THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 11, 1987.
It's A Thrill To Make Your Own
Clothes
parse or you may have seen it some the garment look pounds more than where on someone and felt sure it actually cost. Moreover, there's something similar would suit you. no need if you can make your own Then there's that smart friend of clothes to ever be out of date. Not yours who always seems to wear the only can you run up smart new To wear lovely clothes is the right clothes for every occasion. things, but you soon find it easy to natural desire of every normal when you ask her how she does it, rejuvenate last season's frocks with It is part of her longing she says nonchalantly, "Oh, I just very little trouble and perhaps a for beauty in life. And wearing run up little things for myself oc-new trimming or two. lovely garments helps so much.. It makes for gracious living...
sense woman's It improves a well-being.
woman.
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casionally."
It sounds
so easy, doesn't it?!
:
Paper Patterns When you start off on home of Well, it is After a very little
practice at making one or two sim-dress-making and choose patterns In short, beautiful clothes are ple garments, you find the work so and materials, keep in mind the good for you. But when money interesting and so simple that you suitability of one with the other. If must be carefully spent and this wonder why you never tried it be you bay your material first, choose a pattern that will make up well in is so in most cases then you will fore
that particular fabric. If you de find it the greatest help in the world
cide on the pattern first then buy if you can make your own clothes.
Fou sigh. And apart from the economy of material to suit the pattern. "If only I could
The purpose for which the gar Maybe you've never tried, but you making your own clothes, which have longed at some time or other naturally enables you to have more ment is being made dictates to to make some attractive dress of them, you have the thrill of mak-large extent the kind of materials
garments-frocks and colours you should choose. · ing individual
You've seen.
"
Economy
All you Need is a Simple Paper Pat- tern, Suitable Mat- erials and a Little Patience.
light summer-
some heavy woollen material.
Then, again, the question of co- lour and texture of materials has to be considered. Colours must be chosen, not only to suit your parti- cular colouring, but the occasions for which the garment will be worn.
Study Fashions
There's no need to feel bewilder- aed over all these points. Study gently, watch the seasonal displays fashions and fashion books intelli-
It may have been a model in a and coats,designed to suit you with You would not, for instance, use in the stores, study other women's shop at a price quite beyond your little original finishes that make a pattern obviously designed for a clothes, and you will soon become
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This season, colours will be most important. The olive-skinned bru- nette should find the new intense shades worn with sharp contrasts specially attractive with her brown eyes and dusky hair. She should, however, be careful with pastels as certain tones may make her skin look muddy. A
There is a new fuchsia which she can wear successfully this season, Black and and a purply blue. white or light grey-blue, with a touch of tomato for relief, are also good colour combinations for the brunette. For ultra smartness she could try dark green, with brown and yellow.
Chicken With Wine
3 Chickens--2 pounds
2 doz. small white onions
2 doz. small mushrooms
4 ozs. diced salt pork
1 teaspoon chopped shallots
1 pint Burgundy wine
4 ozs. sweet butter
1 cup good stock
1 teaspoon corn starch salt and pepper
Cut the spring chickens and saute in butter. Brown on both sides,
put in mushrooms, onions and place in oven for about twenty minutes. Then remove the chickens, and the pork, shallots and when half cook- ed add the wine. Cook until reduc- ed, then add the stock and the corn starch (diluted in a little water). Season and pour over the chickens
Strawberries Romanoff
2 quarts ripe strawberries 2 oranges
12 tablets sugar.
›2 ozs. Curacao liquenr
2 ozs. fine champagne
1 cup heavy whioned cream
Wash the strawberries thorough, le and put in a dish. - Take the tablets of sugar and rub against the oranges to extract the ze These sugar tablets will soften, crush them and add this wether with the liqueurs to strawberries. Place in the ref gerator for fifteen minutes, the add the whipper cream and serve very colds
Green Salad French Style
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Mix leaves of escarolle, romaine, dandelion and a teaspoon of chop- ped: fine herbs Bab a mall piec of bread on a cut clove of and crumble into the salad. Finish
ith French dressing.