NOTE ON LONDON'S LATEST FASHIONS
Bits To Cut Out
Knife Handles
DON'T you feel a fool when
you are trying to cut a particularly tough piece of meat at dinner-lime-und-the-blade-of-your- knife suddenly turns over an its side in the handle, which has be come loose?
This happens because some
has left your knives lying in
one
hot
Good Cooking.
delicious Itallan
Review of models sponsored by London Fashion Group. Chairman, Designer
Victor Stiebel
By Jane Gordon
I
T has taken our modest English creators of fashion some time to discover that faint heart never won fair American buyer.
Having learnt their lesson this season, they have not only lured the American buyers over to London to ace the special collections produced for the U.S.A.. but they have had the satisfaction of seeing their models go like hot cakes.
You will see from these sketches some of the clothes designed especially for Amerien.
The evening dress of white salin brocade with touches of gold thread blending alternately with the sheen of the satin is a Worth model. There are two beads at the neckine and gilt metal belt. White and gold is still Worth's favourite, evening mixture,
The headdress is of tiger lies with pale green leaves.
Next you see Dilkusha's single-breasted coat in binek face cloth with a satin Anish. It is fastened with Ove very large gilt buttons. On each button the English Hon is stamped in black. This cont in worn over a print dress.
"Above the two full-length figures you see Motley's huge white telt hat, set straight on the head with pretty' fried chin strap, and next to it Worth's evening head- dress of gold flowers with black spotted vell worn with black fan and gloves over a white frock.
BE ve small figures lustrate, first
Teddy
THE Tinling's black holera dress with epaulettes of
satin ribbon and loops down the side seam of the skirt.
The bow on the hat carries out the Spanish effect. Two is also from Teddy Tinling. It is a grey dress in interesting material of string and linen mixture with horses on the handbag,
scarlet suede motifs of rear pockets.
gauntlet of the gloves, belt
Three
(that is the first of the three small figures at the right of the drawing) is Dilkusha's evening gown in heavy red crepe showing slashed back. The arrange. ment of fullness in the half train produces the interest.
Four is the coat that belongs to this dress. This is made of fine salin lined with pink, with red pockets and mittens with long gauntlets. Five is Leathercraft's evening wrap in bright scarlet suede,
HERE are some interesting signposts to indicate
the high roads of Coronation fashions. Bright tartans introduced by the English fashion de- signers in compliment to our Scottish Queen.
Indian pulsleys of every type inspired by thoughts of the Durbar.
Materials and colours picked from the armies of all
nation.
the
Khaki and Air Force blue, starlet and navy mix- tures and French Ariny blue-just to show that fashion experts know what's what in Europe and Morocco,
The military shape of cats, cut square and flat across the back of the
By Ambrose Heath shoulders and nipped in at the waist with stiff fullness hanging from the
SEMOLINA
With Cheese
waist to hem line, will make women hold up their heads and swagger -around-the-street-like cavalry officers.on foot....
Next season's skirts on afternoon and evening dresses are cut wrap- round and fastened down the centre back with three buttons, the wrap-over Bap hanging straight down the centre back.
DWARDIAN evening dresses are an amusing contrast to the practical sheath-like dinner gowns we have been accustomed to
wearing lately.
One in white chiffon with a high collar is fastened with blue satin bows, and another in turquoise blue chiffon with a high neckline is draped at the front of the bodice and has a bow of deep blue velvet at the back of the neck with long blue velvet streamers sweeping to the ground.
water while washing up, the handles MANY people are rightly fond of ture brown on both sides in butter, becoming 1003c.
semolina, but we cannot always and serve them, well-drained with Here's the remedy. Detach the eat it as a pudding. Here are one a jam sauce. blade entirely from the handle and or two recipes for using it in other thoroughly clean the stem. Thenways. (I have not forgotten the melt some powdered resin (you can
gnocchi allu Cook 4 oz. of semolina in a quart get some from your ollman) in a tin Romana, but I gave that recipe last of milk for a quarter of an hour,
October.)
then add 2 oz. of grated cheese, 2 or an old saucepan over a gas-ring
oz. of butter, a teaspoonful of made There are the Spanish evening dresses-one of Glenny's In white mustard and salt, pepper and chiffon patterned with red and black is trimmed with black lace and hos n cayenne to taste. When well mixed black lace headdress.
TERE are a list of models which should give the student of Hion food for thought
at the same time heating the stem
of the blade.
Soup
Don't make it too hot, though, otherwise it might burn the handle, Make some good, clear consomme put into a buller shallow fire-proof which usually made of inflam (or buy a tin of it), bring it to the dish and sprinkle well with bread- mable material. When the resin has boil and sprinkle in half an ounce crumbs mixed with grated cheese. melted sumciently pour it over the of semolina for every pint of con- Do.over with butter and brown in stem and quickly insert it back into ally for 20 minutes the hundle. Don't use the knife for stirring nearly
after seasoning it to your serve it.
A
couple of hours after this,
the resin must set firmly.
¡
How To Freshen
Cire Lace
LUSTROUS eire lace which
Fritters
Uking,
hot oven.
a
Motley's huge khaki cowboy hat worn with a grey suit.
Worth's enormous black and white shepherd's plaid three-quarter Stuffed Onions.
length coat cut with huge godets that make it swing out at the back, worn Cook some semolina in stock in- with a black skirt. stead of milk, and mix some grated Dikusha's grey dress with scarlet tartan sporan worn with cheese with it. Have some medium-versible glengarry of grey and tartan. sized Spanish onions, cut off the top
-TC-
Cock 4 oz. of cernollua in a pint a quarter the way down, and parboil Mawdsley's khaki-coloured tight-fitting jacket worn with a black skirt of milk until it leaves the sides of them well. Now scoop out their in- and printed crepe blouse.
thut saucepan, then add an orice of sides, leaving the sides about a third
four
a of
an
inch thick.
the
back.
Leathercraft's mustard suede dress with-short sleeves worn over three-quarter length grey suede coat flared at the back.
£
has got dull and dirty can little orange or
butter, 2 oz. of castor sugar and
Motley's full-length mauve tweed evening coat with violets at the Chop up be sponged with warm soapy water when it is cool beat in the yolks of equni
lemon
favouring. scooped-out part and mix it with an neck, and the olive-green corduroy coat cut in the new style with a full and restored to its original stiffness
amount of the prepared and lustre in the following way:—
eggs and then the whisked semeling. Then finish cooking the Make a thick starch peste by Whites. Fry spoonfuls of this mix- onions by brasing or baking. mixing two teaspoonfuls of starch in a cup of boiling water, and dis- solve in this half an eggeupful of soap, Wet out the lace (after the sponging) in this paste and squeeze If well. Then iron it quickly with a very hot fron as hord as possible and until the lace is just dry. The com- bination of friction and drying, helped by the soap. makes the lace stiff and bright,
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