The Archive · 1925

The Ensemble Ideal in Its Logical Development

"That Air and Harmony of Shape Express"

1 there ong outstanding, word ix the bright, les can of style it in "ensemble!"

"We venture to say tat if a. careful fennun gf the socabilary ied {x the articlen ow what to wear and phere, has why to wear if were taken ensemble's game, would Ladies cannot but fee!

8 if they as you rummaged through it in were cars, with all pal search of something to complete the to a definite colour n picture. thrown in for contrast.

We feel that a thoroughly con-' the happy carefree days when one scientious dresser would carry the ould rush out and purchase a hat ultimate harmony idea even further. because it possessed an irresistible She would dross to the colour of her attraction for you and was undenieyes, and if they happened to be attractive. No, before going Dlue' and her hair brown then her shopping now-a-days a lady must colour scheme would be fixed for fortify herself by meditation and life, unless, of course, she dyed her then, having made her choice of her hair or substituted glass eyes for eolotr scheme for the season she the originals. It she had one black must adhere to it as seriously a and one green it would give her the had taken a vow. That is, she f little more variety, but we are must do this unless she is rich seldom endowed so richly. Again, Si beyond the dreams of avarice and should one dress to one's nose, when can have as many ensembles ns|ther blue or red? We do not wish ther fancy dictates and cher ward-|to be robes can hold. should like to" point oat the pos-carpingly particular but we The irrevocability of having made one's bed therein eternally to lic! monies. becomes mutable with tha|"""Sentimentally I am disposed to finality of the eholee of ensembles. harmony" wrote Lamb and for those With" stern renunciation, once! who feel that way about if we having, chosen brown as the basis'might suggest that they go further of ore' outfit, must one put aside and dress to the mood in which they the thought of alluring greys. It is|find themselves. "If they cannot true that an attempt has been made their mood to their usual level to Introduce this very contrast, but [sort of existence they might well is not to be lightly or unadvisedl appear in black, or at least deep entered upon, One could permit blue, to indicate unhappiness. Or one's self a contrast of orange, or! perhaps they might affect the decid-perhaps even of green or blue, but' ed contrast of red und so lift them-if orange finds its way into the selves out of that mood, For ensemble as a contrasting necktie! serious moments brown studies fon a beige suit then there should be! might be chosen, and for lilting tone orange stitching somewhere or "hours the familiar "jazz" com-other, a note of orange in the, binations.

The field extends in-feather motif of the hat, an orange definitely.

Should the radicals wear button or so somewhere on the cout as. well a red? Should or other orange the' public know liberate choice and not something {Must the jealous affect green, {you just happened to find on the top sensationally inclined, yellow, ayer of your upper bureau drawer the hunter invariably' pink?

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