New-York tribune., 1921-03-06
Inspiration Drawn from the Rainbow
A Cay Spring

~TElKING ana unusual color
combinations are appearing in
~ spring and summer clothes.
fashions cannot remain stationary,
Il Is ali very we'll to talk about find
ing the most becoming style and ad-
herring to it, but we must have
change in dress as in everything else.
II each woman held continuously to
The type most becoming to her our
clothes would become as uninterest-
ing ss mems. Individuality would
disappear. We would not only lose
interest In dress, but likewise lose
interest in making ourselves appear
at our best at all times. The de-
pressing influences resulting from
tho enforcement Of the Volst4ad act
would fade into insignifcance when
compared with lack Of interest in
vomen's clothes.
The psychology Of clothes is ex-
tremely interesting and much deeper
than is generally supposed. A grow
ing tendency toward simplicity Of
cut In dress has been very marked.
The simple styles are preferred to
any others at the present time.
From among the numberless types
that designers have attempted to
launch in order to create q demand
for something new, which always
stimulates business, the woman who
buys and who eventually decides the
fashions has unfalteringly chosen
the straightline dress, with nothing
rev about It as far as silhouette is
concerned.
Simple Silhouette
And Lavish Colors
THERE must inevitably come a
day when this will pass from the
foreground Of fashions unless the
history Of clothes is to be absolutely
reyolutionized, but from all appear
ances that day is still in the dis
tance.
Since dressnskers have been com
PEELED by popular demand to hold to
Silhouette in vogue for some time
they have rcsorted to embroideries
and very lavish trimmings in order
to.get new effects. They spared no
effort to make these beautiful and
alluring. Clothes were literally COW
cred with them. But beautiful as
these embroideries were, drawing
their inspirations, as they did, from
the art, both ancient and modern, Of
many nations, they ran a swift and
brief course. Embroideries still are
used, it is true, but not to cover en-
tire garments as they did last
season.
Now, color Is tho thing. IN the
cotton dresses for warm midsuun1et
days the brightest Of tints, hitherto
unknown in cottons, are profuse.
Street dresses must have color intro
ouced in some more subtle way.
Just a. collars were made exag.
sesatedly high to popularize the high
collar BY calling great deal Of at
tsntion to It, so color is applied in
broad sweeps even to some Of the
new street dresses, to bring its irn-
postancs to the foreground. Many
0i 5ne new dresses have been likened
"ourt Jester's costumes, half of
~ color and half Of another.
Winsome Frocks
inNontrasting Hues
THESE will be shown in the great
sdressmaking establishments both
mere and In Paris, but they will be
.ooked upon more as show pieces
.asn as wearable models. They will,
however, serve their purpose It,
usawing attention to bright bits Of
ofaamentation in dresses hitherto
s0mewhat somber In this respect, 80
.aas a very gay sash or q startling
o'' OF embroidery on q street frock
VI suit will seem ta,ne in compari-
sou to them.
Vne Of the most charming color
nominations appears in a clever
''0cs Of peculiar mauve tint