PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JANUARY 3rd, 1931.
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Fur-Bearing Fashions
Long coats for wear with silk and wool, jackets for tweeds, and trim for suits should be your rule
1. gray goat- skin. short but smart. with a rolled silk girdle, is shown by
Peck and
Peck.
II. this fitch, in straight lines but with roll collar and flaring cuffs. sponsored by
Toller.
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Bonwit-
Julia
II.
glorious
indeed is the
wine.colored velvet
with a million dollar fox
collar... a Russek creation.
IV. something to write home about, or for, is the above Martial and Armand afternoon on- semble of fox-trimmed, brown, broadtail peluche.
LL the smartest fashions you will wear this winter are
A fur-bearing, as perhaps you have already noticed."
If you can afford it, nothing in jauntier or more correct than a good-looking long fur coat, under which you ean wear with such comfort and satisfaction woolen ar silk frocks..
If you want to be just to smart for words, you should indulge that suppressed desire for a short fur jacket to lop your tweeds.
And last, but by no means least, you will need a trick. little formal suit or coat of some kind far afternoons and informal evenings. which should have a fur trim.
If you want a long fur coat, you may of course have of the classic standbys. Mink, if you can afford it. any inuskrat, if you can't. Hudson seal, broadtail, nutris, car acul. If you want to wear it several winters, stick to some- what conservative lines. You can have it slightly fitted, but don't have it ultra anything. for ultra styles usually survive only one season, and it costs money to have a mis- take in styles rectified next season.
This year, for diversity and for genuine chic, there are many beautifully designed and unusual furs to be had. Fitch comes under this category. It is such a soft fur, and so decorative. If you are having fitch. do not go in for any fancy shapes. It is ornamental enough to be made plain and be exquisitely lovely.
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IF you are the jaunty type of young woman who looks her smart best in tweets for daytime wear, you will want a short coat, of the jacket, or reefer type, made of fur, of course.
Since the very short jacket was so good early in the year, it is a mistake to buy one for winter time. Have i a little longer than a bolete. Hip length or a trifle below
is the new good length for fur jacken,
An exceptionally good one for you, if you are a busi ness girl or a professional who trudges to the daily job every morning, snow ur ram. It is made of gray goatskin. This coat has a a very serviceable fur, and a warm one. little flare to its cul, but its sleeves and its collar are quite simple and give an air of current smartness to the coat.
There is a little rolled belt of the far, but it is quite smart for you to wear a soft green or red suede bell with it, to match your tweed frock and your fell hat. The frock shown with the coat is gray and green speckled tweed, and it has its own ascot scarf collar of the tweed. The hat is a rich green felt with all brim and band of satin ribbon. II. AN admirable choice in a fitch coat is made on
straight lines, with a soft Baring collar and sleeves that gather slightly into wide, flaring cuffs. It is a very feminine garment, one that will make you feel every inch a lady, Ita skins are matched beautifully to give it a smart
horizontal striping, and the stripe that runs around the body portion rounds to hit the top of the sleeves, the back at yoke depth and the front a trifle lower. The collar has the light yellow portion next the face, a soft flattering color. This is the kind of coat you can wear with tailored frocks and a neat sportsy type of hat, the one shown being in a lovely rust red.
III. IF you need an extra lovely afternoon outfit, one to wear to dianer in town as well as for parties after four. I suggest to you a gorgeous wine-colored velvet coat, amply trimmed in sumptuous blue fox,
It is a fitted velvet cunt, with the fox fur collaring it and entirely outlining the front, closing and bending it where it ends, which is just above the knees. The sleeves are tre- mendously interesting, being cut in three tiers above long tight cuffs. It is a simply elegant autfil, coupled with a small beret in the same wine-colored velvet, banded simply in grosgrain and a crepe and lace frock in wine and ecru,
IV. AND now, if there is any way you can afford it. you will want and see every reason for consider broadtail peluche outfit from Martial and Armand
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in a beautiful shade of brown. It is very formal. You won't want to wear it to the office. But if you intend get- ting around to many receptions, parties and restaurant din- ners, it will come in more than handy.
It is a rather plain skirt. with front fullness and a coal that is exquisitely cut to fit the figure and then flare like .a. ful! Russian tuhit. The three-quarters coat and the col lar and the elbow portion of the sleeves are regally furred in fox to match: the brown of the material.
A long lunie blouse in turquoise blue satin completes il inaking it a most unusual outfit, both in its material and its color combination, not to mention its lines. A little hat of the same brown as the suit is made of its material.
V. IF you must go to the office, and yet look ultra smart for a conference or a tea in the afternoon, there are luscious velvet suits, in patterned prints, that are quite the right thing for you.
One of these is made of the new broadinil velvet, in black, with a perfectly elegant silhouette. The skirt has slight flare, but the three-quarters coat goes it one better and is almost fitted in the back and semi-htted in the front. The sleeves of the coat have a cuff that opens on the out- side at the wrist, fastens with a little button and shows the oyster satin lining slightly. There is a handsome tall black fox collar to set off the suit superbly,
The overblouse of oyster white satin is made with an unusual hipline, rounding up over the hips slightly from a pointed front and rounding down again in the back. It has a double belt of black and oyster white satin.
V. good for elthar business or social hud-
dles is the Madame Frances creation in black broadtail velvet, trimmed with black fox collar,