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PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JANUARY 19th, 1929.

PAGE THREE

Saying It With Ensembles

Everything

In the Wardrobe

Must Do Its Bit

To Create Unity And Harmony Of Effect

A Velvet Dress in Blue, Rose and Beige

Is Worn With Steel Blue Cont

And Matching Hat

Blue Fox Trims the Coat

Of This Dressy Ensemble

In Navy Blue Broadcloth

The Blouse Is Brocaded Crepe Satin In Gold, Blue, Beige And Burgundy

By FRANCES CLYNE.

Creator of the Ensembles on This Page

QUINCE smartness bag definitely Diumphed over mere

entire

Individual elements is the final test,

The ensemble of today is by no means arbitravy. Wther as to colour or material. The eat and poten may be of different materials; they are smarter if they are in different endours. But they must create the effect of harmony and unity.

No Item of the costume enn be regarded singly. A dress Hunt does not fit into a wardrobe selvme, amt cannot be worn with some coal and had you possess, is an unwise investment unless you wish to use it as the basis of a completely new ensemble.

This rule prevails för all hours of the day and for eveniny, for sports, and for street wegr. You cannot he halfway in the matter. You either, look smart or you do not. And since it is sensible and more fo your advantage, and cure it costs no mere to be correctly attired, why not be on the eredit side rather than the debt side of whic?

FOR your sports ensemble, 1 cannot overestimado the

importance of tweeds and soft woollens for the de winter and the early sparing.

Jersey is also worth your consideration. It now comes in printed patterns and plain, and is combined most effectively with crepe de chine and even velvet. The success of the black jersey frock has been out- standing. The jersey jumper is ideal with the tweed snit, and is usually more harmonious than silk.

There are unlimited opportunities for service in the sports, costume shown at the left centre. It has a long tweed cont, a skirt of the same material and a blouse of jersey banded with the material and accented with little clasps of coral.

The earneuf which binds the coat is the, fieal fur for tweed and carries out the sports theme. The hat is of beige felt, in the simple cloche style that is the correct note in millinery,

For early spring this is a delightful costume, and one in which every detail is correct,

NOTHER sports frock that will do nicely' under the top coat of fur or tweed until the first days of spring is the ensemble at the lower right. Thf has a striped wool boxpleated skirt with a vest-like bodice in tones of beige and a deep burgundy red

The short jacket, that is cut with such easy món- chalance, is of burgundy red cheviot, attractively lined with the material of the dress. The hat is an

Beige and Coral

Are the Tonės

4 This Three-Piece

Tweed Ensemble

For Sportswomen

costrizomed model of burgundy red fell,

A distinctive touch is achieved here by the double- breasted effect of the straight-line vest. This requires the alender figure, naturally. a. fact, this ensemble is deridedly for the flapper or small woman,

Før afternoon wear, the ensemble has infinite possibilities. The most practical purchase is the black enal, trimmed with a good fur which may be worn with the black frock, or, one of the brilliantly coloured erepes, or oven with the brocaded materials that are so liked for formal afternoon wear this season, FOR the all-black outfit at the right centre, black leda

cloth is used for the coat, lightened at the collar and cuffs with thick, luxurious natural lynx, The frock is of black crepe georgette with a full skirt, borizontal tucks at the waist, and an original collar of while georgette beaded in white beads. This is the classteal type of afternoon outilt, in perfect laste, nádeniably elegant and conservative.

Lynx Collar and Cuffs Trim a Black Coat Of Leda Cloth Worn With a Dress in Black Crepe Georgette And a Trig Felt Hat

The coat features a scalloped edging that carries out the theme of the figured dress. The hat is of steel blue felt, with a rose-beige ribbon banding to match the beige fox scarf.

More verve and a little more originality is expressed A year or so ago when the ensemble had a very

in the blue broadcloth ensemble at the upper right: The cont is elaborately furred with blue fox, the skirt is circular and surplice bodice is of brilliantly printed, brocaded crepe satin.

Dall golds, burgundy, and blue are contrasted on back-ground of beige that matches the tone of the for. There is a ciréular line to the cost in the front that gives an attractive fullness about the hemline, while keeping the hipline decidedly narrow and slim.

This hint of gorgeousness about the blouse, which in new this year, la a very good note. With this sume' high colour, or even white or delicate pink overblouses. skirt, one might also have plain coloured blouses of

The possibilities are endless, but the effect would always be chife beenuse the foundation is correct.'

An original ensemble, delightful for early spring. is shown at the upper left. The printed velvet frock is in shades of blue and beige, and is worn with a cont of steel blue suede cloth, lined with velvet to

match the frock.

definite relation between frock and coạt, with the coat enlivened with touches of the frock material or at least lined with it, the ensemble idea was more easily achieved than today 'when smartness insists that there must be harmony but little "matching."

I docs Hound hard but, by closely analyzing

will see how the right handbag, the right gloves and costumes which you instinetively know have chic, you

hose and shoes and jewellery, carry out the ensemble iden.

It's something much more than a warning not to wear a brown hat with à blue coat, nor grey hose with brown shoes. It's a positive rather than a negative thing. It means eternal vigilance as the price of chicness.

Perhaps one cardinal rule might be to learn complementary and supplementary colours.

Do work with your wardrobe as a whole-and don't adopt the hit-and-miss system of buying--you miss oftener than you hit, and you can't afford to look wrong these days when so many women always look right,

This Morning Ensemble Of Striped Woolen

In Beige and Burgundy Has a Cheviot Jacket, A Vest-like Bodice, And Box-Pleated Skirt