two's company
Should they mix?
Should they match?
Veronica Scott knows all
the accessory answers
Juggling with accessories is fun. It's also a fine art worth learning. The smartest girls I know work miracles on a shoestring budget because they know how to make their clothes do multiple jobs with the help of carefully picked accessories.
Yes, careful is the key word. Gloves, shoes, handbag, scarf, belt, jewellery and artificial flowers can be a girl's best allies, but they can also turn into a bewildering jigsaw unless you know how to fit them flatteringly into your personal fashion picture.
Well, here's where “set ideas" are your best bet. Two matching accessories spell smartness, giving all of a piece unity to to whatever else you wear. A gilt studded coach hide belt and matching bucket bag, for instance, lift your simplest day dress into the "smart casual" class, besides proving that you've taken trouble over your dressing instead of putting on whatever happened to be handy when you got up.
A couple of matching accessories are your best way of using a striking colour that would be to strong for an overall effect. You might fight shy of a whole outfit in daffodil yellow, but imagine what a cotton cap and matching gloves in that colour would do for a pale blue summer frock.
At the foot of this page you'll find plenty of twosome ideas to tryout, but please remember to avoid the pitfalls! For top fashion marks, limit your accessory tricks to simple basic clothes. Very definite prints or fussy styles can’t take another eye catching touch. Once you’ve chosen a twosome set, say acid green shoes and handbag to spice a dove grey linen suit keep your other accessories subdued.
Two's company, but three or more is asking for trouble. The girl we've photographed in her striped hat and cravat looks cute, but if she also wore gloves and belt in the same fabric, anybody might think she was trying to find a use for a very large remnant of striped cotton!
Crisp, candy-stripe cotton pique makes this gay summer boater with matching cravat,, the prettiest compliment you can pay to your suit or day dress.
Crisp, candy-stripe cotton pique makes this gay summer boater with matching cravat,, the prettiest compliment you can pay to your suit or day dress.
the hat costs 29s. 6p. (about $4.13)
Knit ribbed cuffs for fabric loves, ribbed "baby turtle" collar for a simple boat-necked cotton shirt
Wear perky baker boy beret and blouse in matching new fabric that's like silk at the price of cotton: comes in superb colours
Newest idea to smarten up dresses, separates: buy a shaped raffia belt, make a matching round collar from raffia cloth
pretty
Line Jacket of plain suit with rosebud-printed cotton; make blouse of same fabric to wear underneath
Try pastel court shoes worn with matching bag or gloves (you can dye white fabric shorties yourself for a few pennies)
Buy a yard of chiffon in a face flatting shade; drape half it around the crown of hat,wear remainder loosely tied as scarf
glamorous
Dress up plain dark evening top with a many stranded coloured glass bead choker plus matching artificial flower
Make bright satin cummerbund for slim dress; have inexpensive white satin shoes professionally dyed to match
Crochet skull in coloured tinsel thread then make a small evening bag to match in the same coloured tinsel thread
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