1931-01-24 — Page 11

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, JANUARY 24th, 1931.

PAGE THREE

First Styles From the South

by Julia

First it was Paris alone, then Paris and New York, but the Mason and Dixon line is today a clothes line every fashion-wise woman must watch closely

1. If you can't capture

a gypsy mood when you arrange the au

dacious scarf of this billard green Jay-Thorpe suit, you haven't any vagabond blood, that

la certain.

IV. hands go naturally into these pockol.,

trimmed with polkadot handkerchiefs to match the skirt that you wear with a Birke and Birke white woolan coat and white crepe blouse,'

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11. your grandmother would have loved you... and so will all your fellowmen . . in this old-fashioned Jay-Thorpe laco wool frack with a square neck that suggests a song at twi- light and a minust or polka.

HESE are the days to make-and keep—a most satisfac- tory kind of New Year's resolution.

I mean that silent little vow that you're going to get on in the world this year. You are going to be beautiful.

You are going to be charming to look at, chic, alluring, the kind of person all women envy.

Watching the new things made for points south of Mason and Dixon's line enables you to select clothes that will not be outdated a month or so from now.

Fewer extraneous lingerie touches are shown and the dec- orations are more often of self material.

Materials are more likely to be softly pastel-colored rather than deep, ruddy, harsh, such as some of the winter tones. New shades are lavender-blues, such as hydrangeas, melon pinks, gray-yellows, quite different from the sharp chartreuse tones. Plain materials are used more than prints, though cottons and linens, in gaudy prints, fashion the beach things. When prints are used for daytime things, they are either fine designs. or stripes, checks, or plaids.

Collars, sleeves and waistline treatments are more important than ever. Some remarkable things are being done in pockets..

I. THE most important thing for wear in the new year is the decorative yet practical daytime style. You can have frocks and coals, or suita. Both are excellent. A billiard reen wool crepe suit with a printed blouse and scarf collar is a costume that would brighten your days immeasurably.

It is that soft, warm material that is very sheer indeed, but most wearable. also. The skirt has a double French box pleat down the front. It fits up into its own stitched belt and the fit- the printed chiffon blouse lips inside of it.

The coat is a charmingly feminine one, with a stitched belt that ties in a soft bow at one side. The cuffs are open at the outside of the wrist and are stitched as the belt is. So is the collar, with its notched lapels.

The hat for this suit is a sports model, with a brim, which may cheer the souls of such as you who are suffering from eye- strain from wearing hats that give no shade whatever. This beige hat has half of its back made of billiard green felt, set in meatly and making a pleat at one side.

II. IF you have a lace wool frock this winter you know how charming and satisfactory such decorative material can be. If you are in a party mood, there are frocks of similar matc-

III. to be an ingenuo, doll up in an

aquamarine blue crepe suit like this Jay-Thorpe outfit, whose flaring collar and cuffs and pinched walat breathe that domure- ness that every wise woman wants.

rials to help you have a good time when you are invited out.

One of these for Palm Beach days sponsors all-over cyclet embroidery in a dead white frock. It is made with the most adorable little square neck, short sleeves and peplum. From under the peplum the flaring skirt takes floor length.

With the frock, some of the new beaded jewelry is worn, a necklace and one bracelet, white beads, with gay red and blue worked in them. Topping . making it ready for a garden party, is a white linen hat, also eyelet embroidered.

III. VERY new is the aquamarine blue Canton crepe suit with its stitched and flaring cuffs and collars and its pinched waistline.

The skirt is pleated almost to the knees and flares then. The collar and cuffs are quite as ornamental as anything could be, and most unusual in their stitching, which flares them out. There is a double-breasted cut to the coat, with a sweet rever treat- ment at the front. In the V neck you can see the little sheer lace wool blouse which goes with it.

IV. QUITE the most engaging costume to invest in is a three-piece ensemble, designed for Palm Beach, but most wearable anywhere.

There is a black and white polka dotted skirt, a white crepe blouse with polka dotted touches in the form of a bow at the neckline and belt. And topping this, a charming white basket weave woolen cont, with a couple of handkerchiefs of the polka dotted silk stuck through the pocketi.

This cont is spring itself, with its raglan sleeves and stiched belt. It is jaunty, young, intriguing,

A white hat has black and white ribbon facing it on the under side of one half. The other half has the ribbon on top.

V. If you are looking for a wearable dress that is new and different, one in color like the white one shown here would

be admirable. It is of featherweight wool, made with no dec orations besides its own lace wool collar and cuffs. The col- lar really is a yoke, fastened at the throat with a red, white and blue cord, with tassel ends. The sleeves have the same cords tied in bow knots and the belt is red, witile and blue.

This frock, with its graceful wide sleeves, its yoke and bloused waist, has a plain skirt until almost knee length, when pleated godels are set in. This is one of the new spring sit houcties, almost in straight lines, but not quite.

V. for moments when you want to be really feminine; Birke and Birke offer a white wool drass whose sleeves and neck are tied with red, white and blue bowni