THE LATEST SHADES
TEA-DUST AND PETROL BLUE
Spring and autumn bring regularly their register of new shades discovered and christened, states an exchange."
Like the fairy stories in which knights ride forth to the corners; of the earth to bring back precious things for princesses, so the fabric designers go yearly in quest of exquisite hues to lay at th*e feet of women of fashion. They find inspiration in Nature, age-old pictures, in machinery, and in commodities of the market-place.
Those who went questing for this season' are showing to an admiring world such shades as tea-dust, moonwhite, underglare red, and petrol blue.
No source is held too mundane to be the parent of some heavenly new shade. The petrol, pump has given birth to petrol blue—a deep greenish-blue colour which is at its best when used with a moire fabric so that the colour retains the. fluidity of its origin. Many of the new shades have a sister contrast. So petrol blue has pewter coloured trimmings in its smartest moments. Another blue and grey partnership which will make fashion history is lapis lazuli and oyster.
Most of the London designers this year have needed to go no further than the Chinese exhibition at the Royal Academy, and- it is there that moon-white and tea-dust have their origin. In lovely silks" and bowls fashion designers have discovered endless tones of grey that will take the 1936 world by storm. The Chinese version of grey has a colour of serenity far removed from the drabness with which it is associated in Western Europe. The wonderful greys range from tea-dust—a dark brown with r a grey tinge—to celadon, that is as much grey as green. In addition to moonwhite there are new additions to the off-white range in grey-white and warm-white, which are worn with ornaments in blue-white and green-white. Roasted rice is a golden-brown shade, new to fashion. Several other commodities have given their names to shades, such as seeded green, onion green, and peach bloom.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 35, 11 February 1936, Page 17
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335THE LATEST SHADES Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 35, 11 February 1936, Page 17
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