COLOUR AND HEALTH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 7 (Supplement)

C OLOUR AND HEALTH.

! In recent times colour, like relativity ray therapy, lias been playing a jpnucli larger part in human affairs. '\strologically each of tlio planets, befides the signs ot tha Zodiac, has a colour assigned to it, and its vibrations juid mysterious properties are a science 4hat is only beginning to bo understood, {Writes a psychologist in a London daily. Certain it is that colour can help Jicalth, and that every individual has tin inborn dislike of certain colours and A marked predilection .for others. ; Purple has always been connected v. ■Lh loyalty and greatness, gold with brightness and intellect, green with the fairies, Wue with youth, whilo all over the Last Jed is asociated with magic. /I he meaning of niavue is said to be spiritual, and price decadent. Not only in gardens, but in numberless idiffcrent tints and shades of woman s ilresses, the eye, in summer, can rarigo over almost the whole scale of cluomatic colouring. As in tho caso of clothes themselves, Ihoso colours that look tho coolest are jiot always the best for reflecting the rays of tbo sun. Just as linen is far Spooler to wear than cotton, so white, Jsvhirh readily absorbs sunshine, is in jreality hotter to wear than black. lied is obviously a hot colour, but jthero aro some of tbo lighter shades of jyellow that aro both pleasant and pi'lexical, ' both from the wearers' and the watchers' point of view. (jreen of course, is a proverbially coo Covering, and despite its ill-founded Segend of arousing tho jealousy of the tfairies and. bringing bail luck, applegreen has been one of the most popular <md fashionable colourings for this season. . Strictly speaking, grey is not a colour liut it can also bo included, hko blue, Among those that are cool. .Silver giey hs a shade that is a popular favourite fwith the Queen. Princess Mary is fond *jf certain shades of yellow. Some of tho new printed dresses offer .Combinations and gradations of colours, "ito satisfy each individual sight and taste. Some "peoplo aro artists in t.io choice of their, surroundings, but all of us aio better able to do good work and enjoy life, if the colour schemes that we live .with are harmonious and not discordant.