The Archive · 1938

Palace Breakfasts

No doubt King Carol inherits from his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh and his great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, his lóve of many things English. He reads English books, speaks the English language without an accent, employs an English butler in his Bucharest home and is fond of English cooking.

So it is to be hoped that during his short stay with the King and Queen, he sampled a typical Buckingham Palace breakfast, the homely meal enjoyed in pleasantly homely with three velvet ribbons tied in small bows in front; place a neat velvet bow at the neck and three more on short, full sleeves. One would be proud to take such a frock anywhere.

Coloured printed cotton laces ere in the news, Among them is a charming design of orange-centred white marguerites on a green ground, a dainty forget-me-not and dark blue on filet, and a striking pattern made up of pink and green zigzag stripes on a fine black net mesh. Printed synthetic linen laces, art silk delastre and silk flounce laces, and angel-skin all-over laces are other season's novelties.

Trimming laces are no less interesting. These are for lingerie and dress accessories. Women are once again carrying little lace-oded handkerchiefs and inserting fine lace into nightgown bodices and petticoat slips.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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