FAVOURITE COLOURS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19417, 27 August 1926, Page 7

FAVOURITE COLOURS.

Pink is a colour that has been, and still is, much worn this spring and summer. Palo biscuit is another. Tortoiseshell browns are used cleverly, and are very 1 successful in patterned silk muslins. Blue in all shades has come into its own again; navy blue with pink, cornflower blue with pale grey, with white, and alone, royal blue with black and alone, periwinkle blue alone and with other colours. Green is a colour for evening, yellow is also worn at night, bright geranium never goes out of fashion, mauve and violet arc less worn than they were. But when all is said and done about colour, it may be recognised that all colours are worn; the thing to do is to find subtle shades in all colours and choose those which are ( most becoming, says a fashion writer. ' It is in the choice of subtle colours that the leading dressmakers have been so successful this season. No crude colours are worn. There is no "yea" or "no" about their reasoning. They may not, indeed, be definitely blue, pink or green.! -There must be subtlety. In the fashionable draperies the same idea rules. All stiffness, all straight lines, all circles, are broken. A flounce hangs softly , and does not go straight ■- round a skirt; it dips, rises, or breaks suddenly into something else. A tunic is cut into panels which flutter, a pleated skirt has many quips and cranks, and a skirt which looks plain and straight in the distance is, on closer inspection, a mass of incrustations, pleatings, pipings, tuckings. Sleeves are complicated in workmanship, too, with decorative cuffs and trimmings. Necks are draped with little fichus put on crookedly, with collars of unusual cut,' with dainty bits of lace, organdie, leather. It is notable that the Rue de la Paix is I working hard to make fine needlework es- j sential in all good dresses. : j From the Jagged hem of the skirts to the incrustation on a coat, the delicate bit of embroidery on a collar and cuff, the fine border of a flounce, the tucks which give line to a bodice, there is no'machine work. All things are done by hand which may be. The flower in the botfonhole and on the shoulder of an evening dress are hand made. Gloves have hand-embroid-ered gauntlets.