1928-10-20 — Page 13

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, OCTOBER 20th, 1928.

PAGE THREE.

Modes Become Intricate

Home Dressmakers

Who Have Been

Borrowing Styles May Tear Hair

Over the New

Puzzle Patterns

Maison Beer Offers Angular Insels

Of Royal Blue Satin To Trim This Gray Flat Crepe Dress

For Mademoiselle

Diagonal Pintucks Adorn the Back of Both Blouse and Skirt

On This Jean Patou Evening Gown

This Interesting Marcelle Lely Hat Shows Stamped Hatters' Plush Over a Wide Brim of Pale Beige Fell

Yellow Crepe Satin

Is Used by Redfern

For This Girl's. Evening Frock With .

Its Unusual Dip At the Back

COMFORT, chic and charm are the three C's that- Fashion has endeavoured to give equal representation in the autumn ami winter mode.

For the past few years we have achieved comfort and chic, but charm has sometimes bewn' angleeted. In our delight in simple clothes, we often sarrificed bounty to uitility. We had been so surfeited with meaningless frills and rules, all in the name of sweet femininity, that it was a real relief to dispense with all of them.

And suddenly, we realized that we hud become standardized as so many apples. We all wore plału 1tly felt huts and' sport dresses, or, silk ones on straight, severe lines.

It couldn't al. Women aren't made that way. Now the tendency is completely away from the uniform, and variety. femininity, and even formality are achieved without any sacrifice.

Never were styles so subfle, so diflicult to copy, so apparently artless, but so very intricate. The home dressmaker is going to tear her hair, and the milliner who has mastered the plain felt hat with the simple brim is going to wonder where to begin with her shears..

TAKE, for instance, Patou's new evening frock shown below at the left. It has diagonal Aucks both on the blouse and the akirt. In spite of its simplicity, that skirt is a triumph of cut and design. It achieves the long back and the draped effect in the most logical fashion--but it is a complete puzzle to the amateur.

Take, for another example, Beer's sport dress at the upper left. It is of grey that crepe with the insets of royal blue satin. Notice how carefully shaped and fitted are those bands and how expertly the collar and Puffs are fitted. There is a small and most intriguing cape that hangs down the back, revealing a Hining of brilliant blue. A swarf of checks in grey and blue, and a grey felt hat complete the ensemble. It looks simple, but how much more sophisticated the simplicity than that of the straight line 'spor frack,

And what could be more youthful and girlish than Redfern's frock of yellow crepe salin, which dips at the back and reaches its shortest line at the left skje? It is the model shown at the upper right. The skirt is cut in the new circular lines, and the waistline has almost reached normal. And the whole feeling of this costume is different from the longer waisted, straight skirted frock of yare. That wide sash, too, is lovely- and yellow satin is one of the most satisfying of all selections for the evening.

IN millinery, the same artistry prevails, The hat from Marcelle shown above, in an excellent example, combining stamped batters' plush and a brim of pale beige felt, cut much wider on one side than the other.

The brim takes graceful curves and the crown is considerably shallower than has been seen recently. Paris ja undoubtedly sponsoring the lower crown and the wider brim-and there is n femininity expressed here that is most challenging. Yet the most tailored type of woman would not feel overdressed in this hat.

Huts that come in high colours-and many of them do-are- more conservative in line.

The wrap at the right, from Philippe et Gaston, shows how the winter evening wrap may share in the revival femininity. decorated with wide bands of sablo fur,

Sable Fur Bands Trim This Gray Velvet Wrap Made for Mødeme Lely By Philippe et Gaston

When You Think of Shoes-

THINK OF...

ORDONS

Footwear

for Millady

The opening of this Salon will be an ovent

of the utmost importance to every well- dressed woman.

The exact date will be announced shortly.

Hongkong's exclusive FOOTWEAR SALON · will be at-

ROOM 7,

Second Floor,

KAYAMALLY BUILDING,

Under the supervision of

Mr. W. S. Drake, late of Wm. Powell, Ltd.