VISIT TO LINCOLN'S INN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1937, Page 14

VISIT TO LINCOLN'S INN

The Duchess of Kent set an intriguing new fashion recently when she and the Duke attended a garden party in the "very pretty new garden" that Pepys went to see at Lincoln's Inn in 1663, states a London writer. After the fashion of schoolgirl plaits, two thick black silk cords, ending in tassels, were slung across her shoulders. The cords held her shallow beige straw hat, lying in a knot at the back of her hair, and then being drawn across in the front. The underbrim of the Duchess's hat had a wide black band to match this new neckline fashion and the black belt on her beige coat.

Lincoln's Inn gate porters had new uniforms on for the first lime in honour of the Royal visit.

While the other porters wore the famous tall brown hats with gold bands, the gate porters were equipped with peaked brown caps bearing the initials "L.1."

The Duke and Duchess stepped back into the Middle Ages when they entered the old walled gardens. The Duke, who is a Senior Bencher, the Duchess, and the Masters of the Bench strolled under the plane trees.

Kitchen herbs, the Duchess learnt, were cultivated there before the. Reformation, when the gardens belonged to the house of the Earls of. Lincoln.