Jill Adam
says
IT is a melancholy fact,
but women are really. very like their mothers.
The most determined modern women conceal beneath their iron exteriors a melting tender- ness which, this year, is de- finitely expressed by the most sentimental underclothes have had for a long time,
we
Look at this clothes-line, for
example, supported on one side
we're still
Edwardian
Underneath
by the compleat Edwardian parent dresses and blouses and
mamma, and opposite by her for the first time since Edwar THE other high-necked
contemporary descendant-you dian days
Not only our chiffon blouses are high-necked either. The big surprise of the recent lingerie-buying has been the number of high-necked night- gowns and even enmi-knicks that have been sold.
We
sce
line is shown in the throat beautiful nightgown (second in und me, that is, in our high- high lingerie to wear under sketch) called Snow White. necked chiffon blouse.
them.
This is not only up to the neck, Lingerie Hughes has had the sense to ever, being in white chiffon, you expert Daphne but down to the wrists; how- realise that this is what a great do not feel too shrouded. many of us are looking for; you Let those who think low- slicks" in the sketch second alluring try the effect of a little see one version of her "cami- necked nightgowns are most from the right on our clothes- Edwardian veiling. line. This has been one of the EVERY so often you get most successful of her models THE corset motif on the
a real change in the this year: so we are particularly
first nightgown on the underclothes mode; thus now, pleased to be able to present to clothes-line is just a bit of after years of straight-topped, you, quite free and with our love nonsense, though an amusing shoulder-strapped chemises, and blessing, her suggestion for one. alips and cami-knickers, you get giving your own underclothes On the other hand turn to them high-necked or brassiere- the new built-up neckline. the nightgown at the extreme topped.
And as you see, the influence of our mothers is felt in trans-
Fried Sandwiches
LEFT-OVER slices of bread, bul-
tered or
be
unbuttered. can turned into delicious "fries" for supper. Many picnic sundwiches. can be treated similarly if there are nny left over.
Ham
or tongue sandwiches are ident for frying. Put a small piece of butter into the pan and make it smoking hot. Then add the sand- wiches and fry them fairly quickly till golden brown outside and piping hot through,
Brush over fruit and nut sand- wiches with a little milk and lig them in caster sugar before frying. It is easy to turn slices of bread or bread and butter into suitable sandwiches for trying. Any sort of Alling that is too rich will do.
Sandwiches Alled with mixtures: of Ash, cheese, or egg, should ԵՐ arranged on a plate over a pan of boiling water, covered with a baslu and steamed rather than fried. Be sure to make them thoroughly hot, and serve them at once, beenuse they lose their heat quickly.
IV. II.
ON
the design of the garment: the corselet waist on the nightgown in the sketch.
like first]
ANOTHER result of the craze for colour and for transparent clothes is that you can buy plain or striped bright-coloured chiffon "camisoles”
(shades the post-war period!) In
the shops to wear under transparent blouses.
It would be interesting to know how different women plan their underclothing. It seems to me one
Table Talk
New Wools Give Marled Effect
TILE
LE busy knitter misses much if she doesn't know about the new wools, including the crinkled kinds which give a mari effect. Other new wools, which have the effect of a fancy tweed when knitted up, are in true heather colours.
In direct contrast, come those yarns which mix artinelal silk with wool. There, la no lustre in them, and the result is a suede effect which. In mist colours, is especially attractive for cardigans and conts.
Camel hair and wool make an- other useful coat mixture.. Untarnishable metal
threads twisted into strands of wool give a soft sparkle to frocks and suits.
Hammocks
Bnat nearly
UT choosing wool for a jumper such a problem is
as washing them. They need de- licate care and handling, and their drying is perhaps more important than their washing. To leave the Jumper lying on a cloth to dry slow- |ly is one way.
Of course, no one would peg up a newly washed jumper.
Another excellent way is to use a specially designed hammock which unfolds to about a yard in length, It measures two feet wide and is mude from u ilght, durable mesh In threads. which raffia is crochetted with collon
With this hammock suspended be- tween the bucks of two chairs, the most delicate woollen garment will In fact, dry- ing is facilitated with the air circu-
not stretch as it dries.
ating under as well as over it.
Painting A Brooch
A HANDICRAFT which is easy,
fascinating, and Inexpensive is the painting of jewellery.
The various pieces, each stamped with flower dealgns, Include rings, bracelets and brooches, some with antique Anishes, others with needs two kinds; to wear under platinuin effects, but most of them sports clothes, tweeds, and in the are country, the easy-to-wash, easy-to- Equipped with a few fine brushes wear woven kind that can be bought and glossy or matt paints, you so cheaply adays.
and charmingly
now-colour the little petals of the Bowers
For town or to wear under silk or
transparent dresses-"for best" in
art.
slip and knickers, or cami. knickers In crepe, washing satin, chiffon or ninon.
Uit the article gleams with bright, multi-colours,
but the wise craftswoman introduces Vivid poster colours can be used,
a small proportion of white to throw up the vividness of the gilt and the colours.
Rails For Towels
Some women will have more of Such ornaments are very beauti- one kind, some of another: but itful against dull black dresses. is pleasant to have always in stock one or two sets of really nine under- clothes so that you wouldn't mind being run over by a bus and then taken to hospital in them!
AND I want to make a plea for a bit more originality in your choice of fabrics and colours for lingerie,
AS horses are disappearing from the roads, so towel horses are disappearing from houses,
Ras in the bathroom and the bedroom are much more practical. bably provides an excellent resting- In the bathroom, the hot pipe pro- place for the towel. Where there is 110 hot rail, a glass rail is smart and easy to clean,
As you will see by the sketch right if you want 1 really below, this is simplicity itself practical idea. The bodice of
The simplest nightgown, made in if, instead of making an entire this model is simply run
black and plum or purple chiffon, Black composition rails for towels ly new top, you simply put on drawstrings from
igoks rather exclting: ON choose are used in both the bath and the waist to andy striped chiffon, or flowered bedroom, and wooden rails brightly wide shaped shoulder straps iron it undo the bows and pull alle, or even fine dotted swiss mus- painted conform to new colour according to the diagram.
lin. There's nothing it out flat. Very fetching.
newer, or schemes. easier to wash than the cottons, es- peelally voile.
A suggestion to show how anyone who is clever with her needle can make an ordinary opera top into one of the new high necks. To sip or camiknieks just
Underfoot
OTHER Under the new full-skirted dresses Qu UIET colours in
points there's really no reason either for schemes encourage
furnishing
the use of
which mark not making fine cotton underclothes matching floors, and pale colours 243 grandmother did. and getting does not mind the bother of keep- undercloth away with it. But under anything ing them spruce. ing as belong- slim atting, crepe and washing sutin
are best. ing to the new
era are:
is
Quiet
For instance, pale pearl-grey par- quet flooring is an elegant example of the influence of pale, The simple, unpretentious mate-furnishing schemes. Equally as ex- rials are always sinarter than cheap clusive qualities in "posh" fabrics: and even grey-pink ash.
floor of green oak, or 1. Colour-
expensive lingerie houses are realis- Even Pink, blue and ing the possibilites of such fabric slippery though they have
floors need not be white white are not for dressing-owns. Ordinary fan- linoleum, rather than painted wood a faint as chintz lined with bright towelling gloss, and, in this instance, plain nearly so new uel in well-combined
as black, plum
or candy striped.
or
2. Trimming -Plain fagot- ing. frilling, binding rows of mneh- inc stitching are newer than
sdd shaped shoulder straps, in net or lace if you can't ince incrusta- match the original fabric; cut out a little under the tions, which, if original top with fagoting or some other lingerie they are used,
artis, and there you are. Join the straps on to the
stitch.
4
make part of
Soups For All Sorts Of Days
Soups for Chilly. Days
the
WITH temperature
14
and sugar have been added. Drain, and salt, and just before removing chop, and rub through a sieve; then from the heat, alle in two slightly add the puree thus obtained to a benten yolks of eggs, mixed with a pint of white stock, and bring to the gill to thick cream. Serve at once. hait. In a lined saucepan, melt 1
oz butter, stir in 1 oz four, cock a Lettuce Soup
the mixed
Well wash two heads of lettuce,.
Hitle, then slowly add spinach and stock. When the soup remove the outer discoloured leaves, ever has thickened, stir in 1⁄2 pint milk and finely chop the remainder.
changing, it is dimeult to ar season with pepper range meals in advance. But there serve very hot. are times, when this has to be done.
and should a hot weather luncheon Mushroom Soup
be planned for a day which proves
chilly, the simplest way out of the
and suit, and
Lightly cook U1 tablespoon minced onions. In a tablespoon butter, for 5 minutes, then add the lettuce, Sills white stock, and 2
of of
Peel, clean, and chop 1b mush- tablespoons well washed rice. Cook difficulty is to give a warming soup, rooms; cook them for 20 minutes in till the rice is tender, stir in 1 pint and then proceed with the arranged a quart of white stock, and rub milk, with a slightly beaten egg yolk, cold menu..
through a sieve. Meanwhile cook 4 and add seasonings of nutmeg, pep- oz umali sago in 4 pint boiling water per Spinach Soup
and salt. Thoroughly relient for half an hour, and add to the without bolting, and serve. sleved mushrooms and stock,
Note This is a splendid way of using up Bring to the boll together, cook for lettuce in
your surplus supplies of ing water, to which pinches of soda a few minutes, senson with pepper
the garden.
Cook a heaped quart of prepared spinach till tender in 3 gills of boll-
Isube!
colours has is advised, because it can be washed. long been anorter than shiny fabrics Wooden flowers in light colours are for house couts and dressing-gowns, best cleaned with wax.
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