Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-03-27
THE SCHEMEOFC COLOR
WHY so MANY WOMEN PRESENT An
uNATTRAcTIyE APPEARANCE.

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uNATTRAcTivE APPEARANCE.
a Proper Respect For Contour II Nos
shewn in the selection Of Rsinent- Col
or For the Fleshy Woman, Others For
the Thin Ons--whste Salts All.
One sees 70 many women presenting AZ
unatrractiye appearance, which inspection
shows TO be unnecessary, that the wish
comes ipyoluntarily that some one would
instruct them as TO their good points and.
ignoring their vanities. aA to their bad
points TOO. For instance. a woman whose
200 pounds Of ayoirdupois ought to be ont
Of sight as much as may BE- will be found
putting every ounce Of her weight in evi-
slcrce in big plaid which has taken her
fancy, or which she has an idea diminishes
distance. but every line Of which Is in real
ity like chalk mark TO fix the glance and
rest il and let it begin again. And il she
has not arrayed herself in a plaid she has
encircled and magnified her form with riif,
fes that increase her circumference like
halos round the moon.
Yet such woman should preferably
wear black or the darkest shade OF invisi-
bic green, blue or prnne color, and should
always remember that the cnt of her clothes
which allows long lines OF slow curves is
that which will make her seem less I'M
wieldy than any other. Yet, strange con
tradiction, few things are more becoming
to n large woman than white cambria or
muslin or india silk. 1t acknowledges at
once that she Is stout, but 1t gives her stout
ness an air OF wholesomeness and sweetness
that oyerbaianccs any disad vantage OF 81.
perfuons eesh.
White indeed Is one Of the colors that
are becoming to almost oil women, espe-
cialIy with ribbons or flowers Of the colors
that suit them best. And next to white
fair and rosy woman seldom looks so well
in anything as In pale pink; she may be al
most plain, and n white dress and pink rib
bons will make her seem lovely. Pink, the
delicate pink with yellow cast in 1t, Is
peculiarly suitable to the red haired woman
who has clear complexion; yet such .
woman should avoid scarlet and crimson
as she would fire. Pale blue suits her, but
shewill look delicate and perhaps little
pinched in It; in pale green she will be as
fresh MS Galatea-other things being equal;
in dark green, AS blooming as wood nymph;
and there nre tints of terra Gotta and brown
bronze that will shade up to her hair and
minglc with it as II she were picture.
But all women should bear In mind that
the brightest and most striking colors, like
yellow and scarlet are seldom to be used
In mass except for very striking effects
and MS luxury, and in the ornament rath-
er than in the body of u toilet. Ii they
are Of the blown and blowzy Sort the high
colors will only make their defect more
noticeable. and il they are Of the washed
out and gray skinned type then the coii-
.rast is disagreeabe The former variety
can tone themselves down, as we have said:
the latter would best accept their fate, and
they will 6ud themselves in the dull blues
and soft rose colors much pleasanter OBJ
jects to the eye than in anything abrupt, or
even in the grays and browns that make
then, seem all of piece and Us if they were
fading out Of sight.
But, again, the woman who has no avoir-
dupois Mt all, whose contours best represent
the shortest distance between two points,
should put far away from her black and all
the deeper shades. but especially black, as
its own poverty Is reflected on every surface
it approaches. She il already thin, and
then black makes her seem like mere ex-
clamation point. and unless she is of rather
extraordinary beauty makes her look
much older than she is and now as gray as
ED and now as yellow as u lemon. 1t needs
n very fine color indeed in black not to
look sallow.
The woman in middle life who wears her
widows weeds deliberately places herself
as an old woman, as she will discover by
the chance remarks of the man in the cars
who gets up to give theold woman his seat,
or Of the mother who reproves her boy for
running against the old lady. There is, in
fact, as much art in the choosing of colors
for dress as In any other scheme Of decora-
ton. Properly observed, it must not only
increase the charm of good looks, but it can
make something like beauty where under
other circumstances beauty does not exist
-Ifarpers Bazar.