Evening star., 1921-03-13
French Women Rival Those
of Egypt in Colors Worn

|or-black taffetas with mother-of-
pearl embroidery. What. what? you
say. black and mother-of-pearI? just
wait minute-and 'fre-colored"
splashes. They are little ornamental
splashes of new "fire-colored" satin.
Everybody said: This is what we
are coming to-"
A Nd thus do we COME to it. A new
cut of waist. called a blouse
vest" has come in to show off this
| idea of loud color splashes in the
opening of a jacket or a tailor-made
| coat. These "blouse-vests" are made
of supple. shimmering stuffs. with
vivid color designs, Chinese flowers
! embroideries. pleated and folded rib
bons. narrow galloon and shining
! buttons.
Some of these vivid colors are quite
new. Others have already been seen
in reception pajamas" of heavy
J Innings of exclusive" dressy wraps
i Now they enter the full life of femi-
ninity by way of the little blouse
vests" which every one. even mere
| men. will soon be noticing.
And now the step further. 1t has
already been taken. There is no
Withdrawing. Parade gowns. for
| great occasions, already display the
yet louder color effects originally re-
ferred to. They are so vivid that
their like has not been seen. it may
, be confidently affirmed, since the wild
old days of color and romance in
,, the court of the French and the
Italian renaissance.
1t is color riot all along the line.
Festoons of roses around the low
waist line are already familiar TO the
eye. And vines with leaves and grape
clusters, and brilliant fuli-blown'
artificial flowers. not buds: and
dropping ostrich feathers and falling
rose sprays. all are being used to
drape the female form "divinely.
Such evening gowns present their
own curious variations of the new
| color schemes. Light. yielding stuns
! of screeching tints are draped with
| black lace and fringe girdle 10 tone
! down their calliOpe hymnings. sump-
i tuous velvet is embroidered with
pearls of silver or draped with snowy
! Spanish lace.
! Headgear. be sure-and in all it's
| new shapes-is being made to use
as much loud color as can possibly
! shining brick-red cherries, sick
| Chinee dwarf oranges and purple
{ grapes with the velvet bloom On ,em !;
! and flowers such as no iniiilonaire
! hothouse never grew-kihs plue'
! live lilac. red maroon. pink porto.
| prophet green and goodness knows
| what colors, all good strong ones and
NO pasteIs, are seen on ladies' hats.
/ And il is affirmed. they have come TO
stay.
! Nothing else in sight.
TN word. the affair is big. An
; see it at the first glance in NiceG
! is to make the loud flowers swear
! horribly at the noisy fruits. so TO
| sneak, on the same gentle 1ady's head.
! A bright red-pink cabbage rose hud-
| dies up to q bunch of shrieking pur-
! pie cherries. Dark pansies lie on Inc
/ edge of grape clusters OF q soioeh
| color that makes your head SWIM.
! Clustering pink-and-yellow apples
! whoop from a daisy wreath
/ An authority in colors says tnat, IN
| his belief women never before. In any
| country, cline or age. have worn sucn
! bright colors. or SO many OF them, ana
| such juxtapositions Of colors on their
J persons.
! the Roman Emperor Hadrian's splen-
| did court in Egypt, by the Nile. was
| excavated and the dry sand had pre-
served intact the bright colors OF It's
| great ladies' last fnery. That's OF the
| was one Of them: that is to say. the
| real That's was found. Color schemes
were there found with them which
| made Paris dressmakers recoil with
| woDderment and doubt that they could
! ever "take"-that woman could.
, would or would dare wear them-such
! as wide strips Of garnet red on apple
/ green.
| All right.
( This year That's herself would admit
] that the modern world has gone old
| Egypt one better!
STERLING HEILIG.