ABOUT COLOUR.
Physiological scieuco, wo are told, lias a general principle that a given colour induces its opposite or " complementary " colour. It is well known that a girl looks paler in hlaclc than in any other colour, because a black evening dress, for instance, makes her skin look whiter. Only a girl with a clear complexion can wear white or light grey, but girls with dark or muddy complexions may safely wear browns, reds, yellows or greens. The lighter or more delicate tints are trying to women whose complexions are dark. Light is another consideration. No woman could look well in a greenish light, yet Lhis is just what is thrown 011 the faco when a woman wears a hat with semitransparent green brim. She looks simply " ghastly," and so would Cleopatra havo done in the sarno circumstances.
Large hats havo " coma back " with the advent of the long skirt. At garden parties especially are they-at their largest and prettiest.' t
A writer from London remarks that at an afternoon party recently at Buckingham Palaca it was not the women in long frocks who looked the best.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20740, 6 December 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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187ABOUT COLOUR. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20740, 6 December 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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