1937-03-18 — Page 2

REPORT - BY ZOE FARMAR

& ROBB FROM PARIS 'SHOWS

ON NEW SPRING FASHIONS

The English cut has it

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Paris.

ETTING down to what we are to wear this spring-summer the Paris designers have gone all Union Jack. Why? De- 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 buttons, herald coats and what-all. 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 yeter husbands like you

A swank designer can't afford to leave a plain suit plain.

wear...

jazzed up a bit with royal flavouring.

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So here, under headings (to make it easy for you to hand your tailor), I've listed some of the ways of having a tailor-made that doesn't look like the one you had last year.

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LAFELS are ornamental, Edgerl with braid, some flatly faced, others' with a contrasting colour stitched on in an in-and-out scroll design out- linct with bright coloured piping, or coarsely stitched. In contrast to the suit and matching the blouse. Em- hroidered 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- decked (so that what looks like, two pockets, one above other, is only one inside). Again much embroidery: piped edges, narrow vari-coloured braidings, corded.

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

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Styling for short juckets often Tyrolean with tiny inlets at back of gay chintz fabrics- but only a flash of them, from the lining. SKIRTS: Close-fitting and plain. small, fat and hidden as much as possible. Much straight panelling. -

Stuffs for Spring

Plents

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.

line.

1 (figura above). Suit of biscuit- Jac- coloured tussore with dark brown reliefs. ket: biscuil-coloured. Dark tussore lapels embroidered in silk...Pocket panels narrow at sides. Skirt: three panels with hidden pleat one side. Hat: coarse natural-coloured straw. Small Mexican shape. Dark ribbon. Jumper; snede, light, with dark buttons. Outlined dark coarse stitching.

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

WHEN AT HOME

BITS TO CUT OUT

Simple Cures

To prevent fatigue: Chew a little kola nut powder. It is a grand tonic -and-nerve stimulant, and will help to increase your powers of endurance. For loothache: Apply oil of cinna- mon or oil of cloves frequently on cotton wool to the aching tooth.

For hair-fall (if hair dry); Rub into the scalp a mixture of expressed oll of nutineg 1 part to.olive oil 3 paris.

For superficial cuts Apply friat's balsam.

For rheumatism: The infusion of sussafras bark is often helpful.

Orange Cake

Hib. flour, 1⁄4lb. butter, 1⁄41⁄216, sugar, CODS.

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Two oranges, a pluch of baking powder, plaze ieing, butter icing.

Beat the butter and sugar to cream, and mix in the eggs one at a time. Add the grated, rind of the branges, the sieved floor, and baking powder. Fold in lightly, place in a deep sandwich tin lined

with greased paper, and bake in moderate oven for about thirty minutes.

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When cool, cut into layers, and sandwich with butter icing to which added the juice of one icing orange. Coat

glace with coloured orange and flavoured with the Juice of the other orange.

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1400 A. D. RECIPES

THEY'RE WORTH

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TRYING

we read cookery books (an amusing and virtuous occupation) of all ages we find that the old ones are more interesting than useful; but they throw a light the modes and manners of n period, 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, is not of a culinary nature as far as we are concerted. und we must consider them as curious museum pieces, by which I mean those which are several centuries old.

The proportions were

enormous,

the indications extravagant and the They mixture of flavours alarming. were also inercdibly gross.

Yet we can distinguish the elc- will ments, the ideas which later combine to make the dishes as we appreciate them at present.

in- The "Gothic Cooking," for stance, belonging to the fourteenth and Afteenth centuries, contains several dishes and sauces of the same kind ns we find now in Nordic countries, with a sweet clement added to the flavour of meat,

The

most famous ones were the Sauce de traktson, which was mnde with chopped onion melted with chopped bacon mixed with bread- 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."

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called Ean Benite sauce

Gothic-bell seems to us terribly together yose water, verjuice, ginger and marjoram, and strain..

Yet the 10th 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 musk so that their flesh the should be impregnated with scent.

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

Gallimaufry

TAKE a leg of lamb and

remove the skin, the fat and the bone. Cut the flesh in pieces the size of a large walnut and insert into each with a lot, Ing needle one or two thin pieces of strenky bacen rolled in chopped parsley.

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Put a small quantity of olive oil in saucepan; when hot put in the pieces 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 dle out. Add slices of mushroom, a little coulis, "anything you like" says

the author.

Cook very slowly till tender and squeeze a litle lemon juice,

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the 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 des- cribed It must have-been-some-- thing to make a short sauce and give a spicy tuste; cream, the burnt brandy, the liquid out of the ment and the mushrooms being the other elements in the finished sauce,

lust

Therefore

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

Lemon Omelette

THUS

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

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

Broiled Trout

TAKE out the entrails, cut

the fish across the side (by which is obviously mcont few superficial incisions here and there), and wash them. Fill the cuis with thyme, marjoram and parsley, chop- ped fine.

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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SALE!

Large Assortment of

DECCA RECORDS

AT

50 Cents

each

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(DAY

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NIGHT

WEAR

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WARNING!

Cheap imitations of the well-known products.

Viyella

and

'Clydella'

are being offered for sale in the Colony at low prices.

Beware of these inferior imitations.

LOOK for the solvedge label throughout the piece.

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Viyella

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