Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-29
Some CoIors That
Will Harmonic

| The combination of colors in dress dis
plays more forcibly than any other one
point the excellent or bad taste of the
| "earer. OF course it cannot be expected
that every woman shall possess a true eye
! for harmony of tone, because this faculty
! Is Unborn and cannot be acquired. but
| there is certain color sense-as it were
that all women can cultivate.
| For instance. the new wistaria shade
and pale pastel blue are lovely in COM
! bination given the right quantities, such
as hat of pale vistaria felt, trimmed
with pale vlolets and touch of pastel
! blue. But a blue hat decorated with vio-
! lets will look fiat and cold SO that 8,
touch of black would be necessary to give
! it life
Pure violet and pale blue simply clash.
A deep shade of prune harmonizes with
| pale blue. and SO does a pastel blue and
! Blush violet.
Blue and yellow are effective together
by TINS l do not mean that any shades
| in any kind of proportion may be COM
| bined. But a dark blue cloth may be or
namented with d touch of sulphur or mus
tard color or braided with gold, and will
| be effective, but yellow frock decorated
with navy ribbons will not be a success
| pale blue sash worn with a pale lemon
! frock will be pretty, and so will a leg
i horn hat Wreathed in cornflOwers
| Deep Blue and Dark Red Effective.
Deep blue and dark red are safe com
| bination; the former, however, must pre-
dominate. y blue dress may be trimmed
with red. not red with blue. Pale pink
and pale blue come under the same rule
the pink must be in lesser proportion
Tan. which is really orange mixed with
black, looks pretty with almost any shade
OF blue. and the gray blues are effective
with a touch of tan.
| There is an attractive, undecided green
! that has touch OF yellow in 1t that har-
moniZes with the new wistara and hello
| trope tones, also with certain tintS OF old
| rose.
The genuine shades of heliotrope COM
bine prettiiy with dull pale yellow Olive
! green is particularly successful when put
with copper color. Very faint touches of
shell pink will brighten olive green and
| the same delicate tone will be effective
used lining to coppery brown
| Emerald green with pale blue is often
! pleasing in effect
Gray is attractive when combined with
pale pink rose color pale yellow, lemon
or burnt orange. All shades of brown on
the golden. chestnut, chocolate or leather
F., shades may he safely combined with
( either blue green.
Due regard. however must be given in
| selecting the shades TO go together A
good plan is to take bit of the brown
| material when buying trimmings and keep
| testing with the various shades of green
that will be found in the store before
| making a selection If the buyer lacks
! confidence in her own taste the sales per-
son will always be ready to give an opin-
! ion.
Rules That Govern Color
| few rules TO follow are these: When
| two colors do not look well together sep
arate them with white whenever possible
| Many persons possess an idea that every
combination can be toned with black
| This is a mistake.
Black lowers the tnts when placed in
| contact with them. but it becomes dull in
| itself. besides imparting a certain amount
| of dullness to the coiors. White, on the
contrary, takes a tinge of the colors it
| seeks to modify, thus lessening the dead
Wilderness and at the same time lessening
| the intensity of the tones with which it
! is combined.
| Black and white is always safe com
| bination, and a-small proportion of any
chosen color will not destroy the artistic
effect of these two.