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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19035, 2 April 1930, Page 8

SELECTING THE TOPCOA T Chesterfields The Favourite For Formal Wear While the well-dressed man does not affect a uniformity of colour throughout, he is careful that his topcoat and suit make a good combination. If he limits himself to a single outer garment, he eliminates certain suit colours that will not blend with his topcoat. A brown suit for example, with a gray topcoat is seldom a happy combination, though the same coat will harmonise with several suits, if well chosen in blues, grays and even the greenish shades. There is another point of relationship between suits and topcoats that the well-dressed man considers. If his suits are striped, checked or of mixed fancy weave, his topcoat will be those of plain material as an array of patterns, tones and shades results in an ineffective combination. Fortunately there are man) T smart coats to be found at Ballantynes that give the effect of a monotone, but are of the covert or Oxford type of cloth in several shadings of a single colour. A TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF BALLANTYNES OVERCOAT STYLES. The man who must needs do with but one topcoat is usually well advised when he selects blue, or Oxford gray of conservative cut, semi-form-fitting and with the lapels, cuffs, pockets and other details that identify it with the present season. Such a coat can be either single or double-breasted as is most suited to the wearer, and is about 46 inches long for the man of average height. Cheviots, herringbones, tweeds, diagonals, cassimeres and other similar fabrics and fine weaves are all suited to such models for general, practical wear, the coarser weaves being reserved for Raglans and Ulsters. Nothing has yet supplanted the dignified Chesterfield as a formal topcoat, preferably either in Oxford gray or blue, with self collar or one of velvet, if so desired. In detail this model changes little from year to year and one should be guided by the advice of a reliable Men’s Outfitters such as Ballantynes as to the relative becomingness of certain features. This garment has the advantage of being suitably worn for day wear in the city, with bowler or soft hat, and also for evening w r ear. It demands a dignified hat, the informal shapes of the “ snap-brim ” type being suitable only with Raglan’s, Ulsters and other informal coats.