— Lindy the Model

1953 – Fashion Show in the Aid for the Sea Training School

Lindy was a very attractive young girl so when mom had fashion shows, Lindy was always happy to model for Paquerette.

These photos were taken at a fashion show at the Sky Room in 1953, when Lindy was 14!  The Master of Ceremonies was John Wallace, a well known radio announcer who had a part in the 1959 film “Ferry to Hong Kong” as a police inspector  ?

The fashion show was in the aid of the Sea Training School and was a huge hit with all the society ladies!  Lindy and her friends from KGV were showing off new styles of dresses from the States.  As well as all the adults who modelled their gowns, they also had youngsters, all around my age and whom I knew, showing off their dresses.

I doubt mom would have asked me to parade and if she did, I would have said an emphatic NO. I was not model-material and was as gawky as can be ?

You can read the newspaper report about the show HERE.

1953 : Lindy with some of her school friends sitting in the front row. L-R: Helen Feldman, Lindy, Lynn Ramsay and Sheila Dyer (Click to enlarge)

Mom on the microphone next to John Wallace (Click to enlarge)

The models! From L:R – Sheila Dyer, Lynn Ramsay, Lindy & Helen Feldman Click to enlarge

1955 – High Styles for the High Seas on the m/v Victoria

Mom organised a fashion show on board the “Victoria” featuring summer dresses from Paquerette’s and one of the models was Lindy.

1956 – Fashion Show at King George V School

here when I was at the school. Looked like my mother organised fashion shows with the pupils as models …

The models for the fashion show held at KGV. From L:R – Helen Feldman, Lindy & Suzanne Hewson (Click to enlarge)

The audience wating for the fashion show to start – dad and me sitting in the front row in those nippy green stackable chairs! Ugh!!  (Click to enlarge)

Either before or after the show, L:R – Jane Gommersall, Gerry Heron (behind her), me, dad behind me, Lindy and Helen (Click to enlarge)

1958 – Lindy modelling for Milady

1958 – Concours d’Elegance
In 1958 mom designed a black and turquoise dress and hat for Lindy to wear in the Concours d’Elegance –  go with the Studebaker Champion which had the same colours – black and turquoise –  driven by Ian Donaldson, who, like Lindy, worked for the Bank.

Lindy won first prize ?

You can read the SCMP article about the Concours d’Elegance HERE.

1960 – April Affair

L-R : The entrance of the Miramar Hotel, my mother welcoming Lady Black, my father, Alex Wu (Jaycee president), Lady Black and Lady Bastyn (Click to enlarge)

On April 6, 1960, mom had a fashion show at the Miramar Hotel in Kowloon. It was to raise funds for the Jaycee World Refugee Year project and Lindy was a model in the show. Three other names which I remember were Flora Henningsen, Kiki Norman and May Alveres, all friends of my mother.

The newspaper account of the fashion show was hard to read when scanned so I’ve made a transcript of the article, which you can read HERE  ?