RIAL SUPPLEMENT
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JUNE 21st, 1930.
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Sweet
1. for informal afternoon exercises this crepe Roma: frock of pastel green with openwork sleeves and yoke is an excellent choice.
all frocks from Henri Bendel, New York.
shoes from Delman, New York,
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Frocks For Graduates
Just as important as her diploma
Julia
are the clothes that she wears during commencement festivities
I'd ever last one of you Janet Bre
graduates" this May and June make absolutely sure that you really do look sweet on that important occasion called com. mencement.
I think most of you need a bit of chiding about your fear of looking just nice and sweet and young. Why should you look anything else when you've just finished school and the whole of life lies ahead of you?
You have years and years ahead to look arrestingly smart, and years and years to look distinguished and sophisticated. Do be sensible and realize that these are the only years in your whole life when you can look just "sweet," and because of it get the world with a fence around it without lifting a finger to fetch it!
MOREOVER, my dears, as a matter of
record, it no longer is stylish te look blase. Whether you are, bored to pieces of not with the commencement exercises, and the guest speaker, you should register youth. ful enthusiasm and, above all, be sweet.
All the world is playing up to your young charm this spring. I suppose you will agree with me that there never could have been such positively lovely and fresh-looking lit- tle frocks before.
Have you seen the newest little gradua tion dresses? Many of them, like the brida! gowns this year, have delicate coloring in faint pinks, greens, baby blue and maize.
AS for materials, if you have any prefer-
ence, just speak up, because I'll wager we can find it right among the models in the first store you happen to enter. I have never acen a wider range of graduation materials
voile, organdie, point d'esprit, lace, chif fon, flat crepe, dotted Swiss, mousseline de sole, georgette, and all the other crepes.
Of course the kind of school you are leaving determines your dress, mare or less. Just in case you do not know it, and for con- solation to you who may have been feeling that you wanted a fussier dress than your family can afford, I should like to empha- size the fact that the smarter and more ex- clusive the school, the simpler-the graduation frock. I should suggest that this inverse ratio of intricacy to exclusiveness is a good one to held before your eye. It is what I have told you before, the more elegantly simple, the more superbly chic!
I. FOR you girls who are leaving high school and whose classes hold their graduation exercises in the afternoon, have a little sleeveless frock of handkerchief linen or other fine material that is semi-dressy....
A little crepe Roma frock in pastel green is an excellent choice. It is made with an intricately cut openwork yoke and short sleeves, and the came design around the hips of the skirt. Below this the skirt flares in even length to midway be-
tween the knees and ankle, the place where all the best Ettle informal skirts end.
This frock has a very graceful swing to it and can be worn a great deal to in- formal parties later on. It is
pretty in white, quite as pretty as when made in color.
II. FOR the very formal evening gradu- ation, pick a dress that will be a party dress later. I suggest a silk organdic one, or even a regular organdie.
I found one Chanel model that is a knockout. It has long, flaring lines. fine hand-scaming, and a spray of flowers over one shoulder. You see, you might wear your cap and gown when you cross the platform to get your diploma. You will emerge from it a ver- itable flower of loveliness for the dance that follows, if you do pick on this.
It has an unusual squarish decolletage, a tight body line and flaring skirt that dips on sides and the back. The slippers are bro- caded T-strap sandals, with gold and silver edgings.
III. IF you look stunning in pink and are not afraid to say so, a handker chief linen model is charming. It is a deli- cate flush pink, hardly off-white, yet far more becoming than a dead white to certain of you.
It has its bolero line marked by open seaming. in fagotting or hemstitching, or by piped seams, and it has a semi-fitted line to it that is an excellent idea when you really have a good little slim figure. The collar is young, too, and if you've decided to take my advice and be sweet and young, this is a dress that you will do well to look at twice. The ideal shoes for it are some of the hand-embroidered linen ones, in exactly the same color tone of your dress, with trim- ming the same shade. The flowers, of course, you can have deeper or an entirely different color, whatever you want,
IV, If you are graduating at what the
world calls "high noon," though in really is 1 o'clock in the morning. I sug- gest a long-sleeved frock of clever cut, in, a delicate off-white fat crepe. One that is intricately cut in triangles that would do credit to a geometry shark, is made with sweet bows at the wrists and front and an unusual bolero that swings loose under the arms, but joins the skirt at waistline in both front and back to dip into a deep pointed panel. For wear with it. off-white kid shoes, with collars and T-straps in a deeper color and in gold are pretty. Of course the whole outfit can be dead white, if you are a conservative.
V. PERHAPS the most etherial looking graduation frock I have discovered is
a Chanel dress for an afternoon ceremony that is made of the new figured silk organdie. It has delicately outlined gold leaves on a white background, and all of the tiers. the sleeves and the neckline's outline are finished with the leaves outlined by hand for a finish. It would make any one of you look fragile and young and altogether wistful and charm- ing. Its little tight bodice above its flounces
is very flattering to your slender little figure, and the very narrow little sash marks a natural waist- line.
Silk organdic is going to figure prominently in summer wardrobes this year, as it combines youth. grace and dignity with a subtle feminine charm. It will serve a dozen purposes this summer.
V. figured silk organdie in delicate gold and off-white
with leaves edging the flower makes this wistful. commencement dress.
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hand-seaming, long flaring lines and a spray of flowers over one shoulder add charm to this organ- die frock for formal graduation.S
this frock of flush -pink-handkerchief linen with youthful cape collar and a semi-fitted line is: designed for the in- formal ceremony,
IV. a bolero that swings loose under the arms features
this long-sleeved gown for high-noon graduation.