PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MARCH 8th, 1930.
PAGE THREE
Ladyfied Fashions for Spring
Jaunty nonchalance goes into the discard for the new styles command respect and proclaim their wearer every inch a lady
1. tiny hand-run tucks form a vest and an elbow puff on this blue silk crepe for afternoon... a hat of neora straw in natural color is worn with it.
V, a smart jersey-tweed frock in red and white which approaches the style of the old. fashioned guimpe.
IT
is smart to look dignified this spring!
Not the forbidding dignity of the stiff-corseted ladies of
a generation ago.
The dignity of 1930 is new and subtle.
It is young dig- nity, slim dignity, dignity that may be merely another trick in the evolution of coquetry. But dignity it is.
For mornings and sports wear, there are cleverly-cut sports suite with full skirts below hip yokes, jackets of hiplength and regally lovely blouses. But even these have a kind of for- mality and stand-offishness that the casual things of last spring completely lacked.
FOR the work-a-day girl. there are all manner of one-piece frocks that have undeniable "lady-look" about them that will make the office boy say "Ma'am."
The college girl, the stay-at-home wife, the leisure class woman and the woman older in years and more mature in figure all have their especially-designed day clothes this year. It is a year of suiting your personality as never before.
These widely-diversified day clothes are made of flat crepes, novelty jerseys, saft tweeds, crepeilas of fine finish, cravat silks, faconne silks, selt-dotted or self-striped crepes, heavy tussors and prints. The prints, however, are being given a little rest in springtime. Possibly they will blossomt out more as warm weather comes,
FOR colors there is variety, log. Black is good for sports this spring, but is not at the top of the list for daytime wear. Day- time colors for spring are dainty. They range from soft pinks to deep ones, light blues, pure whites, greens in many tones and browns. Blues stand a good chance of being the most popular everyday colors. Some of them are so delicate that they must face the cleaner steadily, how.
Besides the daytime frocks, there is the innumerable variety of day- lime coats. One of the promises spring holds forth is that coats are going to be light in color, neutral in tone and that hats will match frocks.
COATS promise to be fitted, too. Most of the early spring models are quite princess in line and flaring to comfortable width below the hipline. This spring those chic women who delight in a fabric coat with self-collar instead of fur will and a wide variety. For the trick this spring is to have a princess coat with self-collar of cape cut. postillion cut or some individual line and rather small and unobtrusive cuffs.
One of the interesting features of this spring's collection of clothes is the emphasis of self-fabric trims, such as cordings, fine tucks, band- ings, seamings, self-bows, self-belts, self-scaris.
I. FOR the first balmy afternoons, one wants a dressy dress equal to the day. Bendel makes such a one of pale blue silk crepe. the color of a soft spring sky. It has tiny land-run tucks forming a vest in front and grouped at the side to give an almost shirred fullness between. It is long-skirted and low-flounced and no one but a woman with the figure she should have should cast craving eyes at it. It has long sleeves which also are tucked for comfort at the elbow and it has sweet little pique cuffs and collar.
Topping this hat is a large spring straw hat in natural neora, with its brim box pleated on one side, with mauve velvet fashioning one side.
II, FOR evening, nothing is more stunning for spring than the white gown. Tulle, net, chiffon, flat crepe or salin. Because of its softly gleaming quality, satin is especially desirable for spring,
II. a shimmering satin in egg-shell white has a wide girdle and a circular flounce which ends at one side of the back, giving the long effect.
A white satin gown has a circular flounce which ends at one side of the back, to fashion a tiny train svelt lines, a swathed gir plain neckline and its girdle knotted with ends falling to fashion little front panels like the rear train. There is gracious charm in this gown.
III. FOR the spring coat, one
Ill. this coat with its huge cape collar, fitted-in effect and circular skirt is offered in a fine gray twilled tweed,
could not go wrong in pur- chasing fine gray twilled tweed. princess in line, with intricate shoul- der yoke, flounced skirt and cape collar that is suggestive of the mili- lary postillion in the way it capes the shoulder,
The hat topping it is a little gray felt creation, trimmed simply with a couple of quills. These trold back the brim in front.
IV. FOR spectator sports on a warm day, there is a cute little nautical ensemble of one-piece frock of light green with a little ship with dark green sails on it, and the frock topped by a dark green jersey coat, lined with the frock's silk. The neckline is typical of the softer line used today. So is the reverse of the cast. Inside the coal, at one side, another little boat is embroidered and appliqued, just like the one that adorns the dress.
The hat worn with it is of shetland jersey in green, an indication of the popularity fabric hats are to have this spring.
V FOR early morning wear, or for the girl in the office or at school, there is a lovely little jersey-tweed frock in red and white design that features a square vestee and squarish open cuffs in the riceves. It is fitted anugly to the waistline. From there the gored skirt is pleated to a low flounce length, where the flare starts. It has bands of the goods used crosswise to fashion the inside of these pleats and similar bands outline the vester and the deep under cuff.
VI. WHEN Milady goes to dinner this spring or to the theater. she should by all means have one of the new evening turbans. These are made of metal cloth, wound round in subtle manner to give her a shining crown.
One of these is shimmering silver, delightful with either colors or white, draped about the head in soft folds ending in a knot at the back. For the woman who is letting her hair grow, this turban is an excellent choice.
VII. FOR morning lounging, there are beach pajamas, porch pa jamas, boudoir pajamas, breakfast pajamas, studio pajamas and lennis pajamas.
One set that might be used for lounging at home now and on the beach later has a military air, with striped trousers, double-breasted blouse and belted coat. It is blue and white, with powder blue trou- sers, striped in darker blue.
IV. appliqued ships
lend a nautical
touch to
this
green ensemble for sailing:
VI. soft folds
of silver are draped around the head into this tur-
ban which
ends in a knot at the back.
VII.
a new
spring pajama suit for Jounging suggests
the mili-
tary in its
(All costumes
from Henri Bandal)
striped trousers.