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PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, NOVEMBER 24th, 1928.

PAGE THREE,

Winter Styles Served a la Carte

Fashion Smiles On Individuality. If the Mode Is Not Defied

Bernard et Cie Created the "Merry Widow" Gown For Formal Evening Wear ... It is Black Chiffon Over a Pink Slip; Has Embroidered Pink Paillettes

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For Sheer Beauty of

Fabrie, Line and Color This Worth Model In Rich Blue Velvet

Cannot Be Surpassed

The Rippling Jabots Repeat the Front Treatment On the Back of This Patou Afternoon Gown Fashioned of Blue Crepe

Chenille in Many Shades Of Beige and Dark Brown With a Flower Motif Gives This Coebett Turban Genuine Parisian Chic

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THIS season you order what you like from the current mode, chooning according to your own particular tasfe, being as exotic or as sensible as your fancy dictates.

You will not want to diet, however, for the selection is too inviting and too varied. If you do not feel inclined to- ward the rich velvets and the mar- vellous new stiff brocades, there are ntil the delicate chiffone and the airy fulles.

If you do not like large patterns and bold effects, there are small dots, calico patterns, and plain weaves lovelier than ever before.

If you want to emphasize your alen- der walstline, you can find fracks Bint mold delicately about the waist with a nipped-in effect, or if you are more solidly built, and find the lowered waist- r line more gracious to your figure, you'll And any number of models crented just · for your lines.

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If you are tired of knee-revealing skirts, you will find that fashion has out-thought you and provided longer skirts, some with irregular lines, others with circular inserts that impart all the grace and dignity that the short skirt subtracted.

On the other hand, if you are slim- limbed and built, like Diana, you need not relinquish the short skirts, that suit you so well, and make you so essentially the modern young woman that you are, but will find more feminine and charm- ing adaptatlans, with just enough change in line and feeling to assure you that you are up to the moment. THE Individual note in clothes must be

subtle rather than Intrusive. A gown or an ensemble must never con- tradict or defy the mode. It must never be blatantly opinionated. Rather it must suggest complete tolerance and ac ceptance, and the originality must come in the interpretation rather than in the idea.

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Parisienne styles are in the main as gracious and as agreeable as the Paris- iennes themselves. They have this quality of perfect ease and urbanity. Never were they so gracious and so adaptable as this season.

Your attention is pleasantly direct- ed to the evening mode, as expressed by the three evening gowns shown on this page. Here are three types of gown—

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ench perfect in its way-for throë dis.. tinctly different types of women.

For the sleek-haired, sophisticated woman, Bernard et Cie have created the frock at the top centre. It is fascinat- ingly named the "Merry Widow." Of black chiffon, embroidered with pink palettes, over a slip of deeper pink, with a scarf of black and one of pink, it in a gown that may be worn with dis- tinction to the theatre, the night club, the dinner party, or practically any evening function. Smart without being ostentatioun, it is a thoroughly wearable creation.

FOR picturesque occasions, what could

be more harmonious than the Red- feru model at the lower right? This is made of shaded yellow tulle, with a but- terfly bow of the tulle in front, a many flounced skirt, and a simple bodice of yellow taffeta and yoke of yellow tulle.

Admittedly, this is a model only for the youthful and the, decorative type- but how admirably it fulfills its destiny!

And when it comes to sheer beauty of fabric, and an effect of line and colour, how about the Worth model at the upper right? This gown Is of blue- velvet with fitted bipline, and the up-in- front and down-in-the-back line.

Here is the effect of almplicity, gain- ed only by the most intṛlente 'under- standing, and the moat supreme artistry of cut. The highlights on the soft vel- vot leave nothing to be desired in the way of adornment.

Another of the season's successer is the Patou afternoon gown, sketched at the upper left. It is unusual and in- triguing because of the intricate treat- ment of the back, which is repeated on the front small tiers that manage to release into rippling jabots. Here again, the material-which is blue crepe -Is nothing, hut the cut is everything.

Naturally, with this type of gown, we need a more decorative hat than the simple felt chapeau, and Helene Csehell · has supplied it in the chenille hat illus trated at the lower left. It is in various shades of beige and brown, with a sug- gestion of a flower motif that comes down over each ear and modifies the severe lino of the turban..

The winter season has indeed start- ed auspiciously with its charmingly feminine fashions that give Milady the freedom of ordering a la carte.

Shaded Yellow Tulle, a Butterfly Bow in Front,

A Skirt of Many Flounces and a Simple Bodice Make This Redfern Gown a Creation for Youth

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