THE
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1929.
"MAIL'S FASHIONS ILLUSTRATED
Chiffon Velvet Evening Wrap
A New Wrap
Evening Jackets That Glitter
À crestinn of deep orchid chiffon velvet. It is worn over a pink chiffon dress of simple cut, the lower tier of the skirt being full and of mueven length. The ever-popular camelias are favoured flowers.
SOME RECIPES
A Simple Dish
It stems perhaps somewhat foolish to talk about a "cool dish" just now, but at this time of the year there me be many party or dance hostesses who sometimes find that
· providing various dishes for their guests is a somewhat expensive 'business.
There is one way of making n fruit compote which is both simple and cheap. There was some recently. at a dance, where a cooling dish is asually very welcome. It was made
in a large glass dish, and the hostess hadi
used
just one large
tin of fruit, and had mixed with it green prapes, aliced apple (uncook-
edi, slices of orange, and slices of banana. This dish of fruit was auf- ficient for a very large party, and cost about
a quartor of what it would have cost to serve all the ruests with the ordinary tinned fruit.
Lover's Sandwich
Alb. flour, 4oz. butter, Joz. icing sugar, vanilla flavouring. Cream the butter and sugar and mix to a paste with the flour. Adil the vanilla and roll. the paste very thin and mark it into aquares. Bake en oiled paper in a quick oven.
Put the biscuits between thin bread and butter and sprinkle the sandwich with hundreds and thou- sands.
Ginger Nuts
lb. golden syrup, lb. molst brown sugar, Zoz. butter, 1oz.
ground ginger, 1 egg, a little flour.
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Melt the latter and the syrup and the sugar. Add the gluger to this. Mix them well and add the egg and as much flour as will make it into A biscuit paste.
Make the paste into nuts and bake them on oiled paper in a slow oven for half hour.
Sports Hat
flere is an attractive sports hat of bottle green solell, intended to be worn with the popular trench coat. The brim is cut to achieve the trimming, and the band la of darker grosgrain ribbon.
Kayser
SLIPPER HEEL* HOSIERY
SWEETS
How to Make Them
at Home
It is sometimes puzzling to know what to give children for Christ- maa presents, especially other peo- ple's children whose taste in gifts is not well known to you. Then it is we turn with a sigh of reik! to that ever-popular present- "something to eat," and, of course, where children are concerned this. means aweets or candy.
If packed in an attractive box or basket, decorated with holly and ribbon, home-made sweets make a vekomo gift.
Before you attempt to make sweets it is advisable to get a sugar boiling thermometer; this eliminates all possible risk of spolling the ingredients, for a few degrees too much (or too little) as regards temperature may have disastrous results to the sweet- mouts.
The recipes given below are not for sweats of the elaborate variety," which are best left to those who have had the benefit of practical instruction.
Pralines
'Take n pound of good eating chocolate and then grate it; then put into a double boiler and allow to dissolve slowly. Add two untaten eggs and mix together by stirring: Then add Goza. sweet almonds, chopped, blanched and roasted unt- brown and mix again thoroughly.. Then let the mix- ture cool a little, and 'arrange in small rocky heaps on wafer paper and allow to cool.
Peppermint Cream
Place one pound of granulated sugar into a saucepan with a gill of milk and slowly stir until they come to the boil. Continue to stir and allow to simmer until a temperature of 245 degrees Fahr is reached or until a little of the mixtur. dropped in water will form a soft ball.. Take the mix- tule from the fire and flavour with essence of peppermint and stir until it begins to turn thick. Next pour the mixture into a flat tin lined with white greased paper and let it remain until cold. eut into neat pieces.
Candled Dates
Then
Choose sound dates and remove the stones; then fill each date with
One of the new ermine wraps with circular flounce was shown at a fashion
parade. The model emphasises the boyish figure.
THE COLDS THAT OTHERS
GIVES US
THE FLUTED BASQUE
The Right Skirt Length of Day, Afternoon & Evening Dress
The fluted basque is a pro position with which dressmakers have been flirting for some time.
Early in the season it appeared
as an addition to an evening gown
of a "picture" type with excellent effect, and it is to be seen at all the smart evening functions now- a-nights. Moreover, It takes a very important part in dress parades and displays in the most fashionable shops. It has cropped up, too, on all kinds of dresses with varying success.
It la at its best, I think, on the velveteen day frocks that are such
a popular "line" of one famous couturier.
The Most Popular Type of Basque The sketch gives an idea of the length and width of the banque most favoured at the moment. It
is flat in front, very fluted at the sides, and stands well away from the skirt at the back. The many rows of machine stitching which trim this model are worked. In bright green silk, which shows up effectively against the navy blue of the velveteen.
Basque and skirt are lined with green taffeta-an accent that could be repeated quite happily in the shoes, which might be of green crepe marocain or kid.
The length of the skirt is a sub- ject of much confusion and con- troversy at the moment, One hears continuously that skirts are longer and longer-and longer.
Problem of Skirt-length
versa.
A nox feature, of the winter of interesting colour combinations season is the charming, glittering are permitted. The jacket may be of white while the dress may re- jacket that accompanies the smart- The average woman, who perest of evening dresses. It matters present any of the pastel tones or hape makes her own clothes but likes to be within halling distance little what fabric creates the dress, more vivid shades. At other times a black jacket is shown lending of the latest mode, is justified in but the little jacket that accom. asking, "Longer than what ?" panles it must glitter and generally contrast to a white dress and vice
fame, jetted or The opinion of a leading Parisian It glitters in spangled cloth. dressmaker might be helpful on
He To avoid this subject,
Rays sports skirts should be as short as they have ever been worn by really smart women-that is, just cover- ing the kneecap when the wearer stands arect.
More colds are caught through contact with infected persons than from any other cause. this ever-present risk, make a habit of putting a drop of "Vapex" on your bandkerchief every morning, thereby surrounding yourself with a pleasant germ-proof atmosphere which will last all day.
House, frocks of the "comport- able" kind; with even hems, should be longer than a sports-skirt but not an inch longer thad le neces- sary to conceal the back of the knees when the body is bent slight- ly forward.
Afternoon frocks generally have. uneven hems. These vary from
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a piece of marshmallow and shape is sufficiently cool to enable you neatly. Next make a syrup by to handle it easily, roll it with the using sugar and water in the pro-handa until it is about the thick- portions of half a pound of loaf
with a pair of scissors cut into a point just below the kneecap to nees of a thin walking-stick, then pieces, and when it is quite cold six laches from the ground. wrap them in piece of waxed paper.
Evening dresses, except those to This sweetmeat is inelined to be
augar to half a gill of water and
flavour with lemon juice. Allow to boil until 235 degrees Fahr, is reached. Then dip the stuffed
dates into this and desiccated coconut.
roll them in atleky and for that reason should be worn when dancing in crowded
Allow them
to cool and dry on a wired draining stund, and then place the dates in small paper cases.
Walnut Molasses
Take 4 or 6 ounces of shelled walnuts and place them in the oven for a few minutes to toast, and then chop them unevenly. Place in
Pau- cepan two pounds Demarara sugar,
not be exposed to the air for too
long,
Peach Creams
Place one pound of loaf sugar and a pinch of cream of tartar into half a gill of water and boil until 250 degrees Fahr, is reached, then add half a pound of ground al- monds and a quarter of a pound of peach purec, which is made by rubbing tinned peaches through one pint of cold water, and a large A sieve. Stir over a slow fire pinch of cream of tartar. Boil until thick, then turn out on a all together until temperature of slab to cool. Carefully roll out 280 degrees Fahr, is reached, but to about a quarter of an inch in just before this point add the thickness and cut into fancy shapes, butter in amall pieces! Pour the The appearance may be improved mixture on to an olled slab and sprinkle over it the toasted nuts, Then with a wooden spoon fold over and over. When the mixture
trailing on the ground at one or rooms, should be long-preferably
more points.Odette in the "Daily Mall."
. EVE
.Gaiety and brilliance is brought- As a matter of fact, these jackets to the ballroom and the dinner so extremely popular are but grown table by the addition of these cock- up editions of the youthful Eton tafl jackets. They have invaded the formal mode completely and jacket and consequently they carry the spirit of youth and its vitality their youthful charm makes them Into the formal mode. In the even-doubly appealing.
China Follows The West
A beautiful array of dresses, hats and dainty novelties are now on display at Eve's saloon in Pedder-
Peking-Another indication of the westernisation of modern street. All the season's goods have
China. Here Is a Chinese "Bob" being cut in the first ladies' barber been marked down in price and no
shop and beauty parlour, which was opened here recently. perished or shop-solled articles are being offered during the Januarying these little jackets are termed sale. Afternoon and evening cocktail jackets rather than the by coating the top of them with a dresses, also jumper suits, are Eton jacket of the daytime. little glace icing which can easily being offered at amazingly low be made by mixing icing sugar figures, and all are of the latest with a little boiling water.
designs.
Campus Beauty Honours
The cocktail jacket is seen in all colours and in many materials the main requisite is that the jacket must glitter. And glitter it does In the pure white of spangles, the fascinating black of jet or gleam ing lame cloth in all colours to harmonize with the costume.
The dresses are of course of all materials, but chiffon and velvet. are the most popular selection. They lend an excellent note of con- trast to the sparkle of the Jackets which other fabrics might lack Chiffon, with its grace of line and fluttering appearance, is admirably suited to the contrast of the span gled or lame Jacket. Here all sorts
The lame jackets in silver, gold, flame, emerald and sapphire are very striking, and combine beauti- fully with the smartly executed velvet dresses of the formal mode na well as the more delleate chif- fone.
Thelma Todd, being a lovely blonde, has found that the all black, evening costume is one of the most effective for her particular use, In the First National motion picture, "The Crash," Miss Todd is seen. wearing a black velvet evening gown over which she adds the charming jacket of black not trimmed with glittering black se- quinz. This preserves the all black colour scheme and yet gives the glittering aspect that the modë demanda.
One of the favored styles is a service sheer weight-all pure thread silk to the narrow garter hem. The superior quality of the silk lends beauty to the clear, even texture, With the exclusive Kayser "Slipper Heel" that given the ankle a slim, trim appearance. In a variety of smart shades for street or dress wear,
At all leading dealers.
Kayser
the
Pamela
Sale for TWO WEEKS only. January 16th 30th.
Ching Redu
considerably