PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, DECEMBER 15th, 1928.
PAGE THREE.
Furs Return
Return to Simplicity
A Broudinil
Coat for Formality, With Faint Suggestion Of a Waistline und. Flared Hemline
Excellent
For the Taller Woman is-Leopard With Soft Collar
Of Wolverine
- Models From The Fur Buyers Service
THE fur coat of this season depends not T
apon trick lines or unusual manipula Hons, but upon its own intrinsic merit as fur. The smartest models will not strive for the unusual or bizarre, but will adhere to classical, straight lines:
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"Freak" furs, dyed peits and novelties have been exploited to their limit, and the inevitable reaction back to quality is at hand.
The daytime coat is simplicity itself, well fitted at the shoulder line and making a narrow silhouette at the hip. In length, il is skirt length, nienning that it is slightly longer than the skirt, so that the gown is completely covered.
That black fur will be more popular than's ever before seems to be indicated at the beginning of the season, with black seal, caracul and broadtail well at the head of the
list.
Fox appears to be less in demand for collars and cuffs than the Blatter pelts, such as mink, beaver and ditch. Fitch, by the way, is leading all other fura ns trimming.
Whereas the shawl collar is the featured neckline, It is not so large as formerly. It adheres more closely to the line of the neck, and the tendency is to avoid any heavy or muffled look about the shoulders.. -
Except an sports coats, the pocket is not featured a wise precaution, since a pocket really adds nothing to the smartness of a cont.
AN interesting use of fitch is shown in the
youthful caracul coat with the roll front
at the lower left. This cat is in the new casaba shade, and the fitch is the natural Russkin, with the very light background and the deep markings. Notice the way the fur Ja applied to the cuff, running in a point
almost to the elbow.
Another very youthful model that is best on -the taller woman is the leopard model with the soft wrappy collar of wolverine, 'shown at the upper left. Here the turn-back-cuffs are of the leopard and a more slender effect is nehloved than with the heavier cuff.
A truly classical model, that which couturiers love do call a "real Judy's model,” is the model of, eastern mink, at the bottom -
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of the page. With its fascinating play of light and brown stripes, this one is so soft and so delicately striped that it suggests sable.
This type of coat is quite rich, enough without adding any contrasting fur, or any attempt at elaborate collar and cuffs. ERMINE this season is used not only for
the very dressy evening wraps, but is handled in quite a tallored fashion. An example is the, model pictured at the lower right. with the collar and extremely wide cuffs of blue Peruvian chinchilla.
Naturally, the evening models are stil trimmed with many tails, and lined with velvets to match the gowns with which they
are worn.
The broadtail model, at the top contre, is designed for rather formal wear and departs from the straight and narrow in that it in-" troduces a flared hemline and a falut sug- gestion of a waistline.
Extreme richness and beauty and much expense are added in the collar and banding of silver fox. This type of coat should be avoided by the short woman, since it detracts from her height, and generally curtails her lines. But it absolutely glorifies the tall woman, and gives her a smartness that is highly desirable.
This year's sporta cont has swagger lines and a ensal, easy swing that suggests the flapper mode. A typical style is the one at the upper right with the fur belt, which comes in belge tropical seal, with a narrow beaver collar, and a band at the sleeve that goes upward to the elbow rather than enefrel ing the wrist.
BUT these models in no way show the whole run that furs take in the styles for the coming season. They are merely a few of the models which show not unly which way the wind blows, but what may be done about it when it does.
In the introduction of the simple and straight lines for this year, fashion has been good to the woman who can afford only one coat in several seasons. For conts in this classical manner will be good till the early 1930's.,
Swagger Lines
In a Sports Coat Of Tropical Seal
And Narrow Beaver
Collar and Cuff
Eastern Mink
In Classical Model Of Extreme Richness
But Lavishly
Plain
Fitch Trium
On Caracul Cont
With Tuxedo Front
18 Most Suitable For Youthfulness'
An Ermine Evening Wrap
Is Here Handled With Chinchilla Trimming