Subtle Shades in Royal Tweeds

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23281, 25 February 1939, Page 6 (Supplement)

Subtle Shades in Royal Tweeds

CINCE the Queen finds black unbeher favourite pastel colours owing to •her bereavement not long ago, she has been delighted by the ingenuity displayed in achieving half-mourning shades, which are applied to tweels; laces, silks for evening wear, and to a particularly supple type of wool moracain which is ideal for afternoon dresses, while even furs are being dyed to match, wrote a London correspondent recently. .The tints are a little difficult to describe, though "grey with ah undercurrent" is'perhaps fairly correct, for the dominant colour is, as it were, "shot," sometimes with blush pink, sometimes with blue, jade or primrose, but still, without losing its main characteristic, American buyers have been on the qui vive, and as soon as the Queen's final, selections are known they will catch the next boat to the States with samples, from which big orders are expected—fox- Queen Elizabeth's tastes - in dress are widely followed abroad..