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... ffiWIUlIEIWirP BWlililElil By Appointment Makers of Weatherproof Clothing to the late King George VI The young woman on the left wears a tweed skirt styled for country wear. Available in a wide choice of colours, it is priced from £7.7.0. Her Burberry suede jacket comes in several charming colours, from £19.0.6. (Other styles from £12.12.6.) Her companion's ensemble, in real Scotch tweed, is ...

Published: Wednesday 23 February 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 132 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

T. VASCO LTD

... T. VASCO LTD otter Aa/^a, &enfart£ Our latest fashion CHAM.M This lovely hair style, so easy to manage for every occasion, is designed especially for you with our HAIR BUBBLES short cut perm which costs £4.4.0 including Re-styling, Shampooing, and Setting the same price we have charged for more than 25 years. We also offer you a twelve-monthly permanent waving service at a special rate for ...

Published: Wednesday 23 February 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 120 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Photographs 

FORD

... 0000 0000 And the next few years? asks the watching world the ford factory at dagenham, the largest ever-growing number of motorists at home and in Europe, continues to make over 1400 cars, trucks abroad; more trucks for better transport; more and tractors a day. Yet even this record number is tractors for better farming. Ford's success, which not enough. The growing demand for Ford could ...

Published: Wednesday 23 February 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 216 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

A Wedding in Portugal--and in Spain: PRINCE ALEXANDER WEDS PRINCESS MARIA PIA

... A Wedding in Portugal and in Spain THE marriage of Princess Maria Pia of Savoy, the eldest daughter of King Umberto and Queen Marie-José, to Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, was solemnized at Nossa Senhora da Assunção church in the little seaside village of Cascais, near Lisbon. The eighty young Italian girls, who were wearing the regional dresses of their country, made a picturesque sight as ...

Published: Wednesday 23 February 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2694 | Page: Page 18, 19, 20, 21 | Tags: Photographs 

we lake off our hat to

... sf^i\ FRANCINE COLMAN (left), COLETTE MARCHAND and TESSA BEAUMONT For Winning the Award of a Rabelaisian Garter. At the Parisian restaurant, Au Mouton de Panurge, a garter is presented nightly to the demoiselle with the most shapely legs. The words embroidered on it read Hon/ soyt qui point n'y pense. GLORIA DE LA FIELD For Getting a Real Artist to Apply her War-Paint. Miss Field, a ...

Published: Wednesday 23 February 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 258 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BEST ON OUR SCREENS IN 1954

... THE BRITISH FILM ACADEMY has chosen Yvonne Mitchell as the best British Screen Actress of last year for her performance in The Divided Heart, and Kenneth More as the best actor for his in Doctor in the House, Cornell Bouchers and Marlon Brando were voted the best foreign pair. Miss Mitchell, apart from an appearance in The Queen of Spades, came late to films, though she has long been known ...

Published: Wednesday 23 February 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 248 | Page: Page 37 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A London Line: Report on the London Couture Collections

... A London Line Edited by NORAH OWEN Report on the London Couture Collections THIS Spring, for the first time, the Incor porated Society of London Fashion Designers, under the brilliant leadership of then President, Lady Pamela Berry, have presented a series of cohesive dress collections, giving an authentic London Line. It may be derivative, but, due to world economics, Paris creates the ...

Published: Wednesday 23 February 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 473 | Page: Page 41 | Tags: Photographs 

TWICKENHAM'S NEW M.P. TAKES HIS SEAT

... A BIRTHDAY OCCASION FOR MR. R. GRESHAM COOKE: He is se^ .vin his wifi and family arriving at Westminster to take his seat in the House of Common as the new Member for Twickenham. His majority in the by-election, vtod was caused by the death of Sir Edward Keeling, was 10,122 the Conservator proportion of the poll was 1*97 per cent, higher than that attained at the Genen Election in 1951. Mr. ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 126 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FORMOSA AT BATTLE STATIONS: Supplies, Aircraft, and Men from the U.S. Forces Pour Into the Nationalist Island ..

... Formosa at Battle Stations Supplies, Aircraft, and Men from the U.S. Forces Pour Into the Nationalist Island as the Evacuation of the Tachen Islands Gets Under Way ihii III I AMERICAN AIRMEN ARRIVE ON THE NATIONALIST ISLAND Ground crew of the U.S. Air Force pitching their tents at a secret air base on Formosa. They were among the advance contingents of the U.S. Fifth Air Force sent to the ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 495 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LANDING ON A MOVING AIRSTRIP: Dramatic Pictures Taken from a Plane Landing on an Aircraft-carrier

... Landing on A Moving Airstrip Dramatic Pictures Taken from a Plane Landing on an Aircraft-carrier A PILOT'S VIEW OF A TOUCH DOWN ON THE DECK OF AN AIRCRAFT-CARRIER These four pictures were taken from a Banshee jet aircraft landing on the United States attack carrier Essex. In the top photograph the Banshee is approaching the carrier in a shallow bank from the port side. The batsman can be seen ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 378 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE WORLD'S BOBLET ... CHAMPIONSHIP

... The 1 LD'S BOBLET Ci PIONSHIP One of the CM is for Bobsleigh Crest a Run at St. Moritz us 'P° this Year by Switzerland probably the ambition of most winter sports men and women is to compete In a contest on the famous Cresta Run at St. Moritz, in Switzer land. The World's Bob sleigh Championships have been the biggest event of the current St. Moritz season. On these pages are pictures of the ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 475 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs