Letter To Kitty

Southland Times, Issue 22296, 11 April 1934, Page 5

Letter To Kitty

Kitty, my girl, I feel an overwhelming desire to go and buy myself a pair of the darkest of dark glasses—why is it people will persist in making themselves look like nightmares in bright colours? Bright colours, yes, especially in young people but it’s the choice of colour that’s the vital point. Don’t you agree? I saw the most delightful young lass to-day in a smart black coat and skirt with brown shoes! It does jar doesn’t it? Then people with red hair should be terribly careful not to suddenly become frightfully exotic in reds and pinks and purples—they can be quite exotic enough and theirs are the greens no matter how bright. I think colours are most important, and if all those young people, who buy a coat, knowing that they have to wear it for perhaps two years, remember that not only they, but their friends, who have to look at them, will tire of a bright colour very rapidly—be distinctive certainly, but do it in a quiet way. Another little point, my girl friend, I’m very interested to see the number of skin shoes about—l do like them but I like more the skin bags which are made to match them. I think the ‘etceteras’ of an outfit are almost as important as the coat or frock itself don’t you? It’s very easy to make an expensive coat look just nothing if gloves, handbag and stockings don’t match. Especially gloves, and there are such super ones to be got, they all have very large gauntlets and the more stitching and tucking they have about them the better. Hats are merely tilted pancakes, how you cope with them in a Southland sou’-wester I don’t know, but what’s a sou’-wester in comparison with a smart hat? Two important things about these pancakes are; they must be supported by the right eyebrow and the hair showing at the back and sides must be the last word in tidiness. May I end this screed by saying always look at yourself from all angles before embarking. Yours ever, Jant.