PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JULY 25th, 1931.
PAGE THREE
Perfect Clothes for the
Perfect Hostess
1. sitting at your
right
that
is where your guests would want to be should you wear f gay chiffon dinner frock, with its soft yellow
roses. like this.
The greatest problem of summer entertaining is to wear a costume that will mark you as hostess, yet put your guests at their ease
THAT to wear is often 'a perplexing problem
For a hosters.
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You have to wear costumes that have far- mality enough to give you the dignity a hastew's position deserves. You must have your things ca ual enough so that whatever your guests wear, yout appratance will put them at their ease
This surones your problems are solved in new and delightful ways. Part of the solution enmes via the charming new fabrics that, informal in their own weaves, combine beautifully with a rather for mal cut to make the perfect in-between ensitar. The rest of the solution comes in the new styles, specifically the new hostess pajamas and the new little evening coats that make of an evening dress a perfect dinner costume.
If it is a tuning party you are giving, then your clothes perplexities are of no importance whatever. Just put on any sports costune, spectator ng atdiva, ot put on a little linen porch frock and no matter what your guests wear, they will feel at rose
If you change your party to a moon-day lunch- rutat i Comitry Clube à restant, with ford- following, a dressy little summer suit is ideal.
1. WHEN you give a dinner party this summer, do look cool and rullerted, even if you aren't. An excellent idea is to have a painted chition frock, with one of those enchanting little abbreviated jack- els to top it of twin print in talleta, unstead of the a ballon Yes' had this a lovely costume.
The one how ix of cliffon with a white backe ground, with an enchanting pory print of thethea and volt vellové roses with green and brown stems, The frock has a very low peplum with a Triple put- Ale, and the little jacket repeats the ruffles around its bottom and across its shirt sleeves,
If your guests come with real evening things 14, you can take off your jacket. H they come mode informally poward. krep it on. You can't finner!
II. IF you are a hostess of the dance, nothing
is so satisfactory as a lace gown. it is pr feet for the most formal necasion. It is also per fret for an orcasmon with great informality.
This fusstess dance geven is made of mustard- colated silk lace, fashioned with a sassint charm sa its long skirt by the use of nise graduated zulfles of the lare, each fuller and rachs wider than the me above. A marrow sash belt of the laer tirs at une sith and calvances the effect,
And the all-faslutated charm of this gowa as heightened by the use of an heuloom locket make of a come medallion on an old-world gold cham
Buying a new dress for your own party may scem foolish expenditure. But your guests will aft be Battered by it. They will think that you anally appreciate them and dress for them. I never hur anyone to Batter her guesti.
All costumes from Bonwit-Teller, New York.
HI, CHANGE your party to an afternoon nfleur, one held outdoors, and late in the day, and you can have the pleasure of donning what is generally called 4
garden party frock."
par-
This summer there actually will be garden ties galore, for America is learning to live outdoors and make a rather formal thing of its outdoors
foies, wither huge or small.
Perfectly slutning you would be when you tarted your guests if you wore the flesh-colored emiraideted marlin gown shown, with long lines, Danny cap sleeves, gigantain belt and cherry blos
y tucked ez it. Wahit you might even weat the little lace mitts shoven and a pink horsehair hat with more they blussons under its brim.
IV. FOR de cocktail hour, when you give your encktail party or tea induars, you should hy
all means wear hostess pajamas. Everybody's co- ade it. It gives a certant pickup to the party to have the lustess dashing as a fashion model.
Pinted hostess pajamas are enchanting this sum- You can get the liveliest ur the men delicate designs, suiting yourself,
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A charming hostess pajama suit UM3 a tiny pronte design of black and yellow, with a touch al while in its pattern. It is made with accordion pleated black mets in the shoulders to make godder cups over the top of the arms. Similar godets of pleated black full from the hipline to the ankle an both rides, giving the trousers great widit,
Wil: there you should wear pajama sandals, quite the same thing as evening sandals, only more open if anything. This pan is black and gold.
V. A SUMMER sait, to wear when you enter. faint outside luncheon, is made of the white. Lave huniorplan, tailored to suit the queen's taste, with a gored skirt, a fitted jacket with rounding hipline and a stitched down belt and sleeves that are in rail manner.
There is a sleeveless top to the little frock under de coat and the cutest plaited white taffeta neck- 1. made of white plaided in brown and tan,
A white Panama hat. bauthed in grosgrain ribh- loon, with a touch of brown patent leather behind! white pullon gloves, brown and white pumps. aul a white"purse are suitable accessories.
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11. your guests... will like your dances, for you will be taking the right steps if you yield to the charm of a quaint 'mustard col- ored lace frock of this type.
V. you will Junch in taste... if this whito lace home-
spun sult,
does ita
. wall flowers
have no place at any garden party whore a flash- calored e m broidered muslin gown gives an old-
fashioned touch of wol- come.
IV. hostess pajamas ... and how your party will sit up and take notice if you set its pitch In these black and yellow pajamas, with accordion- pleated black in- sets.
simple duty
by your guests for
an
town" af- fair.
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