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THE HONGKONG IKIFGRAPH

NESD

JANUARY

1992

THE

Wraps Are

woman who owns a costly,

Are Wide

Wide at the Hem.

SHORT WRAPS IN FAURION.

Every woman knows the type question is that women must cat

Of course this requires work. of weap which has dou-insted the of the varrow bems of their The coat may be worth it or it argagus things of brocate and world for several years and which wraps, buy now wraps, or go continued to be worn until the about in a garment which, what ay not. Each woman is her own

Judge and jury in that case. month of June. Few of the over its warmth and price, la not women now wrap the cape shoot|reckoned among things fashion- their figures, They permitted it able.

the garment to ripple_freely the skirt. It faatens straight up

• wrap which narrows in at the No woman need ohillet to fol. around the knees than it is to fill the frona and is finished si, the hem and tightens the Hoe about lowing the advice to cut off the in the V-shaped neckline. neck with a wide, upstanding the knees may well ory: Wothom. It will not spoil the wrap is ma

If econgng is the watchword collar of monkey. and possibly the drvaartakers and there is a piece of advice to bek. Rodiar's black silk brundololb, Wraps are costly union, they this idea in mind, when they put gires to a woman on the subject also the fabrio known as perilaine are too cheap to be entirely sac-80 loany short wraps on the mar- of thin F-shaped neckline. The are both used for the sVOĽBED cessful, and the woman who has kets of the world.

surplice collar can be lifted and warp and "velvet is ebosen for put much of her last year's money As a rule they care less for the opening filled in with a tiny capes that are to see service la into something that meant prira- economy than any other race of yout affect of the material of the the afternoon and evening. ton-which means shat the workers, except the "milliners, so wrap, or of the fur. The immense Callot advises a plain, valvei bought a wrap of expensive mate- when one orodis them with altrd- high collar, rolling back on it-jeapsin any colour for the sten“ rial trimmed with for—is aghastlistio motives, one is probably self and caught under the chining, which may serve for aftar when she finds that the narrow being optimistio without reason, can be fashioned also of the furnoon" galoties as well. Tain ham is a thing of the past.

The conclusion of the whole for the cloth.

hquag does not offer the cape to * who have the money to buy

for, but it is offered to those ¡patrons who have not mach money to spend, yet who insist upon doing the right thing in clothes.

Callot's advica is for a mid- cape which drops well below the knees and ripples at the bem, in which the arm overing is left to the judg ment of the wearer. This cape is finished without fur and the ow er wears a large fur cart or neckpiece of any kind over the plain edge of the velvet nëckline.

SATIN WRAPS.

A beary black satin coat which

to beng lo straight-lines from the As few women have the courage is trimmed with monkey fur, con- shoulders, leaving the arms free, to continue wearing clothes which iüinoes to fashion in London asniclit-blue velvet

It is interlined for warmth, then lined with plain or gay fig- ured satin; the Istter is preferred by the dressmakers.

THE COAT AND CAPE IN ONE

None of the masters of dress- bave obliterated the fashion of placing a wide cape as a back- ground to a coat or a frock.

Justice should be given to the newer movement of the fashion, however, as the capes of the hour are wide. The capes of laat spring were narrow and fell in ripples from aboulder to waist like an ramense bandkerchief, whereas the new cape is cut as a part of the coat, When the wearer spreade out her arms, the "cape forms a square background. It hangs to the knees at the back and, passing aver the arms to the front, it forms a square sleeve..

The French have made an ex- ceptionally striking cost in this fashion. It is of dark blue broad-

cloth trimmed with grey astrach-{

Block refret gown trimmed with white fur; the rape is lined with while.

after the closely draped kimono ¡model which is in direct opposi- tion to the wide skirts of the Second Empire.

This frook is trimmell with white fur in the accepted man- per, which means a high, loose collar and a wide, loose cuif, The cuffs on this frank: are quifa moderate in size, however, so they [look Eke little sisters of the rich.

The woman who wears the (gown in Faria carries a white fur muff, and adds to it a black veÈTOL hat with a quill of white volvat. EVESSING GOWNS CONTINUE

· THIÆR GAPES. The evening gowna imitate the [sfternoon gowns in carrying their jown capes. They are not of tulle in sea colours, such as Molyneux introduced last February, but they Era of fringe made of metal beads.

There is a gray velvet gowA which has a simple bodice and an overskirt—if one may call it ibat-which is like an Egyptian ornament for it consists of fringe made of jet and steel beads that hangs to the ankles and begins in ja broad hip girdle.

Evening gown of grey relvet trimmed with stert und iet fringe, which forms a lung cupe ut the back

Cape coat of blue colour trim- med with gregastrickan. Steel nzil heads are fastened in a crise-cross pattern over the cool and the cape is lined with grey...-

The new capa is wide across cause the eyes of other women to; the shoulders and hips and glance at them with a touch of narrowed to the irreducible pity, they will avoid the latter. minimum at the hem. Possibly ANOTHER LINE OF DEPARTURE it had short sleeves ដ its This cutting off of a wrap to voluminous sides, or she may make it fashionable is not as easy have wrapped it about the waist as it sounds. After one eliminates with ber arms inside, but what the tightness of the hem there is ever she did with the fullness, the neckline to consider. and however she managed her Wraps go straight to the chio hands, she did not neglect to these days. That wonderfully bobble herself with it below the attractive movement of fur or well as Paris and was exploited an and embroidered with steel knees.

material called the surplice collar, in the new wraps at the automo nail heads, arranged in a trellis How is she going to enbobble which enveloped the shoulders of races at Longel smpe, exactly as design. herself, one may doin that word? women last year, has been re-though it were now fashion. It is worn with a one-piece The dressmaker's arswer to placed by a straight, high collar his wrap has a curious move frock of dark blue cloth, but it that question is almple:“cutit off,” of fur that fastens at the chin. many to it. The hem is gathered can be used for several gowns. she maya.... This snswer may ease! How will women arrange this to the lining and runs in Sipeg, There is new black velvet kas minds of women who fast that neckline? Again she will dry, sigzag line from left to right. At gown worn in Paris, which has 1197 beve not the money to put "Woe is mel" It is easier to the right it reaches to the wrist, this cape attachment lined with mid How The costly wrap,

cut off the tight hem and permit at the left it drops to the hem of white velvet. The gown fiself is

Coat of black satin with· high collar and cuffs of monkey There is a draped cape in the back which forms are sleeve..

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