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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1985.

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STYLES FROM THE STAGE

Slim bodices and billowing skirts help make the winter evening frocks as theatrical

as any you see on the stage

GONE

Are the days when netresses ap- pearing in legitimate plays wore clothes that were

bo too theatrical to plausible. Nowadays, simply by aceing a good show now and then, a fashinn-minded woman can learn a good deal about good

·gramming.

For instance, those who went to the open- of "The Red Cat." In New York, marveled at the practicability and good taste of the stunning gowns worn by the girls who portrayed the Important feminine roles. Made of fabrics that are in vogue right now and created by one of New York's best houses, any drees behind the footlights that night could have been worn by any woman in the smart First Night audience.

They were dramatic designs, of course, But the is a year to have a bit of draina In your wardrobe. Vionnet, the Paris originator of the bias cut, shows so-called picture frocks that make you look liko something that has just stepped out of a rure and lovely painting. They have slim bodices, demure necklines and skirts that. billow and rustle about your feet.

Lanvin, another feminine French coutur- ier, makes a picture frock of layers and layers of white tulle, trims it with a belt of silver cord and suggests that you carry an old-fashioned nosegay when you wear

Many designers show Robes-de-Style for evening. These, as you probably know, have slim bodices, pinched-In waistline › and extremely full skrts. Miss Tamara Geva wore one in "The Red Cat."

Made of shimmering white moire, this gown a particularly unusual in that it shows the slender, pencil silhouette in front and the popular Robo-de-Style treatment in the back.

Another outfit of Miss Geve's was of deep garnet coloured moire velvet. It in- cluded a sheath-like dress with a cascade of back rules extending downward to form a short train that dragged on the floor, and a flowing cape held in place by a clip on the right shoulder,"

The gown worn by Miss Ruth Weston, the leading woman, arrested immediato. attention. One handsome model, of an unusual velvet in black and red, featured the new off-the-shoulder decollete, accented by a stiffened ruff of black net, and a split skirt with ruffled train. A colth of gold 'creation, also worn by Miss Weston, had a alit skirt, long, flowng train and low, square neckline. With it the actress wore flat-. heeled evening slippers of white natin.

Marriane Davis, a perfectly beautiful- young actress, wore one form-fitting gown of electric blue satin with a swirling train. The yoke, long sleeves and stiffened Elizabethan collar were made of fine, aheer net in the same shade of blue.

Costumes Courtesy BONWIT-TELLER New Yo

HERE'S RUTH WESTON, lovely stage star, in

a striking cloth-of-gold evening gown. The large sketch

at the right shows her red and black velvet gown with its rud of stiffened black net,

TAMARA CEVE wears the dramatic outfit of garnet col ored moire velvet shown above. The sketch at the right shows her elaborate goon of white moire.

STUNNING YOUNG WOMAN is Martiane Davis, resplendent in a goon of electric blue satin with a stiffened Elipakethan collar of theer net lingstrainpikeS

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