After Lunch 1938
Beautify
Your Ankles
NOW
that skirts have be- come shorter, ankles are
in the limelight more than ever, so it is a wise plan to attention. to
pay ankles....
.
your
Don't weaken them by running downstairs, by too much walking or by the wrong kind of shoes. You will need to have strong ankles if you are to enjoy the evening of life.
See that your shoes fit the
ankle as well as the foot Itself;
so many people forget this very
important point when choosing Good Cooking
new shoes.
Again, a few exercises every
morning help to strengthen one
of the most complicated of the
human joints. Stretch the legs;
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By Ambrose Heath
HARICOT BEANS
afternoons
MENERAL trend: Elegance, fuld U skirts, fitted tops. A lot of movement when you walk. Not quite a frou-frou, but you wall. Note typical lincs for afternoon and evening from the sketches:
1.
Bi-coloured
dresses printed and pleated at the back, plain Or just in front; or vice versa. two colours, one for the front eleva- tion and one for the back. In the Rochas example the front la black wool, the back silk crepe.
This little Goupy outfit Illus-
2. rates seral fation polta:
the vestee effect-plata surah jacket! cut low in front over the net dress; the transparent look both at the hem und neckline; and, of course, plenia.
3 Apron effects are new, either as wrapped fronts or a complete copy of cook's apron; like the printed dress sketched. Push this fashion a the little
get further and you pinafore dresses of dark crepe over orangdie or broderle blouses.
The redingote-amung all the afternoon cont variations, with and without pleats, fullness in the bodice, draped sleeves, cape backs. logo fronts. Vera Boren's wrap-over moulded redingote with front full- ness emerges as one of the simplest and loveliest lines to follow.
dinners
The bolero outline which up-
5. pears everywhere (particularly
for turning full evening dresses Into dinner frocks) gives a particularly new outline when worn over a deep corselet belt. In the sketch both bolero and belt are of fine seariet felt over a summer evening dress of sea blue linen.
6.
Dramatic line at Piguet's; à violet blue, low-cut evening dress turns into a vivid dinner two- piece with its hugely full satin over- blouse, almost the line of a ski-ing jacket, one of the newest things out of the collections.
7 A chatelaine dress. Developed
from the cosy informal enter- taining that is part of modern lite, several designers show serene lady. like drestes for dinner at home or of week-end evenings. This heavy dark crepe shows a peasant influence, with soft gathered skirt, white lace bolero too.
onc
Dinner suits have been so use- ful they won't go out of fashion for a bit. Over a allm black skirt Creed puts a butter yellow direc- toire jacket of ribbed silk. Other dinner- dosigners make printed Juckets cut in the Chinese manner from hand-embroidered satin.
parties
Having remarked
about the corset top in an earlier report, the We think Lelong's why is pretilest; a sugar pink satin corselet white net dress with luced up over a sugar pink pipings and bows. Other developments are the blue satin corset top reaching from decolletage to hip; and the long jumper top with full jumpslinde skirt gathered on at a low hipline.
There's nothing so good as
10. being a Greek statue all in while crepe pleats with golden bay- leaves at the waist. Such dresses (this one is Germaine Bailly's) get all the claps, and so do the draped ones by Alix, simple yet complex as marbles. Yes Going
the Elgin
11. The line
in front of you and move the TT is sometimes interesting to see how different countries treat fect fairly slowly first to the the same foodstuff, and here are three illustrations from Greek is still smart,
that scems most right and then to the left. Do France, Italy and America.
popular, taking it all round," this at least a dozen times every | Maitre d'hotel morning.
Soak the beans for two hours in warm water. Put them into a sauce is the simple fitted top with skirt With regard to appearances, pan (carthenware if possible) and cover them with plenty of fresh warm
guising the hips. Here it is, shown and dramatic you will find that most people water. Remove the pan from the fire and leave it for an hour. The bean fullness flowing from the waist, dis- look first at another person's should by then be nicely swollen, drain them, throw away the water and in most glamorous
put them in the pan, this time with boiling salted water, adding an onion form by Chanel, fixed up with ankles, so see that your stock stuck with a clove, a carrot and a bouquet of parsley, thyme and bayleaf. spangles and head-veil. But it per- ings fit well round the ankles, Put on the lid and boil very gently for an hour and a half. Drain them, sists in printed chiffon and crepe and be careful that you do not "dry" them on a hot fire, mix in three ounces of fresh butter for every dresses, in little black numbers, in pound of beans, season with salt and pepper, squeeze over a little lemon every sort of fabric and colour com- Juice and sprinkle over some chopped parsley.
bination, mostly transparent over a get them too badly spattered in
slender slip. It remains the easiest muddy weather.
Alla Romana Exaggerated markings on
Having soaked the beans, cook from them in salted water only and and at the same time most finttering your stockings draw attention drain them well. Fry three coarsely cut-up onions in butter until browned, design for most figures.
beans, some minced to your ankles and do not help then add the
Bleve, very much to produce an optical anchovies rubbed through illusion if the joints are not all pepper and grated nutmeg, and a ittle stock. Cook all together until that you desiro,
the beans have absorbed the liquid, Finally, rub cold cream into then squeezo over them the juice of your ankles occasionally, and a lemon and serve very hot. nover plunge them into water Boilod (American style) that is too hot.
Take care of your ankies, for they are the "crowning glory" of your feet!
B. M.
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Summer Waist
Line
IN 3 WEEKS
The kind
E new waistline, the cummer- the draped, the gauged and the tucked waistline, all are part of the designers' creed for spring and summer,
Rarely any belts. Tunics which define the waist and hug the hips. Or princess lines which make the waistline high.
Tweeds, cleverly tucked, on the nccentuate want reverse side, to there is of waistline. And the finest point in slimming, the first place to admit anybulge, the worst portion of all to acquire and retain a spare tyre is the waistline.
On the slimming of the waist resta your success in dress for the coming
season,
can
You have three weeks in which to achieve a fushionable contour, which necesslinies a lessening of the middle- lise. But in three weeks you Jose two to three inches from a and that can completely waistline, transform you.
Try it, in this way;-
(a) Take a standing position, feet ten inches apart, toes pointing for- ward. Raise the arms forward, then awing them up and over to the right side, twisting from the waist as you Яing.
(a)
Bring the arms down
with
flourish, and swing them up and over to the left alde, turning from the waist once more.
Repeat twenty times.
(b) Take a position lying on the elbows tucked in at your sides, floor, hands at shoulder-level.
keeping feet to-
Raise the Knot. Turn the knees
gether on the
on to the right side, and bring them up under the right armpit. Lower, slowly, stretch and
and straighten kuces as your feet reach central position; curl up knees again and turn over to left side, bringing them up to left You armpit. Repeat twenty times. will be amazed at the effect on the waistline.
New massage. While lying on the back, pince hands at centre front on the ribs and draw across to each side. Lift the hands away and begin again, pressing deeply. Always before a meal or one and a half hours after- wards.
Better still, while the skin is still moist from the bath, take a tablet of reducing soap in each hand and the same manner. draw across In The soap is a weapon with which to fight, the encroaching "yre."
If you are otherwise stim, you will not wish to diet, and you cannot
(b)
afford to risk lesing your facial con- tours in the cause of your waistline.
After all, in every movement, you can trim the waist. You can use it as a pivot-you can never afford to disregard it. And since you will be wearing very few tell this coming season you must have a waistline which can be accentuated with tucks or gauging or cummerbund effect, or draping.
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THERAPION No. 3
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