PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
́HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FEBRUARY 9th, 1929.
PAGE THREE
Fashion Looks Backward
The Way to Tell A Really Good Outfi Is to Watch It Going. Rather Than Coming
Black and Beige Fox Fur Make the Collar and Cuffs Of a Premel Evening Cloak
In Black and Gold Lame
Of an Unusual Leaf Design
Jenny Puts Svelt Grace Into This Evening Gown Of Velvet and Tulle
By the V-Cuts in the Back And for the Armholes
A Pateu Evening flown
Of Delicate White Lace
Has a Cleverly Cut
Uneven Hemline
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A. Lace Bow
On the Back Is
Jenny's Way of Lending Chic To a Smart Afternoon Frock of Black Crepe de Chine'and Satin
OGICALLY, the beginning of the new year is not the time to look backward, but artistically the im pulse is irresistible. For backs aren't what they used to be. No indeed, they are ten times better. Tint iso far as gowns are concerned.
It is easy to make the front of a dren look well-to add a smart touch to the neckline, or to place a pin or a flower right where it will be the most effective. But the back resists euch makeshift measures, If it is badly cut, or uninterestingly treated, nothing is going to save it.
This season, distrust the gown that does not stand in spection from the rear. For the Frencli models are com centrating their attention ori original back treatments, and the vintage of the frock is more plainly revealed by the buck than the front.
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WHAT could be more ingenious than Jenny's frock at the top center? It is made of the bright and the chill side of satin-backed crepe, with a how knot of black lace across the back. The front is quite guiltless of such an ornamentation? There is the merest sugges- tion of lace peeping out from the hemline and at the edges of the cuffs.
Both the lace gowns on this page are models of loveli- ness. Patou's evening gown of white lace-sketched at the lower left-has a buckle of brilliants where the bodice. and skirt join, and an intricately cut, longer-in-the-back- line, that Paris insists on for evening. Though it is cut in a deep V in the back, the front in a rather shallow oval line.
Beer's lace afternoon gown at the extreme lower right thows a jabot running down the spine, and proves con- clusively that a jak::1 in just as much at home and as decorative at the back of a frock as at the front.
Another interesting feature is the clever way the rufa fles are applied to the sleeves, giving a most decorative wrist, but a perfectly neat shoulder line. The diagonal ruffles on the skirt give the fashionable irregular line for afternoon not quile so decided as it is for evening.
A delightful feature of this outfit is the perfectly use- less, but absolutely adorable liule sleeveless contce of
face, trimmed with a deep band of fox, Bath fur and lace are in matching beige.
Patou contributes the lovely evening gown at the lower right. Almost backless, it is made of iridescent blue pailleues. It features the long back and the short front, and is quite devoid of any suggestion of a waist- linc.
However, a dress of this sort demands the most 're- strained cut, since the material itself is so decorative. And it admits of little in the way of costume jewelry.
JENNY'S black velvet and tulle, evening frock, shown at the upper right, is an example of the classic mode. The very deep V reaches almost to the waistline, and the armboles repeat the point. The tulle is applied in flat folds in deep scallops about the upline.
The skirt slopes downward in the back until it reaches below the ankles at its longest point.
Wraps for day and evening reflect this new interest in the back, Notice, for instance. Premet's evening wrap at the upper left. In this garment two shades of fur meet in the back to form a most unusual collar effect, The material in lame, with a leaf'pattern of exag- gerated size on a black and gold ground. Of the two sumptuous fure that trim it, one is black and the other is beige. The same combination is featured on the sleeves,
IT might be well to point out that this three-quarter length is the approved one for evening gowns-par- ticularly those that are long at the back and sides. It seems to be much more effective than the longer coat, and brings out the beauty of the hemline much more effec- lively.
For day, the irregular hemline is much modified, because for street, the short full skirt and the long straight coat prevail. It is probably the neatest and smartest silhouetto possible, and women should think twice before they abandon it.
But evening gowns have gone their irregular and their revolutionary way, and no one expects them to adhere to the older standards of evenly hanging skirts,
Short in Front, Long in the Back. This Evening Gown
By Patou in Covered With Paillettes.
In Glistening Blue
Filmy Beige Lace Makea A Ruffly Afternoon Gown
The From Maleon Beer..
Hem of the Lace Jacket Is Trimmed With a Fox Band
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