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A PARIS FASHION LETTER

Daring Paris Prints

Originality Of Weave In Fragile Fabrics

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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 18, 1938.

MARMALADE DISHES

Marmalade Charlotte-Slices of brown bread and butter, marmalade, 1 lemon, 1 egg, pint milk, 1 des- sertspoonful desicated coconut Line a předish with marmalade and coat with desiccated coconut, Fill dish with layers of bread and butter,

and with marmalade between squeeze of lemon juice. Mix beaten egg and milk Pour over contents of dish. Bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes and serve hot.

Marmalade Mould-Mix 2 tables- poonfuls comiffour to a smooth paste with a little cold milk. Bring I pint new milk to the boil mix 20z. caster sugar and oz butter till melted, and pour over the cornflour boil for 5 minutes. - Remove from heat, stir in 2 tablespoonfuls marmalade, pour into wetted mould, and leave until the next day.” Turn out and serve with orange jelly.

When fashion experts saw the diagonals, checks, plaids or stripes. midseason collections, they were all They appear as single blossoms, struck by the fact that prints, even sprays, or in spaced bouquets; for the Spring models, were con- they are massed in all-over designs, spicuous by their absence. Some like tapestry, that cover the entire houses used a few of them; many, base; sometimes as many as forty including Vionnet, not one. But it or fifty different colour blocks are was a different story that the silk used in their printing. collections told. On these the new * FUN IN PATTERNS Spring mode will be largely based, Amusing little motifs are and while they included little lacking. Several houses make prints" novelty in the weave, they showed a of lucky charms, elephants, pigs, great variation in pattern. Prints horseshoes, and even of a hangman's are of all sorts and all sizes; some noose, in accordance with that grue...” are so original as to be almost (some French tradition that there is audacious; some are as many-hued nothing so lucky as a bit of rope and as artfully designed as an easel used for a hanging. Bianchini has picture.

an, arrangement of small lighted Flowers, as usual in the Spring,windows with people silhouetted in are the leading motif; they have them on a night-blue crepe ground. everything to do with the case.Ducharne shows a brilliant pattern This year they often take on giant made of luggage labels. proportions. Ducharme, for exam- Combier has the most original de- ple, sprays a giant wheat-ear in signs of all. He produces “scenic” yellows over a navy base of crepe prints, like wallpaper, showing the de chîne, or prints a huge dande-flower market at the Madeleine, or lion "clock" in fine black outline illustrations from ““Paut et Vir- on white. Combier scatters great ginie," and the immortal “Muskete- single cyclamen blooms, their petals ers." One of his series of lovely modelled in half a dozen shades, prints was inspired by the collec-seem to make a design in square Rice Marmalade-Wash over a dark crepe ground. Coudu-tion of old illuminated manuscripts blocks.

rice and cook slowly in 1 pints rier blends a number of faded co-land missals exhibited at the Biblio-

GOSSAMER WEAVES milk with 4oz. sugar. When lours in a design of gigantic poppies theque Nationale last Summer in As to weaves, the greatest origi-slightly cool, add 2 beaten eggyolks and daisies, or strews ribbon cock connection with the exposition. Od-nality is expressed in the fragile Let skin form on top in piedish ades es big as dinner plates on white dest of all, he has taken old French fabrics, the organdies and chiffons in oven. Spread with a few spoon- or black organdie.

sayings ("Souvent femme varie," for in particular. It would seem as iffuls of marmalade. Pile, stiffly- Of course, flowers are also used example) and written them in those the houses were in the confidence of beaten egg-whites (mixed with 2 in their natural size, or else reattenuated letters that must be seen the weather man and had received teaspoonfuls caster sugar) on top. duced to tiny proportions and often (from a sharp angle to be read; view-inside information that promises a Leave in the oven for a few minutes arranged in conventional patterns, 'ed from a little distance, they (Continued on page 3)

until lightly browned-

GAY-COLOURED TULIPS. Slap-dashed on a black crepe back- ground in the proper 1938 maner gay-coloured tulips. This dress, worn by Rosalind Russell, MGM star, is simple in design

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its only features being a full shoulderline and front flare in skirt. A velvet ribbon ties in a tailored bow at the back.

Marmalade and Currant. Pudding -Grease a basin and decorate the sides with 202. raisins (halved). Mix 40z each breadcrumbs, chopped snet, sugar, ground rice with a pinch of salt, and 3 oz. curants. # And 2 tablespoonfuls marmalade, 1 well- beaten egg, and sufficient milk to make right consistency. Put the mixture into a basin, cover with greased paper, and stear

for. 2 hours. Turn out and serve with marmalade sauce:

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