A FURTHER SURVEY OF THE PARIS
DRESS DISPLAYS
TOWN AND COUNTRY COATS: TAILORED SUITS: SPECTATOR SPORTS CLOTHES: KNITWEAR FOR DAY AND EVENING
By JANE GORDON, “Daily Telegraph and Morning Post" Fashion Expert
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models for
evening wear, Digering though the nea may be, they are always decora tive, arresting and be coming. The gown that cxámplifies the 60 - the shoulder movement 15 in chiffon striped f
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IMAGINE yourself in Paris,
The hour is 10.30 a.m. and
there is a hint of Spring in the
you.
high-necked tunic of this powa: the satin skirt is printed in scarlet, green, grey and black.
air. You are setting out to see good spectator type of sports clothes, CARLET jorscy silk makes the the new fashions and you have One of the best has a pinky-beige several dress shows ahead of woollen dress and cardigan bordered
with bands of quilting. A navy blue crepe dress has two bands of Walking down the Faubourg Saint- white faggating down the front.
A brown skirt, made to wrap over, Honore, you stop to look at little A pale blue woollen dress, draped has a cardigan striped in beige, Cellophane mules with gold soles over the hips, has butterfly bows of brown and red, worn over a beige and heals displayed in the window brown leather, and a pale blue heavy jumper. A while evening dress has Jittle further linen frock is cut in square the bodice slit at the back and is
out of a hoe shop, and down the street you turn into window sections at the yoke and has belted with gold kid studded with O'Rossen's, the house for tailored a loose jacket.
jewels. This dress is worn with a white bolero. suits and couls.
Anny Blatt is showing her new Here you see some beautifully
After luncheon you find yourself tailored top coats. One is a heavy collection of knitted models in the
same street. Muke a nota of the at Ardiance. The most interesting beige and brown checked whipcord, suit with the
here navy-blue jacket of models
double-breasted and hanging straight classic cut and the white ribbed and light-we include a golden-brown
from the shoulders at the back. from
wool dress, plainly beltless, with a very green chiffon handkerchief single breast pocket
picated skirt, as well as the navy tailored and and blue skirt knitted A country coat in brown
with groups of long beige check, cut in ruglan shape, hus, small pleais down
tucked into the front and pinched-up pleats at the kasha coal has a Pet Pan collar and worn with a white ribbed jucket of and hanging down below the waist.
back.
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nd cotton yarn.'.
CIRCLE EMBROIDERIES
cuffs in beaver, one pleat down the
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The straight jacket is of checked wool with golden-brown patch poc- A blue dress with short sleeves has nipped up tucks across the front
ket.
is belted in brown tea- and ther. Covert conting reversed with check is used for a good-looking. A kasha suit has the jacket em- of the bodice with loops of string severely tailored cont. A suit in broidered with circles of red and forming two rounded pockets. platinum Bannel has the Jacket black silk. Navy and white pin A black tulle dance frock has the belted at the back and double- siripe taller made cut on clussie lines whole of the top of the bodlee in breasted in front.
It has silver but- looks as if it were made of men's flesh-coloured net, and a black tulle tons, and Is worn with a plain sulting. Another suit of clasule cut dress has the long tightly-fitting
is in oyster and black speckled yarn bodice of black lace insertion. A light-weight grey tweed has a thut looks like a fine tweed. There belted Jacket cut with a back yoke, are sults and dresses of duric's cau which is braided. A fine cloth suit blue turquoise blue, ophelia mauve
skirt.
TROUSER CREASE
.
A navy-blue suit with a white Up Rice. There is stripe has skirt creased like
THE LINEN SHIRT
in palest grey has the skirt mode and pastel sundes. Very bright The last dress show of the day is with pressed pleats at the back. blouses are worn with dark suits. at Le Roy's, where your attention From Anny Blatt's you step into is caught by a little suit which has luxi and ure whisked off to see the pinky-brown high-waisted skirt, knitted collection shown by Alleen Wom with a beige-coloured linen short-waisted skirt under the belge particularly good checked jacket of fine face-cloth. man's trousers down the front, and breasted and fastened with shell woollen frock is worn with a bolero long black town coat, double-
A ginger
-coloured light-weight a longish double-breasted jacket eut buttons. like man's.
with crossed red fox. A green-blue fennel suit with o
A sea-green evening dress has. white chalk stripe as the skirt hold long sleeves and a high neck, with up with braces of the same material, a dark green yoke at the front and
and
a belge suit also has braces. a slit at the back of the bodice. One of the smartest suits has a gity
JABOT OF FOULARD
A tightly-flting | beige-coloured sult is topped by a dark brown felt poke bonnet. A dress of golden- yellow wool has a tippet of two baby cross foxes,
and white pin stripe skirt, worn with a dark
White cloth la used for a good- grey blazer jacket, A black knitted suit has n Jabot looking tailored coat worn with a double-breasted and fastened with of black foulard patterned with wine and white spotted foulard silver buttons.
white horseshoes, and a navy knitted dress, and some of the Jackets and Almost opposite is the little house skirt is shown with a navy and white long conts have collars of looped fox of Perrine's. Here
see some striped cardigan and a white jumper. fur."
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WHAT are your plans for the children this Easter? You will note the word, “plans,” for I do not hint at lavish expenditure. A little planning, and every one gets their fun out of it.
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a-cup, especially if you add necktie in narrow ribbon.
Eggs can be dyed whilst they are bolting by using simple vegetable colourings, and if you add the child's initials there will be great delight
am sure.
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Surprise sweet packages form part
of the children's day, too.
With bulbs springing up every- where, an imilation pot of flowers can. be fashioned from the babiest
wrappinga.
In various parts of the coun- size of cream carton, and savings of try there are different ways of coloured
tintol}, tissue рарег, and celebrating Easter with eggs.
transparent aweet Bright coloured dragees, lentilles and small sugared and burnt al- monds are most successful, especial- ly red, pale green, lemon or orange
sweets.
Up north, I remember as a child, they used to hold "Pace Egg" meet- Inga The eggs were hard-boiled and dyed bright colours, red, purple, blac or coffee brown, for the chil- Cover the outside of the carton dren to take in their parties and with bright gold or silver foil, roll down a grassy slope sort of secure with a touch of gum, and Egg Derby. They also played a fold in the edges firmly. Fill up "Knock-knock game, with the eggs inside with sweet in two or more end to end. to see which cracked colours, and gather the whole Into first. Simple, but good fun for a square of pale green tissue. children.
Twist up two or three of the brightest sweets in transparent
You can even begin wrapping, reversing the "stalks"
at breakfast by play into the bunched green ends. If ing tricks with hard-boiled eggs, outer green wrapping the ends stand these are tied In firmly with the either dyeing them in patterns, up crisply, making leaves to support or making indelible funny faces the flowers. with Indian ink before you cook them, leaving the touching-up
UNCH and tea must
be planned, too. This
of the cheeks with cochineal cold sweet will create amuse-
until afterwards.
A frilled or cockade paper, hat ment, if you can remember to tied on afterwards can look absurdly hoard a few egg shells in funny when, it is perched on the readiness.
can
or
a sponge Jelly Eggs, in ring nest, lined. with chop- be very ped jelly, colourfut, served with your own touches of cream custard. Those I made for David, aged seven, were clear red, but I made a few lemon ones and rolled them in fine non parells-"butter- flies' eggs" to him.
About those eggs? This "Pierce the is what you do: the egg lightly at the thin- ner end, then reverse it and
carefully break the spell, the round end,
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snipping out
with small in. circle finely pointed scissors. Run
out the egg into a basin for use and rinse the shell in cold water ready for filling. Make up a pint table jelly in the usual way, but use large
Marmalade With rather less water than for
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mould, as the eggs must be firm to keep their shape. When beginning to set, but still liquid, pour the jelly Into the shells by spoon or funnel until quite full.
Set them on the rack overnight, and pour the rest of the jelly to set In a fat dish. Next day you will
N excellent marmalade with find that the shells peel away from pint most unusual favour is made the eggs very easily. One
makes half-a-dozen eggs, and suf- (writes Grace Wilson) with 2
ficient jelly to line the centre of the medium-sized grape-fruits, 1 orange,sponge flan or ring. and a large tin of pineapple (grated), When you are ready for the sweet, chop the surplus jelly roughly with The whole fruit is washed and a wetted knife on damp grenseproof QUICK CONVALESCENCE
soaked overnight in six gills of paper, so that it remains sparkling. AFTER FEVERS
water. Boil together next day till Arrange the sponge on the dish and over the centre, the fruit is tender (not replacing spread the jelly Doctors will tell you that once your the water boiled away).
finally staging the centrepiece of temperature falls It's all-important
jellied eggs with a piping of cream to robuild your wasted nerve and Remove skins from
between them. muscle tissues,
discard pith and seeds. Put After the fever has gone, when and pulp through the mincer the stomach is too weak to digest pineapple. ordinary foods, a nourishing and appetising food drink, is most essen- tial and beneficial. -
fruit
and
The prettiest effect comes from skins using two jelly colours, half a tablet Add of red jelly for the eggs and a pater colour for the centre. The recipe refers to the moist type of sponge To each ptnt allow 1lb. sugar. cake, but a sponge mould ring could Bring slowly to the boll to dis-be used if it were set with the jelly solve sugar. Boil rapidly till mar sponge sandwich would be equally overnight in the serving dish. Á liquid food that not only can be malade Jellies when tested. Pot, and effective with the top half cut out easily digested; but niso stimulates cover when hot,
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Panflavin~
Or Sow Mroat ?
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