MODISH COLOURS.
If there is a season's colour, It is rose- ! de-bois, and.»H the rosy-beige and light browns related to it. It is a very attrac- | tive colour, and becoming to almost everyone. It" is run very close by chartreuse green, in fact.. ! Navy blue has quite come back, and a great deal of black is worn again, Green is used a great deal, as well as the lighter shades of blue than navy, bat both these colour? are rather wearisome for day-after-day wear; they are for the. woman who orders several new frocks every season. Grey has been talked of, but is not very much seen. The lighter beiges, such as oatmeal beige, have a greyish tinge, but they are «B#d in conjunction with brown rather than alone. Two, or even three, tones of one colour are often used together this spring. , w •. .. For evening frocks, chiffon is the favourite material, and it is patterned, either with a hmU pattern or with an all-over con „H design. Where plaih colours are Wd» 3l the rose and "fuchsia shades are the fa cXm*in general are bright and dear, without being harsh. They ar enough to be becoming, but . at J;¥ time they have more warmth and depth than last spring's rather insipid pastel Shades.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19488, 18 November 1926, Page 9
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