COLOUR CRAZE.
BRILLIANT BEACHES. Bathing and beach fashions have been very gay this year, and some of the very latest designs were shown at Manchester, states a London correspondent. They included scarlet linen plus-fours, bright green shantung shorts with quaint pink skirts, and other equally vivid colour schemes. The craze for brilliance is even affecting such a prosaic institution as the building trade; for, in a recent report on the economic and manufacturing aspects of the building trade, we learn that every kind of quaint rough-sur-faced and gaily-hued brick is in demand, and that only in the north of England is the smooth, old-fashioned, red brick still desired.
Among the new tints are “potpourri,” cherry red,, golden grey, and orange-red plum, while overburnt and misshapen bricks are snapped up like hot cakes, and some makers are even producing bricks with artificially roughened surfaces and uneven “fronts” I
Tapestry, astrakhan, bark, and rug textures are favourite modern styles —in fact, our houses will soon boast a thoroughly futurist outlook.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19124, 8 December 1933, Page 3
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168COLOUR CRAZE. Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19124, 8 December 1933, Page 3
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