PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JANUARY 5th, 1929.
PAGE THREE.
First Fashion Notes for 1929
Mary Pickford Returns From France With a Wardrobe Forecasting The Year's Style's For the Movies
Jenny Created This Chiffon Gown In Crushed Raspberry Embroidered With Shimmering Sequins In a Deeper Shade
44TT is an actress' duty to consider all details that contribute to
is actress, mala vanithe duty to lock her test. The ge
fore, shopping for clothes was a serious matter with me."
That is the way Mary Pickford sums up her shopping tour in Paris several months ago.
It sounds very simple to my that a woman went to Paris to buy. sante, new gowns. But Miss Pickford's shopping tour was far from simple. It was actually a complicated affair.
"My first visit to a couturier was never to buy," she remarks. "It was merely to look, over the new models. I inspected sports clothes in the mornings, and evening clothes and afternoon gowns after lunch. Very often I saw styles which appealed to me, but I wanted them of entirely different colour combination or of different material.
"I did no buying at all until I made my second round of the. conturiers. Consequently it was on those second visits that the trouble started.. Most of the mannequins in Paris are tall, making it necessary to scale down all of the gowns I selected. 1, won't have a gown altered in a few places to make it fit me. If it is too large,
it is too large all over and every bit of it must be reduced. including, the trimmings."
MARY has a great advantage whenever she goes shopping in
Paris the advantage of being famous. Because she is so well khown the famous dressmakers make no attempt to sell her what she doesn't want. knowing that such efforts would only react to their disadvantage. She nearly always does the major portion of her buying in three shops those of Pateu. Matiame Jenny and Lanvin, -
Smaller accessories such as perfumes, handbags and other peidentals are purchased wherever and whenever they strike her Fancy. And she always has her lingerie sent to her hotel so that she may make her selection in the privacy of her own room.
"It is very difficult for me to know when to stop buying when I am turned loose in the Paris shops: For that reason I made.oni & cemplete Hai of the gowns I wanted before I even started my shopping tour. I needed a certain number of sports costumes, afternoon frock's and dinner gowns and decided upon the number in advance. And I bought anly one dress over my quota. That was an afternoon Brock that was so attractive I decided to be extravagant to that extent.
"I found that far the most part my gowns had to be entirely defferent than the styles I had been accustomed to buying because of my babbed hair. I actually was surprised at the vast difference bobbed hair made in my appearance. I had not noticed it until I got in those Paris shops,"
Quiet Elegance
Is the Note
Of This Jenny Gown In White Chiffon Adorned With Beads of Crystal
An Outdoor Costume Mlade by Patou Has a Skirt and Coat Of Wisteria Wool And a Vest of
Belge Crepe Satin
› Luxuriously Simple Is This Dress
Of Figured Chiffon in Three Shades Of Blue and White . . . Pátou Made It
For Lazy Hours Are These Paton Rose Beige Pyjamas, Lined and Faced With Satin
An Afternoon Ensemble
Of Rose-Colored Wool Crepe With Blue Banding From Patou
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