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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1928.

For Ladies in the Evening

For

The Mode Turns to Long Points." Untrimmed Bodices and Simple Necklines To Give Impressions of Slenderness

Long Panels

At the Sides

Give. This Brocaded Gown Slenderizing Grace and Chle

Red Lace

Over a Slip Of Red Crepe Combines to Make This Gown Colorfully Smart

This Gown of Rose Chlifon Is Simple Except for a Bow, Full and Panel Over One Hip And a Chiffon Shoulder Flower

Delightfully Adapted for Dancing

Is This Beaded Creation Which Has A Bolero-cut Blouse With a Neckline Very Flattering to the Slender Figure

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The Fashionable Long Side Points

And the Molded Hiplino Are Stressed

In This Printed Velvet Gown in Which.

Red Flowers Glow From a Black Background-·

By FRANCES CLYNE.

Creator of the Gosons on This Page.

E a little brown wren by day, if you

Bike, but be a gorgeous peacock at

night-that is if you take the fashion edicts of Paris seriously.

For evening styles have gono luxuri- ous with a vengeance. Gono indeed are the days when a few yards of chiffon made a dance frock, and a beaded tunic .a dinner gown.

This year's evening gowns are dramatic, colourful, exotic and scintillat- Ing. They havo temperament and emotion, as well as richness and beauty. The wearer myst "live up" to them rathor than seem indifferent.

The obvious notes in the winter's evening styles, are, of course, the lengthened and more ample skirts, the higher waistline, and the untrimmed neck and shoulder ling.

Practically every skirt is fong at some point-and most of them are short somewhere else. Trains, formed by. panels, side draperies or sashes. bre common enough. While akirta still have the Irregular hemline, the points are more geometric and more methodical than they have been.

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JEWELS and accessories are very im -portant, and are really a part of the frock itself. Necklaces of coloured stones, Intricately and oddly set, are very much the vogue, and so are brace lets.

The onsemble idea that is so popular for glay, is also noticed in evening attire. A gown of silk or chiffon, has a velvet wrap of the sams shade. Evening wraps of velvet come in plain and print- ed pattern, and are embellished with luxurious fars.

In evening attire, the bright colours are much the vogue, clear rod, brilliant blue, and figured velveta showing bold. natterns against a black background,

Tulle, the most perishable of fabrics which used to be associated only with very fluffy skirts and very fluffy women, is handled this year in an almost tailor- od fashion, the skirts being made of many folds flatly applied..

The smartest of these have tailored bolts, caught with jewelled clasps. Two of my smartest models come in wing rød end in a dark blue that is almost navy.

The lace gown of this year la quite a changed affair. For instance, the one shown at the top of the page is of a" doficato lace-almost a shadow, mesh--

A Rose-Colored Chiffon Gown Is Worn With

A Fox-Trimmed

Velvet Wrap

Of the Same Shade

embroidered in red silk to give the ap peamace of a coarser lace,

This model is in Chinese red, over a red crepe slip. The skirt almost reaches the floor in the back,

Bright blue dyed lace frocks are also featured in my collection and, of courne, there are blacks and natural shades as well.

PRINTED velvet shows to excellent

advantage in the model at the top of the page. It has hold red flowers on a black background. Here the long side points are featured, and the moulded hipline.

Quite similar in line, but very different in feeling, is the beaded model at the left. This has iridescent beads over a delicate pink chiffon alip. The deep oval line in front is very flattering and the blouse is cut bolero fashion so that a very straight, interesting line la achieved at the waistline.

The brocades of this year are much more supple and more wearable than ever before, and they are featured for both afternoon and evening.

A brocaded anterial nover 'needs trimming, but it always needs skilful. cutting. The model shown at the upper left gives a very slender, flat silhouette, since all the fulness is concentrated at the sides, which are full long panels. The square cut of the neckline is very good, and the long necklace of bright blue, stones emphasizes the blas in the pattern.

AN exceedingly sophisticated and

thoroughly satisfying evening on- semble is shown at the upper right. This ensemble is formed by a roso- colour chiffon gown, with a velvet wrap of exactly the same shadë, banded with bolga fox.

A new noto is struck here in the lining of the wrap-it is lined with the same velvet that makes the outside, and the whole effect is decidedly Parl slan.

The deep cape may be adjusted more closely about the throat, if one desires, or if the weather requires it. Finish- ing the neckline with a puff of the velvet is decidedly now, The gown, shown at the extreme lower left, fe quite simple, except for an ambitious bow, puf and. long panel of the material over one hip and a very sophisticated lower at the shoulder line.

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