro everywhere. to sea elegant Parisiennes In one window alone we saw different colours. sauntering by, you will be over thirty

Prices are extremely cheap frustrated. The beautifully

compared with London's dressed women who pass are mostly English

The colour of the season and

wo cannot American. The natives of tangerine--though

Imagine whyl Done necklaces Paris have retreated to the nnd bracelets are in the now South, before the avalanche, stade, and one milliner pro- of tourists sweeping into duced a halpin with an outsize:

tangerine (imitation) on the reasons, Perhaps American 'the city,

But the young tacles under 12 years of age keep up the Parisienne's repulation. These diminutive repileas of their al- tractive mothers are dressed in the height of fashion, in capes, swagger conts, or

nts, or most oflen, in a suit with straight jacket and all-round pleated skirt-like famous design Molyneux. Whether they were these two years old or ten, children had poise, assurance and manners.

the

by

Away from fashion,ble Paris clustered around Champs Elysees and the fashion hauses across on the Left bank we found our sinart girls walking aloog In brilliant sunshine, with u coul brecze

ver the Seine,

*

#

*

blowing

enter-

of

endi

One of the 'cheapest' tainments is to window KOZC, and compare Paris prices with those of London. Prices were comparable with London; tho difference lay in the look the clothes. It is

conceivable that they will not wear for distressing twenty years—that habit of English clothes-bui French they

were "chie

as only clothes can be. We noticed

deep collar;

and ularly the well-defined with baskel hat

Бод. and Invish use, still, of

suede Bloves and dainly strapped shoes,

buttons- Shoes arc mostly elaborate, with criss-cross straps and buckles, or Ant with big bows.

Been 随喜 Galeries · La Fayette, Paris, is this straight black jacket and pleated skirt, Jockey cap, short gloves, cquare basket bag, and flai shoes.

Alto seen is this cream linen dress with hip-pockels, buttoned quits,

Is

a great change in the general attitude toward the forties, the fifties and even the sixties seems to have taken place.

No doubt there are many

women are growing up away from being a nation youth worshippers,

and

And

are

more aware of the richness of maturity.

VITAL TIME

Surely, too, increasing num-

bers of the women who Aro middle years

reaching

the

nowadays are demonstrating to themselves and their

special the

worlda that this

can be most vital and rewarding period they've known in all their living.

They don't waste their DIO- cious fime and energies be- moaning their lost youth, They're too busy making the

most of the present, having manged, by this dom that roma Inshht and

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Lo goin

care

gives them a creative viewpoint. toward Hving. They take of their looks,

a matter of course-not frantically trying to look absurdly young, but ap- preciating whatever of beauty Til Is theirs enough to nurture with the materiais modern science is providing so bountl fully,

Nowadays, you

hear

often that high praise, "She's benall

full" spoken of women 40-who

may not even

been especially noticed

they

were

ever

have

when

the

ere younger. And chunces are If you asked those

tell you that, so far as

women for their "secret" ir

skin care goes, they have found a good hormone cream and/or oil, and wouldn't be without

either or both.

Thick necklaces of clustered Iridescent beads mado of blown glass seem to be ousting pearls from their time-honoured place. Hals are, of

Some of the most interesting.../ course. chorning, and many were well enses are busy women who put under £1 for 1,000 francs). The

In long hours of work

away two favourite shapes

from at the moment are the tiny Jockey cop, and a modliled version of tropical lopce. The latter manage

to look right any- where.

WE LIKED:

The clean open markets where the vegetables аго scrubbed.....eleon before being

sold.

Creamy yellow butter in fanciful shapes, and at fancifu) prices.

Huge bunches of ours for the asking.

Goll

bananas-

leather handbags, about £2-better for less than in London.

WE WERE GRATIFIED

FIND:

TO

That the pastries are stili

among the most delectable In.

home every day, yet to look n the skin of their faces. throats, hands and arms, you'd think they spent most of their time being pampered in luxury.

24-HOUR PROGRAMME

The trick is, they keep up a 24-hour programme of skin' care using hormone cream for night use and the hormone oll fer

80

daytime. The oil has the unusual virtue of apparently dicappearing into the skin that it can be used either as a powder foundation, or under a Or it can be used as makeup. a night treatment by those who. dislike wearing a cream coated skin to bed.

By Virginia Baxter'

the world. (Where in England DUAL-ROLE

today con

the shopkeepers

drench your sponge cake G| TWO-PIECE

rum before giving it to you?).

That the cream is real, even

12

the

prices are high, and ser- vice is given with charm and courtesy.

Parls has always had a rew

WE WERE FASCINATED BY: putation for good accessories. A Frenchman in a village out- She well deserves it. Handbags side Paris, dressed in blue linen ALTO made of basket-weave smock, berel and heavy wooden woven cane. Some are like clogs. He knelt in front of Dorothy bags, with gathered box filled with many coloured surde tops; others are rectan flowers and for 15 frs. would gulor, with leather frames and make a posy in any colours you handles. There are travelling liked, blending them together

with an artist's touch AND WE TOOK BACK WITH

US:

Straws Are In The Wind

sories

for

Same

Paris

****

way

US!

Several pairs of the well- made white hand-knitted socks that are worn by all French cyclists, hikers, soldier. and children....

A hat with a basket brim..

A sweater with a fabric body and knitted welt....

An armful of fashion zines...

maga-.

And the sincere wish that the English would make their bread by the yard, too.

hots. - What PARIS is using straw acces entire lavishly.

Straw Straw enlis

Shavings, accessorits underline the Im rembling fine wood shavings, this modium hos are used for massed feathery portance

in Straw effects

the taken

.spring, cuffs, collars and hand- as feather pads are used. Shaggy

In addition to cuffs on straw like a thatched roofing or Pearls Fit All bage. gloves match many of the new shorter straw like grass er moss Parls hats. Not only are straws are also present. Rigolo appears

Important, enelly in several collections,

often numerically minking over 60 percent of all interplaited with other types of harts, but they are also, more straw, and is also used separate- varled than in decades and ly as ribbon. stress quality.

Exotics, especially balibuntal, and plcols lead among the clas- Aics. There is considerable lea- horn, while crin worked in on old-fashioned technique which conceals stitches and gives opacity has staged a big come back. Coarse pallassons are lees-frequent than finer rustic straws.

Among novelties there is wide use of thin shiny straw bindes Lice old-time #oda straws, backed against a lining for

Straw laces and also dowers, follage, and feathery fancles are numerous, while straw sequins cover entire crowns.

Except for picots, which are often in deep colours ar' black,

pos and crio, which is usually tels, natural shades are preferred in straws from the near-white or exotics to deep golden and burnt almond tones for rustics.

Straw lalzes resembling such fabrics 'as rustics, shantungs or tolles are also much used.

Style Whims

S every woman knows theru A is nothing so adaptable to the whimsical quirks of fashion as pearls. Wear several scatter pins on a lapel....two

two or three on a hat band....or to fasten n scarf in an interesting unusual WAY HEG woy

tho double and stick- pla that has pearl clusters on each erd....or highlight your belt with several scatter pins,

Pearl earrings, important now that women have discover ed how convenient and flatter ing short hair is, come in the popular ball design or in clua- ters,

W-

By Vera Winston

A GOOD choice for the traveller is this two-piece setup that makes a good late, after- noon into evening affair. The blouse is of Besh pink georgette and has horizontal tucking be- low a very simple round neck.

bately

the that shoulders. The navy tadeln skirt is pleated all around, and belt, of crushed navy taffeta, is leather lined.

the

covers

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