BIRTHDAY CAKE.

Northern Advocate, 15 August 1931, Page 4

BIRTHDAY CAKE.

! DEBUTANTES IN MITTENS.

A PICTURESQUE BALL.

There is something very refreshing, and delightful about Charlotte ’s birthday ball. It has come' to be regarded as the debutantes? .Own dance, and the presence of 50.0 f the most notable of the girls who; airo making their debut in socia,! life, gives to it, year by year, an atmosphere of freshnees and fragrance that is . altogether charming, writes a Londoner in a daily journal. Recently, when it was held; amid the splendours of the Dorchcester; Park Lane, W., it was attractive than it has ever. been, and extraordinarily ■picturesque., , - . .

Frocks which,, touched . the floor made all the debutantes look - ■ unusually tall and slender. ; . .Sorno -of . their skirts were...so, long, .indeed,' .that, ; -as they fox-trotted, they .caught a bunch of draperies, gracefully in one -hand and lifted it sufficiently high, to show dainty ankles. Every girl; was in white.

Flowers in Their Hair. Here tliere was a bouffant dress of frothy, snowy chiffon; there, ,a willowy figure swathed in ivory satin. Crisp tulle frills fashioned several girlish gowns, and white, with touches of silver, was a favourite.

Some wore flowers in their hair. Others had bandeaux of crystal and pearls fastened round their heads. And nearly all of them had long white gloves, or old fashioned silk mittens.

Lady Patricia Ramsay -was , the- guest of honour. .She is. A. .great-grand-, grand-daughter 0f... Queen Charlotte, and, after dinner, she cut a huge birthday cake iced with rod and white sugar. its lower tier illuminated with red and white electric candles.