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PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FEBRUARY 14th, 1931.

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The New Slanting Clothes Lines

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Women in style today need not be crooked, but they must not be straight, as fashion now orders diagonals

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alant of this georgette frock whose rippling volant follows intriguing diagonal line."

I. a puzzling georgette gown whose seven soft pastel stripes can't agree oi what direc- tion to take.

11. stripes go up and down and straight across to get over their appeal in this novelty sports frock of gayest red, yellow and blue.

NHERE is a distinctly new 1931 slant on

clothes. Have you noticed?

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It is not merely that you must be biased in the cut of your clothes. And not merely that curves are emphasized in costumes that are not cut on the bias. You must look yourself over in costumes that have their material slanting' this way of that, and you must try volants going this way and that until you see just what your own best slant is.

There is subtlety in this new year of claities, Stripes are complicated and often quite novel. Colon that combine in a single costume may be quite spectrum-like in the wide divenity of tone. But they either are comple mentary colors or else blend harmoniously.

There are slanting yokes, slanting lip bands, slanting boleros. võlauts, skirt flounces, bing skirts, whole frocks made bias of the material, and all told a most intricately cut collection to tempt you to get in the bandwagon in this 1931 style march.

I. SINCE this is the time of the year when you must make the most of every party, since the parties must end all too soon in a few weeks, for Lent, why not invest in a new patly gown or two?

If you are that trim, svelt, chic type that has the figure superb, you will be interested in an imported Maggy Roull gown of a dark green georgette, which takes its chic on the bias in the form of a rippling volant which starts at the left side in front, ripples over the shoulder, making a short sleeve on that side, extends down the very low rear decollete and on around in diagonal manner to point to a deep hip yoke in front, and pipple clear to the lower edge of the skirt at one side of the front. The other arm is left bare and the fitted body line makes the_volant the more effective.

The rich color of this gown is matched by the slippers and if you happen to have any syn thetic emeralds, this is the time to wear them. The prominence of deep green for winter is followed by a real vogue for it in the early spring things.

II. NONE of you with an eye for charm can look twice, at the little red, yellow and blue novelty striped sports frock in soft foulard without imagining just how stunning you yourself would be in it.

Not only is it cheery, but it has that come hither about it that all of you crave.

It is made with an unusual combination of horizontal and vertical striping. with just the narrow stripes of the material used in the many- nored skirt and the whole material with its yal- low uripe included in the waist and hip yoke,

There is a cute yoke, with a knotted sout

tie of yellow to match and the briefest of little short sleeves.

Around the waistline there is a narrow belt of the yellow, too. Chamois gloves and a linte, beret of matching felt complete this tricky little sports dress.

III. FOR you sophisticates there is a little dress that looks so simple, yet is su in tricately, cut dat it is quite as deceiving as any 100 per cent feminine woman herself could' be! The material is used on the bias, the full skit is made of the bias seclious meeting in a mont pleasing design and yet it gives the tmpression of simplicity itself.

It is made of candy-stick stripes in seven pastel tones, swith a hydrangea blue predome nating in the broadest stripe. It is made at georgette and is cute as can be under a cont or for an at-home frock,

The bodice is sleeveless, and is made with a his slant to all of it. There is a slight cow' collar in front which develops to a very real one in the back. Around he wanting ther is a kerchief yoke that ties on one side with a soft how.

Below this the very full skirt ripples out. looking even wider than it is because of the way the stripes are matched at their bias seams.

IV. UTTERLY ravishing in as loveliness

is the black and pale prach-colored lace gown with a'deep yoke, of the gown made of the peach-colored lace and a separate little sleeveless bolero made of the peach face, edged" in the black.

This is a delicate black lace, made quite for fitting, while the peach-colored top of # fits snugly also, having a cutout round neck that makes its own shoulders.

The little bolero is much longer in the back than the front and dips in the same kind of. curves and points as those which the peach lace lop uses to join the black lace of the body of

the gown.

The use of a huge peach-colored chiffon flower, all hand-made with decorative green stema hanging below the waistline, is daring and most successful. Aliogether it is just the. stunning outfit you may need for dinner dances from now until spring comes up the bill with organdies, nets and cottons in her generous hand for the first parties out under the starlight on verandas.

V. WHITE lace beats everything else for its

daintiness. Moreover, it is practical. You

can wear a white lace evening gown with sev eral different colored slipper, flower, Jewel and

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IV. the stag line will wake up the minute it sees you in this black and pale peach colored lace gown.

all models from Bonwit-Toller..

New York

chiffon handkerchiet ensembles, and everyon

everyone believes you have several frocks.

This one gets its curved slant on style by the use of a circular peplum, a round decolletage that is low enough for formal occasions, and an even slipper tip length all around..

Its flower trim is new and important, for it has two soft rose-pink flowers, of panne velvet, attached to a velvet ribbon which swings from the tiny shoulder strap on one side. Your slippers may match the flowers or they may be white brocade. The beauty of the all-white gown is that you can wear any color with it.

V. sweet and de-

mure as an

old-fashioned flower is this white lace gown with its curved.pop- lum affect.