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PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 1st, 1930.

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SPRING STYLES ARE HERE

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1. This now princess frock of brown and light gray basket weave tweed features pique collar and cuffs

II. Soft, pliable white flannel decoratively finished with a new wool embroidery trìm has been chosen for this suit which features a deep wrap around skirt, and the natural waistline

All costumes on this page are creations of Henri Bendel

When the smart set goes south, designers bring out the models that forecast fashions for the season just around the corner -

IRST clothes for southern resort wear promise a spring of geri- de brouty and softners in contumes, Curving lines are ar flatteringly not as textures,

Perhaps the outstanding difference between this year's resort apparel and last year'c'is that daintinest is a first consideration pow. aid that chic must include becontingness or women will have none ɔf it,

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Flattering hats, soft frocks and sports suits, and colors in tones gay enough to suggest that holiday-runaway spirit that a southern racation begett--there are the order of Palm Beach days. And »

verything finds the, porenal waistline!

The all-white costume still ränks bigh. Nothing is more femi- sine than white No wonder women like it in an age that bas just e-learned the lessons of feminine charms. White this season in ludes many white flannel suits and one-piece frocks in soft wools. White linens and collons promise popularity, too.

Other colors for Palm Beach-and remember that as Palm Brach lyles go, so go the spring styles everywhere--include by- Hangen and other pinks, make much of new blurs such as Vene- san turquoise and Kyoto blue, aud run the gamut of greens from pale sprig green in deep jungle. Yellows that flooded the sands last season still rank high, with some of the new ones off-gicens like sulphur, lemon rind and Kura, gold. Reds are clear, pungent, unmistakably their own rich colnt.

INFORMAL spectator sports things are the foundation of Palm Beach wardrobes. Everybody must have them. Whether ene plays tennis, golf, polo, swing, flies or divey, she must have a goodly number of Mattering clothes to wear when she is not in direct action.

This season the one-piece frock comes back into its own. That is because the princess lines lend themselves so admirably and femininely to the fitted one-piece frock. These may be extremely claborately cut and decoratively made, however. They are as deceiving as tradition believes women to be. Their simplicity lies in their antitry entirely because none of them are simply cut, Gores, curving fitted parts and all manner of manipulation take place in them, That they give a simple effect is their own achievement.

Skirts, even for tennis, are longer than last season.

All waist- lines are found, one way or another. Most suits have tuck-in alouses. Most blouses have, collars, and inost of there are ex quisitely done. by hand, featuring lack, lucks, embroidery and other fine needlework.

Coats even fit the figure many times. A fälmon-pink flannel suit has a gored skirt, tuck-in white linen blouse, and a coat that is princess line, ending at fingertip. Hats are as varied as can be. Big hats for beach, big hots for dress-up afternoons. Little hats for daytime and little ornamental hats for dinner and evenings, Felts still are good, many of them brimmed, for the well-tailored, light-colored felt hat is too becoming for women to forege it alto- gether. But no woman can face the soutliern resorts willout sev cral individually-made straw or fabric hats in the new off-the-face style.

WITH the return to the feminine in fashions women are becom

ing more and more interested in the accessories, which complete an assembly. Greater choice it being offered, 100. And jewelry is having, its ornamental innings,

However, just to wear rings and bracelets and necklaces as a.. display window might present them, isn't enough. Jewelry must have a definite place in the general scheme, supply it, and stop, It must be appreciated becaure it is a part of, ai, harmonious whole instead of being admired for its own beauty, however startling or distinctive that beauty may be. Those ornaments should be worn-

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which will bring out the beauty of a hand or neck rather than those which will win admiration for themselvet.

Accessories, whether they are bags, jewelry, gloves or handker- chiefs, should be kept in harmony with the costume that is wom, and if that costume is becoming they will be bound to be attrac- tive also.

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I FOR runabout wear on coolier daye, women need a fine tweed frack for their Palm Beach wardrobe. Such a one is this Henri Bendel model. It features a basket weave tweed in the #new combination of brown and gray. I follows the new princess

line, the skirt Baring to comfortable width below the hips..

The sleeves are set in with a smart tailored look and the belt that fastens around at normal waistline is of shiny brown. But-* tons decorate this frock, running down the little novelty jabot, up the cuffs and across the front of waistline.

Pale gray pique makes the collars and cuffs and gray and brown jersey tweed lathion the turban.

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II. ONE of the newest contributions to the resort wardrobe is the fine flannel sweater that is extremely dressy in its wool embroidery trim. Henri Bendel makes this one in white, very soft, pliable flannel. The front facings of the jacket and the topi of the pocket both are decoratively finished in thú new wool em- broidery, which is open-work, done right in the garment's surface. The skirt is a deep wrap-around, finding the natural waistline, by a fitted yoke. The little blouse of fine novelty skirting is made with one of the new stock tie ends. It has fine buttons down its front and tucks into the skirt, as do most of the smart blouses this year. A white Panama hat tops this outfit, banded in white.

III. FOR stelmer wear, airplane flights, auto rides and other travel purposes, one needs a weed suit. Bendel suggests this rather classic ling suit for such occations, one of fine beige tweed. flecked in red with just a hint of orange in it. The skirt has panels of pleats, stepped down from the yoke in modernistic

manner.

The little jacket bespeaks the new mode of short length and rather feminine cut as to wider sleeves and softer neckline. The blouse of fine crepe de chine, in pale beige, has fancy knols of tweed and crepe. This blouse can be tucked into the skirt or worn outside. A brimmed hat of suede tops this, 'banded in tweed.

IV. WHEAT, embroidered in its own colors, spills a decora

tive design down the front of this Nile green morning frock from Henri Bendel. The frock has two significant style points. One is its correct ure of linen for morning frocks. The other is its short sleeves, which take the place of last season's sleeveless frocks to some extent.

The dress hat the same wheat embroidery on its cuffs, its pocket and collar. It skirt fullness is induced by pleats that run from the left front clear across to the right side of the back. A wide- brimmed ballibunil hat of black, banded in black and green, tops this.

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V. BROCADED silks are used in "dressmaker" fashions to create many a smart little soulvern resort frock, Henri Ben-

del uses light arosa blue brocaded silk to make this very feminine little sleevelen frock for morning wear, with a bolero cut, tight waistline and bandings of stitched blue for trim.

Two novelty pockets which head, the skirt's box pleats and a calloped collar of organdy add original touches. The little Reboux hat, with its uneven side, is of a new straw, black neora, with a band of blue grosgrain across, its front,

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embroidery motif spills a decorative design down the front of this Nile green linen morn- Ing frock

III. Beige tweed flacked in red'usas. panels of pleats stepped down from the yoke and a short jacket

This sleeveless arose blue brocaded allk

for morning wear has a tight waistline.

a bolero cut and pleats