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Coats swing free

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Paris. shoulders and

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IF I could choose a winter coat below the waist; others use from the Paris collections I godets, and others just one would have one of those with huge inverted box pleat from swinging fullness at the back, the waist.

There's something dashing

Some designers put a half belt

and carefree about this lino, across the waist at the back, which is, most undoubtedly, the others use a narrow all round success of the shows.

belt; or the coat may be belt- less. Waists are very neat and

You can get this awing-buck slim and the coat tops are more line in various ways, Robert Piguet has a good iden when he often fitting than full.

starts it with three flat tucks

So long as you contrive to

each side of the centre front of keep the slim body-line and a coat about under-arm level small waist effect you needn't and takes them down in a be afraid of looking clumsy or diagonal line to the centre back fat in a full-at-the-back coat. of the waist. Here they seem

But if you don't like this

to merge almost at right anglesilhouette here are others to Into about half a dozen pleats choose from--but they won't stitched down perpendicularly look quite so smart and new! for a few inches and then released, flaring out to the hem- the left hip;

Wrap-over coats draped up on line.

Neat Waists

Some designers use inverted. Very square boxy shapes;

box pleats which may start at

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September 26, 1939,

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can bo varied so pleasantly or so readily as a ple Whether the main ingredient bo flesh, fish, or fowl, you can give free rein to your ingerulty when it comes to the blending of special little socrots where ple-making is concerned, but the recipes given below may set you on the track of new discoveries int this culinary art.

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from shoulder to wrist, whore

When baking a savoury ple, the they're caught into a narrow hour or

oven should be hot for the first half- band rather like

As soon

crust la bishops' dark enough, reduce the heat oE aleeves. Some of the plain coat-move the pie to a cooler place and sleeves have cuffs, narrow or cover the crust with a double pleco deep.

of greaseproof paper, Then conilnuë cooking unui the meat is tender.

Shoulders are very square, but not exaggerated ; sionally one sees epaulettes.

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Length Varies

Length is usually anything from an inch or two below the knee to full calf length.

To test the meat, run a skewer through the hole in the top of the ple When the ple is done, it is good plan to pour Intle hot ETAVY through the hole in the crust, as theres always a tendency for a pia

to be on the dry side. Mixed Grill

For a really satisfying meal you can't do better than a ralzed ple

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little sliced potato. For this kind of ple you should use a hot-waler crust, made

thus:-

three

Collars are either non-existent or else very important. The good old wind-screen collar that anves many a stiff neck in winter is revived, and is usually made of fox. There are little military collars; and Peter Pan Sieve lb self-raising flour with collars; and small turn-down tea-spoonful salt into a bowl. Meit collars with very wide revers. 3 ozs lard (but do not get it very hot), milk and water and bring to the Allx, ever original, has mag- boil. Make a well in your flour and nificent shawl collare, draped pour in your hot fat and liquid. Mix necklines, on coats, and big V-smartly to a soft paste, using a fork, shaped collars, the apex of the Knead till smooth, and then roll out. and turn on to a floured board. Y reaching to the waist at the it will be found more expedient to back.

divide the dough into two Belts are usually narrow, and pleces and to roll each plece to the uften there. is no belt.

required size, shape, and thickness, Some times the waist line is marked For the Ang I suggest a quarter by trucks or very well controlled of a pound of streaky bacon cut into horizontal draping. Occasion-1b sausage meat or sausages skinned nest pleces, and rolled in mustard, 1⁄4 ally one sees belts that are wide and divided, two hard-boiled CE63, in front and taper away to nwo cooked potaties, one large onion mere inch or so at the back. and three tomatoes finely sliced.

Waists are either normal or low. There would seem to be a desperate effort going on to get the waist down. Both coats and dresses are often made with Use a hinged pie mould or a thick long bodices which seem to endcake tin for your ple and mould the almost on top of the hips.

first piece of dough Armly in to form the base. Molsten edges and then A device used rim well up to form a good join. mould in the sides bringing the top to get the eye Fill up with your mixture, mould on accustomed to the root. Seal and roll edge, silt the this lower line top, apply the decoration and brush is to have some all over with egg or brown sugar

glaze, kind of braiding

ashakhan panct's extended to form

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quartered, in the centre. The bacon Arrange in layers, with the eggs, will supply most of the salt needed, but a sprinkling of mustard should be added to each layer.

or stitching or Bake in a moderate oven for one. tucking just be- and a half to two hours. When cooked, make an incision on the edge low the normal or by one of the leaves, fill up with waist.

gravy and allow to get quite cold,

Or a belt may

Serve this delicious ple with crisp be skilfully lettuce leaves and tomato or a nice uscd,

encumber and tomato salad. for instance, a love. Herrings

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about-an-inch Line your pie-dish with a

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a thin wide which is moulding of potato pastry and then nt the fall it up with herring, trimmed, normal

boned, and cut into quarters, sliced waist line on a black mushrooms or big ones cut small, tomato, onion, sweet pepers, button frock, but in all neatly laid la rows, and nicely front it has two seasoned. similar link chains looped across, one below the other, like a necklace.

conts with cloth top and very Coats with the skirts gathered full flat fur skirt. all round from hip line or low

There is a vogue for braiding; Sleeves waist line

are usually tradi- and also flat furs are sometimes tional, straight coat sleeves or used like braid, narrow strips slightly big at the shoulders; being stitched on in acroll but sometimes they are full designs or in bands and zig-zags. -Velvet. is niso sometimes used Jon cloth coats and on fancy

tweeds and woollens.

the back of the coat bodice used

Coats trimmed with flat furs like breast plate and

⚫ from a yoke, or from the apron; or stitched on so as to

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make the coat look like a jacket and skirt;

Very plain coats cut to the bodyline and slightly flaring from the hips, or sometimaca straight; the fullest swagger coats over made. These are ohe of Alix's ideas and they look specially good in check woollens, or in plain colour cloths collared and lined with check woollen;

Or (another Alix design).

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Ginghams are the musartest cottons seen in lown on the hottest days. It is the younger girls and matrons who are wearing them, not only in jacket with dress ensemble, but Int dresses, often with a' matching hat -or trim on a large straw hat as,

·· shown above,

The dress is in small check in red and white gingham and favours shirtwaist style with long sleeves caught into wide wrist bands, Lord Byron collar, isolated with a flowing black alik Windsor)

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A simple evening frock for the young girl. Glyony: In style, it, in}

by Judy Garland, youngster,· The blouse in white cotton, and the varicoloured skirt is fashioned of alternating strips of traffeta and, net over s navy; bito taffeta,underskirt.

Add a squeeze of lemon juice, a good sprinkling of powdered parsley,

ļa graté of nutmeg, and lemon rind.

Pour over it this delectable sauce: Two tacspoonfuls made mustard, teaspoontul sugar, nearly a gili of spoonful tomate pulp, well mixed vegetablo stock or water, and 1 table- together,

Cover with pastry, decorate edges and brush beaten egg. Bake in "a moderate oven for 30 to 65 minutes, according to size of ple. Bloaters, can be used instead of the fresh fish; prepared as herring and well washed in which case no salt is needed,

Buttons are important-some times fancy, "of silver or gilt metal, and sometimes of bone. For dresses, especially after-s noon and evening dresses, there are jewelled buttons, and Anny Blatt makes good use of coloured buttons on her chic hand-knitted suits and frocks.

Materials

For the potato pastry you will need Dour, 4 oz sieved cooked potatoes, 4 ozs margarine, and half teaspoonful salt. Rub the margarine into the flour, add sloved potatoes and salt and enough cold water to make) into a stift dough, Roll out and use ns short pastry.

No Oven Required

Face cloths, plain smooth

Now here is a ple that needs no oven-sea ple. You'll require 11b woollens, or sometimes rough lean beet, either stewing steak, leg surfaced woollens, are smartest, of beef, or beef skirt, lb aliced but sometimes there is a gelf onions, 1 lb sliced carrots, 3 or 4 tomatoes, 1 cupful peas, 2 özɛ drip- atripe or other novelty weave. ping. I dessertspoonfut flour, sajt, The plainer the better for town pepper, and mustard, and 8 ozs. suet wear seems to be the motto for (pastry, materials for full length winter coats.

Melt the dripping in the bottom of a big pan and fry your sliced Of course, for country or onlons in it. Cut the meat into small eports there are funumerable you have added salt, pepper, and pieces and roll 'The Bour which tweeds. And for jackets, the mustard. Add the meat and the rest gayer the colouring and pattern of the vegetables to the pan, except the botter. Almost every de- with water, add tersoning, put on the the tomatoes and peas. Barely cover aigner shows tartan and check pan lid, and bring to the boil. Sim- jackota with plain colour skirts,mer for at least an hour, p also vivid coloured velvet jackets.

Take not to have, the pastry A to colour, black le universal to the size of the pan. Bile, up the roof too moist, and roll it lightly out for town, but there is a sprinkl-contents of the pan,, add the saliced ing, too, of wines, purples, and tomatoes and peas, and cover with the other dahlia shades which the pastry roof, pressing well against the pan sides. Put back the Chanel especially lovea; and pan lid and cook for another hour or blues and mustard yellow are hour and a half, keeping the lid, on acon, too.

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