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SOLE AGENTS
HANGTAIE FUNGS 20
Phipps
This
&
Balmain Piquet
Dieses
Lafauris
Battle of the skirts
The battle of the Paris designers for
the honour of creating next season's worldwkle fashion
has temporarily
ended in a draw.
decide in Women themselves will time by
of numbers sheer weight whom to declare the victor. For the present each will be able to take her cholce netording to what suits her.
These silhouette sketches by Phipps tell the story of the two opposing sides. ON YOUR LEFT, Mr. Christian Dior's version of a fashionable woman of the and winter 1948-49; flyaway akht
fact, merely whittled walat; in variation of his New Look that we have all been wearing, with the adtli- tion of a wing-backed shoulder yoke or bolero, and pointed cuffs.
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ON YOUR RIGHT (top), the Slim Look introduced by all the other lend- Ing Paris designers, with
individuul
variations at each House ranging from to knee-tight Empire high waistline hobble.
that
the
-
moderate
Granny Says.......
Lemons will keep longer and not go mouldy it you, Bary them in a box of aand. If they are smull, puck them. a large jar, nii the jar to overflowing with 'clean water, then seal the jar tightly.
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A camel-hair coat can cleaned by dusting it thoroughly with powdered magnesia, rolling it up and leaving for 24 hours. Then shako the cost well and brush with a clean brush until A all the powder in removed. greasy coltar lino can be cleaned With carbon tetrachloride.
Alter vacuum cleaning, don't empty the bag on to newspapers or the dust will fly. Empty it into large, strong paper bag, which can be kept and used again, For effective cleaning, you should empty the vacuum cleaner after cach use.
Small heat marks on furniture can be masked this way, although large ones will need professional repolishing. Shake one or two drops of methylated spirit on to pad of cotton wool, cover this with two pieces of muslin nad use it to rub gently over and around the marks.
Rubber gloves, which have been used, for greasy washing up or other jobs should be washed in warm, soupy water still on the hands, rinsed in clean cold water and dried: Dusit them occasionally with unscented talcum powder to lengthen their life.
Large nail holes often mar the appearance of fumiture and floors. They can be filled with a mixture of ne sawdust and glue, which poured in hnt und pressed tightly down, When It is hard lightly rub the surface with And sandpaper.
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Up so the hams again. streat dress of Dior's, like his other day clothes, is 30 Danti- moires (14jin) of the ground. Other designers make them an inn or two longer
Shrinking of net curtains after English hôïfufae-]turu to London. They report: The very tight skirts are ob- dressmakers, after Few women will want to slim viously impractical and likely to washing can often be prevented two weeks at the Purts Couture.jduwn their skirts so soon after be worn only by the few.. I pre-It, while they are hanging on the linone, a brass curtain rod is rin shows seeing and discussing, are taking to the New Look: Dior's diet
by designer Robert through the lower-hanging hem, uncertain which trend. women wide sisirts will remain popular, favoured
So most of particularly will want to follow,
among
and Piguet will be the most popular The weight of the rod will pull the curtain down. When dry. them have decided to copy both, twenties, whom they best suit. In England.
it 16, There
in the e second press quickly with a hot iron. with a slight preponderance of
of 30
If the bottoms of your gloss slim-skirt
they models because,
Elegant women
up-small sketch from the left: slight- wards
thely flared skirt, corselelted waist; flower vases are stainey, and i take less material.
will mostly prefer
with the Empire tine
merely, you can find some nettles a anlu- These copies will be what we grace of the Slim Look.
hinted at by a curved line high tion of nettle Iraves steeped in shail buy in the shops nexi
will clean them under the bust, formed either by warm water February onwards.
trimming, a matching belt, erlass vases can be kept shining if you wash them In warm, blued the hem of a bolero.
JOYA BEGG
soapy water.
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teens
By next summer most women will once again be accustomed to have talked to several of seeing the Slim Look, and wide these makers-up since their re-skirts will go right out of fashion.
Smaller Hats
By BARBARA E. SCOTT FISHER The Christian Science Monitor
Hats still fuller into the Madame Pauline decks a velvet ring, but they're growing hufe in lace and brings the long smaller by the minute. Per-ends over the shoulders for udd
ed enchantment. haps the biggest news in the Autumn collections concerns the smallest hats, for it hails the return of the calot to fashionable status.
Hattie Carnegle shows a dainty ittle
velvet tricorne sludded with jet which, when removed, discloses a cobweb square of ince covering the hair-so right for a good time after Ave.
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Slip the top and ties into the your the pocket, pull up draw-strings, becomes and your frilly apron a bag.
A pretty and versatile check- Tricornes are again important apron designed to hold and fashionwise. Black satin or needlework or knitting.
very velvet-it doesn't make
difference-tricornes much
arc becoming hats.
Ubiquitous and inconspicuous, young and guy, this little polkn diat a hal settles lightly on the new short coiffures and passes artlessly for a hat without inter- fering with anybody's activities.
To be sure, some of the "pre- Irene does some of her mos! valent calots would not recognise appealingly direct and simple themselves. They essure many clear-cut hats in tricornes shapes.
rockers, with brims
and that curve
Sewing Apron And Useful Bag
One is narrowly brimmed.and give an easy-to-wear feeling
The style pictured above wax side of the inside pocket piece Another, may be a little black In styles that are slightly formale from gingham with a plain and tum in the remaining raw velvet calot with a side exten- Alrily she trima their brims
strip for waistband and centre edges.
Place the base of the small in. ston trimmed with velvet roses, with a delicate tracery of pearls, front of..pocket, combining oxid
with a
alde pocket 4 inches from buse Another aptly terms them "wig as where a small hat
abite of material.
piece on wrong finds a crowns" and parts them down saw-tooth edge of felt
Cut or join material into the of one pocket
side and stitch. Join apron back pieces: Pearls appear again in the For Several give them Mercury Florence
collection 6 inches by 21 inches; for the side of apron back is joined to wings splashed with Jet-and where softly rolled brims are pocket two pieces each 12 inches wrong side of large pocket.. people love them.
heavily embroidered in pearls, Borota in
a wide variety of! and developed in a contours, wide range of fabrics and fells, close second in the run calota fashion picture for Autumn.
the centre' with deft shirrings for small pearl accenting each point. 10 the apron. back a plece back to this plece so that right |
added femininity.
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But perhaps the quaint small
Victorians toque catches the mood
Reichman
Cover
by 21 inches; for an inside-pocket
narrow stelp to mako Thana are particularly dn
8 inches by 8. inches; for the apron with in on right side of 34 caring. Hem long straight side inches by tight-waistband. 12 gaging on the conical, fitting little medieval Venetians inches: for apron tles two strips of front pocket place.
Place front pocket over back by 30 inches, hals that take their Inspiration each 24 inches from the
those worn by the de and a. 1inch strip 21 Inches long pocket, right sides together, and Join all round, Turn to right corative doges of Venice.
⚫ Prominence of the theatre, hat
with
for casting.
lower corners.
As well you need 5 yards rib-side.
Cut off 2 yards ribbon and of the Autumn approach to in all collections hints a lively bon 1⁄2 inches wide. fashion even more perfectly than season. They are small affairs,
First lay your two large pocket gather to at round apron.
Turn in each side of apron back other
This allhouette. any
is sometimes Just a light halo deck pieces together and curve off the
Hem one long and stifch frill in french seam never done with a heavy handed in jet for sparkle,
round big pocket. a certain dash of lncy velling... It manages to carry.
Gather up top of apron to fit Brims of these little hats.. may airy dignity, with no touch of the
or coollu. ar romantically trimmed with waistband. stuffy pomposity the very word be cloche, in effect,
Hem tie strips and join to each "toque" onca implied.
Some are made of navy satin mbik or-ermine. and studded with jet and Vic-Tiny round muffs often com-end of band. torian passementerie.
plement these fur theatre hats.
Pillboxes of black felt, satins,
Make oyelet holes in pocket and velouts, with insets of ince finished in black beading, as well Others hint o vogue for win- Dinner hats may be dramatic casing and hem of front pocket as pillboxes made of the smooth, ter white, covered”, with em-with a flowing profile brim in and thread tles of the remaining Iridescent breasts of birds, find broidered and jewelled 'velling felt with chenille-dotted welling, ribbon.
themselves moving fashion-
able circles, too...
For sheer romance-the bon-
net. Not every bonnet ties be- neath the chin. Many of them
are head-fitting, forward-jutling
CAKE BAKING ADVICE
affairs that give the finishing Many a time we wonder why, ed, the egg whites if beaten 100,
8. Cake Fans,
ingredients
touch to athut long, aristocratic, our cakes just don't turn out the much moy make the cake day,' If too, small," "W..
pre
made. of
ty gurled, extrich tips.t
THE BUTTER CAKE.
Regency look in fashion which way we want-Well, here are Off the egg yolks if beaten too will run over pan.
little, you have sorgy layers at If too large, a flat cake. some hinta: Indientes a proud carriage.
the bottom. -
9. Temperature. :- Many
1. Shortening."
4: Leavening.
Must be careful about this, for velvet.or
and frequently I too, mich I used the cake It too much is used it will be if the temperature is too high. finished with a cluster.
the same as if too much shorten- the cake may burn on sides, Sally falls apart a
might be too small or a crack' or the Victorian 1 ten litt: 12 used you wit; get ing is used Piston turnia to
Faslough or a rele crush
I too tile is used, the calce
hump jogolni.. bonnet for both the name
It top-low, Nin-oder-pan-and If tool suit s shortening you will be too small. and inspiration of a.clever little
may have angay layers at the
Hour
a pale crust. botbm..
Too little used, the cako may mastery crack.
+
mon of Victoria's
.
10. Baking Time,
Too long, a hand, and a. tough: Sal Arrangement.
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