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PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JUNE 1st, 1929.

New Blue Styles From Paris

Every Woman Has One Costume Touched Or All in Blue

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Philippe et Gasten Use a Gay Scarf To Collar This Simple Tailleur Of Navy Blue Lightweight Wool.

The Coat and Shirt of This Louiseboulanger Ensemble Are Made of a Gray Woolen Fabric Flecked With Blue. The Blouses Taffeta in Blue, White and Gray Checks.

A Poiret Outfit Hai a Blue Coat Topping a Frack Of Red and White Polka-Dotted Crepe. Piped With Blue.

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A Tricolor Cockade

Gives Modish Dask To a Blue Bangkok *Street Hat Made By Helene Corbett.

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!!! Louiseboulanger Uses Dark Blue Moine In a Charmingly Formal Evening Gown Distinguished for His Basque Bodice And Unusual Handling of the Skirt.

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T THIS time of year, styles place a premium on the teave silhouette for sophisticates, and the gayest and smartest of costumes is apt to have something a bit blue about it. Which fact. of course, is quite in keeping with the philosophy of all sophisticates!

The blues this spring are not so striking that they make onlookers uncomfortable, as some of the ob vious blues did last fall. Rather, they are pastel, reflective blues that give soundness to styles in a year. when, brilliant color is at such a premium that one is apt to tire of satiation.

Every woman, says Paris, should have at least one costume that is blue or has blue in it. For there is a satisfaction in bluc, especially dull blues or navy Black is its only rival for good, enduring smartness and for livability. But blue has the edge on black for its universal becomingness.

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AMONG the tailored things that favor blue, there are some stunning little trotteur zuils that make much of blouses,

The fullness of skirts is a moot question, Shall it be pleats, godris, a combination of a circular front and straight back or shall it, perhaps, be gores?

Yokes are almost ubiquitous in suit skirts. Lengthe are more generous than last fall, but still at a com- fortable height.

Jackets are an individual decision this year. . One woman looks excellent in a redingote silhouette. She, may have it and be chic. Another favors the short. flaring holero. It can be hers. Good taste and knowing one's figure are the guiding hands of the shears that cut style this year.

The blue ensemble, or the ene that has blue in it, is apt to have a riotously gay frock, topped by a se date navy blue lung coat that may or may not repeal the frock's color in its lining.

Flares are excellent ia ensemble coate, but the best ones are introduced below the waistline. It is left to the separate travel cost to flare from the yoke or collar.

But the blue BLUE hats are dotting the scene.

hat should be chosen with special view to its ser- viceability and therefore should never be the exag gerated size or shape that one will tire of.

The conservative trotteur. hat, the daytime classic. hat, is apt to be of blue balltunt), baku, Milan, felt or ribbon,

Blue chars are not having the vogue anticipated for them. This may follow later. "Bags, on the ether hand, follow the vogur for blue.

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The navy blue evening gown is one that has been introduced at intervals, but which the smart world has been expored to without its having taken.

Brown used to be in this category, but last winter

brown evening things went over so well that it was no longer considered distinguished to wear it. Blue is now in the unique position of rivaling black for dis- tinction in evening wear.

I. This simple little navy blue tailleur by Philippe

et Gaston is its individual zelf on several counts, and is the type of costume that will appeal to most

women.

that a new circular, skirt that snuggles to the figure to a low hipline and then flares. Ita cont it cut with a pointed lower edge like a man's vest. At its neckline there's a fancy scarf instead of a collar, This suit is, lightweight wool, but the type is good in either wool or silk.

II. Poiret designed this ensemble of crepe and kecha. It is not all blue-the frock and lining

of the coat are of red criss-crossed on a white crepe background, and only the coat is bluc.

The frock, which is neatly piped with blue. has large and graduated polka dots in white to empha size the print's background. It shows the rising tide of waistlines, for in waistline is well above what has lately been designated as "the normal waistline."

The coat is three-quarters length with a double belt of self materia! The gingham blouse worn with this outfit has a novel way of closing and sleeves that bring to mind the bishop's sleeves of yesteryear. Their wrist puff has little hand tucks for decoration and is gathered into a tight cuff.

III. Louiseboulanger brings back the basque in this strinking evening gown of dark blue moire. The neckline is shallow in the front and lower in the back, with a rounding line like the skirt's basque. The bodice is beautifully fitted and, just above the basque, folds of the moire make a smart little heading. Below the basque a very full entire back widi. sweeps almost to the floor.

IV. A perfect hat to wear with the blue suit is this dull blue Bangkok chapeau by Helene Corbett. It has a blocked brim of snappy line and. one of its sides flares more than the other,

A cockade of red, white and blue grosgrain givea a patriotic touch to the front, and matching blue rib- bon forms a novel banding that flares in several ends from the longer side.

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soft taffeta blouse in blue, white and gray check to complete this etunning little suit of loosely woven woolen material with a touch of blue in its flecking.

The gored kinns stitched box pleats to give it

a fitted look well below the hipline.

The flaring pleste at the lower edge achieve that see of motion in which the errant designer delights.