Jill Adam
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, ia de finitely expressed by the most Hentimental underclothes We have had for a long time.
Look at this clothes-line, for example, supported on one side
says
we're still
Edwardian
Underneath
by the complent Edwardian parent dresses and blouses and THE other high-necked
mamma,
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 cami-knicks that have been sold.
them.
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 of the post-war period!) in the shops to wear under transparent blouses.
Table Talk
New Wools Give Marled Effect
THE busy knitter misses much if
THE
she doesn't know about the new wools, including the crinkled kinds which give a mart effect. Other new wools, which have the effect of a fancy tweed when knitted up, are in true heather colours.
those
In direct contrast, come yarns which mix artiflelal nilk with is no lustre in them, wool. There is no
and the result is
suede effect which, in mist colours, is especially attractive for cardigans and coats.
Camel hair and wool make an- other useful coat mixture.
Untarnishable metal threads twisted into strands of wool give a Loft sparkle to frocks and suits.
Hammocks
BUT choosing wool for a jumper
Is not nearly such a problem us washing them. They need de- liente care and handling, and their more important
drying is perng. To leave the
than their
jumper lying on a cloth to dry slow- iy is one way.
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Of course, no one would peg up newly washed jumper.
ΑΠΟ Another excellent way is to use
a specially designed hammock which yard in length. unfolds to about
It measures two feet wide and is made from a light, durable mesh in which rama is crochetted with cotton thrends.
With this hammock suspended be- tween the backs of two chairs, the most delicate woollen garment wili
not stretch as it dries. In fact, dry- is facilitated with the ofr elreu- lating under as well as over it.
Painting A Brooch
HANDICRAFT which is easy, fascinating, and inexpensive is the painting of jewellery.
The various pieces, each stamped include rings, with flower designs, bracelets and brooches, some with finishes, others with antique
are gilt.
It would be interesting to know how different women plan their underclothing. It seems to me one needs iwo kinds; to wea under platinum effects, but most of them sports clothes, tweeds, and in the country, the easy-to-wash, easy-to- wear woven kind that can be bought 10 cheaply and charmingly adays.
Equipped with a few, fine brushes and glossy or matt paints, you now-colour the little petals of the flowers til the urticle gleams with bright, mulli-colours.
For town or to wear under silk or
Vivid poster colours can be used, transparent dresses "for best" In
or camle but the wise craftswoman introduces knickers, act, slip and
a small proportion of white to throw knickers in crepe, washing sutin, up the vividness of the gilt and the chiffon or non.
Some women will have more of
colours,
Such ornaments are very beauti-
one kind, some of another: but it ful against dull black dresses. is pleasant to have always in stock one or two sets of really nine under-
Rails For Towels
line is shown in the and opposite by her for the first time since Edwar
days Wa 24/ throat- beautiful nightgown (second in contemporary descendant-you dian and me, that is, in our high- high lingerie to wear under sketch)
White. called Snow necked chiffon blouse.
This is not only up to the neck, Lingerie expert Daphne but down to the wrists; how- Hughes has had the sunse to ever, being in white chiffon, you realise that this is what a great do not feel too shrouded.
Let those who think low- many of us are looking for; you
most see one version of her "cami- necked nightgowns are slicks" in the sketch second alluring try the effect of a little from the right on our clothes Edwardian veiling. line. This has been one of the
elothes so that you wouldn't mind THE corset motif on the most successful of her models
first nightgown on the being runs over by a bus and then AS horses
taken to hospital in them! this year: so we are particularly
bit of pleased to be able to present to clothes-line is just a
amusing you, quite free and with our love nonsense, though an and blessing, her suggestion for one.
On the other hand turn to own underclothes giving your
the nightgown at the extreme really As you will see by the sketch right if you want a below, this is simplicity itself practical idea. The bodice of if, instead of making an entire- this model is simply run ly new top, you simply put on drawstrings from wide shaped shoulder straps iron it undo the bows and pull according to the diagram. it out flat. Very fetching.
EVERY so often you get a real change in the underclothes mode; thus now, after years of straight-topped, shoulder-strapped chemises, slips and cami-knickers, you get them high-necked or brassiere- topped.
And as you see, the influence of our mothers is felt in trans-
Fried Sandwiches
LEFT-OVER silces of bread, but-
tered
unbuttered. or
can be
turned into dellelous "fries" for plenie sandwiches supper. Many can be treated similarly if there are
any left over,
Hom
or tongue sandwiches
are
ideal 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.
fruit and nut sand- Brush aver wiches with a little milk and dilp them in caster sugar before frying. It is easy to turn slices of brend or bread and butter into suitable sandwiches for frying. Any sort of Bling that is too rich will do.
Sandwiches filled with mixtures of fish, cheese, or egg should be arranged on a plate over a pan of boiling water, covered with a basin and steamed rather than fried. Bo sure make them thoroughly hot, and serve them at once, because they lose their hent quickly.
W. B.
the new built-up neckline.
A supuestion to show how anyone who is clever with
her needle can make an ordinary operu top into one
on
waist to
which
OTHER
AND I want to make a plea for a bit more originality in your choice of fabrics and colours for lingerie.
are disappearing from the roads, so towel horses are disappearing from houses.
and the
Rails in the bathroom bedroom are much more practical. In the bathroom, the hot pipe pro-
bably provides an excellent resting place for the towel. Where there is no hot rail, a glass rail is smart and The simplest nightgown, made in easy to clean. black and plum or purple chiffon. Black composition rails for towels lunks rather exciting: or choose are used in both the bath and the candy stripetl chiffon, or flowered bedroom, and wooden ralls brightly voile, or even fine dotted swiss mus-painted conform to new colour iin. There's nothing newer, er schemes. ensler to wash than the cottons, C5- pecially voile.
Underfoot.
furnishing
UIET colours in
Under the new full-sitirted dresses; points there's really no reason either for schemes encourage the use of und pale colours mark not making fine cotton underclothes matching floors. undercloth-grandmother did, and getting does not mind the bother of keep*
away with it. But under anything ing them spruce. ing as belong-slim fitting, crepe and washing satin
are best, ing to the new
era are:
For instance, pale pearl-grey par- quet flooring is an elegant example of the influence of pale, qulet
The simple, unpretentious mate-furnishing schemes. Equally as ex- rials are always smarter than cheap clusive is a floor of green oak, or qualities in "posh" fabrics; and even grey-plak ash. 1. Colour--
expensive lingerie houses are realls- Even white floors need not be Pink, blue and ing the possibilites of such fabrics slippery though they have a faint in this instance, plain white are not as chintz lined with bright towelling glass. And,
for dressing-gowns. Ordinary dan-linoleum, rather than painted wood nearly so new nel in well-combined colours has is advised, because it can be washed. as black, plum long been smarter than shiny fabrics Wooden flowers in light colours are
for house conts and dressing-gowns. best cleaned with wHX. candy
dr
striped.
2. Trimming! -Plain fagot-i ing, frilling, binding or rows of mach- stitching ine
of the new high necks. Tu slip or camiknicks just are newer than
adil shaped shoulder straps, in net or lace if you can't Ince incrusta- match the original fabric; cut out a Bule under the
tions, which, if arms, and there you are. Join the straps on to the
make part of
original top with japating or some other lingerie they are used,
atlich.
For All Sorts Of Days
Soups Soups for Chilly -Days
WITH
the temperature
and sugar have been added. Drain, and salt, and just before removing chop, and rub through a sieve; then from the heat, stir in two slightly add the puree thus obtained to a beaten yolks of eggs, mixed with a pint of white stock, and bring to the gili to thick cream. Serve at once. boil. In a lined saucepan, melt 1
az butter, stir in oz flour, cboit Lettuce Soup
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little, then slowly add the mixed Well wash two heads of lettuce, spinach and stock. When the soup remove the outer discoloured teaves, ever has thickened, slir in 4 pint milk and. Binely chop the remainder. changing, it is difficult to are season with pepper and salt, and 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 day which proves
chilly, the simplest way out of the
of of
Lightly cook 蒜 tablespoon minced onions In a tablespoon butler, for 5 minutes, then add the lettuce, 5 gills white stock, and 2
Peel, clean, and chop 1⁄2 lb 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 1⁄2 pint rub milk, with a slightly benten egg yolk, and then proceed with the arranged a quart of white stoelt, and cold ments.
Through a slave. Meanwhile cook 4 and add seasonings of nutmeg, pep- oz small sago in 1⁄2 plai boiling water per and salt. Thoroughly reheat for half un hour, and add to the without bolling, and serve. sleved mushrooms and stock.
Note.This is a splendid way of using up your
surplus supplies of Bring to the boil together, cook for lettuce in the garden, Ing water, to which pinches of soda a few minutes, season with pepper.
Isobel
Spinach Soup
Cook a heuped quart of prepared spinach till tender in 3 gills of boll-
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