THE LATEST IDEAS

Evening Star, Issue 22572, 13 February 1937, Page 29

THE LATEST IDEAS

Out-of-door meals have become the fashion in England during the last few years, and all kinds of attractive ideas for informal luncheons and suppers are now to be seen. Silver and fine china look out of place in a garden, and hostesses are using pottery and wood and brightly-flowered substantial china in place of them. The newest fireproof dishes are brown, lined with honey colour. You can get them in all kinds of shapes and sizes, and they look very attractive on an outdoor luncheon table spread with a coloured cloth of homespun or hand-woven linen. Guests like to mix their own salads theso days, so, it has become the fashion to place all the salad ingredients in one large bowl, with plates beside it and a senes of small wooden dishes containing salt and pepper and mustard and oil apd vinegar. Green glasses for summer drinks look cool and pretty. Sets of them are sold with matching ice plates in a shell pattern, or, as a change from glass, you may choose the new cider and lemonade sots in earthenware with a translucent glaze, which can be had in a. vario'.y of attractive colours.

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