COLOUR CALENDAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 114, 9 November 1940, Page 17

COLOUR CALENDAR

SWING TO CZIGANE TINTS

GAY SUMMER AHEAD

By now everyone has got a clear horoscope of the styles for summer. We know that the silhouette is much more simplified than during the winter yet that it is even more interesting. We know that there are all sorts of new sleeve lines, foremost for novelty being the square-cut dolman and the tiny cap puff. We have j seen that hats are more wearable, butj none the less exciting for all that, i and we have modified our hair styles accordingly. We are aware that shoes keep all their piquancy in their j soles and that the dressy styles of j footwear have bows on the front like j an old world Court dandy's. Butj have we noted the colours that are | "worth watching?" Even when the style picture has been set there are always fresh batches of new colours j appearing to give it added fillip. j At the moment the pastels are hold-1 ing sway but soon there will be a swing round to the Czigane tints of more vital personality. Saffron, scar-; let. and brilliant splashes of orange j will answer the call for "more colour." Luminous and brave, a whole new gamut of blues are likely to appear and also greens. DOUBLES IN ONE COSTUME. The linking of colour doubles in the one costume is popular. Half-and-half frocks and suits place sections of two colours with the check-board effect that symbolised the jester's costume in days gone by. Other more subtle renditions of the same theme find only the sleeves and front panel of a colour in contrast to that of the body of the frock. A New York designer adapted the colour-double idea to a dinner gown which had moss rose and olive green in an equal preponderance. The green made the siender clinging skirt and the long tight sleeves, while

the rose shade was employed for the Empire bodice and a long cascading drape down the centre front from waist to hem. Moss rose also made the long sari scarf which twined over the shoulders and up • over the head to a fairly high and intricate headdress. The model in today's sketch is not so remarkable for the conjunction of two widely differing, colours as it is for the very unusual sleeve treatment it shows. These sleeves are almost floor-length. The whole frock, a dinner gown of great formality, is of gull grey crepe, but the capacious flanges of the sleeves are.lined with bold scarlet. Rhinestones embroider the neckline and accentuate the crest of the shoulders. In all, this is a most dramatic fashion which shows how a colour combination that is commonplace by day is quite the opposite when found in an evening gown. - —M.R.

"Burnt bread" is the latest colour forecast for the spring. A London designer recently showed an attractive lightweight coat in that colour gath^ ered with drawstrings across the back and emerging to tie as a belt in front..