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PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, "AUGUST 31st, 1929.

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Fashion's New Complex for Roundness

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'Marcelle Lely Achieves a Delightful Efect By Trimming This Aristocratic Black Velvet Hat With Pliant While Baku Strani.

Redfern Posts Four Rugles

In a Curved Line To Achieve This Stunning Formal Afternoon Suit

Of Grege and Black Tofjeta,

Angles Are Out.

And Princess Lines,

Curves, Ruffles And Scallops Are

Decidedly Good

This Alternoon Frock From Philippe and Coston

Approaches the Flare of a Period Cown.

Black, Tafela With a Small Floral Design I Draped And Shirred Profusely, As These Two Views Indicate.

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Bernard et Cie Uses Blond Tulle for This Summer Ensemble. Its Appliqued Flowers Are Hond Made In Red and Beige

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TYLES on the straight and decorations on the square are 'decidedly out. Curves are the chic thing right now. Princess lines are excellent, for Dame Fash- ion shows a preference this summer for tight bodices that curve in at the waistline and round out over the hips.

It is not only in silhouette that the curved line is more chic than the straight. Ruffler are likely to be posed in arce rather than in sharp, pointed lines, Scallops abound at trimming. Circular skirta are decidedly good. Hats are apt to have their brims curve downward in gentle, rounding manner.

In fine with this fondness for curves, styles emphasize the waistline. Even nonchalant cardigans have dignity instilled into them via belts.

Waistlines mount day by day until the normal placing is the accepted one of the moment, with a possibility of a return to high-waisted fashions by fall.

These changes are essentially a complete reversion to things utterly feminine. Therefore little extras that lend soliness to one's appearance are in good taste, -

BLOUSES feature the most flattering colters, instead of harsh, plain necklines. If a neckline boasts no collar, it is more apt than not to be scalloped, finished in fine handwork or even bear late or embroidery as a deg oration.

More fullness in skirts is another concomitant factor. Pleats grow deeper and more numerous. The gored skirt is winning its way back after an absence of a decade. Infinite este is taken with cuffs liese days. Ties are of importance also. Hal decorations are more varied and beautiful. Ruffles and other edges of a frock are hand-bound, often, in color or the other side of the ma- terial, Piping are in excellent taste, especially if they are subile and only show at close range. Flowers adora many party frocks, woven into the garment's making, or fashioned of ribbon or silk and appliqued on.

All this, of course, makes the task of choosing clothes tremendously difficult. Since they are so individualized, now it is possible for women to suit their types more exé actly than they have ever been able to do before. But, failing to know their types, it is also possible to run amuck and buy too many extras or costumes with too much dec -oration on them.

1. LONGER skirts are one of the accompanying fac

tors in the new fitted modes. This stunning Red- fern suit for formal summer wear portrays this trend.

The fabric is one of the new woven taffetas, much amarter, according to Paris, than the printed ones. This. is grege and black, with much more of the silver than the dark.

The frock has a rounding neckline and a semi-fitted'

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princess bodice which extends to the hipline. From there, four little ruffles curve gracefully up in front and down on the sides and in back, though the difference in length in front and back is much less than the exaggerated lines

•of spring.

The coat of thruit is the sweetest part of it. Its collar of self-fabric frames the face, ruffled as it is. Be- low the ruffle gray fox makes a little cape caller. The sleeres Bore and the bottom edge of the coat is a ruffle.

II. MARCELLE LELY achieves this flattering hat

with curved bam by using white bakou to trim a black felt. The handing of bakou curves from high on one side to nothing on the other and in reverse order curves to real width in the rolled brim.

This hat is excellent for wear with the little dress maker blouse illustrated, of white satin with an unusually feminine collar mads of black and white satin, joined in scalloped lines.

III. THIS oftmoon dress from Philippe and Ga

ton is really a period frock, but because it is for afternoon rather than evening it does not feature the tight bodice, but rather allows quite a little fullness in it. It is made of black taflets with a small floral design. Its bodice is shirred slightly in vertical lines at the sides of the waistline to give a filted effect. From there it rounds into a little yoke from which the very full skirt hangs in fine thirring,

Its trimming is a double ruching of the materia! around the bottom of the stalloped skirt, the tight cuffs and the neck

This frock has another feature that is new and likely to be repeated many times this fall. It brings back again the idea of a little vest of light color to lighten the gar- ment, with the bodice falling loosely over the vest, Lace is used by some of the new frocks for “fronts,” so is flesh georgette, chiffon or julle.

IV, ILLUSTRATING the new fashions in many ways is this little blond tulle evening ensemble

in which Bernard and Cie have used blond tulle over a matching lip. The little caps which rounds to beauty in its circular cut à tulle, edged in ruching of matching mousseline de soie.

The gown show the normal waistline trend, the use of curver in decorating the skin for all of its tiers are cut circular and poud in arcs. Moreover, the gown has a charming litle trim of three big flowers atop green stems that extend from the left side of the waistline. · The flowers are many shades of rose through to red used in conjunction with Leige mousseline de soie. All the edges of the Bounces are finished in thús, tog,