THE FAIRIES' COLOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 11998, 21 February 1903, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE FAIRIES' COLOUR.

I am told (writes Lady "Violet Greville) that green is to be the favourite colour in Paris this winter. There is always a nivstery about green. It is Ireland's colour, it is the fairies' colour, it is supposed to be unlucky to some particular families, and is regarded with suspicion by others. It is the colour said to indicate an artistic spirit; it is decadent and modern, and is extremely unbecoming to the sallow. And yet, of all colours, it is the most restful and, in the correct tints, the most ladylike for dress. The green bedroom overlooking the orchard is the one that lends itself to pleasant thoughts and agreeable dreams, that tempts to good humour and repose. My lady's boudoir all hung with green reminds one of a rustic bower; the garden room, opening on to the greensward and the roses, is the cosiest room in the house. Green is always right in Nature; it is only we poor humans who make a mess of it wnen we try to use it for the adornment of our bodies. The dark, the muddy-com-plexioned, the heavy-featured, should avoid it like poison; but apple-green, willowgreen, moonlight green—what marvellous effects cannot be made out of them in cunning hands! Green is the colour of hope, of youth, of spring, of love. The woman who can wear green—her own peculiar shade of green—is fortunate. Green reminds one of still waters, of lush meadows, of the wave, of the chrysopra.se, and the emerald, and the glories of the fai-l-last.