FAGE TWO
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER:
1934.
Evening Frocks Go
You'll look tall, slender and very queenly when you don one of these striking new figure-molding gowns
Sophisticated
PICTORIAL
THIS drus of black; cue moire has a shouls, der espe to match, Boin are embroidered with rhinestones
SATIN FACED lame is used
to make the model at the left The. futed back florca outward to hom Name-colored facing that is also used to line the long, sweeping train.
Ostumes Courtesy
STEIN and BLAINE
New York
`SAPPHIRE BLUE velvet is used to fash ion this handsome evening gown with low neck- line. The covered shoulders-they form a com affect in the back-and the intriguing train are
1metching sapphire tulle w
THIS STUNNING FORMAL dren of fuchila crepe has a novel train that shows flesh colored inserts. The molching cape has a band of ostrich feathers in the same shade of fuchsia.
DRAZ
EMBROIDERED with rhinestone cres -cenis, this black nel gown is one of the season's Pouliest creations. Uneven inserts of accordion pleated net in the bottom of the shirt swish and billow gracefully when you dance.
SOPHISTICATED, pencil-alim evening gowns vie with the rather bouffant, romantic types, including the widely discussed Robe-de-Style.
About half the women you see gliding across the floors of smart ballrooms this winter will wear dresses that mould their figures and make them appear tail and slender. Tho other 50 per cent will have on glamorous creations with billowing skirts.
The picture frocks are interpreted in various ways by 'the most important couturiers. Vionnet, the designer who originated the bias cut, makes one in stiff black taffeta with a low square back decollete and a huge bow polsed high on the chest. The skirt spreads about the feet, The bodice molds the figure.
An anonymous American stylist who designs for one of the better New York houses does a picture frock in white taffota and puts inserts of black in matching fabric around the bottom of the full skirt. The neckline on this gown fa boat-shaped, falling off the shoulders in a way that is re- miniscent of the 1880's,
Another American dealgner shows 15 ovening gowns in her collection-five are Robes-de-Style, and the rest aro as Blender as can, bo. She suggests that only the very young, or the very slim, wear the bouffant types and that slightly older girls and mature figures stick to the sophisticated, auavely molded ones, anae
Remember, this is a fabric year and the materials which -go to make up your evening clothes are even more important than the designs themselves. Stiff fabrics are ahead in the style race and if you want to follow fashion's dictates, get taffeta, metal cloth, lamo, meire or quita heavy volvet. For those who dislike ati materials, there are heavenly nets, sille erepes and satins, wh
Black and white always are excellent choices, of course. And they're particularly good for the woman who can't have more than one or two evening gowns. However, if your clothes budget is fairly liberal this winter, go da for rich doop colours: