The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-06

 1 French houses have laid stress up-
 on peculiar pink tones as the ac-
 cepted color for evening and In mil ! linery.
 1 New York, october 3o.-A buyer who remained late in Paris and who talks entertainingly about the smart things that were worn by European women who had money-and by the reports there are still smart women, good clothes and money in France-said that the French designers had turned out for these women wonderful shade of pink.
 Very little of this color had been im- ported to America. he continued, be- cause our buyers who were there in August and September did not especially care for it. The French women, he said, were tired of brilliant colors, or they were unwilling to accept them in wartime, so they wore an inn mense amount of cream colored cloth, black velvet touched with a brilliant flowered fabric and this new shade of pink which has been called penguin.
 It did not need that remarkable novel by Anatol France to associate penguins with France in the minds of the many. Their peculiar pink and white coloring has often been taken up by the French designers as a new color scheme to spread through the channels Of smart dressing and evidently this autumn was propitious time to again launch pen guin pink.
 IN GOWNS AND HATS
 
 France, was exceptionally gay this sea when the French government stepped in and stopped the dancing and the rou- lette wheel in the middle of a brilliant seance at night. The people were danc- ing the tango with as much avidity as they did in 1913 and these girls say that the scene was as brilliant and costly and alluring as in former times, showing that the men and women had the gayety and the money to bring 1t about. But the French government did not intend that there should be such irreverence toward war, so it hushed the music, stopped the roulette wheel and cast a shadow over the dispensing guests.
 This attitude toward pleasure Is very to the Anglo-Saxon mind. It would be difficult to tell that America
  that England was, If one chanced to pass by the pleasure resorts of the cities.
 However, none of this has to do with the laus.ehing of penguin pink, except In the fact that it was at the Casino at Deauville when gayety was suddenly stopped as though it were highly iin- proper, that penguin pink gowns were worn.
 The people also tell us that the rooms were filled with very smart women wearing the new dinner gown that is just beginning to appear in this coun- try. It Is made of velvet in black or penguin pink and is cut like a twelfth century tunic, with six-inch sleeves as a part of the shoulders and a loose sash girdled round the hips to hold it in place.
 COMBINED WITH CRAY
 The milliners have taken penguin pink velvet ribbon with corrugated surface and made a scarf as a bow of it to ornament the black velvet mushroom hat that is considered extra smart for the day hours. Other milliners have made turbans of penguin pink panne velvet and combined 1t with gray to give an exceedingly artistic effect.
 The hat shown in the sketch Is tur- ban made up of these two colors, with a black velvet brin and an ornament of gray squirrel fur from which two pea cock eyes spring. These ornaments are done in velvet and in fur. There Is a silver cord wrapped around the base of the hat and the whole shape rests well down over the head in the new way that both the French and American milliners demand.