CHOOSING SKIRTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20587, 28 November 1936, Page 11 (Supplement)

CHOOSING SKIRTS

For “between occasions” a wiselychosen house skirt is more necessary than we know’ (states an exchange). It must be of a cut and of a material that will enable it to be as "right” with sports blouse as with taffetas tunic. It must be inconspicuous by reason of its perfect cut, and is therefore worth a little extravagance. For "slipping out” occasions, too. it must be able to appear as the inevitable adjunct to. perhaps the new double-breasted flannel jacket —four-pocketed and business like—that is to be everywhere in dress checks or plaids. i I think the wise choice probably whittles down to one of the new lightI weight wools. They are as airy-fairy, ' and as sensible, as one could wish—and they can be depended upon to fit ! flatteringly. Colour should be darkest —black or brown, with blue or green permissible seconds. A "bushman s shirt—high to the neck, with breast pockets, cuffs, and tie—for morning. A striped taffetas over-blouse with belted panels and crisp scarf neck. A patterned. smocked, or shirred “tuck-in.” ■ billowy-sleeved, with belt scarf ends ; that tie behind.