Magpie Colours

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7169, 17 March 1930, Page 11

Magpie Colours

Curious how black and white remains the favourite colour scheme for London year after year, however much the fashions may change. One hears, as usual, a great deal about bottlegreen, dark wine red, and rich copperbrown, as the fashionable shades for the but the combined shades are only 50 per cent, in favour, while the other 50 is held by black and white. I was reminded, remarks the writer, of this at a big party the other afternoon, when I counted among 40 women at one end of the vast dining room, where we were having tea, 33 who wore black frocks. Lady Curzon, of Keddloston, was wearing one of the now black cloth coats over her lilac frock, finished with revera and collar and cuffs of white, tailless ermine.