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'AT LONDON'S FASHION SHOW

Suede stands out for SPRING

To catch the American buyers on their way to the French dress shows, Fashion Group of Great Britain, sponsored the biggest "exclusive" dress parade ever held in London

by Zoe Farmar

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CLARINGE'S largest vallroom arst authoritative group-dictates of was hired and the spring what we shall wear this sprlig. collection of twelve leading Lon- Standing right out from the other don designers of dresses and clothes was one designer's use of hats shown to an audience of suede dyed to unusual colours, made

into day dresses, suits, Jackets about 1,600. As well 'ns a 'boost for British fashions the show

Padded hair style-worn by most of the mannequins-was one of the was intended to state authorita- stunty new trends-but I can't see tively the ins and outs of spring many of us bothering with it. . . . fashions.

And now the captions and pictures At the Paris dress shows each tell you of some of the things I saw

and the general trend, designer will have her own idea of

what length and style are to be Hats

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Dictates (of not just due designer, but the group): Brims to be deeper front than back and to go down at the back. Also wide and sweeping (rendy for Ascot). Crowns: some square, many moulded,

Clothes

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Dictates-Day lengths: 13 to 14 inches from the ground. Waists:

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RECIPES

WITH

RICE

E are very apt in Hongkong, to associate rice with puddings

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and curries, but there are many delightful, tasty-und economical-dishes with rice as a foundation. Rice is simple to cook,, and the recipes which follow are excellent as light huchcon dishes or as entrees.

With Sausages, and Peas

This is easy to prepare, Chop and fry a small onion in 2oz, of buiter or. fat, and cook til soft but without browning. Then add lb. of rice- preferably Patna rice-stir and couk for a few minutes, then add gradually about pint of bolling stock, season with salt and pepper, cover the pan and simmer, turning the rice occasion- ally, for about 30 minutes. Ten minutes before serving, mix in a good handful of cooked peas and small fried sausages cut' in two or three pleces.

Prawn Jambalaya

a great stand-by is a good rice dish which is

Put lb. of among the Creoles of Louisiano, rice in a large saucepan of salted boiling water and boil for exactly 13 minutes. Pour the rice an a sieve and hold it under the cold tap tor with a wooden five or six seconds, stirring it

spoon. Let stand for a few minutes to drain. Fry a small onion in about 2oz. of butter or fat, then add some quartered tomatoes, and cools for a few minutes. Then put in the rice, mix all a dhīl, thoroughly, cover the frying-pan with and simmer for about 30 minutes, stirring fre- quently Ten minutes before serving. add a pint of shelled prawns.

Risi in Cavroman

Is a Venetian dish. It is an excellent way of using up cold lamb ur mutton. The rice can be cooked as in either of the foregoing recipes, but without the tomatoes. Small pieces of lamb or a few minules mutton are mixed with the rice before serving.

When Linen

Develops Mildew

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INEN suits are the vogue, and a very pleasing vogue too. But sometimes a sort of ironmould appears on the fabric-really mildew, a "vegetable" growth or mould which develops on linen under damp, warm conditions. .

2- Showing the double,

These stains can be quickly taken out by bleaching methods, but treat- moulded crown; widement differs for white and coloured linens.-This-is-what you should do:.. droopy brim; ribbon fixing at back is black, lined white.

Mother Hubbard hat of stitched tulie; rows of flowers one snowdrops, one violets, frames face.

White or Natural

For white or natural linens bleach with a. solution of. Javelle water (chloride of lime), which can be purchased ready mixed. Full instructions ure given with the chemical, which is sold by most grocers and general stores.

Sloe-berry coloured wool-

The article must be evenly wet when it is placed in the solution for Olen sult, many-coloured treatment, and afterwards washed out thoroughly, or steeped in un acid silk blouse. Jucket: shoulders stitch-solution to counteract the work of the chemical in the fibres. A solution ed in rather military form; plain close of vinegar (1 dessertspoonful to 8 of water) would be suitable. aleeves with stitched-on cuffs; buttons covered in silk cord (like old- fashioned curtain pullers). Blouse: wavy patterned silk, collar outline following wave in silk, Tuck-in.

6. Large black tecla straw, with crown slightly lifted (like opening box) at one side, Big quill looks as though it stays on by balance.

Coloured

For coloured linens wash the article, then make up a paste of equal quantities of french chalk, Fuller's earth and castile soap, with cold water,

and spread it over the stains, leaving the material in the sun to dry.

When dried, rub off the paste, when the stains should have disappeared and been drawn out into the powdered deposit.

Repent the treatment if necessary,

Anne Selby suggests some

INVALID DISHES

Eggs Dudley

a tablespoon of flour, and

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which are easy to prepare

Creamed Cod.

Creamed Brains ·

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Pouch the eggs, put on but- Normal to high, for day, built-up tered toast and cover with this (Empire of 1910 style) for evening. Bolts: Plenty of

to sauce. Make a white sauce with. them; incline

Jackets: ornamentation. hravy

Put a slice of cod in a small sauce- Wash a set of sheep's brains in Short and snug-fitting; often out-

2 cold salted water, remove skin and lined with piping or embroidery gill, of milk. Senson well, stir in a Tyrolean. Shoulders: Well marked gill of finely chopped white chicken, pan, cover with milk and add

little cloves, a small plece of onion and put in a pan with cold water but not exaggerated. Skirts: Mostly hent thoroughly, adding straight and plain.

a plece of parsley. Cook slowly, cover. Simmer until cooked, then cream at the last minute, If like.

then take out the fish, remove skin drain and chop. Make pint of and bone and put on a hot dish. white stock, season well, add the Beat up 2 cgsts, and pour on Strain the milk, thicken with corn- brains, a dessertspoon of chopped pint bolling chicken broth or beef flour, add a teaspoon of lemon juice parsley and a beaten egg, and cook tou, slirting well all the time. Sea and a boaten egg, and stir over a together slowly without boiling un- son and pour into a small greased low heat until it thickens. Do not til thoroughly hot. basin. Cover with greased paper and garnish with parsley. and jacket (not steam gently for about 20 minutes. 1 Dress

sult) of British tweed, or untii custard a set. Take-out, the faciet white with diagonal stand for a minute, then turn out blue stripes, the dress blue;

for evening as well as day, but at ing. Day and night: Tailored laces

night in Empire and Regency styl- -wool, silk or cotton. Ilem-lines

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Steamed Sole

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Scrambled Fish

Lemon Jelly

Rub the yellow skin of 2 large

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Have ready 4oz. of cooked white lemons on to Goz, of lump sugar, Bah, free from skin and bone, and Put the sugar in a pan with a pint well Baked. Melt 14oz. of butter, of water and an ounce of gelatine they call, "saddle" shoulders. Lapels

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butter it and arrange the lets of, Beat up 2 eggs with a tablespoon of Beat up 2 cag yolks, pour on the Shoping at waist (no, not pockets) is piped, to emphasise it, Stock, sole. Squeeze on some lemon juice, milk, reason well, and pour on to gelatine mixture, add the juice of cerisa silk.

put a little piece of butter on top the fish. Cook slowly, stirring all the lemons, and stir over a low heat and cover with buttered paper. Put Dinner: dress of dark

boll, Cool, and when nearly setting green silk. Styling: bodice another plate on top and steam over the time until the eggs begin to until the eggs thicken, but do not built up close under bust; in front boiling water for about 1p to 10 thicken, then pile quickly on hot fold in the stiffly whipped egg stliched, belt of solf stuff. Bands of minutes.*.

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