THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1938.
Jill Adam
IT is a melancholy fact,
but women are really
very like their mothers.
women
The most determined modern conceal beneath their fron exteriors a melting tender- ness which, this year, is de- finitely expressed by the most sentimental 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 compleat Edwardian parent dresses and blouses and THE other high-necked
mamma, and opposite by her for the first time since Edwar-
line is shown in the
contemporary descendant-you dian days we see throat- beautiful nightgown (second in and me, that is, in our high high lingerie to necked chiffon blouse.
Not only our chiffon blouses The are high-necked either. big surprise of the recent lingerie-buying has been the number of high-necked night
even caml-knicks gowns and that have been sold.
them.
wear
White. under sketch) called Snow
This is not only up to the neck, Lingerie expert Daphne but down to the wrists; how- Hughes has had the sense 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 sce one version of her "caml- necked nightgowns are most 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
THE corset motif on the EVERY so often you get most successful of her models
first nightgown on the a real change in the this year: so we are particularly
bit of underclothes mode; thus now, pleased to be able to present to clothes-line is just a
amusing after years of straight-topped, you, quite free and with our love nonsense, though an shoulder-strapped chomises, and blessing, her suggestion for one,
own underclothes On the other hand turn to slips and cami-knickers, you get giving your
the nightgown at the extreme them high-necked or brassiere. the new built-up neckline. topped.
And as you see, the influence of our mothers is felt in trans-
Fried Sandwiches
LEFT-OVER slices of bread, but-
can
be
tered or unbuttered, turned into delicious "frics" for plenie sandwiches supper. Many can be treated similarly if there are any left over.
are
Ham or tongue sandwiches 3dent for frying. Put a small plece 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 dip. them in caster sugar before frying, It is easy to turn alices of bread For bread and bulter Into suitable
sandwiches for frying. Any sort of Alling that is too rich will do.
be
Sandwiches filled with mixtures of fish, cheese, or egg should arranged on a plate over a pan of boiling water, covered with a basin and steamed rather than fried. Be sure to make them thoroughly hot, and serve them at once, because they lose their heat quickly.
W. B.
on
As you will see by the sketch right if you want a really below, this is simplicity itself practical idea. The bodice of if, instead of making an entire this model is simply run
waist to 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,
A suggestion to show how anyone who ta clever with her needle can make an ordinary opera top into one
the design of the garment: the corselet waist on the nightgown in the sketch.
Table Talk
New Wools Give Marled Effect
THE
HE busy knitter misses much if she doesn't know about the new wools, including the crinkled kinds which give a marl effect. Other new wools, which have the effect of a fancy tweed when knitted up, are in true heather colours,
those In direct contrast, conte yarns which mix artificial silk with wool. There is no lustre in them, and the result is a suede which, in mist colours, is especially attractive for cardigans and coats.
effect
Camel hair and wool make an- other useful coat mixture.
Untarnishablo metal threads twisted into strands of wool give a soft sparkle to frocks and sults.
Hammocks
QUT choosing wool for a jumper not nearly such a problem
Bis
as washing them. They need de- licale care and handling, and their drying is perhaps more important than their washlug. To leave the Jumper lying on a cloth to dry slow- ly is one way.
Of course, no one would peg up Ja newly washed jumper.
Another excellent way is to use n specially designed hammock which unfolds to about a yard in length. It measures two feet wide and is made from a light, durable mesh in which roffio is crochetted with cotton like threads. first
With this hammock suspended be- tween the backs of two chairs, the most delicate woollen garment will
ANOTHER result of the not stretch as it dries. In fact, dry- craze for colour and in is facilitated with the air circu-
lating under as well as over it, 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 iransparent
blouses.
Painting A Brooch
A HANDICRAFT which is easy, fascinating, and inexpensive is the painting of jewellery.
The various pleces, each stamped
It would be interesting to know with flower designs, includo rings, how different women plan their bracelets and broochies, some with Anishes, others with underclothing. It seems to me one antique needs two kinds; to wear under platinum effects, but most of them sports clothes, tweeds, and in the re country, the easy-to-wash, easy-to- wear woven kind that can be bought so cheaply and charmingly now
wdays.
End with a few fine brushes
and glossy or matt paints, you colour the little petals of the flowers till the article gleams with bright, multi-colours.
For town or to wear under silk or
Vivid poster colours can be used, transparent dresses "for best" but the wise craftswoman introduces act, slip and knickers, or com a small proportion of white to throw knickers in crepe, washing satin,
up the vividness of the gilt and the chiffon or ninon,
colours.
Such ornaments are very beautl- ful against dull black dresses.
Rails For Towels
Some women will have more of| one kind, some of another: but it 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 AS taken to hospital in them!
AND
A S horses are disappearing from A the roads, so towel horses are disappearing from houses. Rails In the bathroom
and the
ND I want to make a
plea for a bit more bedroom are much more practical. In the bathroom, the hot pipe pro- originality in your choice of bably provides an excellent resting- fabrics and colours for lingerie.place for the towel. Where there is no hot rail, a glass rail is smurt and The simplest nightgown, made in easy to clean. black and plum or purple chiffon, Black composition rails for towels looks ruther exciting: or choose are used in both the bath and the candy striped chiffon, or dowered bedroom, and wooden rails brightly voile, or even fine doited swiss mus-painted conform to new colour lin. There's nothing newer, or schemes. easier to wash than the cotions, es- preially volte.
Under the new full-skirted dresses schemes encourage the use
furnishing points there's really no reason elther for which mark not making fine cotton underclothes matching floors, and pale
grandmother did, and getting does not mind the bother of keep- undercloth away with it. But under anythinging them spruce, ing as belong- slim fitting, crepe and washing satin ing to the new
OTHER
cra are:
as
are best.
UIET
Underfoot
colours in
of colours
For instance, pale pearl-grey por- quet flooring is an elegant example of the influence of pale, quiet 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 even sh
expensive lingerie houses are realls-
1. Colour
white floors need not be Pink, blue and ing the possibilites of such fabrics slippery though they have a faint white are not as chintz lined with bright towelling gloss, and, in this instance, plain for dressing-gowns, Ordinary fan-linoleum, rather than painted wood nearly so new nel in well-combined colours hns is advised, beenuse It can be washed. as black, plum long been smarter than shiny fabrics Wooden flowers in light colours are
for house coats and dressing-gowns. best cleaned with wax, or candy striped.
2. Trimming! -Plain fagot-
ing, frilling,
binding or rows of mach- stitching ine ale newer than
of the new high necks. To slip or camiknieks just add shaped shoulder straps, in net or lace if you can't lace incrusta- match the original fabric; cut out a little under the tions, which, if arms, and there you are. Join the stropa on to the original top with fagoting or some other lingerie they are used,
atitch.
make part of
Soups For All Sorts Of Days
Soups for Chilly Day's
WITH
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 purce thus obtained to a beaten yolks of eggs, mixed with a pint of while stock, and bring to the gill to thick cream. Serve at once. boll. In a lined saucepan, melt 1
oz butler, stir in 1 oz flour, cook a Lettuce Soup
little, then slowly add the mixed Well wash two heads-of lettuce, spinach and stock. When the soup remove the outer discoloured leaves, the temperature ever has thickoned, stir in plat mlik changing, it is difficult to ar- season with pepper and salt, and and finely chop the remainder. range meals in advance. But there serve very hot.
are Umes, when this bas to be done,
and should a hot weather luncheon Mushroom Soup
be planned for a day which proves
Pohilly, the simplest way out of the
of
u tablespoon Lightly cook minced onions in n tablespoon of butter, 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 beaten egg yolk, and then proceed with the arranged a quart of white stock, and Gold menu.
through a sieve. Meanwhile coolt 4 and add seasonings of nutmeg, pop- reheat and salt. Thoroughly oz small engo in 4 pint boiling water per for half an hour, and add to the without balling, and serve. Spinach Soup
sieved mushrooms and stock.
Note This is a splendid way of · Cook a heaped quart of prepared
・・ using up your surplus supplies of Thinach till tender in 3 gilis" of boil- Bring to the boil together, cook for lelluce in the garden.
water, to which pinches of soda a few minutes, season with pepper
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