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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1920.

This Exaggersted

Flounced Tunic of

gile. Adds.Width to the Hips

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The NEWPARIS G

SILHOUETTE By Hester

Winthrop

PHOTOS BL

JOEL FEDER

An Enchantingly Smaņu.

Trock of Heliotrope"

Taffeta that is

Distinctly Parisian-

These Perfectly

Straight Very Short Frocks with Elbow Sleeves are the Rage in Paris

mental shock.

Designs of the

Moment.

FULLNESS...

frock opens-and fastens with with hip drapery.

In both of

Flounces widen

softly into the beltline.

The

Lace

edges of the long slits in this outer skirt are stayed with narrow crystal bead banding. festoons of beads form the apol. ogies for sleeves.

And

STRAIGHT, GIRDLED FROCKS

WORN ALSO.

The Parisienne absolutely must

of any one type of costume. So

of cream

the Hip Line

of this Evening Frock

JØTTINGS.

BRONZE-EFFECTS. Bronze boots and shoes, which are back again, and are much to went out with the 19th century,

moment. A hat of glace kid, the fore in connection with the

seen

THE NEW SHOES

LANVIN PUTS WHITE LINEN ON" BLACK VELVET.

Paris dressmakers are so glad to get snowy kinen back after its absence during war days that they are putting the fine, beautiful fabric wherever they

a

can find place for it on Laosin has етев Large tabs and fancy bars are costumes.

A incorporated white loen with features of the new shoes.

velvet, an innovation bitherto But the effect unheard of. green crocodile shoe with a large tab of the same leather and a long is tremendously swart. Lanrin's black suede vamp would make frock is a simply made black vel- many a woman sigh with envy.vet model for day wear-almost girlishly simple in ime and styles colour. One shoe of this shade of pure white linen... The collar is leather bas four bars above the in eton shape and ower it lies flatly and made of black velvet embroid- toe, each bar having in its centre & smailer collar of the same shape a small round paste buckle. The ered with gold threads. The cuffs, sides of the shoe has small canvas which flare smartly and reach one, half way. t the elbow, are made reminding side-springs.

A radical change in the sil-UNDER-ARM FASTENING 15 NEW.SIDE DRAPERIES ADD GRACEFUL have variety-she soon wearies for indoor and morning wear -she- houette always seems startling at Then how in the world, you

Two very beautiful evening first and sometimes a little Krotesque. After a twelvemonth ask, does she get into that frock?

Of course she can slip her head gowns, made in Paris, show the reserves the narrow, low-sashed and more of slinky petticoats, you

of expression. the proper softness of line and gaze on the flounced taffeta frock through the neck opening easily new silhouette in its more con- frock, built of material that gives pictured today with a sor: of enough-but the belt-fastening?servative form

"Coming to this. Here is the secret, new idea That is, the skirt hangs in straight, makes up-by its costliness-for

pictured is frock are we?" ou exclaim and woo-adopted by the best dressmakers stately lines at back and front what little there is of it. The fashionable rust-red tints of the Dark green seems to be a favourite and it has collar and cuffs of der how you would lock all pusief Paris and New York: The and is extended at the sides embroidered black silk net over likewise bronzed and embellished walking down Piccadilly lately. ed out with crisp taffeta flounces invisible snaps under the short these gowns you will note the black satin and the girdle is of with bronze beads was

in conjunction with boots and bag to match, the fur coat being below the belt. It seems impossleeve, down the side seam of the easy natural figure effect at the black satin faced with cream.

and without

of beaver, with a collar edged sible. Maybe somebody will do bodice, at the belt, and below the waistline. The gowns are worn it-those younger women who

The bead is petticoats. An evening gown of take up bizarre styles and drop belt in a short placket. Quite without corsets them as 9000 as something newer simple, you sec.

and then the frock is fastened over a single garment-usually a heaves in sight. But you won't slipped through the neck opening soft, rich material is worn now invisibly below the arm and down combination of silk jersey that As a matter of fact, the lounced the side. And there you are trim has knickers fastened below the tafete model pictured is charm. at the belt line and not a sign of knee. Sometimes to this rather ing. A more dainty, feminine an opening at back or front of the scant supply of underwear is little frock was never conceived and the old-style straight-arross i decolletage and little tight sleeve: showing the elbow are particular-

at least you think now won't!

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bodice!

FRENCH ACTRESS LAUNCHES SILHOUETTE.

added a bandeau or brassiere-

but only when fullness of the figure actually demands such support. One of these stunning

A dainty little French actress, gowns is of palest mais brocade

chifon

ly charming with the very bouff- ant skirt. The frock is made of Mine. Iselle Mistinguett. has and under the mais heliotrope taffeta, with a border made new bouffant frocks so al-bodice is a square necked slip of trimming of silver soutache, and luring that every woman who mauve chiffon. This faint colour the narrow, plain belt has loops sees her in one of them instantly is repeated in the garland of of this silver braid along both decides to order a similar model mauve and silver grapes that trails edges. The skirt is slightly dis- from her own couturier. Ons of down the skirt. Lace Bounces tended at the hips with wire run Mme. Mistinguett's dainty frocks help to extend the silhouette at The other through shirrings; this makes the is made of cream lace and net; the side draperies and the skirt lowest flounce and the cne just deep lace used as a flounce on the is turned under, culotte fashion, above set out well from the figure.net tunic and as a bertha around above the ankles. The top flounce which is fullest of the decolletage. The short sleeve gown is superb in its combination underskirt (which is of brilliance and misty softness all is gathered directly to the belt and the at the sides, but" is dropped, or, extended by wire at the hip) are produced by using together rather, slashed down, at back and of face insertion and net puffings.crystal beaded silk net in faint front, where it gathered to the A pannier-sash of broad pink pink and layers of pleated tulle skirt itself. You will note that satin ribbon gives a decidely new in the same exquisite shade. each flounce of this skirt is shorter effect. The ribbon goes around Three silk roses in deeper pink at the sides than at the centre the waist and ties in a big bow at tones accentuate the colour at the front, & detail that adds to the the back, and four long loops of right hip. The feather fan is not of the the ribbon" fall from this sash, pink-this would be overdoing smartness and grace Costume. The girlish bodice has setting out smartly in pannier it but is of ostrich in softly a very flat line over the bust and effect over the gathered net tunic shaled gray tones. The founces the material is not used in and wired skirt. Because it is so in this instance are attached to straight breadth across the front: delightfully French, this little an underskirt, wired at each hip There are two darts in the bodice cream and pink frock has a to give the extended silhouette which shape the material, giving finishing touch of coquetry in the under the bouffant tulle flounces. mufficient width at the shoulders way of pink ostrich tips, caught These ounces emerge through without gathers. The back has against one of the ribbon pan- long slits in the beaded net outer at the foot though it gathera not these darts but is made in treniers and against the sashbow at skirt which is extremely narrow

the back,.. "straight section.

JUVENILE SWEATER.

This slip-on sweater has a new yake effect with bell, and cap to match.

with a band of the bronze kid.

Evidently bronze effects are a feature to be reckoned with in the future.

THE NEWEST COLOUR. Now that the shop windows in Solo and the suburbs are all ablaze with the most glorious Venetian

thougt, in a mos delicate manner, exactly like the collar a layer of of the practical and essentially white linen first and then a layer

boots .com.Portable

our grand-of gold embroidered black velvet. mothers used to wear.

SPARKLING STATUETTES. Instead of being photographed

reds and terra-cottas, Bond-street these dage the smartest wo- has decided that the colour is men have themselves "executed The very "vieux jeu," and is doing all it in marble."not life size statues,

but dainty statuettes. knows to replace it by the new geranium red. Feather toques smartest are following the exam- are being made in it, sash bands ple of a recent bride, who gave are being formed of it, and even her groom such a marble portrait tulle evening frocks are being of herself decorated with paste facsimiles of her most "ancestral" But though created from it.

To hand yourself and jowels. veiling of mole or brown may soften the geranium hat and a your favourite jewellery down to scarf of billowy grey net may posterity on the two-in-one plan help the evening dress, yet a good is not a bad idea. many will fight shy of 80 arrest- ing a tint and prefer to remain faithful to the more becoming rust tones.

PYJAMAS DE LUXE.

The fashion of using different materials for one garment is spreading to pyjamas. The latest FUNNY-BONE ORNAMENTS. There is going to be a rush on arrival from Paris in this line bas the new elbow ornaments. They a jacket of dark blue georgetta are most effecive and splendid for and trousers of silver gray char- hiding up that hateful bone in the meuse. On the jacket, which was arm that will so often insist on given a small collar of the char- poking itself where it has no meuse, was embroidered in red business. The prettiest are in silks a quaint design of a Chinese black panne or satin, sparkling catching a fish. Altogether the with paste, or if you prefer you model was as striking as it was may have diamonds. The panne costly-its price was £9-but it is gathered at each side, with seemed too luxurious to wear as elastic run through to keep it ordinary sleeping raiment, But steady. Some wear bands of bog-for a pyjama-tes function in the oak around the elbow with jewell.boudoir one could hardly imagine

anything more effective, ed fastenings.

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