What to Wear With Them.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue VI, 9 August 1902, Page 380

What to Wear With Them.

A woman who has a red face will not wear emeralds. A woman with a poor complexion does not improve it by pearls. Those lovely and innocuous ornaments really derive their chief lustre from a transparent skin, as they depend largely on reflected lights. A woman whose face, however beautiful, takes greenish tints in the shadows should avoid rubies, especially pink ones, and roseate topazes. A face may have these greenish tints without damage to beauty, remember. Every face has a great deal of green in it, as a portrait painter will tell you. Giotto painted the loveliest angels conceivable, and all his pupils made the shadows on girls’ faces startlingly green, and the eyes green, too, sometimes, and yet we receive the impression of exquisite delicacy and brilliancy. Still, red is the complimentary of green, and if the dress should be pink, and no help for it, the jewels nearer the face ought to counteract it.