Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-12-25
COLCRTNG IN FASHION.
They Are Obtained-A Lon
don View.

While accessory coiorings were never
richer or more varied. Dame Fashion
commends quite sober tones for the
,rickwork of costume; and this is as it
should be, for it is the sober fabric that
gives the pretty vitalizing note Of ac-
,essOry color it's chance. I have just
cen bundle of winter colorings, prin-
sipa1 and accessory, and am charmed
With the whims I find there, says a
writer in Westminster Gazette. This
bundle dates from most artistic firm,
and, taking first the quieter colorings
THAT one would advise for what call
The brickwork of a costume), one is
fascinated with, for instance, bulrush
,roWn-such charming greenlsh
brown, that inclines to green just as
snuff brown inclines to red.
And then there is shade called mush-
:oom-such a possible tone for natives
,r vivid pinks or turquoise as acces-
sories-a fascinating, sober and I'M
Usual tone. And then, near akin, there
mo1eskin color, term born OF the
mania for moleskin coats, which, having
by no means died out, will result in
moleskin colored cloths of many kinds
20 provide skirts to match the coats.
It is quite recognized now that fur
coat and the skirt worn Herewith
should fall into line with each other,
Just as DO the coat and skirt of the
tailor costume. Among these cloths
ind brown absolutely Identifying it.
self with sealskin, and another perfect
for mink, and grays of many shades,
suggesting squirrel and chinchilla 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-which-
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 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 vivid accessory-a hat,
for instance, massed with vivid pinkS or
with shaded mauves or shaded yellows
Or the brightest turquoise blue; and it
is this affinity for the vitalizing acces-
sorry tones that should make this new
dark gray great favorite this coming
winter
III planning 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
ambroideries, 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 dark
gray or brown, for instance, a whole
framework can be very becoming, butin
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 second
opinion. There are charms in both
schemes of arrangement, only it must
| be remembered that with an alone
color scheme there should be play OF
| textures and surface.