Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-11-16
CoLoRING IN FASHION.
H~armoniOua Effects Sought - How
They Are Obtained-A Lon
don View.

While accessory colorings were never
richer or more varied, Dame Fashion
commends quite sober tones for the
orickwork of costume; and this is as IL
should be, for it is the sober fabric that
gives the pretty vitalizing note OF ac-
cessory color it's chance. l have just
seen a bundle of winter colorings, prln-
cipal and accessory, and am charmed
with the whims l find there, says a
writer in Westminster Gazette. Thls
bundle dates from a most artistic nrm'
and, taking first the quieter colorlngs
chat one would advise for what call
the brickwork of a costume), n is
fascinated with, for instance, a bulrush
brown-such a charming greenlsh
brown, that inclines to green just as a
snuff brown inclines to red.
And then there is a shade called mush-
room-such a possible tone for
or vivid pinks or turquoise as Access
sories-a fascinating, sober and I'M
usual tone. And then, near akin, there
Is moleskin color, a term born OF the
mania for moleskin coats, which, having
by no means died out, will result In
moleskin colored cloths of many KINDS
to provide skirts to match the coats.
1t is quite recognized now that a FUR
coat and the skirt worn therewlth
should fall into line with each other,
just as do the coat and skirt OF the
tailor costume. Among these cloths
find a brown absolutely identifying IT.
self with sealskin, and another perfect
for mink, and grays of many SHADES,
suggesting squirrel and chinch1lla and
astrakhan, and among these grays
there is that new tone, that dark gray
which may be called elephant hide. or
London smoke, or dark stone-whlch-
ever name you please-which is par
ticularly pleasing, and has to be treated
quite differently from the pale, cold
tones of gray.
Pale grays always ask for a light and
delicate handling, with laces and acces-
sorry tones pale and cool also; but this
dark stone gray has a stronger diges-
ton and loves a vivid accessory-a hat,
for instance, massed with vivid pinks or
with shaded mauves or shaded yellows
or the brightest turquoise blue; and II
Is this affinity for the vitalizing acces-
sorry tones that should make this new
dark gray a great favorite this coming
winter.
In planning a winter costume with an
eye to ones whole effect from top to
toe" one meditates whether to have a
hat carrying out the main color OF a cos
tune, or that of the accessory in the
embroideries, or the blouse worn there
with. 1t is not a question Of good or OF
bad taste, but of eXpediency and the be-
coming. Some faces look better with
the whole surrounding of one color
while others are improved by the break
Ing in of bright, contrasting notes In
the hat, etc.
And then the color itself enters into
| the question in another way. In darl
| gray or brown, for instance, a whole
framework can be very becoming, u In
dark blue or black or purple or green the
result might not be quite so happy.
Such matters are, however, best set
tied by actual experiment and the aid
of the ever faithful mirror and a second
| opinion. There are charms in both
schemes of arrangement, only 1t must
be remembered that with an alone
| color scheme there should be a play OF
textures and surface.