Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-26
Up-to-Date Hints in Selecting Shades
and Tones.
MISTAKES ADD YEARS TO LOOKS
Nearly All Compilations improved
by Wearing White.
GOOD RULE TO TRY EFFECT
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, August "a, 1890.
Who, a few short years ago, would have
combined green and blue on the same
frock? Yet now it is common occurrence.
In fact, the only frock which June bride
made up her mind she must have as she
wanted 1t was Of dark blue grenadine over
apple green silk. And her blue and green
gown was the most becoming and effective
In her wardrobe. Thus, as we are emancl
pated from blindly following any combina-
ton of colors or any color scheme save
that which is artistic, let US look carefully
to the matter, for on our own taste and
perception of what is becoming to us will
our appearance depend, now that pink and
lavender, once sworn enemies. are cheer
fully made up together at the behest of any
woman who says to her dressmaker, Let
1t be thus and So.
And high time, indeed, is it that a word
of warning was given as to the seriousness
of this color scheme. No matter how ex-
quisite the gown, how well cut nor how well
made, 1t is utterly unbecoming If the shades
and tones in 1t are not those which bring
out the best points of its owner Did you
ever know woman with drab hair, gray
ish green eyes and pale skin who did not
have a fondness for wearing gray, and
usually stone gray at that? Also turquoise
blue-most trying of all shades. I actually
knew one woman whose skin and hair had
those gray tones in 1t who put on gray
when she was about twenty-five and has
been wearing it ever since-no matter how
long. I cannot deny that she married, and
married well enough. but l often imagine
what different looking creature she would
be If she did not persist in being the same
color from the top Of her head to her
ankles
When Black Is Becoming.
Then there is black. Just as soon as
woman gets what is called an uncertain age
she begins to think about wearing black. If
she will wear it, why does she not do SO
when her cheeks are red her skin white
and no traces of wrinkles betray lifes dis
cipline upon her face. This is not diatribe
against wrinkles. In themselves they give
much more expression than face can ever
have before bitter experience carves them
there. But they should be softened, not
emphasized Gray-haired women with rosy
cheeks-and there are many of them-look
well in black. Even then there should be
a touch of white about it. Rufhes at neck
and wrist. or a touch of lace. silk or satin
on the front of the bodice. And when one
is stout black has undoubted advantages,
but not unrelieved black Artistic creations
in black such as one can get from high
priced modistes. are hardly included in the
denunciation against black, unwrinkled. un-
trimmed and severe as 1t is adopted by the
woman who puts 1t &n as the famous beauty
rouge when she was thirty. If rouge is ever
permissible, certainly it is when one has
reached an age when the color begins to
fade. Yet that was the time the lady who
was considered SO shreWd elected to give it
up. And just when she begins to grow
bit sallow is the time the unwise woman
turns from colors. some of which might
hide times ravages. Sallow women or wo-
men with dark skins had better take to
blazing scarlet as a perpetual dress rather
than to black, which they very often affect
alleging that nothing makes them beautiful
Perhaps not. But nothing is further re-
moved from beautiful them than this
same somber black.
Stylish Combined With White.
White and black, of course, are quite a
different affair. There is nothing quite as
dashing as the white and black gowns nor
nothing so smart. And there is nothing
somber about them
The number of women who cannot wear