THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1937,
Bits To Cut Out
NOTE ON LONDON'S LATEST FASHIONS
Knife Handies
DON'T you feel a fool when
you are trying to cut particularly tough plece of ment at -dinner-timo-and-the-blade_of_your knife suddenly turns over on Its side in the handle, which has be-
come loose?
This happens because some one has left your knives lying in hot
Good Cooking
Review of models sponsored by London Fashion Group. Chairman, Designer
Victor Stiebel
By Jane Gordon
Thas taken our modest English creators of fashion some time to discover that faint heart never won fair American buyer.
Having learnt their lesson this sensen, they have not only lured the American buyers over to London to see the special collections produced for the US.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 America.
the
The evening dress of white satin brocade with touches of gold thread blending alternately with sheen of the satin is a Worth model. There are two beads at the neckine and n 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 black face cloth with a satin finish. It is fastened with five very large gilt buttons.. On each button the English lion, is stamped in black. This cont is worn over n print
dress.
"Above the two full-length figures you see Motley's huge white felt hat, set straight on the head with pretty frilled chin strap, and next to it Worth's evening head- dress of gold flowers with black spotted veil worn with black fan and gloves over a white frock.
Teddy
THE Ave small figures ilustrate, Brst
Tinling's black bolero 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 scarlet suede motifs of rearing horses on the handbag, gauntlet of the gloves, belt and pockets.
Three (that is the first of the three small Ogures at the right of the drawing) is Dikusho's evening cown in heavy red crepe showing slashed back. The arrange- ment of fullness in the half train produces the interest.
Four in the coat that belongs to this dress. This is made of fine satin lined with pink, with red pockets and mittens with long gauntlets. Five is Leathercraft'a evening wrap in bright scarlet suede.
HERE are some interesting signposts to indicate I the high roads of Coronation fashions. Bright tartans introduced by the English fashion de- signers in compliment to our Scottish Queen,
Indian palsleys of every type inspired by thoughts of the Durbar.
Materials and colours picked from the armies of all
nation.
Khaki and Air Force blue, scarlet and navy mix- tures and French Army blue-just to show that the fushion experts know what's what in Europe and Morocco.
The military shope of cats, cut square and flat across the back of the
By Ambrose Heath shoulders and nipped in at the wolat with stiff fullness hanging from the
SEMOLINA
water while washing up, the handles semolina, but we cannot always and serve them, well drained with MANY people are rightly fond of ture brown on both sides in butter, becoming loose.
Here's the remedy. Detach the cat it as a pudding. Here are one a jam sauce. blade entirely from the handle and or two recipes for using it thoroughly clean the
stem. Then
melt some powdered resin (you can some from your oilman) in a tin or on old saucepan over a gas-ring
get
ut the same time heating the stem
the blade.
of
Soup
olber
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 aro cut wrap- round and fastened down the centre back with three buttons, the wrap-over flap hanging straight down the centre back,
EDWARDIAN evening dresses are on
the amusing contrast to practical sheath-like dinner gowns we have been accustomed to
wearing lately.
With Cheese
One in white chiffon with a high collar is fastened with blue satin ways: (I have not forgotten the
bows, and another in turquoise blue chiffon with a high neckline is draped delicious Italian gnocchi alla Romana, but I gave that recipe last of milk for a quarter of an hour, the neck with long blue velvet sireamers sweeping to the ground.
Cook 4 oz. of semolina in a quart at the front of the bodice and has a bow of deep blue velvet at the back of
October.)
then add 2 oz. of grated cheese, Ź
white oz. of butter, a teaspoonful of made There are the Spanish evening dresses-one of Glenny's in mustard
and salt,
chiffon patterned with red and black is trimmed with black face and has a and pepper Don't make it too hot, though,
cayenne to taste. When well mixed black lace headdress. otherwise it might burn the handle, Make some good, clear consomme put into a butter shallow fire-proof |
ERE are a list of models which should give the student of Hushion food for thought. which is 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 sufficiently pour it over the semolina for every pint of con- Do over with butter and brown in a stem and quickly insert it back into somme. Cook gently for 20 minutes, hot oven. the handle. Don't use the knife for stirring nearly all the time, and
couple of hours after this, as after seasoning it to your
Д
the resin must set firmly.
How To Freshen
Cire Lace
USTROUS cire laco which
has got dull and dirty can be sponged with warm soapy water and restored to its original stiffness
and lustre in the following way:
Make a thick starch paste by mixing two teaspoonfuls of starch in a cup of bolling water, and dis- solva in this half an eggcupful of Soap. Wet
out the Ince (after the sponging) in this paste and squeeze It well. Then iran it quickly with a very hot iron as hard as possible and until the lace, is just dry. The com- bination of friction, ond drying, helped by the soap, makes the lace stuff and bright,
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WAKE UP YOUR
LIVER BILE WITHOUT CALOMEL
'And You'li Jump Out of Bed Fael- ing You Could Puzh a Bus Ovar The Uver should pour ous two plate of Equid bile into your howais daily. If this bila do not fowisza freely your food doesn't digest, It just decays in the bowele. Gas blasty up your stomach. You get constipated. Your
·whole system is poisoned and you foul, sour, sunk and the world looks punk.ee
Balla, faxy drinks, palatable laxatives and Aarsh, purgatives, are makeshifts. A meto bowel movement doesn't get at the cops, 11. at taken the famous, sura acling Carter'a Lille Liver Pils, to wit those two pinta of bile Doying Dresly and make you feel “up and wy". Harmione, gentle, yet amazing in mak«. The bild Edvar atk for Carter's Lill
Look for the name Carter'U BUZZ
serve it.
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Fritters
Hking,
Motley's huge khaki cowboy hat worn with a grey suit. Worth's enormous black and white shepherd's plaid three-quarter length coat cut with huge godets that make it swing out at the back, worn with a black skirt.
Stuffed Onions. Cook some semolina in stock in- stead of milk, and mix some grated Dilkusha's grey dress with scarlet tartan sporan worn with a re- cheese with it. Have some medium-versible glengarry of grey and fartan. sized Spanish onions, cut off the top
Cool: 4.0% of semolina in a pint a quarter the way down, and parboll Mawdsley's khakl-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. the saucepan, then add an ounce of sides, leaving the sides about a third Motley's full-length mauve tweed evening coat with violets at the butter, 2 oz. of castor sugar and n of an inch thick. Chop up the little orange or lemon flavouring, scooped-out part and mix it with an neck, and the olive-green corduroy coat cut in the new style with a full When it is cool beat in the yolks of equal amount of the prepared
four eggs and then the whisked semolina. Then finish cooking the
whites, Fry spoonfuls, of this mix- onions by brasing or baking,
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