DRAPED jersey makes the
frat of this trio; the
second is flowered crepe with out for the pattern cut
shoulder straps; and third an
exquisite afair
white
bagheera velvet and vivid
pink ruched net.
DISHES
GLAMOUR must be
your first aim for EVENING
IN FULL DRESS
THERE are many effective Trim-|
THER
What about glamorising your
An ordinary pudly served china dalı anti
mings and accessorjet which will sweeta? transform & homely meal into a gay glass or gay
and appetising affair, and one of the decorated with blanched almonds, or
surest ways to do this is to add a touch of geven,
|wraintala, becomes quite intriguing. A chocolate blanc-mange spiked ke hedgehog will enchant the children,
The king of the garnishing world Hundreds and thousands strewn on Is parsley. But be
restrained
in to Jelly creama look attructive, and Pream seems even more
using it. A sprig or so is delight-whipped
ful way of giving colour to a dish, enteng if topped with crystalised but groves of it become ridiculous
violets ov rose petals.
Fruti Touls should always be up- Even homely boiled potatoes take ported by something in the on quite a decent air If sprinttled biscuit fine, and fresh fruit arranged
toppling heaps with fresh chopped parsley, and fur in hul fish, a few healthy-lunking sprigs Importiner give a charming finish.
Slices of
the
lemon, too, make good companions for parsley, and it is interesting to Think out different shapes for lemon slices. Baskets, curla, Tam, and crosses are all easy to achieve with a sharp knife
wear A
Hot dishes should never casual air. Cutlets lying evenly on
n dish with tomutoes separating them loolt attractive in their orderlines, Grilled steak served with Liny bunches of watercress joaks "well dressed," and even a jug of lemonade with mint leaves floating on the top gecins superlur.
Making Mince Look "Different"
A mince, of any kind of cooked meat always looks homely, but inixed with a suitable suce and served in scallop shells with a border of mashed potatoes piped round it, It appears totally different.
With cold meats, salads strike note of freshness. Do you serve your salads in individual bowls? This has a pleasant look and also Chgures everybody getting their favourite "bis" instead of having to dig to the bottom of a large bowl.
Another alternative would be to ure the peel of grape fruit or oranges for containers. In this case the zaind ingredients should be fairly small, so that they can be served without difficulty.
When you want a sulad to look) particularly inviting, put the top layer into "fancy dress." Try mak- ing a marguerite from hard boiled. ege. Cut the white into strips tho size of the flower petals and arrange them to form a flower. Fill the centre with a round of yolk of egg, and stems and leaves can be cut from strips of cucumber rind,
Another effective decoration ja made of half moons of white of egg arranged scallop fashion round the edge of the dish with a star in the): centre.
For this, cut the white of egg into small rounds, and use the side of the round cutter to stamp off half moons from each side of a round. This leaver a petal shaped plece in the centre which is useful for making vtars.
Cucumber Cues
Perhaps you would prefer cucum- ber to be the high note of your malad? Treat it like this. Remove the green outside alcin, then with a fork, score down the side of the cucumber with the prongs. Go all round the cu- cumber, and then get the cork from the cochineal bottle, and on two sides of the cucumber, run it down.
When cut into slices, ench will be prettily Unted and also ́scalloped. A powdering of egg yolk makes a second- centre.
Cucumber, of course, is the usual gornish for, salmon. But it can also “go gay 'with "tomatoes. Scoop out the Insides of the tomatoes, and fill the tomato cups with: mayonnaise. A touch of watercoss makes a perfect finish.
"IRST dress
water)
10 adds
its
Mindge Whiley
Fug, black,
stand-alone taffeta with (2 INUTE Anists. The skirt is very full indeed. and the bodice is
delicately honed.
Outlining
the tie.
heart-shaped. colletage is white lace
The gloves are white lace too, but
could have them in the same stu as the dress, edged with white lacc.
IN the lower foure you have white
Organza
puf v
coming right to the base of the throat, sleeves, an enorm- ous sicirt festooned with loops and bows of hydrangea and blue rib- bons.
The same festooning line DC» curs on the bodice. The
slip should be while too, with Resh shoulder straps, so as not
to break the line.
says
Cecile Lavigne
Sketches by BENINGTON
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and
So if glamour and romantic crop up now again in this piece, please bear with me. There is dainty; but, no, that is too revolting. Feminine? Not bad, but itself overworked. Victorian and Edwardian say quite a lot. I'll be using them, I expect. How else would you describe the
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on the standing figure in the centre sketch but glamorous, unless you sak romantic? And If the dress on the seated Ogure lan't romantic, what is it but glamorous? All right, feminine, Victorian, have it your own way.
TH
HERE seems to be no shadow of doubt that full, frothy skirts in etherent stuffs like net, lace, tulle, organza, chiffon, and spreading billowing skirts in stuffs like slipper satin, molre, heavy taffeta, have rone straight to women's hearts,
Thuy love them because they make them look fragile and frail, delicate and feminine (you see?). They don't at all mind nipping in the waists Ughtly, ns, strictly following the silhouette, they
should. As a matter of fact, any very full skirt automatically makes a waist look smaller, and, of course, always hides any Imperfections down below the wair
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Lots of women are discovering that their squarish shoulders are very shopy- able. It used to be thought that off- shoulder dresses only looked good with the sloping shoulders that every woman seem-2012 26. ed to be born with in Victorian days. Now we see that a straight shoulder is the line for an off-shoulder dress.
Practically every Paris and London designer has been showing these naked- top dresses. If you want to see how they look in action, Bette Davis wears one which is almost exactly in the current style in "Jezebel" at the Carlton Cinema, Only hers is dated 1852. So you see how fashiona come and come again.
OR those women who feel that anked FOR
top dresses are too naked there is the half-off-the-shoulder style, which I think is even more fetching. It is not so com- fortable in weur, because unless the piece that drops goes tightly across the chest and shoulders you feel the whole thing really drops.
Another version of the naked top you will see in the dress on the seated figure | in the small trio (top left). This doesn't look so naked as the first, because the ruched net, frou-frou top comes up fairly high on the chest,
This dress, Edwardian, of course, In Inspiration, is made of white bagheera velvet, the finest silklest velvet Imaginable, and is no use to anyone whose shape isn't because it follows that shape as perfect, faithfully as night follows day.
the
The vivid pink ruched net at slightly nouncing hemline gives exciting Andalusian movement, and, worn with long black gloves and a piece of net nonsense in the hair, it is definitely a belle-of-the-ball dress, and should maka every other woman in the room hate you, All full-skirt dresses don't have to show shoulders.
They
can be modest as instance, anything. For
on the the seated figure in the blg sketch.
Again, it demureness is what you are after, you might consider R very full slipper-satin skirt flowing from a small
one
laced corselet, with a net top gathered into a high neckline and lying with a bow. Short net sleeves are also gathered into bows. All black for this (sketch- ed top right).
THERE will always be women
who won't or can't wear full skirts, and for them there is the dress whose line is pencil slim, and whose effect is distingulalied and elegant.
In lame, crepe, romaine, cut low front and back, with 11 little matching, fitted jacket, and the skirt so tight that it has to be slit some- where, it is the
best.
possible theatre or restaurant outfit. Very full skirts are för big balls and parties. Theatre seats don't accominodate them too happily.
Straight lame or brocade frocks, with knee-length tunics, coming to a paint at centre front and back, edged with baroque, rather orien- tal trimming, are pushing their way into the foreground of the picture. For these you have to have height.
A paste, slim evening frock con look like now if it la veiled in contrasting lace,
Flowers can be massed in small or large bunchies and tucked in at the bosom, or trail anywhere on the skirt, with their stalks on. When you wear these, tell your beaux, No' orchids, please,
Ribbon bows and loops and sashes; pailleted tulle thrown over the head, or worn round The shoulders; flowers appliqued at intervals on sprending skirta;
cach
froufrou tulle bows ou shoulder; frills and tons; velvet).. wrist bands; Achus of old face and other
fragront and alluring womanly whims remind me that the evening mode la feminine and romantic and glamorous.... Oh, dear... If any lady.
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