PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JUNE 29th, 1929,
A Lucile Paray Creation Made of White Crepe Satin Features an Unusual Yoke And Shoulder Scarf Heavily Embroidered
In Crystal Paillettes.
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For Summer Nights
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Drecoll-Beer
Offers a Rich Wrap Of Supple White Satin Trimmed With Sable Down the Front, On the Sleeves.
The Raned Waistline and Long Skirt Are Stressed in This Black Tulle Gown From the Workshops of Jean Patou. A Flat Ribbon Girdie and Strass Rings Are the Frock's Only Decoration.
The Pleasingly Formal Charm of Black Taffela Is Prettily Demonstrated
In This Bernard et Cie Evening Gown Combining Toffeta and Tulle. The Creation Is Discreetly Trimmed With Strass and Pearl Embroidery
The Vogue for the Picturesque
And the Romantic Reaches Its Height In Evening Gowns of the Moment
THE night may well be glad for its thourand eyes-
There is so much more to see there sunumger evenings
more than enough for mortal gaze.
But gone are the abbreviated short skirts of a season ago,
Gone are all abrupt and straightline effects. Gone are all pretenses toward the practical and the useless. This year's evening attire is frankly honest in its aim to intrigue ard to encliant.
Skirts for evening are long-some have transparent hem lines which begin just below the knees, but many of them are ankle length, and some have trains. All skirts give. the effect of fullness at the hemline but most of them are very snug at the waistline. The new silhouette, known as the "mermaid" silhouette; gives a molded effect almost to the knees, where it becomes very full. Naturally this type is very long.
Chiffon frocks are long and fluttery, in printed or plain colon. If the skirt is very full, the blouse may be per- fectly plain, or it may have a bertha or a shawl collar that gives the effect of short sleeves-or it may be cut very low in the back and front, and have long, close-fitting sleeves, In case of the long sleeves, the forearm wears as many glittering bracelets, as possible.
FROCKS in salin of meire are softly draped or uniquely
cut, and any possible suggestion of heaviness or weigh is climinated by the spirit and the line. Usually there frocks are white or in pastel shades.
Taffeta is very fashionable in black as well as in white and the off-white shades, The Parisienic is particularly partial to black satin, often lightened with white or shell pink-or with silver strass.
For the mature woman dull crepe, particularly in black or in plain colors, in a wise and modish choice, for this ma- terial aitains great distinction when cut with the proper thears.
Evening wraps show more variety than ever before, Paquin sponsors the short evening wrap which pulls tightly about the hips with the full long skirt. Others show the flared coat, or the straight, one of seven-eighths length.
Tiered coats are very smart, particularly in white or egys thell satin, and coats with irregular hemlines are growing in favor. When für is used on the summer wrap, sable
is the most approved pelt, with fox next. -
Among the materials for the evening wrap, satin leads, with faille, taffeta, moire and crepes all good style.
I. THE draped blouse and novel cut of the skirt in this Lucile Paray evening gown in white crepe satin shows
the trend of the season's most advanced models. Unusual is the handkerchief point yoke and the one-shoulder scarf heavily embroidered in crystal paillettes,
The crepe in off-white in shade and is exactly suited to the distinctive sort of gown so cleverly fashioned by one of the ables Parisian couturiers.
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II. THIS black tulle gown by Patou stresses the raised waistline and the long skirt. Patou's tulle creations
are the talk of Paris and all of them have that flat, un- trimmed, uafluffy aspect bespeaking the novel use of an old material. The gown is sparsely trimmed with strass rings, has a transparent yoke effect and a flat ribbon girdle, III. BERNARD ET CIE made this black taffeta frock which, because of its material, is more for- mal than either a crepe or chiffon gown. Its long skirt drapery is black tulle and the bodice, and skirt are discreetly trimmed with strass and pearl embroidery,
There is a charm to black taffeta that less important materials cannot achieve.
IV. PARTICULARLY lovely is this evening wrap from Drecoll-Beer. It is made of supple white satin and its sleeves, cut with great width below the elbow, are hemmed will soft, brown sable, which is also gener ously used down the front and around the bottom of the
wrap.
V. LENIEF offers this irresistible evening frock of canary yellow mousseline. Gowns of this type are the last word in chic at every smart watering place both. in Europe and America.
The most notable feature of this creation in its beautifully draped and rippling skirt. The volants which trim the skirt and its short train are beautifully hemmed with the most delicate hard stitches, The ornament of crystal and jade at the waistline is the gown's only embellishment,
The Last Word in Chic Is This Leniet Creation
Of Canary Yellon Mousseline. The Side Train Is Made Of Finely Hemmed, Volanti.
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