THIS “MATCHING” CRAZE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1028, 19 July 1930, Page 21

THIS “MATCHING” CRAZE

ATTRACTIVE ENSEMBLES Can there be any garment that we may go out and buy carelessly, without bothering to match it with at least half .a wardrobe of other garments? Once upon a time we could at least choose a tweed coat with an easy mind, but, with the advent of better taste in dress, even this garment for

whatever occasion we may need it, j must take its rightful place in the j scheme. BEAUTIFUL TWEEDS Tweed materials are unusually beautiful just now. Some of them are made entirely waterproof by -a very special process, and so serve the double purpose of providing smart morning wraps and rainproof coats. Some of the stuffs are of French design and British manufacture, and very serviceable ones still come from Ireland and Scotland. The more sophisticated tweeds are used with frocks of crepe de chine, soft satin, and even heavy-weight georgette. GREEN AND GREY One very attractive morning ensemble had a straighter coat that fell rather full from a shoulder yoke. At the waist it was fitted a little across the back with tiny tucks, from either side of which started a narrow belt

that fastened in front with a smart leather buckle. The sleeves were straight and finished with short flared cuffs. The material was very fine and smooth, of bright green and grey mixture, and lined with silk marocain to tone. The frock under the coat was also of the marocain, . made with a long straight bodice fitted with tiny pipings of the material, a trim little turn-back* collar, and a front opening over a vest of finely pleated crepe de chine. The skirt, made with inch wide inverted pleats, was mounted on the bodice In irregular "steps” beginning almost as low as the knee on one

side and rising to the waists on the other. There was a beret of the* tweed to complete the ensemble. Uf had small wings at the side drawn through a small green leather buckjte to match the one on the coat —an i/lustration of the matching craze, for tic tweed coat would have been an insignificant garment without its hat. Another coat of fine 'maroon and red mixture tweed, cut oa redingote lines, with a big shawl cellar and balloon cuffs, was lined with maroon satin and worn over a frock v/hich matched the lining. The tailored lind of the froefc was quite attractive, |l.nd it had a crossover bodice fastened at the waist by a buckle of brottvn and red leather, carefully plaited*. HATS THAT TUCK INSIDE The hat witjfc this ensemble was just a plain lielnjfet of maroon moufflon, gauged into kittle frills over the ears. Needless tcy say, the face beneath such a hat must be young and fair or to wear it r means disaster.

It looked very comfortable, fitted into the coat collar, at the back, for. with collars so big and so high—some of the upstanding fan shapes, others shawl-like and intended to be gathered closely up behind the head—it is quite useless to think of a hat with a ba> brim. COLLARLESS FROCKS Coat collars being what they are, dress collars seem to have given up the struggle, and now nearly every frock is collarless. It has a straight line across the back, with a group of tiny tucks in the centre to give plenty of play. At the front there Is a small V, or else a high all-round line with a long tie of the material drawn through a slot and hanging straight down the back, past the waist.