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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SEPTEMBER 13th, 1930.

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Be the Best-Dressed Woman

When a girl wants to stand out in a crowd, it isn't necessary that she doll up to look like Cleopatra, but she should have in her wardrobe a few outfits as originally elegant as these

Julia

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shorts and around neck increase the intrigue of this gay, blue and white swimming suit.

all costumes shown on this page from Maybelle Manning, New York.

1. chiffon and lace vestee and sleeve. puffs add a restrained note of dis- tinction to this lacy, printed, black crepe frock with its tailored lines.

YOUR summer wardrobe may be the last

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word in chic and the very essence of airy loveliness. But you are missing a grand chance to throw glamour about your pretty self if you do not include at least one "elegant

costume.

Never was the moment more psychologically set than it is now for you to graduate into the distinguished minority that is called the "city's best-dressed women!"

For. with such a multitudinous array of in- tricate styles, it is a rare opportunity to high- relief yourself as a woman of taste, one who selects not the showy, not the over-elaborate. but the elegant type of clothes.

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RICH materials go into this type of costume. Ingenuity in the cul. Imagination in the combination af. colors, the delicacy of this tone, the richness of that.

Above all, infinite care goes into the detail of a costume that can be origical, stimulating and withal so simple that it sets you off like a million dollars.

I. A MODEST example of the type of eic- gant frock I have in mind is a simple lacy printed black crepe, an imported fabric, made on tailored lines, with flaring three-quarter alcaves and the front of the bodice opened slightly to show the cutest little guimpe of chil- fon and lace, with a frill around the neck, close up to the throat, in a new and sweet manner. and puff cuffs of the same chiffon and lace.

Its material is so lovely that the more simply it is made the handsomer. The lingerie touch. is quite new in its design, a pleasing.louch, soft. feminine and distinguished. Worn with a medium-brimmed sheer straw hat and patent- leather pumps, it is an excellent frock for the successful business girl or the professional.

II. SINCE the rest of the summer should be spent to great advantage, don't miss a single chance to go to the beach. And when going, don't miss the chance to be as charming as you can be. You may meet all kinds of new people who will remember you by what you had on when they were introduced. You can't " make a mistake in picking the most becoming beach togs available.

For the type of bathing suit that will set you

IV. stiff pleats and a peplum are charming details of these blue satin dinner pajamas.

apart as a girl with exquisite laste and innate stylishness, there is a little shepherd's check suit, made modestly with round neck, Baring shorts which have tight shorts under the godets, and a wide belt of the two blues, marine blue and pale blue, which check the suit. With plain rebber sandals, in the two tones, a.cartwheel hat in blues and beige, you are quite well cos. tumed for lounging after you swim until your suit drick

III. IF you are the kind of girl who hon-

estly admits that you dress for the ad. miration of men, I suggest you take a look at the black lace, closely-fitting gown made over. apricot satin. It floats out where it sears the floor into a full flounce of the black lece, but it has almost form-fitting cut elsewhere. The

marine blue shantung pajamas with full pleated trousers add interest to beach life.

is so much more restrained, so much more seductive.

Even one elegant costume will give you a different note to strike in your character. I fully believe a whole wardrobe of them would make a new person of you! -

IV. BRIDGE pajamas are very new, Usual

front is a simple V, the back rounds at naturally you can wear them for dinner, too. neckline and the sleeves are long, with flounces

of lace around the elbow, But the gleaming apricot slip is made decolletage and the total effect is of a regular evening gown. only this

Have you a pair yet? If you intend going to any very lovely parties, you really should have some. Especially for your vacation. You'll find all the girls playing bridge on wide verandas of

III. 'when you dress to please men, this form-fitting black lace over a de- collete apricot satin-slip will give you flattering assurance.

VI. this sheer afternoon frock of Elizabeth chooses the. crepe

green sea-spray shade.

exclusive summer hotels and private villas weai. ing them. Your dinner hostess is apt to wear a lovely pair. Satin ones are the newest and most luxurious.

Quite: irresistible is a pair of celeste blue satin pajamas, suitable for either the bridge party or dinner, made with trousers that are pleated in stiff pleats from hip line clear to the floor, being finished in a hand-rolled edge of the orchid faille that lines the jacket.

The jacket has a peplum of the same stifl pleats, jaunty, new, smart-as-creation stiff pleats.. The puff sleeves are made of Barrow bands of the satin, in the manner of the tops of the sleeves of the old rogue, Henry VIII. The jacket comes off to show a delectable orchid fuck-in sleeveless bodice, bound with the suit's blue.

Original, chic, exquisite in coloring, this is quite the last word in what the elegante would. select

V FOR yachting or for the beach when you have no idea of getting near the water,

I suggest one of the jauntiest little suits of the year, a marine blue shantung suit, with full French pleated trousers, a fitted waist and e cptout yoke effect, with string tie.

Simplicity itself. Becoming as can be to your youth and your freshness.

Whether it is topped by a cartwheel hat or not, here is a suit an elegante would wel- come with open arms into the folds of her wardrobe.

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VI. NOW for the lady-frock for afternoon, The afternoon, outfits this year, by the way, are almost a gauge of your real degree of chic.

Select them carefully, therefore, is my ad- vice. I have picked one for you that derives its distinction from its ravishing simplicity, an intricately cut bit of loveliness that gives a first impression of simplicity.

It grows on you, after you see it a bit, just how masterfully it is made.

It is the new soft green tone, sea-spray, deli- cate, summery, flattering. It is made of sheer crepe Elizabeth, with the eircular skirt made with a fitted yoke and front panel and the bolero bodice buttoning down over the belt with four little jeweled buttons. This model ha no collar. merely a hand-finished rounded neck.

There is a little jacket which has a jabot tie collar. Wear black gloves to be different and a sea-spray fabric turban with a jaunty black bow on it.

Then you are fixed for whatever arises!

FOR your spiritual uplift, a frock or two like there, which may be properly called elegant, is a wise investment.

You can always carry your head a bit highter as you step into the office if you remem ber the exquiste dinner gown you are donning tonight to step out with the new visiting man. Or, if you please, you can manage anyone with whom you come in contact if you happen to be wearing the type of gown that is not seen by the hundred, a gown that gives you disting Lion in the eyes of your fellow women.

These are leisure-class things. If you wear them well, you can have all the confidence that will carry you along in the smartest social circles. They are a test of your elegance..