PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, APRIL 4th, 1931.
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about your new spring suit
the strictly tailored affair of a few short seasons past will not do in this unusual year, when practicability is being disguised with beauty
11, part player by the sun in 19931 'spritest Twardadies protoner to be arge than ever
a leaching one, siper today there are mis that Bonk the part, and suite that hide then true, practical nature under the deceiving effect of a full-lengils cont and a harmonizing dress, ot dresses suits that strike the sath, tailored mote and shaft-jacketed sints that banish luah years and tiresome dignty with one youthful, animated gesture.
So distinct and dear cut the fur chawB between these various kinds of suits, we serd scarcely see you a key to the typus as they appear here, representing various developments aheough which the suit has been passtug
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No longer is even the stredy tabored ath an aßau of 56ll precision and strangil, ungrace- lut lines, as was the case a few short reason
No more interesting trend has been ob- served in fashion that the survival of this clasuc fum of femates dress, trop-fouthed and beauti- fard, however, possessing new graerfaderis, arw color harmonies, and a new ease of manget.
J. LOOKING algad a file in later spannst. 4 marked prevalence of the type of suit that combines far wool carpe with printed sik, is forecast Women e ospel, to sense both the practicality and the hecommences of this type of costume, for town und travel in black, with Black and white perintei niih n the companion fabric, thus practical member of the at family becomes a Jort-sleeved sbeatoon dress, by the sumple expedient of dolling the shout the on coat.
II. IN this group, a long coated sunt in the lighter haw has distinctive treatment.
of soft brown fin accenting the diagatal closing hne the scati chat, whch may he endlessly cumbined with any of the luchter and warmer browas, by way of a compaunate dires tune.
[1f. WITH @ is photographed a delightful
spring ensemble of diessies type
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of the very new notes struck by this reason's mode. In this instaner it is developed of heavy gray silk crepe, wide-hands of gray fox larming a rich nish for the little cont's wide butterfly sleeves. A jatle-colored stone ornament accents the neck-chting, and repeats at the belt of the simple, long-sleeved frock.
1. you are on the road to
chic no matter what your ticket says if you go traveling in this black wool suit, trimmed with black and white printed silk.
II. several shades of light brown are found in this unusual suit which com- bines a silk frock and a long wool coat, adorned with brown fur.
Sally milgrim
distinguished American couturier, designer of all the exclusive models
shown on this page",
IV.
this blouse of canary yellow was designed to make the tailored, double breasted sult snap out of n dark brown mood:
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V,
all - round collar of ruffled not will throw
A charm about your shoulders whon worn with an Eton dress suit liko'
this.
VI.
havy blue wool. crepo looks to Its scallops in the cuffs and 'skirt bottom of this Eton sult, which has all the swagger of
a seaman's
blun.
VII.
If you insist on being strictly tailored, here's a gray outfit of imported men's Bujting worn with, a broade blue
cloth blouse.
1. for demure appeal noth- ing is quite so effective as this gray crepe butterfly coat with its wide bands of soft fox fur.
IV. EQUALLY new is the suit of strictly
tailored type where brown and its nat ural accompaniment, yellow, pay homage to the present trend toward two-color combinations, and where the genuine tailored suit again steps up to deserved importance in the mode.
Perhaps the most useful form in which the 1931 spring suit appears is that of the full- length coat with or without its becoming touch of light weight fur, with a harmonizing dress, usual- ly made of one of the heavier quality creper. No more accommodating fashion has been evolved than this modified version of the suit. permitting of so many adaptations to different sorts of wear, and prolonging both its span of life and its freshness of interest. by the alterna- tive combinations it provides. Indeed, an been pointed out frequently, one of these long coat suits can be made to form the nucleus-the backbone, really of an adequate amait word- robe, if sufficient care be exercised in selection.
V WE can only touch on the suit of Eton jacket type, much in evidence this spring, It is strongly in favor with the petite type of woman, and will be seen more and more as the season advances. A very demure type of this costume has a tiny short-sleeved jacket appli qued with realistic cherry motifs. The simple 1ucked net blouse finishes with a wide ruffle at the round neck line.
VI. ANOTHER example of this jaunty variety of costume is developed in fine wool crepe, has a scallop finish around the cuffs. and skiri bottom, and a swagger contrasting scarf.
VII. THE im gray tailored suit, of ne imported men's suiting, with blouse of robin's egg blue broadcloth, knows no kinship with unbecoming severity of cut or color scheme. Grace and charm are expressed in every line of the slender, single-breasted jacket, and” ili aç- companying, immensely chic skirt, with unusual, graduated box pleats. No more springlike or feminine touch could have been added, than the choice of the light blue tone for contrasting blouse color.