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Lace Was Never Lovelier: ...in Fashion and in the home it has regained its supremacy and renewed its beauty

... Lace Was Never Lovelier in Fashion and in the home it has re gained its supremacy and renewed its beauty I IT went, like so many other things, when war turned the great lace- making centres of this country to other uses. In the years between we had almost ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 313 | Page: 66 | Tags: Photographs 

Marshgrove HUSKI KNIT

... yarn-HUNTING HORN YELLOW-- a clarion clear gold. ALABASTER-that champagne J of fashion so wonderful with black. EUCALYPTUS -chic blue-green French flattery. ROMAN RED-a clear fiery fashion spark. 3/3 per 2 oz. ball. HUSK.I-K.NIT is found ONLY at the MARSHALL t ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 70 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

COURT ROYAL

... foundation in nylon taffeta, appropriately named 'Pierrette.' Ideal for evening wear, it is smoothly boned to give a graceful fashion line. Elastic leno panels over hips are firmly held down by four suspenders. A luxury garment at a popular price-42 Sizes ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 92 | Page: 7 | Tags: Illustrations 

Pink is The Pivot

... brocade. By Atrima, £16 19s. 6d. at Dickins and Jones (Young London Dept.); Ella Stuart, Edinburgh Pomegranate pink and black fashion's latest mix in the soft, flecked tweed used for this classic yet individual town suit, above left. The same tweed in a bolder ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 457 | Page: 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

KAYSER BONDOR

... Smart knitted ribbing of wool and nylon snugly closes collar cuffs, waist and ankles. In sizes 34 to 42, from 691 1 1 So fashionable and oh! so warm, this nightdress in pure wool has a flattering neckline also of knitted ribbing of wool and nylon. In sizes ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 165 | Page: 69 | Tags: Illustrations 

Shopping for You Personal Choice Service of the Month

... 4s. and £2 2s. All at Liberty's, Regent Street. Margaret Sharp F abric gloves this season have taken on a new lease of fashionable life. No longer the poor relation, fabric gloves hold their own at cocktail time and after. These wrist-length cocktail ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 762 | Page: 61 | Tags: Photographs 

Table Of Contents

... Kathleen Wallace 14-15 and 68 Why Waste Words? by John Williams 16 and 70 A Room Of Their Own Illustrations by K. Fletcher 20-21 Fashion Pink Is The Pivot 22-23 If Blue Is Your Colour 24-25 Shirts And Sweaters 26-27 Illustrations by Oppenheim Wickerwork by Alice ...

Tea..

... not always such a practical, nor yet perhaps such a respectable occupation. In the roaring eighteenth century gentlemen of fashion made an occasion of their evening tea drinking. Such an occasion indeed, that they employed young women of outstanding charms ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1147 | Page: 82 | Tags: Poem 

Discussion Points of the Month

... new film each evening at the Tivoli, Strand, organize a film festival ball in aid of the Italian Hospital in London, and a fashion parade to show clothes by Italian couturiers. Distinguished among the guest-hosts is Gianni Franciolini, right. This forty-four ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1155 | Page: 49 | Tags: Photographs 

On The Other Side Of The Chasm

... Revues which were packing the smaller theatres, and also on certain new books. Somebody said: Funny how a period becomes a fashion overnight. The nineteen-twenties are a sure-fire laugh, at present. Apparently, said an urbane, older man, the very lingo ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1899 | Page: 70 | Tags: Photographs 

The Girl who wanted to Dance

... bottom was a ferrule made from spent cartridge cases collected on wartime rifle ranges in the Welsh hills. The handles were fashioned into a variety of wonderful designs fox-heads, otter-paws, antlers, and other more exotic designs from Uriah's own imagination ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4581 | Page: 72 | Tags: Illustrations 

Freedom is a Snare: A common loneliness in the wilderness of a city had drawn them; together, but now, with ..

... eighteen months of it I know, I know. Bridie got to her feet and dusted down her immaculate black gaberdine, adjust ing her fashionable scarlet bowler. Then she put both gloved hands on Ursula's shoulders and shook her lightly, affectionately, as if she were ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4970 | Page: 82 | Tags: Illustrations