THE NEW TUNIC

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 19

THE NEW TUNIC

If you feel the tunic is for you and you for it—and certainly it is the most becoming and useful all-occasion garment Paris has offered us this seasonit is at the moment at its most varied. It. is .presented to us in all its extremes and again with all its modifications, and indeed few can afford to ignore it altogether. Nor need we, for now it is being suited to our every figure type, short, tall, wide, slender. Wherever there is an aliernuon occasion, a five o'clock gathering, and informal group, a theatre, a matinee, there you .will find the tunic in one or another of its many guises—and one oi them, always, inevitably for you. Here are notes taken from an evening group ■of art enthusiasts at a recent hanging of modern pictures. At the end of my hour or two I felt indeed that there remained nothing more to know about the tunic. A HUNDRED COMPROMISES. "Whereas it was a vogue few of us could discreetly follow, it appears now to have made a hundred compromises in a determination to interest each and every one. Or it is that the designers, realising its utility, have put their heads together to make that possible. You will see that sleeves, shoulders, bodices, necklines, hips, and thighs can JS^have very much as they please. ■tTtere is only the one stipulation—that waists shall be trim and clipped in to their utmost. Materials are usually smooth but seldom shine. Figured or plain, trimmed or tailored, are equally popular. Let us commence with the most attractive ones. There was one in glittering flowered gold lame over a sheath-like skirt of black creaseless velvet. Its sleeves were crisply full at the shoulder and fitted to near elbow. The neck was a narrow, fitted, upright Oriental band. It had a tucked yoke—which is quite new —to which the bocßce was gathered but folded tightly in to a narrow belt. Front fastenings, but on yoke only, were another new feature. UNUSUAL BELTING. Another lame, this time in plain and supple silver and utterly contrasting, was worn over a slender gown of night blue crepe. It opened to the waist with narrow softly-folding revers, was collarless at the back, and sleeveless. The skirt of this was very short, scarcely more than a basque, fitted to flare ever so slightly, and it was belted most charmingly with green' leaves laid one upon another. One in dull lustre satin with ?. sparse delustred spot was sleeved to the wrist and -fitted all the way. It was closely tailored to mid-thigh length, the tiny!

sharp-pointed collar and widish belt stitched and in lighter tone. Bather large front buttons, closely set, were secured down the front with loops.

Black satin, ■ sleeved likewise, is worn -utterly plain, ; the high round neck corded with three rows of heavy

loose cuff edge and about the buckled belt and hem.

Smartest of all was one extremely fully flared as to skirt, closely fitted as to bodice, with full "staccato" shoulders fitted to the elbow, two sharp turned-down front peaks for collarr clipped-in waist, and buttoned front fastening. This was carried out in a yellow gold lame striped diagonally with narrow black. The charm^of the tunic was in its exaggeration and the clever use of the stripes which were arranged to accentuate the slimmest of waists and definitely succeeded in denyin% \vidth. It was worn over an unusually long, black skirt and black also was in the blonde hair, surmounted by a yellow butterfly 4.