1931-05-23 — Page 9

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MAY 23rd, 1931

What Paris Approves

It doesn't pay

to look too tai- tored, so a fluffy beige fox collar adds ro- mantic appeal to this spring suit of black and white fig.

ured crepe.

and

stripes of blue white chase chic in all directions in this ta- cone silk from Worth

which is worn under bluish white wool coat.

there's a gos samor frall neas about this groon, yellow and pink Moly. -Beux chiffon evening gown! that is bound to bring a worship fut stag fino to its knoes Paris insists upon a scar! for evening.

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the color* game when

ho. chose twine col-

ored broad- cloth for

this unsem blo whosu short jacket is bunded in

black us- trakhun.

you'll be the queen of your

own party it

you

we ar Chantal's

mauve and prune colored georgette hostoss gown whose slim tines know all about courtly grace. The sleeveless wrap is 05- pecially inter-

esting

and

are

gray

white

used by

Worth to

make this

bias cut plaid frock which in cuolor weather may worn with

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be

off-

white coat demurely trimmed in astrakhan.

by Rosette.

PAGE THREE

Parisian writer on fashions ,who hero gives you the full benefit of her close contact with leading French couturiers

complicated draped effects of the past season are now displaced by much simpler Fashions revealing a new, practical technique in cut

FTER devoting an entire season to an ornamented

are offering for the new season clothes that appear simple and practical by contrast,

The delicate pastel shades that are being featured also help to convey an air of youth and equilibrium, harmoning with the rasen and not ton expressive of luxury for this period of economic depression.

While elegance is still the keynote le all the new ideas, the somewhat complicated dumped effects. pulls and surplus trimminga have given way to a more clever technique of eut, and thia-combined with more and more intricate encrustation work in the fonda- tion, of the new styles. All experts agree that the slim, form-fitting line is Inânitely more becoming and not so ageing as even the cleverest drapery.

The old ensemble with the long roal and dress theme has been replaced by alert-looking suits. There Is an almost infinite variety of jacket styles to select From. For the morning, the sports ensemble takes the form of a tailleur completed by a blouse, or a chat dress. The latter simulate the jacket suit by a clever devier of ent and fit, and their skirts are somewhat longer and straighter than those of the ordinary suit.

Lightweight wool fabrivs are the ident medium for these, new street dresses, and if pupular choice will always tean to solid colours, the more distinctive dresser will select one of the new plaids ur dotted de signs. There are also a few tweed effects in wool Hecked with white or other pale shades, but they are

not so new,

Colour rembinations are another feature of the new mode, and these are seen in bath street nit evên. ing clothes, Green is combined with brown in a long- cunted week-end ensemble both practical and essentially smart. The cunt itself is all green trimmed with brown astrakhan, and the dress matches the for and with this ensemble was shown a more formal frock of lighter green silk. This is Warth idea, that of wearing a light cunt over a dark dress, and the result is charming and really new. Thus with one coat you can combine twa and oven three dresses, one matching the usual darker fur trinuming, another the coat itself, but in a lighter shade, and the third can be of a totally different colour.

THE greatest discrimination is called for in these combinations, but all the collections feature dise tinetly different colour variations in one suit. Clever. women appreciate that the more colour you use, the greater the skill you need to blend the tones that will harmonize with each other, with your personality, and lastly, with your complexion. There is undoubledly in this new colour scheme an elegance and luxury, that can never be cheaply cupied, as it can be with the black and white mediunt.

All shades of brown are gond, starting from the very dark right through to the Tightest beige. As a matter of Fart, beige has cone into Ila own again, but in a distinctly many editing, and some have even a yellow tint to them. Green in every shade imaginable is another good spring colour, and navy blue will replure black 10 a great extent. as it can he made to Junk as elegant and distinguished as black.

A few gmmmetrical designs, narrow stripes or stripes varying in width and combining several pulours are among the neweathers, and when Roral patterns are used, these are decidedly smaller than Inst summer's at give a very neat effect. Fatonne silks in dellente pastel shades will fashion many summer resort suits.

A-WINTE dresses, if worn by the right person, look very now, but they must be entirely hidden by a long, dark wool coat.

The all-white evening dress is still good, especially when made of the new triple georgette, organdie or sturched chiffon, and the note of colour can always be supplied by accessories and the evening coat, There are some attractive plaid chillous in pastel shades, a few smull-patterned flowered chiffons, but plain colours prevail. Many shades of blug, pule greous, pinks and yellows help to brighten up the new evening mode, and there is no reason for anybody not to find the exnet shade that is becoming to the com- plexion,

Evening capes. single, double and even triple- tiered, are the wraps of the future. Some are fitted over the shoulders and arms to form sleeves, and the length varies from three-quarters to hip length All. the new evening cloaks ft the figure sinustly, and mqat of them are short. Now that the need for warmth in not an essential feature, the short wrap comes into its. own gain, as it is infinitely smarter with the long dress than any full-length effect.

The ankle-length gown has suparseded all others Idens. The train in nover seen except on the most formal of evening ensembles. Deculates are, more discreet and almost every frock has its accompanying seraf; and since an unusually wide selection of colours anel materials are available in aervos, rauging from simple to elaborate and from quiet to exotle, this part of the costume permits each individual to exercise her own tastes quite fully. The evening mode is sober, dis- creet and simple, relying on volants, killings skillfully enerusted in the skirt and other devices to convey an impression of softness, lightness and above all, good taste.