PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, APRIL 26th, 1930.
PAGE THREE
Extras For the Business Girl
1. Frances Clyne
chooses a hat
of angora and
hair straw in a new shade of aquamarine blue to be worn with matching frock.
3
Even when shopping for Easter,
the wise woman keeps in mind outfits already in the closet
the signs for
ensemble that you wear on the particular Sun-
day when the fashion parade opens should be the least of your worries, however, What you will wear the day after, and the next day, and the next, is the question. The "after-Easter clothes ques- tion is the real problem.
Perhaps you have a trim suit or two for the office, an elegant tailleur for luncheons, and a few ensembles for change. There may be afternoon and evening frocks, too, and still you aren't satisfied with your wardrobe. Instead of throwing out this or that, see if there isn't some way to tie your wardrobe into a complete whole Perhaps a cou ple of frocks and hats to match will do the trick.
I. FRANCES CLYNE makes smartly simple outfits of this kind-lady frocks and lady hats -the kind to put a woman in her best mood for business and conquest, also.
One of these is the new aquamarine blue, the frock classic in its plain lines, with flaring skirt and a bit of handwork done in diagonal manner in the blouse's yoke. There is a scarf of the blue, with white to contrast,
Topping this one of the very latest hats is made of a new straw, angora and hair straw woven 10- gether to achieve lightness, and yet enough body to hold the little hat in shape. It is one of the new silhouette hats that follow the graceful lines of the face, turning up to reveal the forehead, with a little bow of grosgrain holding the turned-back brim in place.
II. MUCH more gala in its delicate coloring
and much more summery, is a pink, rose and white sports outfit that uses jersey, silk and straw to make its frock, scarf and hat, respectively.
The skirt is accordion pleated white silk. bor- dered by both pink and deep rose. The sleeveless jumper is very tight around the hips, blousing above a tight belt of rose. The entire hipline is striped in rose and pink, with a deep border of rose. The V neck uses just the rose for its border, as do the
armholes,
This outit shows the movement towards arm covering this spring. This one uses a very large cape scarf of white silk, bor- dered in the rose, cut so that it lies arcund the shoulders like a cape.
For this suit there is something new in a sports hat, a very dressy one. It is white straw, with the entire crown and brim veiled in a delicate mesh of pink angora. On one side a big floral motif is worked out in a medium shade of pink, and the banding is of the rose.
III OFTEN there comes that week-end invitation to the country house. You need the right kind of both spectator and participator sports things.
Very new and tremendously chic is the blue and white sports outfit this year. Tennis things. golf, hiking outfits and all kinds of spectator things will be blue.
One of the very newest sports styles is the two-piece frock. with the blouse made on the lines of wind breakers, yet very softly, fem- inine, belting at the waistline in the approved manner.
ONE of these uses imported navy blue jersey in
plain material for the wind breaker blouse, with closings made of wide buttonholes made of the material of the patterned skirt. There are hand tucks easing the sleeves fullness into the cuffs and the blouse's fullness; into the belt. The skirt is accordion pleated, in a modernistic pattern of navy blue, white and vivid yellow.
To wear with this outfit, there is an original. very new brimmed hat of felt. It reflects the changed mode in the way its crown has an inverted box pleat which is stitched in the front and the back, opening slightly on the top. The brim is shorter in the back, with enough width to shade the eyes in the front. It has two very narrow cordings in white to band it, cach with a wee buckle right in front.
IV. LAST, and most important in a way, is the evening gown to which every business woman should treat herself. If she has few gowns, a black cire lace, a black flat crepe or a plain col ored flat crepe, or chiffon, mousseline de soie or beige lace are all excellent choices.
But most women have that first evening gown already. The thing for spring is one of the very latest printed chiffons. Prints personify spring, in a way. They are as satisfactory as the first flowers in the garden, and quite as satisfactory;
Stunning and very new is a cobalt blue chiffon. printed in a rose, capuchine, beige and silver flowers, made with a very long skirt, yet maintain ing that curved body line that makes for grace and beauty,
This gown has a surplice, bloused back, a swathed hipline and a restrained fullness to its trail. ing skirt. Its side treatment is quite new, suggest- ing the draped mode that comes in the wake of more discriminating distribution of skirt fullness. This gown has one bow, tied on the hips, which actually ties the hipline in place. From under it. the shirt's front and back curve upward, giving the effect of draperies.
V. QUITE a different type of frock and suit.
comes from Paris. It is a sophisticated busi ness outfit. The little pin-checked wool veile, in black and while, has à détachable white silk pique collar and tie made in one. This can be changed daily to keep that meticulous immaculateness that, business women like.
Topping it is a hat of another new straw, lacquered panema. It is part black and part white. like the frock, the crown being half and half, and the brim three-quarters white, with black grosgrain ribbon veiling it both in front and in the back. The grosgrain ribben ties in a double bow at one side of the back.
Black and white, always considered one of the most fashionable combinations in the Parisian style book, manages to convey pronounced chic, no mat- ter when or where it is worn. The new silhouette is just as effective in black and white as it is in the soft colors that are coming into prominence.
This ensemble assists clothes in regaining the sphere of unruffled charm which is the mode now, and at the same time secures the sense of poise and efficiency in a distinctly feminine way, which is an added asset of the business woman, Clothing to be really accepted must suit the time, the women and the place, and this suit, which is adaptable to nearly every type of feminine grace, is ergially good in the office and at the unexpected luncheon engagement which the day may bring.
1. Pink, rose, and white are com- bined in this sporta outfit. which follows the trend to arm covering:
III. Bergdorf Good-
man features a wind breaker blouse of navy blue in this sports costume which belts at the waistline.
IV. a bloused.back, surplice, swathed hip. line, and trail- ing skirt ara new points in this chiffon evening gown of Frances Clyne's.
V. part black, and
part white lac- quered Pan- ama straw fashion this street hat de signed by Flor: ence Walton,