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PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, DECEMBER 21st, 1929.

The Vogue for Velvet

Fashion Has Found a Use For This Rich Material In Costumes Appropriate To Every Hour of the Day

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Blanche Lebouvier Achieves A High Waistline by Using Horizontal Shirring on This Frock of Yellow Silk Chiffon.

THIS era of femininity in styles puts a. premium on the

velvet touch.

You may use the chiffon velvet, or grow extravagant and buy the old-fashioned panne velvet. Milliner's velvet fashions many, a smart chapeau. Satin-backed velvet makes. many of the most fashionable evening wraps.

This in logical. Velvet has a sheen to it, a softness to its nap, a regal sumptunusnest to itheven before it is trimmed with fur or light touches, that is quite in keeping with the Jux- ury of the winter mode.

Again, velvet is tremendously flattering. Get a shade that becomes the wearer, use that shade in velvet and the lights and shadows that ripple through its surface threw correspond- ing soft lights upon her countenance, heightening its beauty. "In the third place, velvet now comes in the most gorgeous color. If you want a costume delicate as the down, there is a velvet for it. If you want striking, hard, American beauty pink or jungle. green, velvet answers the call. All of the off-whites now await the ring of wedding bells. Pastel colors are available for evening gowns. Beiges, grays, blues and all the everyday greens are on the market for touches to hats or

costumes.

The result is that velvet is used extensively for gown. It used for many, of the dressier coats and ensembles, for loung ing attire when you want to feel queenly, and for evening gowns on gala occasione,

IN addition to velves's high place as the medium for cos tumes, there remain innumerable other uses for this rich fabric.

Paris offers a sweet little fancy in the form of a white bridal set in velvet and Alencon lace, with the hip-yoke of the panties of the white velvet and the edges and straps of the lace brassiere of the white velvet. 17

Many evening slippers use velvet for bows, or for making. the shoe itself. Velvet bows, sashes and flowers adorn some of the season's loveliest creations for the dance. The flowers made from velvet this year are too beautiful for description. A single rose may have as many as 10 shades of pink velvet in its make-up, giving it that natural gradation of coloring that distinguishes a real flower from an artificial one.

Velvet handbags are new and very pretty. Sometimes they are richly embroidered in cut steel or take an old-fashioned cross-stitch pattern worked out in color.

Velvet fashions many hats this season. In a year when becomingness is first consideration, flattering velvet comes into its own for framing the face.

Many beautifully-rut gowns this winter "are of pastel tone, relying on their exquisite modeling to make them distinctive. It is not uncom mon to have the only contrasting note in these gowns some kind, of velvet flower.

1. BLANCHE LEBOUVIER creates this stunning evening gown of yellow silk chiffon with a single, huge, suby velvet flower placed at the center front of the bodice.

The gown achieves the high waistline by use of horizontal shirring all around the figure. Its skirt is very uneven and very foll. It is simple in effect, though very elaborately conceived. That splash of ruby-red velvet right in front is most effective,

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This Afternoon Frech by Lucille Paray Features Tiny Polka Dots Designed in Black On White Velvet.

IL LUCILE PARAY combines black and white velvet with a tiny black polka dot for one of the winter's smartest afternoon dresses, The manner of joining the two velvets is ingeniousness itself. A draped. full skirt of black has a slightly uneven hemline. Over this a little bodice with tight waistline and fited peplum is fitted. The " peplum falls away, in cutaway fashion, from the waistline in front, with little ends tying in a bow"at the waitline, over a shirred panel of the black skit.

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The cowl collar and deep. fitted cuffs of the black are two more touches of individuality. This frock buttons up the back, like a little girl's party dress.

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III. FIGURED velvet is used most, happily for this dressy after-

noon frock made by Cyler.

Several shades of brown, checking a light beige background, increase the effect of light and shadows on this velvet. The little frock is made very simply, the fabric calling for no trim save its own pattern. It is cut with a basque effect, by use of a circular tier that joins the fitted. bodice in a curved line.

A little scarf of the material can be wound around the heck or tied in a bow at the back. The sleeves are long and tight, with rows of shirring at the inside seam, giving fullness on the outside line.

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Chiffon Velvet in a Checked Pattern, Made With a Circular Basque Effect, Is a Feature Of the Cyber Collection,

WHEN Jean Patou created one of the winter's moti regal coate, he used black velvet and heightened its richness by furring it heavily.

This coat has the slim princess line, with exaggerated fullness below the tight waistline. The full skirt, moreover, dips almost to ankie length in the back, a line extremely good with frocks of similar line. The sleeve is very feminine, with flaring cuffs ending the long, tight ul. Black fox is used profusely to trim this garment. The luxurious collar is a shawl shape and can be worn buttoned up or left open, as in the picture. Like many heavily-furred collars this winter, this one stands away from the neck slightly, in order to give the hat room.

V. THIS Jenny velvet gown is princess in line, with an unusual cut' to its decolletage and a flounced skirt of fine black tulle. The decolletage is irregularly scalloped, with strands of stram thread- ing it to hold all the points at attention: The top strand runs over the shoulder for straps and attaches in fort to the bodice, again,

The princess velvet bodice is cut in points at its lower edge and the tiered skin flutes out from under these points.

VI. HENRI BENDEL uses a velvet for many of his smartest turbans this year. And one of his newest is this modified Dutch cap turban of Chinese red milliner's velves, with a pet bow of match- ing velvet ribbon flaring towards the face from the back.

VIL BLACK velvet and black chiffon are charmingly combined

in this formal evening gown created by Jenny. This designer, incidentally, makes use of velvet for some of her loveliest evening crea tions this reason, using tulle, net, chifon, lame or feathers for the skirt. This is the first season in many a one in which velvet has functioned in exactly this way.

The black velvet bodice pictured is cut away entirely in the back and held together by a band of strais embroidery which points up the back, to divide over each shoulder and attach itself to the front

This bodice fits the body sveltly, and is cut much longer in the back. ⚫Black chiffon is organ pleated onto this bodice, swinging so low in the

back that it falls onto the floor like a train..

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Jemmy Uses a Band of Strau Embroidery as a Support For the Back of This Gown Of Chiffon and Velvet.

VI This Dulch

Cap Turban From Bende!

Is Chinese

Red Velvet.

Jean Patou Enliances. The Richness of This Black Velvet Coat By Furring It Heavily.

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Jenny Chooses Black Velvet'

For the Princess Bodice

Of This Evening Goon With

Unusual Cut Decolletage