NEW NAMES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12897, 31 August 1907, Page 7

NEW NAMES.

Nothing is so pnszling to the average woman reader as tho new names, which aro constantly ooming into use in mil linery and dressmaking t and their cognate branches. Somotrmes it is oxtnsmely difficult to find out the meanin c of the new descriptive terms, as the salespeople in the shops seldom know the true inwardness of tho highfiilntinc words employed in catalogues founded on English fashion journals. One puzzling celonr adjective which came in with the early sutumn, and soon withered out of use was "aubergine." Nobody liked to use it because nobody knew exactly what colour it meant. The colour is very fnshionablo, but is penarallv alluded to vaguely as one of the wine tints. It is in reality tho colour of tho cog plant, or aibergine. Now "marquise voile!" or "marqui _>tte" neuros as the riddle of tho moment. Marquisette is our fricmd of last season, chiffon gauze. No amonnt of inquiry will elicit wherein the difference lies. It cannot be too often repeated that "Saxe," "Nattier," "Copennngen," and "hyacinth" are different shades of blue, all very much alike, and not very unlike "Wedgwood" blue. "Filet" lace leaves some folk in the d.irk as to its moaning; it is squaremeshed lace.