BECOMING COLOURS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 September 1927, Page 2

BECOMING COLOURS

Since the object of a woman with a pale complexion is to offset her pallor as much as possible, it is obvious that the colours she wears must have a very definite mission in her life. Either they must, from their own tones, lend her a bit of colour, or else they must form no contrast with Ivor complexion. Of course, she has her greens, which are amongst her strongest and most understanding- friends, and two of these greens are given her for street wear. Her complete list is as follows: Good: Dark bluish-green; dark violet-red (burgundy), brick, shutter green. The blue-eyed woman will especially like the two colours given first. The shades which have proved by experiment to be hostile to the brown haired woman whose complexion is pale are:— Avoid: Clear green, red, orange, pure violet, yellow, Venetian, fuchsia,

pure strong blue. Each of these tones will 'either appreciably increase pallor, or else contrast unfavourably with it. Black alone is not a good colour for this type, nor is grey, while the combination of black and grey is actually self-effacing to the point of bad taste. A mistake commonly made by women lacking- in natural colouring is that of using strong hues in their clothes. Colour should never bo used indiscriminately. it is much wiser to increase the strength of one’s own tones by choosing compiouuntury .-hades than to neutralise it

one’s own tones by choosing compiouuntury .-hades than to neutralise it