PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JUNE 8th, 1929.
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Acquiring a Different Look in Clothes
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It Is No Longer Smart To Appear Bizarre. But There's No Fame In Dressing Like Everyone Else
Modishly Short is This Orchid and Silver Lame Evening Wrap for Summer It Affects a Wide Scarf. Has Close-Fitting Hipline And Is Worn Over a Frach Of Shell Pink Tulle ·
Printed Salin Crepe
In Cardinal Red With Figures in Pale Gold Is Used to Fashion This Stender Bodiced, Modishly Long-Skirted Evening Gown
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Practical and Youthful
Is This Sports Frock- Of Cool White Linen...
The Hat Is Stran In Natural Color
In This Evening Gown Of Pale Salin Crepe, Interest Is Centered In the Draped Skirt
With Swathed Hipline And Uneven Hem.
This Ensemble is Fashioned
Of Rose Beige Wool Rep And Is Distinguished for The Unusual Tuck Effect On Both Coat and Dress.
TN an age when thiesses are turned out in hundred lots, when Fords" in dresses are as comme as Fouls in the street, and when the average of femine taste is considerably higher than it was a decade ago, it is mere difficult than ever before to be entirely in sympathy and feeling with the nude, but still be just different enough to lift you above the average well-dressed woman.
This is a period of transition, and at such a lime it is well to be conservative.
There are many lovely gawes in Paris that are long all the way around, others that are long on 'both sides, and sune that are long only on one side. Waistlines undoubtedly are higher-ine are guile at the normal line-set the average in a few inches below.
Many gowns concentrate their fullness in the back, and are cut with a very low decollete in the back. The made is fuil of extremes, yet the con- servative buyer does not lose her head at sud a time.
Remember that abrupt movements are rarely beautiful ones and abrupt changes of style, are not always harmonious. To change immediately fram short skits to long, from the uncorseted to the tightly molded line is usually attended with some penalty in grace and harmony.
A WOMAN cannot completely change her style by substituting long skirts for short ones. She cannot change over night from a tailored type lo a wearer of ruffles. A woman must always make psychological changes 'first, and let these influence her costuming,
The flapper costume of a few years ago was the harmonious costume for the young woman of the period immediately following the hectic days of the World War. This outfit was short, curt, practical and sensible. It made no more pretence to eleguice than the flapper herself did.
Women's clothes, if you have noticed, reflect the spirit of the changing times in which they live, not intentionally, but unconsciously.
Undoubtedly, there has been a tendency for tome" time to make women's cloilies more elegant and more feminine. But my advice to women is to go alow, and to seek charm and beauty within the units already reached.
A woman will always be distinctive, and elegent if she selects with an eye to harmony and grace, rather than the unusual. A feeling for simplicity is always an evidence of good taste, Select nothing for itself alone, but always for its relation to the
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rest of your wardrobe. And consider line first, last and always.
Let the architecture of your gowns be infinitely more important than any of the embellishments that you might add to them.
The six gowns shown on this page are admirably adapted to summer, and achieve distinction, with- out straining after effect
I. THIS ensemble of rose beige wool rep lins a
three-quarters-length coat and a skirt that is circular in front. The only decoration apart from the white collar and self-colored tic is the en- crustation of the material so inserted us to give the effect of diagonal tucks. The simple cloche hat is of natural colored straw banded in rose ribbon a little deeper in shade than that of the frock
II. ORCHID and silver lame is the medium used.
for this new short-length evening wrap. This garment as a wide scarf and a modishly close- fitting hipline. It is worn over a ruffled frock of shell pink tulle
III. THIS evening gown is fashioned of cardinal
red satin crepe with a figure in pale gold. The scalloped skirt is short in front and long at the sides and back. The bodice is cut to give a narrow, alender line. The neck and armholes are untrimmed, thus detracting nothing from the gown's lines and elegance of material.
IV. YOUTHFULNESS and practicanty are
found in this spons frock of white linen. A touch of crimson is found in the crepe de chine necktie and in the twin belt buckles of modernistic design. The hat is natural colored straw bound in crimson ribbon.
V. THIS evening gown is of pale flek-colored
zatin crepe. Its interest is concentrated in three panel-like draperies made out of shirred folds of the material. At one point the full, circular skirt reaches the floor, though it is just below the koze in front. The swathed bipline, ud narrownes of the silhouette is extremely smart.
VI. ROMANTICALLY cut sleeves are the outstanding feature of this afternoon frock
of white georgette crepe. These unusual sleeves are orange, blue, green and white--the same colora that are repeated in the conservative round collar. This outfit has an almost normal waistline and a simple, circular skirt.
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Big Flanng Sleeves In Bright Colors That Are Repeated In the Round Collar Cive Unual Dash
To an Afternoon Frock Of Georgelle Crops.