Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-04-30

| that art comes in. And one should have no
more preference for one color over another
than one has for one note on the piano over
It's neighbor Nor are there any sad colors.
There are bad colors. such as Albert blue,
and magenta, and arsenic green, and the
colors OF anihne dyes generally, but a good
color alwa,s gives one pleasure. And the
tertiary and secondary colors are for general
use the safest, they do not show wear
easily, and besides give one a sense Of re-
pose and quiet. A dress should not be like
a steam-v hisile, for all that w. Worth may
say.
Then as regards pattern 1t should not
be too definite. 4 strongly marked check,
for instance. has many disadvantages. To
begin with it makes the slightes, inequality
in the figure. such as between the two
shoulders. very apparent then II is difficult
TO Join the pattern accurately at the seams
and lastly, it dlsiracts the eve away from
The proportions of the figure. and gives the
mere details an ahnor nal importance.
Then. again, the pattern should not be too
big. mention this, because | happened
latel, in London to be looking for some
stamped gra, plush or velvet, suitable for
making cloak of. Ever, shop ,ha, | went
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patterns. things far too bug for an ordinary
wall paper. far too big for ordlnar, curtains.
things, IN fact. that would require large
public building to show them off TO any ad-
Vantage. entrea,ed the shopman to show
me pattern that would be in some rational
and relative proportion 10 the figure of
somebody who was not oVer ten or twelve
feet in height. lie replied that he was ex-
frcmeiy sorry but thai i; was impossible
the smaller patterns were no longer being
woven. IN fact the bug pattern, were the
fashion Now when he SAID the word fash
ion. he mentioned What is the great enemy
- MT III THIS century, as IN all centuries.
Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon
Ia". Fashion Is ephrmrral Art y eternal.
Indeed what - fashion really \ fashie n
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IrteArab.c that We have to alter II every
>,N months Il i, quite clear that we're II
beautiful aud rational We would not alter
ANYTHING that combined those two rare
qualities. Ana wherever dress has been So
it has renamed unchanged 10 'aw and pfin-
ciple for msny hundred wears And # auy
ot my practical friends in the States refuse
10 ucnIEe the value Of tic permancnce OF
aT,l>tlc laws, | am quite ready 10 rest the
pp.n' entirely on an economic basis. The
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