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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, OCTOBER

FALL

SKIRTS ARE IN THE NEWS

Skirts are much to the fore in fashion news. Stralgat or pleated skirts have been so much worn in past years that everyone is wel- coming the changing styles.

The fashionable materials have a great effect on skirt styles. For stik taffeta and instanca the "metal" materials have inspired the designers to create the full skirts and lamp-shade" tunles

The becoming flared skirt is both coats popular and seen on

and frocks. This type of skirt is simple to make. It hangs well in ..both woollen and silk fabrics. Woollen materials wear better if made up in this rather loose style, since

80011 a straight tight line loses its shape in wool.

The bell-shaped skirt is a flared skirt on more exaggerated lines- even to the extent of having folds. The tweed skirt on the extreme right of this sketch is made on these lines.

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are always smart, and wide, inverted box pleats are mak- ing their appearance in tweed wear skirts. Frocks for formal contain finely-pleated skirts, or panel of pleating about six in zes wide from neck to hemi.

The pleated skirt shown in this sketch is cut on slimming lines. Since the skirt is straight, paten pockets appear at the hips to give the necessary squared effect.

and Walst-ines both for day evening wear, are slightly high and are well-fitting. Many frocks are higher at the whist-une in. front, or built up above the walst all round.

The new skirt lengths are inter- esting. They are shorter for walk- ing, the correct length being about six inches below, the knee. After- noon dresses, are rather longer than this. Evening frocks are often higher in front than at the back, forming a train, but evening skirts are ankle-length,

Draped skirts are to be worn b small well as the even.ng," as trains. The bustle has staged a come-back, although in a different form. You see one in the sketch which consists of two frills. one small one at the waist and another underneath, which Kes just above the hips.

evening Last year's straight trocks can be cut. down to make skirts, over which you can wear one of the enchanting-new tunics.

Tunics for evening wear- can either be made in the form of a coat of velvet of lame, or in the trock style as shown here. The waist-line should be tight and high, and the skirt very full: L should be made of stiff silk, and reach almost to the knees... ⠀

Tunics are very smart for day- time wear, too. These should not be very full. Many are tight and allt up the sides or up the front. They can be created 'n almost any material, and worn as dress cr conta. 戚

Select your skirt lines caretully, bearing these points in mind, so

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On the right is a tweed bell-shaped skirt, walking along with a flared skirt opening up the front, with a built-up loosely-at- ting waist-line. In the centre you see the new bustle and fui skirt with a slight train. The stranded shoulder straps are new too." The tunic dress of stiff silk has a high waist-line and full larap- shade skirt over a slim-fitting ankle-length skirt. Another ver- sion of the tunle is created for daytime wear, "sketched on the left. It is slim-fitting over a skirt of the same material, Fockets create the squared effect on the slim-fitting, skirt, which four Inverted pleats.

NEW VELVET PILL-BOX

Bullion Motifs

The latest hats bring one thrill after another. Almost anything is smart so long as it is picturesque. There are the big brim with a short crown, the high or moderately high CRUST with or without a brim. Empire military pill-box, forage shape, and styles that smack of Charles IX. berets, as well as a Hussian peasant style breaking away from the ordinary. Cossack fitting of black astrakhan. Each style is a brilliant conception..

Trimmings include bird's breast "plumage, quills, Bowers, velvet and

bullion. Royal insignia, such as braided designs. Crowns and shields.

The shady brimmed hat with inch high crown came as a great autumn.surprise in black felt with a long single quill slanting down one side or a setting of con- volvulus blooms rising abové roset- tes of green velvet. This moth set at the side of the crown emphasis- es an all-round sloping brim faced beneath with the green velvet. An old-fashioned grouping consists of tuchsias, delphinium sprigs rose- buds and common asters, mixing purple, red. blue, pink and yellow all over the top of a little black pill-box shape which is given a vell.

Pill-boxes vary to bigger types which curve or slant slightly out as they rise up from head fittings with to those of military cast fantasy, cuffs applied or minia- ture peaks shaping flat on to the forehead. They are in black felt ur velvet, with bullion embroidery spraying designs on to cuts or merely round the form when fore- head peaks appear. An interest ing military forage sloping. shape of blue felt appears with a buillon spray of silver along one side of the crowb

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VELVET FOR

SWING OF THE MODE

Jackets Still More Jaunty

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The latest swinging silhouette creating afashion sensation Women are both co depart from -

AFTERNOON. SUITS the straight, clear line of former

Velvet has place of honour in fashion's plans for the daytime and the evening.

Black velvet coats and skirts ar shown for the afternoon. Most ut the coats at closely to the waist and have a flared basque reaching almost to the knees..

Fur of all kinds is used for trim- ming and those who have, silver tox and other furs of their own can choose from a variety of of plain models,

Velvet coats are shown, too, 10 wear with skirts. or with a tailor- made coat dress of black woollen material.

THE LACE HOOD

The lace hood with shoulder capelet brings allure to evening rowns, with skirts that might be yards wide at the hem, in " shirred black velvet and silver lamé. The effect of those hoods on elther colour is perfect...

They also add charm to the new bared shoulder and bare back decollete with high front rising right up to the neck, where it criss-crosses away to the nape, or rounds off into a neck band.

The black velvet hat with distinctive trimming is a Paris trend. One of the latest louise Bourbon models is of Russian inspiration with a cuff showing a gold buillen embroidered spray. The other in a new pil-box with a green feather curling above a silver bullion crown

These embroideries appear again high-crowned on spot-shaped Russian toque that, slants back- wards because it is worn off the forehead, a fact which applies to almost all Louise Bourbon's brim- less toques. Some of them have diadems rising in ancient Russian peasant manner beyond the fore- head which is covered by a mesh work of the fabric.

and form mixtures at fronts or backs of felt toques.

Among Mme.

fcom the latest news Suzy is a Charles IX, beret of black feit which clears the brow and drops back on the head in tam o' shanter mood from a gros-grain band. A bow of the gros-grain is posed at centre, front, which rises slightly before the shape dips al- most to the nape line. Success is written all over it! -

It is an interesting idea for smart dress occasion, with diadems of

Draped turbans culled from the flowers and one shaped from black Italian School are of Florentine in- astrakhan This "appears on a spiration in white velvet or black black perruque fitting of black antelope with gathered rolls that satin tied in a knot above the nape.

pur out beneath flat tops. An Itallan page boy mutin cap is on Elongated boat-shaped black felt "and velvet hats slope down on to

the way, too, and looks smart in the forehead from backs which rise.black velvet with a short line of under a massing together of velvet rosettes in Old Master tonings. Bird's breast plumage emulates these rosettes in other colours, in mixtures such as rust, pink and orange, or rust, blue and fuchsia red. Both feathers and colours are of American Indlat inspiration

Pearce and Mr. White at the race meeting at Happy Val'ey List Saturday.

fringe frayed from red gros-grain posed at one side front. Felt bon- net shapes of peasant persuasion also indicate the brimless trend for toques worn straight on the head and off the brow. These are in- teresting shapes with fairly high Attings, pinched, as it were, to form a waist in the middle, which is given a narrow band of felt tied in a bow at centre front. It has been said that hats of all nations" are to be seen.Different types cer- tainly do make up an unexpected autumn and winter quota,

seasons. A joyous, swinging air is noticeable in the latest short skirt, tunic and jacket,

This movement is familiar to those who recollect the godet and. gored skirts of the early part of this era, and the elegance of the pleated tunic and full jackets. worn by well-dressed women Edward VII's day:

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In those days it conveyed a hint of age and opulence and a super. fulty of fabric, especially in the Jacket. It is a triumph of modern" dreas design that the fashionable swinging tunte and jacket have a youthful new elegance.

The belt to the most tailored skirt or blouse is colourful and decorative. The dress parades are full of delightful surprises. practical neutral-coloured suit in wool of tweed has large leather- buttons to match a soft belt mixed with a brightly coloured patent.. complete with gloves and hand- bag. The plainest felt Tyrolean- hat has some absured buckle to brighten it. A vell can appear on country headgear. Belts are now accepted one of the most impor- tant accessories. For the country and bard- the roughest -gloves wearing shoes a new chic:

Fashion displays the most dras-

neck tie

finishes. changes in

blouse dress' or Every style of fastens high up to the base of the throat, even if it falls a little open with a light scarf drapery in front. Peter Pan collars show an inner scarf. A rouleau of the fabric of the dress, half an inch wide, can. complete the neck and match the edge of corsage and skirt hem.

GREEN IS FASHION'S- LUCKY COLOUR

Green will be popular but 'there- yet another new green in this. coming season of greens. That green would be a popular favourite has been known for some time, and in addition certain exclusive- ' houses are proposing to feature curious greens that can only look. their best in expensive fabrics.

Boon, we shall see a new colour that is chic but not particularly A clever designer, cheering, however, enlivens it to beauty. This is seaweed green, which tends. to the darker olive shade. By it- self it is possibly a bit depressing. but with a dash of rich damask red it becomes alive and bright.

Quieter tones are always best för- the town tailleur, and the charm The fringe frock has been mak- of seaweed green for such purpose;

GOWNS OF SILK CORDS

ing a tentative bid for favour for is great.

some time. Now Paris is launch- ing the gown composed entirely of silken card, thousands of yards of which have gone into the making. True to the Grecian line, a gown of corda in an olive-green shage hangs with classic grace from the crossover bodice and little cape all fashioned of the same material A reaction from the recent be- trimmed dresses is suggested by this latest style, which is devoid of all additional adornment

Fabric and the line 'provide the key to the success of the most original and striking fathlons of the day.

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