PARIS SHOWS SUMMED UP
CAPES AND.......
un-
*Above, black cloth cape, with aquared shoulders and three pressed pleate each side of the neck- line. Beneath there is a multi-striped close-fitting jacket, buttoned down the front and high revers. Jackets are de cidedly longer than last year. Plain black skirt. The cape has a band of the striped material inside the hem.
Good start for a meal
ORS D'ŒUVRES may sound the sort of luxury you think of when you have dinner at a restaurant.
But you can have them at home quite cheaply, and they give a big flip to a simple meal.
Decide first on the main item you are going to serve anchovy or Allet of herrings can take the place of smoked salmon or cavinre-and use up the left overs in your larder, garnished and seasoned, to go with it. Half a dozen varieties are enough to serve at home: invent the recipes, to null your own larder.
One should be fleh-a salad made of flaked white Ash, for instance, or salmon dressed with mayonnaise and garnished with parsley.
Mest.con ways, as the inble
several
be served in pate, when it is pul on in a pot, as a sausage,
when it is thinly sliced, or as a salad. Sorts Of Salads
A MEAT sand popular
France is made of chopped beef, potato, beetroot, celery, and onion. This is dressed with all and vinegar flavoured with mustard and smoothed with sour cream.
Russian salad is made with peas, carrot, turnip, beans and tometimes potato blended with cream dressing.
Itaw salads
aro also
served 010 hors d'oeuvres. A good combination is slices of tomato (cut the round way) and thin shavings of Spanish ten minutes in onion (soaked for ice-cold water),
Olives, black or green, plain or stuffed,
excellent, and TIMIA generally like them
are
Eggs, stuffed or in a mayonnaise, are particularly useful; they go easily with any sort of fish, meat, vegetable.
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AFTERNOON
DRESSES
Skirts remain where they
were, waists lower.
Colour
'vivid.'
combinations
Coats show a lot of fur. Suits are long jacketed.
are
EVENING DRESSES
*Has a tiny bodice in dull pink faille, with all enormous hooped with an enormous hooped skiri, ... two flounces of pleated tulle. The ornament on the bodice is made in the shape of an early Victorian
Edwardian influence is every- "flowers under gloss."
where. Generalities
I have seen all the
NOW
style-setting collections,
so I can pour out my information. There is plenty. You can wallow.
A atrong Edwardian in- fluenco is everywhere. At some houses, the clothes follow the actual line, at others, they are modified, modernised, but usually the feeling is convoyed In details in the more up than ever hair-dressing, in almost-to-the-cars boned collars, In leg of mutton sleeves, chenille trims and bobbles, ostrich feathers which trim hats, make evening head dresses, trim decolletages, make muffs.
tic
Also a big influence is the roman- and mediaeval which comes
to us in rich brocades and velvets, salins and moires, tight bodiced, tuli skirted, square necked, high shoul- dered, tight wristed.
Hooped skirts, little nursery
bonnets with ДОУСТОВО
bock gathered veils, day and dinner suits
papworth.
with the jacket hem fronts turned Winter Coats
at a Victorian feeling.
buck like old-time riding suits, hint
There is a great military spirit in
SKUNK, silver fox, platinum fox, astrakhan, nutria, trim
•Gibson-girl ne in heavy black crepe; the back of the skirt has four bands of faille slightly gathered and jolnet. by bands. of, old-fastoned chenille Dobbles. The four colours are dull rose pink, grey, creme-de- menthe green, and a deep puplish blue.
AFTERNOON DRESSES..
Solt black crepe draped DUCT the bodice and hips into two narrow bands of shirring, which the shirring, which arc caught at the top with f bunch of narrow velvet loops in candy colours...
*Shinple draped afternoon dress, with three small bows on hte bodice The drapery comes from the three bows otul makes a full. front paner, held with a rash at the the waist.
Evening Dresses
MANY decolletages are curved
across the bosom and strap-
the swaggering capes, the high winter coats, either with large wavy less with boned bodices and rayed, soldier hats, the military collars, the collars, shawl collars, or, in the case widening skirts. guardsman's red, a fine Scottish air of the fint furs, with banded
and Fluffy affairs in black net and Valenciennes lace have tiny drop High-at-back collars keep exposed shoulder sleeves, full ruffled skirts.
in the plaids and tartans-unknown rolled effects. to any Scot.
SUITS
Above, sult with
a close-fitting jac-
and ket
small repera, two semi- circular pancis of vivid check are let into the bodice, the long sleeves are in the same check. Sim- ple, straight skirt.
and
DAY DRESS
Left, shirt-waist dress with groups of tucks running full length down the front. Narrow and silt pockets full sleeves with a tight cuf.
Line
no
ears warin.
Plenty of hoop dresses appear. Furless coats have high colinrs, or
Rochas shows a modified Edward- collars at all, with brocade
ian dress with a black satin bust- KIRT lengths as be- scarves tucked into the high neck.
Plaids, tartans, vivid tweeds, fine moulding top, off-shoulder straps fore. The waist Is placed slightly teddy bear, duvetyn, fine pilot cloth, with arms ties, a gored coral velvet lower, as Lelong and astrakhan cloth are used. Sleeves skirt gradually getting full, long Molyneux have done are slightly leg-of-mutton with Ught black mitt
wrists.
It for years, and mark- ed with
belt. It no Suits belt, the dress is atted the bodice through
are
mittens
There are straight slim dresses in erepes and velvets.
Fabrics: Net, lace, lame, moire, eloque, brocade, slipper satin, jersey
MERE are double herns to velvet. THERE
skirts, velvet or braid or fur
or plaid hem and jacket binds. In- Day Dresses
A
and a break occurs nlmost on the hip line.
jackets In contrast Fitted suit Jackets numerable
SHIRTY feeling persists in much colours, petunia over violet red over generally
day and house dresses, made longer; skiris, with green over purple.
Closures are high, with Peter in fine wooliens, Jerseys, checks, exceptions,
are Pan collars, military collars, small plaids, duvelyns. They have turn- swinging, circular collar and revers or no collars. Short down collars, yokes above gathers, gored, pleated, killed. swing jackets also are showing over belts. Some have straight skirts, but Day dresses have fairly flared skirts. Dressler suits most have slight, easy shaping with front fulness, back have dolman sleeves and fasten with gores, rayed pleats. Straight skirts straightness, or are large jewelled flowers, brilliant have insel panels of Ane crystal
metal flowers.
terw
nil-round flared.
Suft shoulders are
Fabrics: Velvets, velveteen, smooth picating. Lots of necks have choker bands, with little tle ends, Turn- ver 50 slightly woollens, duvetyns, tweeds, plaids.
down collars take large bows.
C VO
squared.
Coats are red-Ingote Capes
shaped, button in g
down the front and INVERNESS for shooting or
widening to take the flared skirts.
They
1
travel or country, over suits,
stole fronts.
Afternoon Dresses
TYPICAL afternoon line ly a plain back, front draped ful- pleated plain over plaid or check, or the ness, caught here and there with some other way round. Dramalle capes, little bows, perhaps on either side the times blouse in back with high military collars, to bo bodice, then centre walst.
Low necks have returned, but still slightly over half worn over town sults. Capes with belt, or hove back a squared shoulder line have straight there are plenty of high draped or choker band necklines. Molyneux pleats.
For evening thero Bre Many hang straight,
black bands one with a little row of mic- many have back ful- romantic cupes, lined with silver, rors. Brugere with a gold edged dog
copper or gold lame. Meggy Rouf collar. shows a short full red quilted satin,
Stocking jersey makes front-draped tying with a huge bow that stepped dresses, fine enough to have a show- right out of 1007.
through top. Matt and shiny shtin | ore used together, to produce à bond- cd effect.
Crepes, a new ribbed jersey, a fine MOSTLY they ure high. If damask are starred fabrics.
worn low on forchend, they'
nesa.
AN AUTUMN MENU
Here are sensonable suggestions:
Troncons de Turbolin Bretonne Cut a pound of turbot into four slices. Wush and dry them, then roll In well-seasoned four. Cook for a few minutes on each side in very hot butter.
Serve on a hot dish with a squeeze of lemon juice and chopped parsley, Add a little slightly browned butter and sprinkle the fish liberally with shelled shrimps and capers,
*
*
fuls of fish stock, the yolk of an egg, a small piece of butter, and Parme- san cheese which has been freshly grated.
*
Medaillons de Ris de Veau Prin- cesse-Put the sweetbreads in cold water. Let them boll for one minute, then cool them in cold water. Sen- Into 'son and chop roughly. Form
fut cakes-roll in flour, then in egg and brend-crumbs and fry golden brown.
*
*
Servo, on croutchs of fried bread Supreme de Sole Volnay-Fold with brown gravy; garnish will as- and poach fillets of sole. Make a Paragus tips. panada with butter, flour, chopped mushrooms and fish stock and place a teaspoonful on coch fillet. Put into an ovenware dish, cover with sauce Mornay and brown slightly under grill.
Peches Oporto.-Peel fresh penches, stone and cut into four with a silver knife. Leave in enstor sugar for an hour, then add port wine to taste. Chill in refrigerator or on ice for
sponge fingers.
To make sauce Mornay add to an hour. Serve In glasses with some Bechamel sauce a few spoon-
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Hats
Mo
tip up at back with wings and Colours
!
LL the violets, grape, red- brown, black, terra colto,
ostrich feathers. Flat velvet discs follow the high hairdress, and are plied with coloured ostrich feathers.
Felta with high square crowns dried apricot, corneliun, brown with have peaks and gold braid and a mole tinge, grey, pale blue, ginger, Lascelled trimmings, Tam o'shantera noisy blucs and pinks, pansy, and, ara skewered with one high quill
SWEET TOOTH
Whip half a pint of cream, sweeten it with a little castór sugar and stir in a teaspoonful of vanilla essence. Grush four macaroons coarsely and stir
them into the cream mixture at the last minute. Put into glassDE and sprinkle thickly with grated bitter chocolate.
This is a rich and delicious party' sweet, enough for four. people, which takes only ten minutes to make,
most noticeable of all, every stude of red known to man, from a yellowy guardsman-red to a mauvey-wine.
In between It all comes fuchsia, which you are not going to be allow ed to forget this season.
Novelties
SEQUINS trimming cuffs of blacie astrakhan coat (Moly- neux). Black gloves with
joid claws, green kid boots for evening, lighted statues in coat laptis, jewell- ed muzzles on the heads of silver foxes (Schiaparelli). Tandem bicycle fastenings (Mainbocher). Gold claw keeping up high hair-dress untidy ends (Rochas). Mediaeval Jewelled necklace head-dress worn tilted, on forehead (Molyneux), Head Venus photographed three times on 'black dress (Maggy Rouf). Jewell- ed bouquet fastenings on wool suits + (Mainbocher). Pocket, in velvet.
evening drem (Chanci),
of
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