Sporty look in France

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33563, 18 June 1974, Page 6

Sporty look in France

Glossy lips, cheeks and eyelids are brightening up the faces of fashion - conscious women in France this year.

“It’s the fresh, sporty look,” said the French beauti-l cian. Miss Ann Orange, ini Christchurch yesterday. Miss Orange said this glossy look is achieved with gels which can be applied to any part of the face. Blues and greys are popular colours for eyes, with a touch of pink applied to the upper lid. Lips are still bright red, brownish or copper shades and there are matching gels for the cheeks in peach and brown shades. Miss Orange said fashion still does not dictate as it used to and people are still doing their own thing. However, for the people who elect to follow trends there are certain popular clothes and hair styles. Hair is very plain, shiny and clean cut, sometimes still reminiscent of the 19«305. For the evenings, hair nets are worn and popular accessories are neck scarves and flowers worn at the neck. Skirts are all below the knee, very often pleated, and last winter were worn with long slinky boots. The skirts were teamed with heavy, belted jerseys and cardigans. For the northern spring the look was essentially Chanel with the same below-the-knee pleated skirts in light fabrics in beiges, pale greys, greenish grey, dark pink and aubergine. Miss Orange who is a consultant for Jean D’Albret perfumes also had some good news for women who suffer from the shivers every time they spray perfume on to their bodies during New Zealands cold winter. The solution to the problem is a gel which is rubbed into the skin and does not cause the chilling sensation that the sprayon perfume does. Miss Orange is demonstrating the perfume at Beath and Co. this week. For ten months of the year Miss Orange travels the world in her capacity as demonstrator and beauty consultant. The other two months she spends at home in Paris.

Her present trip has taken her around the Far East and to Australia. When she leaves New Zealand she will travel to Fiji and New Caledonia.