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WOMANSENSE
Corduroy Success
access
Though Characteristically Dior, The Look Is Different
:
called Enamel; grayed
PARIS. shirtwaist dresses in woollens, blue
supple fuffetas, WIDTH and fullness at crepes,,
and navy; Rouge Dlor, which is in Inmes have full. gathered or the scarlet range; pale pustol the top of the figure pleated skirts. Loose toppers pink and also considerable make the biggest news at and coats have fullness massed belgo and brown. Christian Dior this season, in folds down the sides. Collars where the same excitement include cowl back drapes, this prevails as in past years, for a couple of two-plece models buyers working there from
| night until dawn and crowd. ing in again as soon as the press showing was over.
Calots and Barots
on parka Jacket lines, and collars generally Acxible. A Cute hats include many calot back pleat Including a new types Individualised by littla
horns like suppleness to padded
double variation adds
extended by a bloused jackets or loose coats. crescents or
narrow rim at the side or side- back. Peaked toques in fur or felt are ridged like melons. Small berets worn on the side of the hand are held on by a
Short for Evening
Slcoves are mounted below the shoulders, some straight, some belfed, some bloused, giving a smartly bulky look to Much Importance is given bandeau or are posed back and the arm. These treatments are short evening dresses which used on all types of clothes, Dior calls Demi-Soir, although attached to a viser pitched for- only classic sults retaining set-In many are rich and low-cut ward. sleeves, and even these have the enough for the most formal wider shoulders of riding-habit jackets. Generous blousing a bodices and, wide wrapovers of cont and topper fronts heighten
the effect
Larger hats include bicornes gathering. They correspond with each side silt into graceful better to modern life, he says, double points; also big coolie and the collection contains
plateaux with a diamond brooch wide variety, from the jeune fille at centre top. wide-skirted frock entirely covered with pale pini: petals of look very different, although narrow straight belted sheath
organza as light as feathers to they remain characteristically of satin or velvet with dangle Dior. with small waists belted
rhinestone or bend embroideries. at normal, skirt lengths varied
This change makes clothes
to suit different types, but tend-
Straight Plus Bias
"Middle of the
BL
Right Powder Is Essential
way
to
Much Costume Jewellery
Costume Jewellery 1s
glven great importance. Ropes
Couring Fond's are worn with town By GRACE THORNCLIFFE
Long dresses range from nar- pearls
To give your akin a smooth texture, a powder-cake type make-up in ing to be shorter, up to 10 row sheaths to enormous crino- clothes. Big brooches are shown
excellent. You need no foundation; fast pat it on skin with a puff? 15 on the Decolletes, in original poses CORDUROY COMES Into Ita inches from the floor, and oc-
lined gula gowns. own this autumn, appearing in casionally slit higher, and with which are often strapless. also shoulders or near the belt. Big
·By HELEN FOLLETT both wide and
ebony narrow skiets include deep ovals over straight necklaces of
wood are both the clothes and accessory pictures. It is the fabric used
Included.
bands across the breast, like endorsed for daytime. Coloured COME "old timers like to tell tion and powder all in one." -
stone
necklaces are also for this trio of autumn
Puckets are
fea- about the beauties of their sun important, certain decolletes of the 20s,
Girls with olly skins 1nment tured. Bandsorne rhinestone sories. The hat is an over-sized but are now placed over the
one young days who had such per about powders that do not stay necklaces and earrings are s blcorne with inside tucks re- breasts in a softly curved out-
fert complexions that they by one. There's an easy a soft full-line instead of on the hips or
Big Fabric Interest
beautifully set as reai diamonds, leased to provide
never had to apply powder. It of getting around that problem. Youthful diadems of bead work would not be polite to ness all around. The colour is at the shoulders,
urgue Apply a foundation cosmotic There is enormous fabric in- are composed of a circlet hold- this matter, but one a deep plum shade. The shortie
wanderst first. Like powder, these
tol- crescents glove uses the corduroy on the
terest throughout, starting with ing tiny
like those Perhaps we have such paragons letries must carry the flattering dingonal with the rib” running
rustic, bulity woollens which are worn by the goddess Diana.
with us today, but one never colour, vertical on the short cuif. The
occasional used for ani Century" is even
runs teroas them. The powder Just a word of warning toilored pnd is an important item. Accessories Include pouch bag is leather ned
Broadcloths, and how Dior describes his collection, dress,
To beauty questers who are getting has an adjustable strap, Two He says the silhouette results jerseys, thin silk taffetas, and leather belts worn with practi- dispense with It would be at life's mid-channel period, if pockets are worked inta
the from the method of cut based much velvet. More brooches are binck kid gloves; and Perugia best friend.
salin are all used. There is cally everything: shoulder-high like turning one's back on one's you get to the point that cuff that extends around
don't bother to the on the internat
powder your bag.
of elsewhere, sandals composed
The right kind of powder not nose and spread on the ruby lip fabrics. Straight and blas cuts seen
straps uncovering only removes shine, but It veneer you are slipping: That's are ured together, sometimes in Including metal brooches but in ribbonlike
Fabric most of the fool.
Floriiles the slein, giving. it bad. The face that is
naked. spreading, detached panels like young, simple styles. windmill
velvety smoothness and a look and unashamed, showing never salls on straight skirts combinations are a big feature,
broadcloth with Furs are numerous and of richness. If your colouring a suggestion of synthetic lovell- or, on narrow floor-length even as velvet or
varied, from square-shouldered isn't precisely what you wish it ness, is definitely out-moded.. ing gowns, in front panels salin or taffeta,
capes of curly, lamb to ermine to b, powder, rouge and lip- Natural beauty is all right, but crasscit ke scissors, The treatments are emphasised when but there are wonderful shades the smartest is a full three-quar-
Black leads numerically here, worked in thin strips. Among stick will give it an entirely dif- how many girls and
ferent character, To be sure, have it to such an extent that done in different fabrics as
of black of intense inky blue in silks and ter swagger
ermine you may have difficulty in modern improvements won't velvet panels un woollen or velvets; a light Juminous green with big soft pockets.
lading the flattering touc, to make it better, prelijer, seek the advice of the girl at lier? Then, too, it is fun to play the cosmetic counter. To give with the make-up box, a diver Akin kmooth texture. you sint without which practically might like to try a powder-caka every sane woman would Anth type make-up that is, founda- life very dull.
Long Handle
Bags To Go
With Fur Coats taffeta
BAGS
with elongated handles
geometry of
Supple the Word
clothes
to wear with full-sleeved Suppleness' is the leading fur coats. enamelled frames of characteristic, whether "corrugated" gold metal. and are full or narrow. new styles in gate frame bags
are some of the fashion points
in tie, autumn collection by F: Milch.
For back to school, there are burlap bags lined with bright cotton prints and trimmed
New
Bloused
Way
with brown call. The rmusic- To Treat
roll bag in burlap is a very long!
roll with a zipper closing. This
bag is boned throughout the
so that it will not Jose
lining, 50
its shape.
Scabies
For fur coats, calf bags are By H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D. dong with basic frame bags covered with
overskirts. TN years gone by we
calt The elongated handles are of one piece with the skirts and the handles cut out of the leather. Hidden zipper pockets are con- fcenled under the overskirts.
Varictics
con-
up
have heard much talk about the seven-year itch. This is D
Kreat dition which produces a deal of itching of the skin, and it was-thought-that-seven-years were
required to get rid of it. Now it can be cleared quickly with proper treatment Soft, dressmaker styles are and, therefore, it would appear shown in antelope. In these that the expression, seven-year bags there are luxuriously full teh, should no longer be used. pleats, fine jewel-tyle metal We now know that this disor traines, One squat, full bag der is due to infestation of the
skin with has pleats in four corners and
a tiny parasite. The disorder is known scables,
most aut standing symptom
The parasite burrows or digs
thest
as
a dome-shaped enamelled gold and chlap is the melai frame.
A gate
frame is used in n The frame patented colf bag. closes into four corners; when its way into the skin, and the
female lays its eggs in open. It is a square, The base burrows. Os careful examina- is stiffened and round like atlon, these burrows may be see collar box.
as little black lines on the skin.
Travel bags are elegant. One satchel has one side which may be dropped to reveal a set of fittings including D perfume bottle, cream, för, coinb and brush.
four-compartment
They are most easily noted In between the trigers.
Parasites Are Carried
the
Of course, when scratching bag is designed as two envelope occurs, the parasites are carried constructions built together. This to various other parts of may be had in calf, sealskin, skin. The skin may become in-
fected, so that
with patients ostrich, pleskin.
to Milch's scabies often have As a successor
boila and famous little satchel with double many scratch marks. Further- outside pocket, a new box bag more, the parasites get into the is shown. This has a peaked bedding and clothing, and the id closing, caught with a pair disorder may easily be transmit of gold metal bucicles. Thisted from one person to another. choice of 15 It is often found that all mens- bag comes in a
hers of a family are affected. shown for evening In velvet,
The standby treatment for An cave this condition still seems to brocades and satin.
be lope with amarcasite-studded
sulphur ointment, One of tho clasp may be had in clipped dificulties with this. remedy. call or in salin.
'is that Irritation of the however, skin sometimes results from its use,
More recently a new prepara- tion, known
gommexane, has been found quite helpful This insecticide was developed in England during the war. It has been used to control chig-
lice.
$0
It Cost £100 To Look At "The Look" · SAID Mr A. Schloss, buyer for several top-ranking American houses; "As I am not acting for tested on
When the gammexane" (was,
100 patients - with manufacturers, but for retailers scabies, all were cured after
Rers, ticks, Reas, bedbugs, and
I paid only £100 on behalf of from one to three treatments. In my clients I quite well, in spite of the great crowds on all fact, in two out of three of the patients, there was no sign of nctivity of the condition after a Did Mr Schloss think that one single application. look at the Look was worth
four floors of the salon":
£1007 "One hundred pounds is Treatment: not enough to buy one dress from
Dlor,"
ho
cald. The
The gammexane is applied in arrangement is that this deposit, the form of a cream. It is nou
If farfalled
one buys nothing, toxic, non-irritating, and has a but counts towards the payment faint but not unpleasant odour. If models aro bought. I think li, Serables is not a diffcult dis- is perfectly fair that the charge ardor to diagnose and, once the should be made. The dress show diagnosis has been made, cost many thousands of pourule would appoor, that, the use to create and stage, and it the gammexane would be worth would be stupid to show it free trying froin the excellent re to all-comers."
aults thus far, obtained from
li
of
here
than
crepe
narrow
Striking Wool Plaid
By PRUNELLA WOOD
Nicol of Sweden
FROM the Swedish designer, Sven Anderson, comes this striking wool plaid....palest gray with yellow, black and darker gray harmony....set for cool days and all-winter snows...
The top is a current treatment of the shirt classic, with big, cuffs and arching collar; "the extremely full skirt is disciplined by wide pleats laid flat to the wido black suedo belt, but unpressed in another current voirue,"
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN.
Watermelon Is a
"NOW, Madame, we arc going to cut a real melon." After a few professional strokes on the steel and a flourish of the carving 'knife,
he cut it. frat i halves, then one of the halves-into-quarters.
"But, Chef, I can't eat that much melon!"
65 Calories To A lb "But, Madame, this is water- melon. It is almost a drink,
on
you
women
love-
Refresher
some watermelon plekle to use our assorted relish plates.""" Watermelon Rind Picklo
Pare the green skin from the rind of a good-sized watermelon, und cut off any plak. flesh. Cut into inch cubes; place in a big bowl. Cover with 2 quarts cold water containing 3 tbsp, table salt, and let stand overnight in with cool place. Drain, cover fresh bolling water and simmer You will eat it slowly, so it will it fork-tender, about 1%
hours.
again, and cook cool you off. Before you know, until clear in
sweet pickling yrup. Remove the spice bag. put on Scal In hot sterilised jars. weight by eating it, for a whole Makes about 2
2. quarts. yound of
10: Combine 2 Pickling Syrup!
It will be Anished."
"At least we won't
only 05 catermelon contains
quarts water, 241⁄2 cups vinegar Instead of putting the big and cups granulated sugar. portions of melon on flat serve Tie 11⁄2 tbsp. whole cloves, 14 ing plates, the Chef skilfully thep. whole allspice and four 3 carved out all, the edible. partion
Dinner Watermelon Balla Veal in Green Pepper Sauce Sweet-Sour Beets
from the rind, cut it triangles sticks tinnamon in a piece of cheesecloth. Add to the water and put it on
deep' Soup plates, "Then the melon: will; not, skid mixture: bring to a boil, and when it is eaten. The way to boll 5 minutes." enjoy eating watermelon is with a knife and fork," he remarked, placing them on the table. “You cut it conveniently with the knife
seeds and pick out tho with the fork and proceed.'
"For mealtime, Chef, seme- times I like the rich pulp of the moon
cut into blocks, or shaped into balls or pyramids with 'an' Ice-cream
Cream Cheese, and Pears Hol or Iced: Coffee For Tea Milk (Children)
All 'Measurements Are Level Recipes Serve Four
scoop, and served Voal in Green Popper Sauce three to a person."
"And for de luxe daintinesa,
Slice leftover vaal in small
Madame, I suggest shaping the pieces, or dice if there are pulp into small balls with a broken oddments Heat in the French potato cutter or a round following sauce, and serve in a
border of mashed potato.. measuring teaspoon. They look
Sauce for Ven: Melt 2 tbsp. very nice in sherbet glosses with mint to garnish, And they, ore
bulier or margarido. Add 1⁄2
celery, 2
2 thin-sliced peeled
a beautiful decoration for a cold diced' meat platter or a fruit salad onions, and 2 coned fine shredded plate.".
94 peppers, Saute gro
the vegetables,
Nice Textura
not browned. Then a sort 2 c. brown gravy left from the roast "Chef, this watermelon rind veal; if there is no gravy, use 2 seems. to have considerable bouillon cubes and 2e bolling davour and a nice texture. I water. In this case, add-&-tbsp.. understand that in Maine, flour blended with 7.tbsp. cold watermelon rind pie is popular water, and cook and, all until They peel the rind, and slice it the sauce boils impidly. Add very thin. To a quart they add 1 tsp. liquid gravy seasoning tap. mixed pastry, spice for flavour and colour.: 1-9 Uitlo salt, 1 tbsp. four and 4 Sweet-Sour Boats signr. Then into h ́pis plate
1
lined with rich pie dough. A Boll of pressure-cook few dots of butter, la criss-cross medium-sized boots with the top crust and it's baked like aking on. Then rinse, with cold the skins and 35 to 40 water, slip on apple plo from 35 'minutes.'
dice
In a saucepan Combine shall try that pie. Only I shall vinegar, liquid drained uso 1/3 tinned pineapple and from the beets and 7 thép, sugar:: melon, rind. It will be n, bring to, boiling point. Blend dod way to make the pineapple tbsp, cornstarch with 1 tbsp. "As, this water cold water sur into the belling go more far. melon is so big we shall have vinegar. Cook and stir 7 min. considerable rind, so it you will: Add the boots and Lithapi: but-o give me your recipe I will make ter. Cover and brat s min.
Very interesting, Madame, or slice the boots alder