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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1934.

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

FASH

Formal Frocks for February

DASHIONABLE Indies bow low before the glamorous new February

frocks.

First of all, individuality predominates. You enn follow the mode and yet retain something individual for yourself and your costume.

The windswept trend swept through designers' minds as they But not all dresses are thought of mid-winter holiday fashions. windswept after one pattern. A dress may be perfectly straight from shoulders to floor and get, its backward sweep from a smart little shoulder cape which flows and trails behind as you walk.

Interest centres at the back, generally speaking. Inserted buck fullness, either in pleats, tacks or flares, assurca lady that her gown is correct for this season.

One model, shown at a New York fashion show the other day, had a panel of tiny pleats down the back from the waistline to the floor. The dress itself was flesh-coloured and was topped by a pale green and flesh-coloured flannel facket with cape sleeves.

Chiffon comes back into the limelight this month. It's soft, Battering and flowing. And girls, as well as more mature women, always have and always will love the looks and "feel" of it.

Pebbly crepes are also favoured and no matter where you go, or what you do, you're sure to bump into several rough crepe models.

Colours are in keeping with the holiday spirit. Flamboyant red tones, vivid blues and many red and white combinations Hood the colour scheme horizon.

Of course, green is good this year. And black, that old favourite, continues to hold up to its reputation,

Fur trims some evening dresses. Often a cape sleeve is banded with elegant fur. Again, a matching cape is luxuriously fur-trimmed. If your invitations are strictly formal, ones, be as daring as you please. If you can't seem to get daring, look to the covered shoulder models to help you out. They still are in the fore. Sometimes cape- lets cover shoulders. Again wide bands of twisted self fabric may do the trick.

You can follow the mode and still retain a note of individuality in the newest mid-winter gowns

A ROSE crepe cock- tail dress, with a wide belt

of gold frid, shown at the left, has the new "win- dow shirt which displays feet and ankles in the front and becomes. sud- denly demure at the sides and back.

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are shown at the left. The one farther to the left is of navy blue crepe and red velveteen and has an amusing little jacket with back and soft shawl collar of red velveteen and the sleeves and front of The navy crepe.

gown beside it, of chartreuse crepe, is made smarter by the wide bands of fur on the short sleeves of the little jacket. The dress has a low back decolletage.

TWO perfect Rowns for formal. February holiday parties are shown at the right. The nearer model: Deara a lettuce. green, pebbly crepe evening dress with an es pecially interest- ing back the other, an evening gown of flame chiffon, typical of the new vind- swept mode. It was designed to give a blown back ·

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