PICTORIAL" "SUPPLEMENT
HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, DECEMBER 7th, 1929.
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Weather Chic
Soft Supple Styles Capitalize Everywoman's Charm For Mid-Winter
Bernard and Company Present This Unusual Evening Gown of Black Mousseline, Pink Lace and Pink Mousseline Which Features
this Own Shawl of the Same Three Media.
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Patou Achiever New Distinction " When He Adds This Mug Set To a Black Cloth Walking Dress.
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'Worth Stressca The High Waist Efect in This Black and White Tweed Suit.
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This Philippe and Castan Coat Of Broadtail Demonstrates a Drooping Hemline, Whose Flare Is Repeated
In the Exaggeration of the Cuff
A Small Fox Muß With Rugled Cloth Edges, Completes Jean Patou's Rose Beige Ensemble.
THIS winter sponsors the high-waisted, long-
Trimbed afhouette hecause this made srystal-
lizes the feline grace of women,
All skirts are longer, even the sports ones. And the sporte suits have (oresworn the mannis, squar- ish types. The curving, circular skirt is more cf- fective than the pleated; yokes are more faltering than stitched pleats.
There is richness throughout the new realm of fashiont. Furs, luxurious, regal furs, are impor lant. They fashion separate animal acorfs, scarfs cut in the design of kerchiefs, stocks, stoles and other shapes. They trim frocks for daytime. gowns for evening: they make jackets. copes. 'coals.
And mulls have come to light again! Paris has sent us some delectable ones, light as a fratlier. warm as toast and eminently. feminine in their ruf fled edges.
Caracul, broadtail, pony, astrakhan, galisk; ermine, seal, squirrel, mink. sable, kolinsky, foxes. chinchilla and marlen are all seen. Dyed lapin trims many a colorful suit and coat.
There is richness, too, in the gorgeous, fabrice used for costumes this year. Take the patterned woolen ensemble for example. It is gorgeous in its lovely coloring, fine in texture, new and gay in design and pliable enough to lend itself to very original designs.
The feminine touch is the aim of every hat, frock and coat this season. Fabrics, colors and lines are co-operating to prove that while simplicity is always good, decorative simplicity has now come. to the fore..
Three yards of goods will no longer produce n dress in a few hours, as was possible when the straight, boyish mode prevailed. Gowns sie cie- aliens, made to set off beauty and challenge the per- sonality of the wearer. Clothes have come into their own again.
1. WHEN evening comes; the decorativeness of
the mode is shown at its best. *** Bernard and Company uses black mouereline, pink mousseline, and pink lace for this striking new evening gown that takes its own evening shawl made out of the three media,
The bodice of the gown is of the black, cut with a tremendously long pointed front panel and back panel not quite so long,
From this a deep flounce of the lace over the mousseline flares to floor length at the sides and back with only a slightly shorter length in front. A single, huge, gleaming pink rose of cut velvet allares this gown on one hip. Pink suede glover ...are worn wrinkled down at the wrists. This colos
and this manner of wearing them is very chic.
II THERE is elegance supreme in this dressy
costume designed by Jean Patou.
It is a distinguished-looking black cloth frock for street wear,' made with his silhouette that har
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become famous for its natural waistling and long. limbed silhouette. This skirt has a front panel flanked by two pleats stitched to hip length, and emphasized by rows of buttons.
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The waist her light, long sleeves, with flaring cuffs that button. The distinctive thing is the cowl collar with scarf ends, made of gleaming white ermine and fine black astrakhan. The cal lar, made of these two furs, is fashioned to that the black frame the face and the white side of the scarf ends are turned out.
The muff is of black astrakhan, with godels of white ermine in, the ends to give it a curving grace. The black felt hat has an entire crown of as trakhan,
III. WORTH does wonders will this black and white checked tweed in a novel hall. lined check. The frock is high-waisted, belted with a novel fastening, has a back and front yoke and the cutest little bit of lingerie collar that maker a very deep V at the front. There is just a sug gestion of lace showing beneath this collar, one more indication of the richness of detail in thir year's things.
The skirt has a deep pleat in the front and the gored siden have a six-inch pleat from the deep yoke to the bottom. Topping this cute frock is a matching three-quarters coal, with original cuffe... that button shut, a nalty wide-lapsied collar and deep pockets handy for all kinds of things.
With this a litle black felt hat with the ac cepted forehead line and cute wings of felt that droop down the back is worn,
"IV. PHILIPPE AND GASTON demon
onstrate how youthful, the princess line can. be when used for a broadtail coat, with pointed fox collar and wide cuffs.
This coat uses the dropping healine, a line that 'many costs have avoided, but one that women welcome to top their irregular lined frocks.
There is tailored smartness in the trim shoul ders and fine workmanship on this coat. The cuffs have exaggerated width and flare, an inter- esting contrast to the trim collar, but quite in agreement with the flare of the body of the coal, With this type of cost, a hat must be of that, fine felt that tucks itself into a collar, or of velvet or some other pliable fabric,
V. ANOTHER distinguished costume shown
from Patou is this rose beige ensemble af frock, three-quarters coat, and mull, Fox edges the huge collar and fashions the center of the muff. Circular flounces of the wanted of the costume make a feminine ruffled edge to the muff. The hat to this charming ensemble is of fine beige rose felt, cut so that the front narrow brim folds back against the hat, while the side, pleated by hand. flares down gracefully almost to the shoulder