The Portland daily press., 1881-05-11
What to Wear.

Brunettes may wear ambers and all yellows,
browns, maroons, leds, olive green, and very
dark blue, especially in velvet. They cannot,
as "A rule, wear light or medium blue, though
some who have brilliancy of complexion can
wear pale blue. Light green's, grays, purples,
and all shades of purple must lie avoided by
the brunette. However, if she has black hair,
pale, smooth skin, and blue Or gray eyes she
may wear both reds and blues in all shades,
cream white and pure white, blush gray, black
and stone-color. III her eyes are dark she may
add amber and almost eli shades of yellow.
She may wear diamonds, topaz, garnet coral,
and Etruscan gold iewelry. Women who have
chestnut hair, pale, smooth skin, and hazel
eyes must not indulge fancy for reds, bril-
liant yelows or medium blues. They may
wear purples, all eyasive pale shades of yell
lows, olive green's, very dark and very light
blue, and creamy white. Corals, turquoises,
and small diamonds set with other Jewels in
dull gold or platinum, as we'll as enameled, mo-
sale, and cameo jewelry, are permitted to wo-
men of this type
is legion in number-are usually called plain,
because they are not brilliant but to offset
this are often endowed with great delcacy of
form, refinement OF expression, and fine eyes,
but they have dull, ashy-brown hair, and no
brilliancy of complexion. Their eyes are oft
ener grayish-blue than brown OR hazel Red is
not becoming to these women, and they should
not wear tawn-color nor gray. Brown is just
as bad. Black, particularly black velvet, white,
particularly creamy-whte wooden fabrics, wa
ter-blue, hush-rose, black and white laces: let,
pink cameo, delicately enameled jewalry,-all
these are becoming to such women. They
must avoid tan-color, grays bluish-white, pro-
nounced blues, yelows, reds and browns
Golden blondes, with rosy compilations, NAV
wear blue-white, all shades of blue, rose-pink
all shades of green, yellow and purple; but, of
all colors, red must be avoided.
Blue-eyed girls who are not red haired, and
those with greensh-gray eyes, with prominent
transparent corneas, can, by wearing a blue
dress or blue ribbons, or turquoise jewelry,
enhance the blueness and briliiancy of the
eyes. The "rossas" can never wear pink, but
must confine themselves to white of a creamy
hue, gendarme blue of az deep tone, invisible
or bottle-green, olive-green, gray-green (never
bright gray), stone-gray, claret, maroon, plum,
amethyst, or brownish purple, dirk amber,
reds with an amber tint, pale yellow, and dark
brown. Velvet is the fabric above all others
which should be freely used in the toilet of the
rossas. Pearls, amber and gold ornaments are
becoming to them. Diamonds are too fashy
They should dress in either very dark or very
light colors Grays, drabs. yelows, bright
blue, bright green, mauve, lilac and rose do
not become them. They may wisely wear
black, dark blue, dark violet pearl and cream
white, water-blue and the paest tints of Nile
green By studying these points, any woman
can soon tell what colors are most becoming to
her, and thereafter wear only those that suit
her BEST for it is her bounden duty to look as
we'll as nature-with q little assistance on those
particular points-will permit.