TUNICS IN THE SPRING WARDROBE

Evening Star, Issue 22454, 26 September 1936, Page 25

TUNICS IN THE SPRING WARDROBE

Tunics will have a big place in this season’s fashions —both for day and t evening wear. There will be tunic varying from the umbrella style, witn matching skirt, to the tunic for evening, flared and worn over a tube-inse skirt, and the tunic, floral or printed, matched with a plain, skirt. Tunics Are Graceful. These notes make quite plain the importance of the tunic in spring fashion. And no woman will he sorry to greet the tunio vogue, for it is among the most graceful known to fashion design. A tunic gown can give a slim h n ®> either by means_ of the tunic top it sell or by a slim skirt worn under it. Ihe tunio can have sleeves, either full and puffed or softly' falling; or it can be sleeveless, with a fairly wide shoulder line. Fabrics for the tunic mode are as varied as the oversea fashion notes suggest. Tunic gowns for more or less informal wear can be made from the popular cotton materials, such as flowered “ chintz,” and the softer woven cottons ; and for formal wear from the oldfashioned fabrics, such as lace and net, suitably mounted; and the 'handsome taffetas, satins, brocades, and silk. Flowered fabrics, so fashionable tins season, make admirable tunio gowns for evening, especially when a flowered top is matched with a plain skirt. Colours for tunic gowns vary considerably. Floral materials permit many colours, and the brightly flowered are especially suitable for the young. And then there are floral fabrics in which only two or perhaps three colours are incorporated. Some of these, for instance, have a ground of one colour with florals in another, instead of a blend of many shades, and in most cases the floral pattern is widely scattered. With regard to colour for evening tunics our oversea fashion correspondent adds: “ For evening there are brighter colours.” Styles in Tunics, There are many styles of tunic. There is, for instance, the tunio top with a somewhat bouffant effect, flaring out from the waist. This style is particularly suitable for filmy materials such as lace and net. Then there is the slimfitting tunic hanging straight down, and for this perhaps satin or a heavy crepe is most suitable. Taffeta can be used for either type, though it is at its best perhaps in the bouffant tunic. _ Then there is the ordinary tunic, which may have sleeves and a cowl-like neckline and be worn for fairly informal occasions, such as dinner parties. By using two different fabrics and making the tunic top of one and the skirt of the other, more variations of style are possible. _ An interesting version of the tunic is the peplum, which sometimes resembles a deep frill from the waistline of a frock. In _this_ sense it is not a true tunic, but it gives something of the tunic effect. The so-called umbrella tunio will be particularly popular this season. This type of tunic has a top which flares out from the waist, and_ is worn over either a slightly-flared skirt or a' tube-like skirt. For evening wear it is usually matched with the tube-like skirt.