Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-07-20
A WARM-wEATHER HINT.
Women Should Look Cool, No Matter How
Warm They May Be.

are broiling around you-a point of re-
pose to weary eyes, an oasis in the
desert; as the Orientals say, a rose of
pleasure" and nutmeg of delight"
1t will flatter your vanity and please
your friends. 1t does not require money
to do it, it needs only taste-that is to
say, a little knowledge of the laws of
esthetics. Choose cool colors for
your gowns. Wear blue; it will make
you look cool if you are at fever
heat. Why is this? Because it is
the color of cold things-of winter
clouds, of the sea, of icebergs, of snow
in shadow, of darkness falling into
night. In symbolism it signifies the
air-the wind which bloweth where it
listeth-the azure air. Its analogy in
music is to the runs and trills of Haydn's
sonatas-water falling over stones
while its opposite, scarlet, suggests the
hot blare of a trumpet. If blue does
not become you choose color related
to it-green-not yellow-green, but
graygreen, like wood moss-or violet,
the last color of the clouds before night
settles down.
Do not go in for severity of line in
your garments. Form appeals to the
intellect in winter, when the mind is
braced for exercise. In winter the
senses are inactive. Did you never OBJ
serve how a plain, shabby garment,
which looks we'll enough in cold
weather. becomes utterly impossible in
summer? 1t is because the senses wake
up with the heat and peremptorily de-
mand to be pleased.
Besides this, severe forms are not in
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shifty-multiform, infinite in variety.
These things should be suggested in
your dress with flowing and broken
lines-cascades of lace, loose ribbons,
whatever a breath of air may catch and
stir. Thus gratifed, the eye will be
content to miss the forest leaves and
the wind-stirred grass. Thus art will
be in tune with nature.
At the same time avoid garments
which appear to have required an eff
fort to make, or which seem complex in
construction, for the effort will impose
itself upon the eye, and too many ideas
will induce fatigue. The wool en-
broidered crowns now in the market,
for example, suggest labor to which
the ornamental effect is totally in
adequate, and they are, therefore,
tiresome. There should be an appear
ance of simplicity, a single idea in
the design, however great the variety.
For illustra ton, if color appears as a
lining let it appear as lining through
out the garment, and not as other forms
of trimming also-bands or founces-for
thus you multiply ideas and sacrifice re-
pose.
If you choos a figured gown do not
let the pattern be of geometric solids or
of intricacies of any sort, as designs
treated perspectively or in naturalistic
detail, for these speak to the mind, not
to the sense.
/ remember gown last summer of a
black ground strew charmingly with
purple clover. The eye rested upon it
with delight and children were heard
besieging it's owner to wear her GLOVER
gown" The reason japanese designs
are so pleasing is because they speak
simply to the sight and require no ST
fort to understand.
The Orientals know what is agreea-
BILE to the senses. Study them. They
make great use of embroidery, but the
appears no effort in it, and the effect is
it is on thin cotton cloth, which cum
ningly makes the breezes visible. The
subjects, all contrived to please the
sense, are of clouds and waves, wing.
ing butterflies, moonlight on water
and reeds bending in the wind, and
they are just sufficiently suggested tc
set in play the imagination.
For your parasol choose a bamboo
| stick, and put by the one of black with
it's trimmings of silver, which bear the
marks of the furnace. Do not believe
that what the shop-keepers say is the
fashion is good enough, but when yor
go shopping take your taste with yor
along with your pocl1etbook.
Excitement means heat. Do not pant
nor eXclaim, nor swing fan violently
Keep your nerves cool.
! Ice knocking about in Il pitcher is a.
effective as drop of several degrees il
the mercury, and other sounds sugges
GOODNESS. The tinlxle of bracelets may
call to mind running water, as flashing
| gems give the look of it. A music boz
is tolerable on hot day; the mandolin
not the organ, is in tune with the time
and sonatas, not oratorios, fall CRATE
fully on the ear. If you would hav,
the tones of your voice in harmony
with the time, they must express hope
Joy, or even acknowledgement
but nervous impatience. Though yol
may feel neither of these emotions vol
must sacrifice to one of them to pro
| duce an effect.
For the rest make your setting ha1
monious. Do not give the eye any la
Dor; it wants TO rest and .luxuriate
Take down t,on your rooms all tn
bold reds and browns and replace then
with soft, mild blues and grays, and d.
not weaken when you come to tn
question of discarding objects costly O
beautiful in themselves. If you meal
to produce an effect you must sacrifo
to your ideal Do you not remembe
what repCse there is in pictures whic1
are painted in light cool tones? nee,
only 20 mention Corot. But if you
rooms must be dark let them be al
dark, with no strong contrasts, for
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