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REPORT BY ZOE FARMAR

& ROBB. FROM PARIS SHOWS

ON NEW SPRING · FASHIONS

The English cut has

it

Paris.

ETTING down to what we are to wear this spring-summer the Paris designers have gone all Union Jack. Why? Dc- signers this or that side of of the Channel care most deeply about what the American customers will buy. (America sets the mar- ket, Europe sets the fashion) and American women who won't see our Coronation want to wear it.

They have already worn out their enthusiasm for the obvious royal in- signia, like crown and sceptre baltons, herald coats and what-ali Now their highly paid buying representatives are looking simply for clothes that look English in cut and style and have at the same time just a suggestion of royal goings-on. So the tailor-made suit walks right. ahead in popularity and in- genuity in the half-yearly fashion parades,

Trimmings show the royal Influence

But it is not the plain classic cut affair that your husbands like you to wear. A swank designer can't afford to leave a plain suit plain. It had to be jazzed up a bit with royal Oavouring..

So here, under headings (to make it easy for you to hand your tailor), I've listed some of the ways, of look like the one you had last year.

right over to having a tailor-made that doesn't

LAPELS are ornamental. · Edged with braid, some flatly faced, others with a contrasting colour stitched on in an in-and-out scroll design out- lined with bright coloured piping, or coarsely stitched. In contrast to the suit and matching the blouse. Em- broidered in silk. Standing up stiffly, not pressed back. Rolled back, but not pressed. Anything, it seems, but the sort of lapel that you're used to.

BUTTONS are smaller, mostly tailor type, and fewer. No more of those suits that make you look centi- pede-chested or dangle queer little stunt buttons,

Instead of fancy buttons, more in- genuity in the button-holes. Em- broidered cord, or metal, loops. Ordinary button-holes faced with con. trasting fabric matching gloves, jumper or bag,

Double-deckers

POCKETS plenty. Often oddly shaped to match lapels; some double- docked (so that what looks like two pockets, one above other, is only one -inside). Again much embroidery: piped edges, narrow vari-coloured braidings, corded,

1.

(Caption below)

JACKETS: As well as short classic length, some bolero style, dipping to a V at the back, and some hark back to the 2in.- below-inger-tip redingote (which means, case like me you used to wonder, really "riding coat-style-close-tailored on the chest, roomy

below).

in

Styling for short jackets often Tyrolean with tiny inlets at back of gay chintz fabrics→→→ but only a flash of them, from the lining.

SKIRTS: Olose-fitting and plain. Pleats as much as possible.

small, flat and hidden

Much straight panelling. ~

Stuffs for Spring

FABRICS: For later spring, heavy tussores

· and corded silks. Imitation suede (like those cheap gloves, looking like matt stockingette) for jackets, sometimes skirts as well. Linens coarser-woven than ever, looking like canvas? Tweed-silk mixtures.

COMMENT: Good practical clothes so far and just the sort that suit us (excepting the few that tend to over-ornamentation). LENGTH: 14ins. from ground. OUTLINE; Classical and un- exaggerated (no phoney shoulders

or sleeves). Natural to high waist- Z. F.

Kine,

1. (figure above). Suit of biscuit- coloured tussore with dark brown reliefs. ·Jac- ket: biscuit-coloured. Dark. tusnore lapels embroidered in silk... Pocket panels narrow at sides, Skirt: three panels with hidden pleat one side. Hal: course natural-coloured straw. Small Mexican shape. Dark ribbon. Jumper: suede, light, with dark buttons. Outlined darke coarse stitching.

Jacket:

2 Suit of dull green tweed. decorated pockets, self stuff is stitched on to form bow loops. Skirt: close fitting; three lines of alitching panelling front, · Jumper; deep green crepe de Chine. Note neck treatment; stock tucks under front bow. Hat: felt, brin wider in front. Shoens very flat heels shown with most suits. Almost clog-shaped, brogued.

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Orange Cake..

lb. flour, ib. butter, alb, sugar,

4 cogs.

Two oranges, a pinch of baking powder, glace icing, butter icing.

Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, and mix in the eggs one at a time. Add the grated rind of the oranges, the sieved floor, and baking powder. Fold in lightly, place in a deep sandwich tin lined with greased a moderate oven paper, and bake in a for about thirty minutes.

When cool, cut into inyers, and sandwich with butter icing to which has been added the juice of one

orange. Coat with giace Icing coloured orange and favoured with the juice of the other orange.

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1400 A. D. RECIPES

THEY'RE WORTH

TRYING

IF we read cookery books

(on amusing and virtuous occupation) of all ages we find that the old ones are more interesting than useful; but they throw a light on the modes and manners of a perlod, and help us to visualise life in those old days.

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As for the recipes themselves, their main interest, as a rule, la not of a culinary hature as far as we concerned, and we must consider them as curious museum pieces, by which I mean those which BTC several centuries old.

The proportions were

enormous,

the indications extravagant and the mixture of flavours alarming.

They

were also incredibly gross.

Yet we can distinguish the cle- will menis, the ideas which later combine to make the dişlies as we appreciate them at present

The Gothie Cooking." for in- stance, belonging to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, contains several dishes and sauces of the Bame kind as we find now in Nordic counteles, with a sweet element added to the flavour of meat.

The most famous ones were the Sauce de trahison, which was made with chopped onion melted with chopped bacon mixed with brend- crumbs and finished with red wine, vinegar, cinnamon, sugar and mus tard. Apart from the unusual sugar and cinnamon, this might be the an- cestor of our spley "Sauce Diable."

But sause called Eau Denite seems to us terribly Gothic-ball, together rose water, verjuice, ginger and marjoram, and strain.

Yet the 18th century was to see the freakish fashion of perfuming every sauce and dish with Iris, rose and ambergris, even of feeding bowls with pills of music so that their fesh' should be impregnated with the

scent.

However, there are a few, very few, recipes dating froin these days which we can use to-day with plen- sure. The following are interesting and also good specfinens,

Gallimaufry

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a leg of lamb remove the skin, the fat and the bone. Cut the flesh in pieces the size of a large walnut and insert into each with larding needle one or two thin pieces of streaky bacon called in chopped parsley.

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Put a small quantity of olive oil in saucepan; when hot put in the ploces of meat, salt, pepper and bouquet of thyme and parsley.

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Fry them lightly, tossing them well. then put in a glass of brandy which you set alight; shake till the flames die out. Add slices of mushroom, a little coulis, "anything you like" sDYS the mathor.

Cook very slowly till tender and squeeze a Rtje lemon juice.

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Dispose around the meat in dish chestnuts which have previous- ly been cooked, and pour the sauce all over,

The coulis-in-question-is-not-den- cribed. It must have been some- thing to make a short sauce and give a spicy taste; cream, the burnt brandy, the liquid out of the meat and the mushrooms being the other elements in the finished sauce.

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Therefore there should be enough oil to seize the meat at the beginning, otherwise the sauce would not be nice.

Lemon Omelette

THIS

HIS is a sweet omelette, as the old book spells it, "aumelette," made with the usual proportions of eggs, two for cach person. When beaten, add, also for each person, a tablaspoonful of breadcrumbs and a little lemon-peel, finely chopped.

Sprinkle the finished omelette with sugar, and glaze quickly with a red iron or a salamander.

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Broiled Trout

TAKE

TAKE out the entrails, cut the fish across the side (by which is obviously meant a low superficial incisions here and there), and wash them. Fill the cuts with thyme; marjoram and parsley, chop- ped line.

Set the gridiron on the fire, rub the bars with suet, and lay the trout on, basting them with fresh butter until they are well "broyled."

Serve with a sauce of butter and vinegar and the yolk of an egg beaten well together.

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