PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JANUARY 31st, 1931.
A Wooly Wardrobe For Working Girls
Warm frocks for wintry weather come in a wide variety of one and two-piece outfits that will make any office sit up and take notice of the girl wearing them
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1, you can't deny that any girl is bound to be a business success in this Algerian rod and black frock worn with black puedo shoes from Delman.
II. children like gay colors... and they will like their teacher bot- tor if she comes to school in this frack of bright Drange and soft brown wool crepe.
costumes from Birke and Birke, Now York.
II. there will be a touch of spring gaiety in your offico if you sit on the base's desk in this gray beige frock with its high. lights of bright green.
IV. if you are an executive, you will
appear charming as well as of- ficient in this Russian blouse of groen wool crepe which is worn with a brown wool skirt.
If
you are pulling the wool over your own
right now, you are right in style.
Never were little woolen frocks more in the know than right this minute.
You can get them in such lovely color con- trasts and so beautifully tailored that they don't have a speck of extraneous trim on them. Noth ing to wash daily, in other words.
Moreover, you can get them in flattering line
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and so becoming that they impart to you that elegant tai lored feeling that makes you efficient on the job, at ease when lunching or lea-ing out.
NEW woolen "ittle frocks" tend to wide variety. but fall generally into two classes, as you will discover. There are those made in over-blouse or short tunic effect, often slightly Russian, And there are those made in one- piece, invariably belted or sashed.
You can find color combinations to become your blond- ness or brunet beauty. Brown and green is a good com bination; rich orange and brown; red sad black and light and dark blue. If you like the crinkly crepes, there are many. If you prefer the svelt slickness of flannel, it is hack in the lead again. And above all, and among the newest. are plaids. There's no denying their gaiety
In purchasing the new frocks, you will feel instinctively that certain ones were designed with girls in this work or that.
I. IF you are a librarian in a business or advertising of fice, or in a public library or school, you will realize the importance of looking so nice that everybody will be glad to ask you the questions you are paid in answer.
A very practical frock for you is an Algerian red and. black combination. It is a one-piece frock, with the ap pearance of being a skirt and an overblouse.
There is an unusua! diagonal trim of black and white rounding, the neck, culting across the front and both sleeves. The skirt has side gores that fate it and give it rippline grace. Alop this is black hat of soft felt that pleats its brim to give an effective side flare and is new and becoming. Slippers, of course, should be black, and black suede is dressier than black kid.
II. SCHOOL teachers really should affect cheery col ors, as you must know, for all school teachers who are good at their jobs know the paychology of bright tones on children's dispositions.
Here is a costume of a brown wool crepe skirt, made full by its godets, and a charming overblouse in short tunic effect of bright orange wool crepe.
The blouse fits the body to a high balt line and then is flared because of side godets in the peplum part. There is a rippling surplice neckline, piped in the brown of the
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skirt. And a tricky little pleated fold of cream crepe de chine falli from under one side of the collar.
Atop deep cuffs that have tailored bow
to trim them, there is a row of cream crepe de
chine pleating, All of this keeps the cream-
colored rim far from the neckline and the wrist- line, where they would soil in a single day of school. It saves a lot of washing.
III. IF you are a secretary, for instance, what you wear adds or detracia from the gaiety of the office. An excellent little frock for you reflects the early spring trend towards gray, instead of beige, and high lights a new clear bright green. It is a plaid frock, of imported soft tweed, with a flounce made of the material used diagonally and the rest using it up and down. There are pockets fastened with zippers, a new note, and the front of the waist fas tens down one side with a zipper.
The square neck and short sleeves are new. So is the rather snug fit of the whole frock, its Rare and its wide bright green suede belt. You can change your white pique collar and cuffs or wear the frock without them, since it is finished with piping around the neckline.
IV. IF you are an executive, in a store or office, you will need a handsome frack or two to wear under the fur coat. It is a good idea to get a hat for every frock because you so often need to wear it at your desk, and there is no denying a smart hat's effect on the dress it tops. A good frock for you is a Russian blouse ensemble of Rreca wool
crepe with the skirt of a soft tobacco brown. There are two-toned crystal buttons. brown and green.
The Russian blouse of this outfit has raglan sleeves. seamed on the outside, and around the neckline, which i cut out instead of upstanding, there is piping of brown. The overskit of the tunic is split down the front and has two packets with brown pipings topping them.
The hat is of brown suede to match the belt and has a rich trimming in the form of fine braid stitched together.
V. IF you are in social work, and part of your duty is in meeting people of importance one minute and then dashing off to the other end of town to see a case the nex you will appreciate the good-looking outfit that is quiet is its handsomeness and yet beautiful.
This is illustrated in a new two-piece suit of navy blue tricotine trimmed with white flannel. It is new to have a little short-sleeved frock topped by a three-quarters coal. Both the frock and the cont are sail-belted and both have pockel trim of narrow bands of white flannel. The frock. buttons, like a pole skirt, with handsome navy blue buttons, A modified tricorn in soleil repeats the apting predic tion that gray will be in high standing, and a plaid trim is the best possible social asset a hat or frock can have,
V. a social worker aan handle any case if she lets this two-piece suit of navy blue tricotine trimmed in white Hannel increase her self- confidence.