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THE HONGKONG TELEG
FEBRUARY
1934
PICTORI
New Styles in Dinner Outfits
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The bright blue velvet Sunday night frock at the extreme left in the layout above is just the thing to wear when your hostess has told you not to dress. It has long alecves, tight from elbow to wrist. `and slit above the elbow, and a separate jacket which buttons down the back goca over it.
Costumes Courtesy MACY'S
NEW YORK
FOR INFORMAL din hers, buffet suppers and formal tea parties you might like this floor-length black vel vet frock. It has a high neck line and long sleeves, and is sef off by a wide red chiffon sash.
The two ladies in the centre of the layout are charmingly gowned for a formal evening affair. The one at the left wears a brilliant green evening gown whose lovely braded collar follows down around the edge of the low back; the other wears a red crepe evening dress with tiny shoulder wings.
New mid-winter fashions reflect glamour. Red, green and blue frocks are gay and colourful.
Touches of sold on collar and cuffs, a gilt Bash or a whole jacket of gold or silver lame resemble the Unsel on a tree. Glittering touches they are not gaudy-but glitter- ing all the same.
There is a real vogue for dresses that touch the floor. Some of them can be worn outside the home and others. erznot. Hostess gowns, which you never wear out- Alde of your own house, look almost the same as dinner dresses and cocktail frocks which can go anywhere,
Just the thing for dances is the sheath-like evening gown of white rough creps shown at the right. Two enormous feathery flowers ard jauntily poised on one shoulder, and the effect of regal splendour is added to by the earrings and matching bracelets of glittering Thine-stones.
semi-formal frocks that can stop out and dine in a restaurant touch but do not trail the floor, and they usually have high necklines in front.
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When your hostess has said "don't dress," you can follow directions, assuming she meant not to wear an evening. gown, and go right ahead in your dinner outfit.
Perhaps you will like to wear in volvat onsemble with a floor-length skirt, a match- ing jacket and a glittering blouse' of lame. You'll be perfectly groomed and at the same time you are following your hostess' directions.
A little Ingenuity can make the
While hostess gowne can sweep the floor, dinner dress look quite different who one
be cut very low both in front and back and tond to be pretty elaborato as to detail,
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wear it to a holiday cocktail party or tea. You might try removing the lame blouse
and substituting a dressy, long-sleeved, shirtwaist of satin, ottoman or any one of the heavy metal brocades.
The coat to wear over ankle-length after- noon dresses must, of course, depend on what you have in your wardrobe. Ā three-quarters length, swagger coatlu always fa good taste. A velvet one, fur, trimmed, is perfect for such occasions. Your fur cent, providing it isn't 'definitely. a sports coat, will do too.
Accessories are all-important in this return-to-eleganco in dressing. If you don't have a latio blouse, at least have a fow touches of lamo somewhere in your.. dinner and evening wardrobe, Sequin" accessories are right in the height of good -"taste and 80° are quaint, old-fashioned brooches to be worn high on your boson,
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