1930-12-27 — Page 9

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, DECEMBER 27th, 1930.

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Clothes For Christmas

Good little girls who look in the store windows these days may not believe in a Santa Claus, but at least. they wish there were one!

1. Jean Patou performs a neat Christmas trick with this boige marocain.. appar. ently simple, it is neverthe less tremendously intricato in design.

by Julia

IV. a pocket something like your grandmother's fanturas this Wil.

liam Bloom ensemble of tweed knit frock in red and black, with a jaunty little sealskin jacket.

frock

II. knitted

with a tunic blouse, jabot and collar of a pique knit. ...it's by Pack & Peck, and it's blue.

TMAGINE finding a perfectly beautiful dress in your Christmas stocking-so to speak! Wouldn't it make the most disillusioned of you believe in Santa Claus?

Maybe the family is just waiting for a hint as to what to buy you. Be it Inther, brother or hus- ban, a serious Christmas shopper deserves a hint

or two.

Since it is a gift you are looking for, you should pick something that you have been wanting a long time or else something glamorous and entirely extra, something that will dress you up and set you

upi.

I FOR those red letter days. I should like to call your attention to an exquisitely cut beige marocain frock with the new double peplum over the front, one hip and the back. It is a beautifully-cut garment, seemingly simple, but do not be deceived. Nothing that makes you look like such a lady could be turned out in just a second.

There are pleats in the skirt below the peplum which keeps the shorter front basque movement from cutting the figure. The bloused waist. straight sleeves with extra strapped cuff running back to the elbow and bias fold neckline is all very graceful..

II. AND now along comes the extra litle sports or office dress that you may have been wanting a long time but could never see your way clear to buying.

It is a tunic" knitted frock, with a self belt to hold the tunic into the waistline. The frock itself is a violet blue, a lovely new shade, beautiful on certain complexions and certain persons. There are webbed stitches at the wrist, for fine fitting, and a lit- te line of two tones of lighter violet blue lighten the top of these. There is a knitted collar

in the two tones of lighter violet blue, and a little jabot.

III. If it is a party frock you've got your eye on the lookout for, do have a look at the new and absolutely glamorous black taffetas with figures woven into them.

If you are young, and have twinkling, dancing fect, you will cast an envious eye on a little Maggy Rouff dancing, frock made of lovely black taffeta of this kind, with little green and gold leaves woven into it.

The gown is simply made, it needs no adorn. ment save its own material, and it has a simple bodice with shoulder straps and one of those even floor length skirts with extra side fullness. It has a little stitched gold belt.

IV. IF you haven't a short fur coat you'll wel- come any dress that needs one to complete the egsemble. There is chic and youthfulness and everything else needed to make a merry Christmas in this striking ensemble of tweed knit frock in red and black. which William Bloom has designed for wear with a little sealskin jacket. It makes the coat divide its honors with the dres.

The bow trimming and collar of the dress are trimmed in leather, the pocket is edged in leather, and there is a leather belt and buttons. The skirt of the frock chooses an unusual one-sided effect, with the pocket at the right.

The dress is admirable for spectator sports or street wear. The sealskin coal further enhancer its charm by a lining of the dress fabric.

V. IF you are fairly well supplied with working

clothes and evening party things, you still. may feel the lack of just the right thing to wear to matinees. bridge parties, nice luncheons and tea

in town..

Patou make just the thing for you, a beige soft wesl semi-formal auit, with a little jacket made not quite fitting but slightly flaring, a svelt skirt and matching fint crepe blouse.

"The coat has new shaded beige astrakhan, mak

ing a conservative roll collet that proceeds to form a double facing down the front of the coat and then to round the cutaway edges and make a border to the whole lower edge of the coal. It is reserved. but too staid.

There are shaped cuffs of an trahkan. And to complete the suit, 'a muff of the astralikan is made in

a soft, circular cushion style which is somewhat feminiscent of the days when grandma was a girl...

1. the Haas Brothers party frock above is a glamorous black taffeta with green and gold brocaded leaf.

V. for this semi-forinal after- noon ensemble," Patou chose a soft wool in a new shade of beige; trimmed with "astrakhan · fur... and topped · by a matching

taupe hat.