Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-16
What Red Haired
Women Should Wear
BY MYs. LESLIE CARTER

red hair She is debarred from ready
made clothes and the home MADE ap-
parel is equally impossible, because II
would take an unusually artistic Wom-
an to discover and select suitable ma
terials in those delicate shades that are
most becoming to red hair.
When l say that red-headed women
should choose the pastel shades, am
proposing at once an expensive scheme.
The bargain counter pastel SHADES, OIL
which am told there DIRE great many
on the market, are, Of course, a good
male-shift for women of moderate IN
come, but the well-dressed woman has
a difficult conscience when she is cursed
with red hair There are exquisite dec
orative effects particularly adapted 10
blend and catch in their vagrant shad-
ings a charming reflection of the hair
itself
Any fashionable dressmaker who has
genius for her trade can explain this
feature better than L can. OF course,
womans height and figure have
great bearing upon the holder, almost
classic designs in dress fabrics of the
pastel variety. 1t is my impression that
the more interesting and unique the de-
signs or embroidery of these faprlcs
can be the more adaptable are they to
the woman with red hair. small,
slender woman can wrap herself, as IN
a veil of exquisite shades of color, with
out any figure design on the gown it
self.
The main chance for beauty, which
the ed-headed woman is always strug-
Cling to acquire lies in selecting non-
committal colors. Greens and yelloWs,
daring red, pinks, in fact any OF the
primal colors are forbidden for the red
headed woman. Also, avoid color con-
trasts that clash and antagonize red
hair.
The jewelers. art has perhaps solved
the language of color more perfectly
than dressmakers While there has
been an attempt among manufacturers
of women's dress goods to follow the
artistic sense of the jewelers., it has not
been so successfully fulfilled as it might
be. A woman with red hair, being
usually STAMPED by nature with eX-
IRENE beauty, or with excessive ugl-
ness must possess an original gilt OF
her own by which she discovers what is
best for her to wear. Colors that have
been toned by shade OF mist over
them and colors that have suggestion
of emerging brilliancy are particularly
effective for women with red hair.
The amethyst in all it's delicate
variety of shadings; the tender violets,
the softer browns, the mauves, the
rosebud pinks, blended with deeper
blush rose, certain shades of green thar
never SHOW GREEN SACOpb ouooSh
lights, all these are fair suggestions
that occur to me at the moment, as
adaptable to the woman with red hair.
OF course, we can also take into con-
sideration that there are many shades
of red hair that modify the selection of
suitable colors. Those women who
have been cursed with the same kind
of hair that l have will be greatly
troubled as / have been.
There is nothing so safe perhaps and
SO satisfactory in it's impression as
white. All women, of course, have not
the height or the figure to carry white
without giving an intrusive appearance
in a room, but If the gown is made in
the classic lines it gives tone and
quality of unobstrusiveness, which Is
the desire of most women who have red
hair.
1 suppose brown is the safest of all
colors, however, but few women care to
efface themselves in so modest a color. |
Isn't it difficult?
Not at all, if you take into considera-
ton that after all there is really a GER
tain distinction in red hair, which can
be developed to a high artistic achieve
ment by the woman who carefully
studies the true values of pastel colors: