New Names for Old Colours.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 12, 21 March 1908, Page 67

New Names for Old Colours.

.The invention of new names for old colours is exercising the ingenuity of the dress experts. Every season a familiar shade makes its appearance under an unknown title. The flower and kitehen gardens, the Store cupboard and wine cellar, the fishmonger’s and jeweller’s have been searched for appropriate terms this year. The result has been crowned with success, and the ambition of the dress artist, which has been to make the new names as weird as possible, has been realised, remarks a Home paper. To purchase a blue gown is impossible. You must ask for mirage, hydrangea, pale sky or azure. If none of these shades please the fancy, it is possible to select from siffleur, sapho, Delft, jacinth, or Eden. r If a darker shade, for economy’s sake, js required, it is out of date to ask for navy blue. Royal, matelot, bluet, marine Neptune, and indigo must be inspected instead. - Mauve as a shade is in the height of fashion; as a name it is relegated to the days of our grandmothers. Iris, amethyst, tulip, clematis, lilac, campanula, wistaria, and vieux heliotrope reign in its stead. The red shades of mauve, so becoming to the brunette, have been named anemone, minuit, petunia, glycine, gracieusd, and Roma. •■No smart woman will own a pink frock this year. She. must rename her favourite colour shrimp, salmon, coral, Bengali, Laurier, strawberry, raspberry, rosewood, and.Acajon. Two new’ names are Seda, and rose of the Alps, while cherry brandy Coquelicot, pavot, and : wine are terms used to describe the deeper shades of red and scarlet. - Green is a colour that no woman will consent to wear, as its meaning is *‘jilted.” ■ Her little superstition has been encouraged this year, and she can clothe herself in amande, Volga, Niger, reseda, mahonia, mousse, bronze, myrtle, emerald, aloes, chartreuse, sage, Ganges, Neva and Russe. © © ©