RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30178, 9 July 1963, Page 19

RANDOM REMINDER

FASHION NOTE

Mrs Claude-Helene Neff, a French fashion expert, has forecast that welldressed women will acquire the “Tormented Look” in the 1964-65 autumn-winter season. At first sight it might seem she was letting it be known that smaller feet and wasp waists were to be the vogue: but then women have been suffering agonies for years, cramming their feet into shoes too small for them, and struggling in the cruel clasp of a girdle made for someone else.

No, Mrs Neff was referring to nothing more restrictive than coats, suits and frocks. The name for the new fashion can come only from the colours which, she says, will be the height of fashion. Among those she named were compostheap, clay, mud, and sandy loam. And she was not talking about gardening clothes. It’s all very well for Mrs Neff to explain that compost heap is the exact shade of greenish-brown autumn leaves; but mud sticks. Not many men

will want to be associated with a woman looking like a compoatheap, and sandy loam is not much more attractive. Where will they go from here . . . the brides mother wore a smart cesspool suit cut on severe lines to match her expression; for her goingaway suit the bride chose one of the new range of sewage farm colours . . . Tormented look, indeed. The women will, no doubt, love it aIL The tormented look will belong to the husbands, when the bills come in.