1937-05-28 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 28, 1937.

Put Your Best Foot FORWARD!

These are foot conscious days, Modern Englishwomen realise that smartness begins at the sole. They dress.down. rather than...up...

Experience and elegantly-shod Americans have taught them that face, ligure, even fortune will avail them nothing if their feet go un- cherished..

They now choose shoes in rela- tionship to the rest of their clothes and the inferiority complex of Brit- ish,

feet has vanished for ever. Women want fashion and foot- ease both at the same time nowa- days. They talk about jester toes, elastic-sided boots and gilt laces, but they walk about in shoes that fit well and feel good.

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If they are carried away by pair of pumps with feminine toes and bows they insist that the jour- ney shall be comfortable.

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COURT SHOES ARE

FAVOURITES.

Skirts.are much shorter.

They combine elegance and ease. is its own trimming. For a change, They are new, A clever gusset, a slim stitched tab have piped shoes. and the most difficult, feet can wear and attractive if they are discreet. them with poise and peace of mind.

They are tailoring cloque and BE WARY OF COLOURS alpaca in the big salons. Shoes that shine with these materials.

With our frocks loyally a-flaunt, it is well to be sober about extremit

What might look effectively gay-at a cocktail party or on a film, looks cheap and nasty on the street.

Consider low-cut tie shoes stitch-ies. ed or trimmed with braid, but keep them plain if you want them to look right with tweeds.

HEELS AND HATS

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Your heels should depend on your hat.

If you fling it high with a fea- ther let your heels be low. Add an- other inch or two if you yearn for a flat French sailor girdled with flying birds.

America has made shoe history with ankle high Oxfords. These are not easy to wear. They demand superb ankles and impeccable stock- ings.

Blue is good. It fits in with most Coronation colour schemes.

Black and dark brown are always correct.

Grey for a "matched” ensemble or with delicate silks.

Coppery shades with black and all the pale sun tans with flannels and linens.

Wear black clocks on light stock- ings if your legs will stand it. Wear fish-net lisle with homespun skirts and be very smart indeed.

We are all for putting our best feet forward nowadays. Both of them. Save up and buy a shoe trous- seau. What feels best usually looks this is one of the sound-

Choose a pair of home-grown Ox-best fords if you walk for pleasure and est foot rules. Town shoes are very much in the not just to get there. More than any public eye.

A flair for clothes is an enchant÷ other shape they are proof against|ed possession. It is not enough to hot pavements, country lanes and be clever, with hats or have a genius The court is first favourite. In long shopping, expeditions. Worn for tailored suits. To acquire a patent it matches the spring silks with angoras, hopsacks and tweeds, reputation for clever dressing, you

In suede but never with silks.

must see yourself "all in a piece" with an easy elegance.

from head to foot- Keep your shoes in step with the rest of your ensemble.

it makes a cosmopolitan companion

for a new tailleur. Court shoes FOR. LANES AND LINKS are no longer the perquisite of patri- cian feet.

Ensemble Note In

The Kitchen

Sports need special shoes.

To hike happily, a woman must be well s

shod.

Good-looking brogues help the golf handicap. If you are young and gallant, wear a culotte with polish- ed brown ghillies. It is the ideal outfit for all the sturdier sports.

The ensemble idea is spreading in the kitchen as elsewhere. Green and cream pottery has appeared, Rough and cherished country matching the range of enamel sauce clothes can have ghillies to match, pans and other kitchen utensils Green and blue and soft, smoky which have become so familiar. browns. They can be punched, wear contrasting insets, or have

Sets of canisters were in use on flat, fringed tongues if you are tir- the Continent long before they were ed of them plain. introduced to England. The new

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est English sets have adopted one Flannel for tailored frocks and more feature of the French and suits is in high favour. Beige Belgian originals the carafes for its best colour. Have reptile shoes oil and vinegar, with a particularly and buckled straps with flannel. Keep slender and graceful design. They then very plain, since the surface also include pottery rolling-pin to match.

Meringue Fingers

Now is the time to make this de-

Several entirely new designs have been put on the market in Bristol ware. The canisters have covers fitting both inside and out, and are made in attractive pastel shades to licious tart which needs a number match a full range of mixing bowls, jugs, pie dishes, measuring cupst Six eggs; Soz jam, preferably greengage; 3oz castor sugar; short

and basins.

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of

egga.

A special whisking bowl, with crust. flanged sides to control the splash, Line a flat, oblong tin with and a recess in the centre of the good short crust. Separate yolks and base to hold the whisk is a good whites of eggs. Beat yolks with idea.

the jam and pour it · over pastry Bake in the oven for minutes.

if

Whip whites stiffly,

the

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add sugar,

Watch Your Waist Line; and pipe in lines or rosettes on the

Cultivate regularity of the daily habit you would avoid obesity -that corpulence so indicative of advancing age. To retain slenderness of figure, elasticity of step, and the vigour of youth when past the primă af lifa, it is essential that the food tract be kept free from congestion... ·

Pinkettes, the dainty, tiny,

pink

laxatlyg pills, are an invaluable sid. *

men and women désirous of remaining young in "appearance and in spirit. Taken occasionally, when needed, they

flan; return to the oven to set.

When done cut into fingers and serve hot or cold.

PASSION FRUIT

CURD

Australian recipe. alb. but- prevent constipation, tone up the liver, ter: 8 new-laid eggs; 1 lb. loaf stimulate digestion, correct biliousness, sugar, juice and pulp of 3 or 4 pas and sick headāties,- clear the... akin,

By sion fruit, or 3 to 4 lb. tinned pas

purify the breath, relieve' piles.

keeping you fit and well, Pinkettes sion fruit. » banish-depression, and irritability,

chamista.

́éifciency,

Stir all together and cook till

thick in double saucepan.

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Black and white, with a bright kelly green chiffon ascot tucked in at the neckline give a dash of colour to this dress worn by Veda Ann Borg, screen actress. The skirt is of heavy dull black crepe.

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