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PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JANUARY 4th, 1930.

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GLAMOROUS Party

PARTY GOWNS

if your mistletoe fails in its romantic appeal these holiday habiliments, turning their back smartly on the fashions of 1929, will put over the big idea

LEGANT, formal, flattering and decorative are these evening in which any woman could easily believe that all New wishes would come true.

They follow the new silhouette in expressing the rounded curves of lovely figures. Hiplines are kept svelt and all flate comes well below the hips, often increasing near the knee. Low flares are extremely important in new gowns, some of them featuring flounces posed very low on their irregularly cut skirts,

Decolletage assumes, tremendous importance in the more formal age into which fashion is passing. Rich fabrics have their decolletage cut in one with their bodices, thus achieving an elegance of simplicity. though many of them are very intricately cut.

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YELLOWS, flame reds, orange, clear brilliant greens, blues from ciel to reyal, pinks from flesh to deep rose and many lavenders will brighten the Yuletide ballrooms. But there will be a tremendous num- ber of demure whites and sophisticnted blacks among the throng. For nothing this winter is more magnificent than the black evening gowns that Paris has sent us, though not as a Christmas gift.

Salin, crepe de chine, crepe-salin, georgette, chiffon, velvet and lunasel, shot with gold and silver are all important in the evening. Moire is used in some magnificent gown, especially those that feature unique tiered effects, and fate is still a good choice for evening.

THE unevenness of skirt hems has no single place to favor. Back"

length is a great favorite, with the front-raised slightly or even more than slightly, to show a lovely pair of legs. Some gowns have floor length for the front panel, shorter on sides, and the back trailing on the floor.

While waistlines are emphasized in all the new party gowns, one has no sense of a break in the silhouette at that point. This comes partly from the princess lines most gowns affect, but it comes somewhat from the fact that belts rarely are of anything but self-fabric and that belt- ing on an evening gown is rarer than it is on afternoon things. A fold of the goods, an especially cut design that lets in a fitted piece to simu- late an unusual bell line, or perhaps a fren! peplum may become a sach across the back to swing to a big bow.

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FOR the first time in years, Mother's New Year's Eve gown and Daughter's may be utterly different in cut. The slender-silhouetted mother of a debutante har discovered that there isun premium on sophis tication in this new age of magnificence. Therefore she capitalizes her dignity and gets a stunning splendor in place of girlishness.

Daughter, vaguely aware that her teens won't let her wear some of these splendid garments, may go Mother one better and have a long- to-the-floor gown with empress high waistline that makes her look like

a cute linle girl parading in someone else's things.

I. THE demure girl will revel in a gown like this violet lace creation from Lucille Pony. Its startling device for originality co-ordinates the modest bertha with the sophisticated train, a truly lovely thought. Violet silk lace fashions the princess frock and the deep knee flounce. Violet chiffon takes up the task of creating from this point on and lets in a wide band of chiffon abave the lace flounce, fashioning a big bow knot and trailing wide ends for the train. There is a "little girl" knot of chiffon at the front of the bertha with streamers.

II. THERE are three lengths of coats. Very short, very long and a third length that last year would have been called too long. For it reaches just below where last year's gowns ended, that it, some- where around the calf of the leg.

Short evening coats are smart and cute for those who can have a cost for every costume. The very long length that aweeps the floor is But for the woman excellent for that queenly gown that does the same. who may wear many kinds of evening gowns in a given season, the in- termediate length is a good choice.

Lucien Lelong creates this ineffably lovely ermine evening cape with two flounces of ermine fulled to give it flare.

It is a dolman cape that muggles to the body and then flares below the hips for the lower flounce. The top flounce is posed at elbow length. Mink fur time it in unusual manner, fathioning the collar and edging the closing. The coat slants ita flounces to follow the down in the back silhouette.

III. FOR the college senior who feels sophisticated, or the young society girl who has no desire to be classed with the debutantes after her season or two out in society, there is this elaborately conceived evening gown with tremendous originality from Martial and Armand. Its perfectly plain gold and pink lame is sumptuousness and regal sim-

plicity in one. Its coloring is exquisite, romantic, alluring.

The bodice closes slightly over the princess waistline and hipline and

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in the back it is cut out to do the most possible for a lovely back and "

still maintain its reputation of conservative quality and good fante.

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IV. DISTINGUISHED, the cynosure of envious eyes, should anyone be, wearing this original evening gown from Tollmann with its bow decolletage. It is made of "poult de soie," ineffably vely and feminine, and is fashioned intricately with a hip flounce joined in points to a snugly-fitting bodice that is split at one side in the back to fashion. two wide bands, that tie on the other side. This intricate back and the front and the shoulder straps are all in one piece, with the flounce skirt fashioning the second piece. There is an intri cately cut back to the skirt, too, for it falls in many lengths, some squarely cut and some pointed.

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ULTRA sophisticated is this unusual evening gown by Maison Lenief made of black taffeta, embroidered in silver thread polka date. The fabric itself is sumptuous and its black and silver contrast amazingly lovely. But it is the cut of this gown also that makes one, marvel,

Molded skillfully, it fits the body with glave-like beauty across the front, the left side and back and on the right side the 10-inch flounce" that hems it alante upward to simulate a side adornment,The gown has the wrap-around skirt that Paris conceives so masterfully, and this pleated flouncing falls naturally from the lapped-over edge of the skirt. But the decolletage is as arresting as any other feature. It is, I be- lieve, what gives that ultra sophisticated touch. It is very wide, with il narrow shoulder straps at the outside of the shoulders and its back forms almost a heart shape in the way it is cut and the narrow straps join the front at a curved line over the bust, with the front decolletage dipping slightly at the center..

Black slippers, with some of Paris's new "silver" stockings, are the proper accessories for this gown. These stockings are silver mesh that

very luminous at night.

parny achieves a novel effect

in this violet lace gown

by co-ordinating a modest bertha with a sophisticated' train.

III. originality is displayed in the ent-out"

decollete in this plain gold and pink lame evening dress by martial and armand,

II. lucien lelong:

•presents this white ermine ...evening cape

with unusualTM mink trimming.

IV. tollmann uses crimson

"ponit de soie" for this formal evening dress with Its bow decolletage.

V maison, lenlef offers this black fafeta gown embroidered in silver polka-dots