THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 26. 1931.
TOPCOATS AND
SUIT COATS
TOUCHED WITH FUR
This Cost i Blue Velour and the Fun
is Gray Australism Opossum
The Practical Type of Buil
bas Good. Lines and
Smart Fur Pockets and
Collar
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This Suit has. a deckel of
Extreme
Length- The Belt
Linked Pelgi Dings isleny New?
Modes of the Moment.
All the high pricedant really exclusive tailored jackets or topcoats have fur trimming. Bel it over 50 ting, a furcollar will give your winter suit the proper:
The Peplum Jackel and The Loose Panel Jacket Are Both Shown Here with Touches of Fun and Embroidery
SEAL AND SQUIRREL.
of
JOTTING.
pictured. One of these wraps,
effect--and you feel not have coat-dress of black serge embrajin blue velour has an enormous.
From Bence comes a graceful an embroidered model of dark
THE RETURN OF THE TANGO. for anywhere else on the costume pred in allover effect with white muller collar of Australian
Small caps of metallic lace or FRENCH TAILLEURS HATE. wcol and silk, and opening in possum and deep cuffs to match tissce ate being shown. The
The embroidery. ia pale gres: caps front to show a long pans! 2 outlines a cape motif on the cost theatre wear and dance teas. We SMALL FOR COLLARS.
are really intended for Pleated black satin. The collar which is really all in one piece are just as dance mad as ever. One of these tiny little fur is bordered with monkey fur and The other cpat shows an actual says a Londoner, and some of us collars omaments a Drecoll suit with the costume goes a black of very palegrey cloth. The jacket velvet hat trimmed with monkey Cape, hung from the back of the (the accomplished dancers) will is embroidered elaborately with fur. Worth has brought out a
shoulders and falling in most welcome the targo back with
Lines drapery. pale grey silk floss and the collariredingote suit of dark red cloth graceful is just a tiny strip of ery squirreldwith monkey fur on the collar; the folde of drapery and the loose affair as in 1914. Of course, as a soutache on this cap emphasize pen arms-or feet. It is not to be nearly such a complicated sowed across the top of the neck-Very good looking is a suit of Two new'
railored suis pic-brown bolivia with self-tone sleeve bas also a double line ballroom dance, it will always be tured show these dinty_lelembroidery in silk, floss and ap
of soutache. The draped collar a fiasco unless it is greatly fo: collars with slightly differentichoker
is, bordered with collat of seal. The
Australian simplied. But if it is really cut.
opossum. The suit a the left is jacket is in eton effect over a
well performed the tango is the basque model: the other is a loose wide girdle which loops over
VELVET SUITS REQUIRE THE most fascinating dance yet in box coat with panel back. There once with long ends. These :
FUE TOUCH.
vented, and the music of it the two styles are vying with eachigirdle ends are bordered with A pictured suit of black velvet: most alluring. other for favour just now. The strips of seal. A basque suit of has a collar of taupe fox which basque suit is of bown woolimaroon duvetyn
much echoss the shade of the smart
velour with brown and tan egt-ladmired at 1. recent fashion little taupe feather hat. Moleskin; broidery. The collars of sealshow. The basque is at sides and Australian opossum are used and narrow strips of seal en-and back only, the front of the on black, dark blue and dark; phasize the locaties of the jacket having a straight, flat green velvet Jults. Brown pockets. The oblique fint elusine panel almost to the knee. The velvet suits are usually is a feature of the season. The basque slopes upward from the garnished with mink, seal or other suit is of very dark green foot of this panel to a length of fitch-which is again fashion. bolivia with embroidy in selfiunly six or seven inches below able. The velvet suit is rarely. tone and pale tan. The collar isthe waistline at the back and is embroidered, its rich fabric and. of seal also and you see how small banded with seal. Above the the touch of beautful fur at the ti-jasts little strip of sealskin.seal trimming are rows and rows neck giving it all the distinction In both mits the sleeves are left of black silk braid. There is no it requires. The suit pictured is the coat a typical model for winter: the without for trimming; and this other trimming on seems to be the favourite ides except a small seal choker at the loose box jacket with fur collar
neck. just now. Coat sleeves are close
and close sleeves falling over a fitting and outline the sim grace- Sqirrel is liked by younger whole frock of the velvet, rather fulls from shoulder to wrist, In-women and is exceedingly than a skirt and a blouse of con- deed some sleeves are so snug fashionable though one sees it on trasting material. that they have to be buttoned and lopcoats oftener than on suits.: unbuttoned at the wrist to get itoy squirrel is particularly them on and off; and armboles charming on dark blue and there! are made a small as possible, to are many wraps of blue velour or! give that trim shoulder line. blue duvetyn with squirrel collars. Another it has a small fur Some of the grey costumes which! collar of mink- tiny animal tre making a decided bit this! The newest attache case has a scarf which CTOSSES st the lesson, are trimmed with squirrel fitted contrivance which makes it front, the brush falling over also. This year squirrel is being impossible for it to open in so the left shoulder and the dyed to match suit and coat uopremeditated fashion and land Uttle animal head going back fabrics but the dyed pelt is never its contente on the ground. Mas!! over the right shoulder. The as attractive as the grey, catural of us have suffered from that smart little scarf is attached to squirrel, Squirrel is not in itself annoying little habit on the part the neck of the coat and forms very rich fur-though fashion bas of attache cases. part of it. This is a particularly made it fextremely popular and PARISIAN SUBTITUTE FOR fur. interesting suit At first glimpse its charm lies in its dainty grey One of the smartest hat shops you take it for a smart street colour and markings, rather than jin Paris is showing sets of hats, frock. Then you wonder whe-in its texture"
ther it is, perhaps, a graceful SPORTS SUITS TRIMMED WITH top-cost. But it is a suit with
jacket and skirt, and the tailor
BEAVER,
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JOTTINGS,
FOR ATTACHE CASES.
Scarves and sacs en suite. The materials used are velvet or some Jsoft woollen fabric trimmed with the loop knitting which ladies of
has cleverly run the striped A suit pictured, a new model ihr Victorian era used as a sub- pattern in a contrasting direction of mixed brown wool with a close
3 square
stitute for grey astrachan. These sets are primarily intended for.
on the skirt just to prove his jersey Weave, has point. The stripes aremade with collar and huge square pockets young girls, and now that it is an embroidery stitch it white on of beaver. The pressed
silk almost impossible to buy form of black dovelyo and the side beaver sailor is the smartest kind soy quality out of a dress allow- drapery of the cost is especially of sport hat for this season. ance, this ides, emanating from graceful. A low girdle made of
such a quarter, should solve the metal links adds the fcal touch Australian opossum was used problem of how to be both smert
ou the handsome coat-wrape and warm economically. of distinction.
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JOTTING.
A Very Graceful Cape Cost with Ripple Drapery from the Shoulder
STOCKINGS.
And Other Things.
MAGPIE JEWELLERY.
The short skir: Vogue has jemphasised the importance of the stocking. It is true that the days when a girl or woman! blushed at the mère mention of;
limbs "no one owned to legs) Black and white jewellery is in those dige-not, at least, if all the rage. In Paris very little they belonged to the female sex other jewellery is worn than the passed away long before skirtsjonyx azd pearl, and onyx and adopied "Excelsior" as their diamond ornaments. Jet, too, working motto. But lately the has come into its own again, and gap between ankles and skirt one charming bangle seen was hems has increased. One did composed of cut jet and
Parisian hear rumours of longer skirts, finest
paste. These are but a walk in London, even in bangles
WOOD abova the most exclusive districts, the elbow, they ATO about proves them to have been, as half an inch broad, with still bappens in the case of so many broader ends, that do not quita rumours, ill-founded. As a mat-meet. The contrast between the ter of fact, short skirts seem to black lustrous jet and the white have grown shorter. What willļskin lends a wonderfully alluring happen when the superlative de-effec: to a shapely arm. gree is restbed no one knows.
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Meantime, stockings are very A SIMPLE EVENING .. CHIFFON SCARF IDEA.
much in evidence, and the artists;
DRESS. A very charming idea for rest in these "indispensables" gowns is the use of two long hard at work designing new chiffon serves fastened to either patterns in effective decoration. shoulder, and then allowed to Stockings languished in oblivion hang gracefully down the back, for so long that it's only natural The left starf is looped across and that those who create them should tied in a big soft bow just above be on their mettlo. the right knee joint, and the other passes beneath this scarf and trails train-wise on the floor.
FAMOUS CINEMASTARS.
X: MISS ETHEL CLAYTON.
Some real lace-fronted ones Are
being shown. It CASE the
unwary should be induced to inquire for lace-fronted | models (old style), let me ward them that if the exchequer does not "run to real lace, lace had better be left severely alone.
It sounds hard, but there is no reason for despair. Abstention from rez! jace does not necessarily mean dowdy "under- standings. All silk stockings. can be expressed in fancy. Thus, for instance, one gets very for transparen: ones with wide thick
but "ribs" very nice,
don't forget to put them on quite straight Black and white-striped silk stockings are also amongst the stockings a smart woman can boy. The nicest are those with a white "hair" stripe against
black background.
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koloured silk models
Of very
ittle need be said except that they differ as much as tastes, so that everybody can please them-| solves.
The shoe problem is closely related to the stocking one. The many-strapped one is one of the most popular models of the moment, but should only be worn by women with small and narrow feet. The ab- pence of adequate support Jal-the-sider-makes-them--den-
gerously unbecoming to
those whose feet, to speak politely, cannot be included in the above category. Feather "bows" and ro- settes are muchin request,but they,| too, will only be indulged in by the fortunate owners of beautiful feet, lacking which it's wisest lo confine oneself to a plain shoe, which must, of course, be wellcat
Gilt or silver girdles set with coloured stones or enamel are! the favourite form of belt. In general, the stone watches the colour of the frock. -
Cinder grey chiffon forms the foundation-skirt and the curred tunic, of the dress length "etened by harem bead pictured abute which has it fringe.
Similar fringe forms the cut- suge while the whole is outlined, by iridescent sequin bandings. The narrow bandings form the top of the liny seams and a pink rose placed at one side prockies the colour note,