THE CHT
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1934
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LOW DECOLLETAGE
RETURNING
Ultra-Low Back Suits.
Few Women.
DECOLLETAGE INFLUENCED
BY SLEEVES
Accessories For Dancing
Corsets And Belts.
NECESSITY OF FITTING UNDERGARMENTS
The lower decolletage is one ofļ Among the other accessories the best movements, The langhten-which make the difference between ed front line is a great Improve-la happy and an uncomfortable ment on the very low back. The dancer, the garments she wears much-exposed back mode wasbeneath her dress matter consider- siezed upon by women it could ably.
woman
never auit! It is a somewhat dif All evening dresses, indeed all *ficult cut for anyone but an expert dresses for every hour of the day designer to attempt, and not a at the moment, do undoubtedly style becoming to any but the demand a natural looking but trim
dancer, possessed of a figure. The
of young
course beautiful back. Even then the needs to feel quite as free as she ultra low back did not always har-locks. Modern corsetry has sim monise with the general environ-plified this problem enormously, ment. Oddly enough, the corsage even for
larger ladies who arc cut down to nearly the waistline than they would wish. looked well only when joined to There is a wide choice-models the trained back of the austers which stretch all ways; models skirt of the "sixties," where the which stretch in one way, but not draperies
foundation are dragged from the another;
garments sides to meet in the centre. It is which, all by themselves, do the curious, this meeting of modern duty of two or three separate audaciousness with the primmest pieces; belts which vary from those almost imperceptible affairi of the styles of the Victorian era!
All decolletages for their suc. that do not pretend to do anything cess must be influenced largely by beyond holding up the stockings, to the sleeves that
more-self-assertive are chosen. The far
affairs
Menu Suggestions For To-morrow
TIFFIN: Peasant Risoles Tomato Sauce
Boiled Corned Beef and Cabbage
Ring Pudding Yeast Dumplings DINNER
♦ Clear Vegetable Sour
Chicken Fricassee
Snow Potatoes Stewed Paranipsti Boast Crown of Lame-Chops with Puree of Chestnuts Fruit Pudding
Caulifower Fritters
Ring Padding
the time. Serve them in the centra of cutlets.
Fruit Pudding":"
6 oz figur, pinch of salt, 3 oz. suet or margarine. ^ Water or mlik to mix, dried fruit, apples, apricots. pears, peaches, etc., 4 oz. brown sugar. Chop the suet and mix with the four, add the pinch of salt and enough water or milk to mix to a stiff paste. Rooll out, line a greased basin and IL with the (previously soaked) dried fruit. Add the sugar, cover the lid of the paste, press the - odgòs” together, cover with a buttered paper and
4 oz. bread, 3 tablespoons sugar, tie loosely, with a scaled and flour
1 plat milk, 4 eggs. Seak the ad cloth. Put in boiling water or bread in the hot milk and rubļin a steamer and cook about 2 to through a sieve. Cool and add the [21⁄2 hours. Turn out on a hot dish, besten erys the sugar the grated sprinkle with sugar and serve with frind of a lemon, and a pinch of jeustard sauce.
salt. Turn the mixture into a ring mould and steam for 30 to 40 min- utes. Turn out when set and all the centre with sliced pineapple.
Clear Vegetable Soup
4 cups brown stock, 2 cups water, | cup diced carrot, cup diced onion, 1/3 cup diced turnip, 1⁄2 cup diced celery, 1⁄4 cup diced potato, Mix stock and water and bring to bolling point. Add vegetables and |simmer until very tender. Season with salt and pepper if needed.
long ones of fashion are best of all which work wonders at figure SIMPLICITY WEDDED Peas, tomatoes, parsnips and cab-
to give the note of elegance, yet moulding.
Ca
with the square low decolletage the The great secret with any one of elbow-length is delightful, as it them is to see that it really does fit also be with the fichu-like the person who is to wear it. For finish. Both recall the dainty some people it is always best to styles of Marie Antoinette's day. have them built to measure. They fit in with the modern scheme of things.
MASSAGE FOR THE THROAT
Made Necessary By No-Collar Whim.
SOME SIMPLE AND EASY EXERCISES
Fashion has introduced the no- collar whim and the high neckline, drawing attention to the throat,
and with that attention have come A number of "tricks" to beautify
it.
Before your mirror throw your
head back so that your throatline is fully exposed.
Is it merely lined in two or three places? Then you have the re- medy which lies in the brisk setrin. xent-and-patter treatment.
Is it thin-too thin for the head it is holding and balancing oddly with the shoulders from which it risos? Then massage it to a new beauty with all four fingers of each hand, and the aid of a nour- ishing akin food or lotion or oil on your finger-tips.
Massage both sides, of the throat in a light, kneading fashion, with: the Angers bent, for it is at the sidea that the thinness makes it- self most apparent.
And practise this little move- ment whenever you can spare a few moments:
Sitting before your mirror, throw
the bead back as far as it will go,
With many, a little minor altera- tion will produce the desired effect. Often this is merely a matter of lengthening
shortening
the auspender
shoulder straps
or
the
TO ELEGANCE
Creeping Back Into
The Mode.
LONG SLEEVES
bage may be used in place of some of the other vegetables. The vegetables may be cut in shred Instead of diced. Time in cooking 1 hour.
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Chicken Fricassen Choose a good sized chicken and disjoint (which should give you 8 (good places; roll in flour and saute in a little butter until well brown-
elastic. There is one admirable Simplicity is combined with the ed. Cover with bolling stock or kind in which the suspenders are newer note of elegance that has water and simmer until tender, [practically Invisible; and this, with been creeping into the mode for adding salt, pepper and
a little a frock which looks as if you were some little time.
nutmeg when party cooked, The poured into it, at least down to
to time required will be from 2 to 21⁄4
your knees, is an important detail.
CLEANSING THE
PORES.
First Requisite For Good Complexion.
Absolute cleanliness is the first
The decolletage is inclined
e a little lower in the front once hours, depending on the quality and
more. The muffed-up look round;
jage of the chicken, Thicken gravy, the neck in dinner dresses was not serve with dumplings.
in very happy vogue; once it had!
Pares of Chestnuts
lost the charm of novelty it was] 2 lb. of chestnuts, papper, salt, recognised NA frankly unbecom-
2 oz. of butter, pint of milk, 1 ing.
gill of cream. Prepare the chest. The long-sleeved fashion is nuts by removing husks and brown other matter, This is flattering and skins. Put them into a pan, pour slimming to the figure, and, of the milk over and simmer them course, is comfortable for winter gently until they are soft enough nights. Being a revival of Ed- to rub through a sleve. Drain the wardian fashion it gains import milk from them if any remains ance at the moment.
SLIM MODERN GIRL UNRIVALLED Poise And Dignity Needed.
OUTMATCHING BEAUTIES
OF THE PAST
One is apt to associate "ele zance" with a very feminine phass of fashion, but the newer inter- pretation goes much farther. When the modern English girl, tall and slim, really does attain poise and dignity she holds her own 'without
and then circle with it, round over requisite of a smooth, beautifulļa rival. one shoulder, dropping completely complexion.
It is not only the dress that has forward in front, over the other
Whether you
‚use a^ cleansing to proclaim its style, but the coff- shoulder, and back to your original cream in conjunction with a tonic, feur, shoes, hosiery, dress-jewel- position, using your throatline as or prefer plain soap and waterflery, or special gems of value; In A pivot.
followed by a nourishing cream or fact, all the 'new details that go to This makes for suppleness, and¦n Jation, depends on your own in-complete the idea of elegance, lends Jap unconscious grace to dividual taste. The Important | The result is a pleasing and your head movements: thereafter, thing is that you do use some me- finished production, never attained Try to keep the shoulders rigid thod of cleansing which actually so entirely by even the beauties of and down while you exercise. ¡purges the pores of all impurities,Įthe past,
POP-A Safe Job
WOULDN'T YOU RATHER BE
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COMFORTABLE
WORKING HERE
and press the nuts through a sleve. Stir in the butter, cream, pepper and salt, make this hot, stirring all]
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