PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SEPTEMBER 28th, 1929.
PAGE THREE
Fashion's New Lengths
Breadth and Thickness.
Must Be Subordinated
This Fall to Emphasize
Longer Lines in Skirts
"Dark Fell Inserts. Simulate a Band On This Charming. Of-the-Face Hot Worn By Ziegfeld Star Ruth Elling.
Shining Satin Softens the Sophisticated Lines
Of This Strikingly Simple Evening Gown.
A Normal Waistline Wedded to a Deep Hip Yoke
Achieve a Svelt Line Almost to the Knees The Full Flounce is Tucked at the Topre
Scalloped Along Its Lower Edge.
This Feminine Afternoon Frock Of Beige and Brown Crepe Features a Lovely Double Scarf And a full Circular Flounge/
Fall Wendier Holds No Tenors For This Four-Piece Daytime Frock Of Stardu Tweed and Warm Jersey. Tu Coats, One Long and Furied. Extend This Outfi's Usefulness
· Far Into the Coming Winter.
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FRANCES CLYNE
Creator of the models
shown on this "page.
HE fourth dimension is all very well for intellectual discussion, but there
is only one dimension that really interests the fashionable woman this season that is length. If she has breadth and thickness, that is her bad luck, and if she cannot disguise it by skillful costuming, she must join the ranks of 18-day dieters, take to the open road for a daily hike, or exer- cise firm self-denial in the face of culinary temptation.
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For the long line is fashion's delight-particularly the effect of length from the waistline to the shoe tip.. Styles are having the obvious reaction from abbreviated, short skirts, and short thighs. Not that skirts are long in the old way, but the feeling is for apparent length.
The whole secret, of course, is the higher waistline. If you shorten the bodice, you naturally lengthen the skirt. And that is what fashion is doing, emphasizing the natural waistline, showing the natural curve at the waist, and thus giving the short-waisted, long-legged effect that distinguishes this season's afternoon and evening frocks.
COATS are every length, from the short cardigan jacket, to elaborate crea- tions that are almost as long as the longest skirts, and have irregular and interesting hemlines.
This is a season that does not despise the obvious attempt to please- dresses for day have delightful lingerie touches, stitching, bows, shirring, but tons, folds, and practically every known device for securing adornment, but all is done with a restrained, knowing hand. It is one thing to look feminine, and quite another to look fussy.
Illustrated here are some of the most wearable of my fall collection, all with style features that may be counted on to last through the season.
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I. THIS satin evening gown features a normal waistline and a deep hip yoke that gives a close, avelt line almost to the knees. The flounce is tucked at the top and scalloped at the hem, and reaches almost to the floor in the back. It is very full and falls in graceful folds. This gown haa dignity and beauty. It emphasizes fine paterial and a sophisticated cut.
II. MILLINERY, too, is changing its lines, Hals are revealing the eyes and the forehead, and covering the neck more than ever before. A typical style is this one made of light and dark felt with the rolled brim in front, and an insert of dark felt around the brim to give the effect of a band. Its youthfulness and chic recommend it highly.
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III. ALLIED in feeling to the evening gown at the left is this wrap of black chiffon velvet, banded with white fox. It repeats the fashion- able skirt line in its own ample skirt. You will notice that the frock hangs below in frent decidedly, and moderately in the back-that is the new coat trick-to reveal the gown beneath. This is the type of coat that the woman who buys only one evening wrap a season should select, since it can be worn with any number of gowna.
IV. A TYPICAL afternoon frock is this one in beige and brown crepe. with a double scarf and a very full, circular flounce. Notice that the waistline is emphasized in the cut and that it follows the line of the flounce, The sleeves are delightfully feminine, and the collar that is a cape as well. is novel and extremely becoming.
V FOR day wear, this four-piece suit of tweed is one way of meeting the fall weather with equanimity, and to be prepared for any fate. It boasts
a skirt of tweed, and an overblouse of, jersey, trimmed, with tweed. There" are two jackets, one long and fur-trimmed that will do service all winter, and one that is short, and may be used for early fall In Paris last season it was smart to wear two coats, and this season we may expect to do it here.
VI. THE use of lame as a material for the afternoon and farmal tea gown is important this season and is shown in this model with the surplice: neckline, and the skirt with the inserted godets. There is A delightful con- tradiction in taking a glamorous material, dedicated to evening, and tresting it like jersey or tweed. And it is very effective.
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This Glamorous Evening Wrap
Of Gorgeous Black Chifon Velvet Makes a Charming Accompaniment
For the Gown at the Left .::. -Faithful to Fashion's New Whim,
The Goon Plays Peck-a-Boo,
Beneath the Wrep's Hem
This Formal Tea Frock lustrous A Delightful Mode of the Moment, Lame Used for Afternoon Wearab
Features an Unusual Neckline: And Inserted Codets in the Skirt
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