San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-14
It Is to Be a Fantastic
Spring With Clothes
Queer, Patterns Queerer
and Color Names Queer
est of All.
BY JUNE HADDAWAY.


New York, March 14.-It's to be a
fantastic spring. Clothes are queer,
patterns Queerer and the names for
| he colors the Queerest of all.
Elephants, tigers and camels edge
| nto the fashion spotlight when 1t
,omes to the seasons shades. inns,
/ he style makers admit. is directly
|ue to the excavations at Luxor with
| he desert all around, the jungle none
loo far distant. and the life-like
Egyptian decorations Immediately at
band. The style makers have tolled
hight and day since the initial Carnar-
ION excavations begun, working much
harder than the diggers. They have
bad to think out new names OF
shades while all the other workers
bad to do was to bring their discov-
Iries to the surface.
IS->kA-a result of the unceasing labOrs
here is a dark shade of gray known
kimply as elephant" there is re-
Fival of former tint with-wonder
Sf wonders-it's former name still
Ringing to it, the pale gray known
IS elephants breath"
Some years ago. so a silk manu-
Iacturer explained today, male
hodiste happened to be with a hunt
ng party in an African jungle. When
in elephant charged the expedition
Fery early one cool morning the other
members of the party concentrated on
he savagery of the beast and the
leverest of shots that laid him low.
| But so wrapped NJ is the style
maker in his work that the modiste
Concentrated only on the faint gray
breath of the brute as 1t plunged to-
ward him. A new shade with q new
lame was born so soon as the style
maker came down from the giant
rec in which he had sought refuge.
For Feet and Legs.
Fortunately the elephant did not
lave a dark brown breath that MORN
ng. If it had the shade could not
lave been revived this spring when
people are turning from browns to
Fighter tints. As it is the feet and
legs of New York these days are
nshrouded in elephants breath. Not
10 darn enshrouded, either, for the
hosiery is as impalable as a breath
It that.
ne tdlltl HAS lOtHtu HlS SOou
boxing tan as well as his actual hide
10 lend the season an effective back
kround for it's more vivid tone.
desert" which is the color of the
esert sand, also is in evidence.
AGAINST the neutral shades are thrown,
bell nell. such eye arresting and ear
ickling wonders, as, say, Egyptian
blush"
If you never have happened TO see
hn Egyptian blush. it seems just as
yell to know that she turns an extra
ordinary shade between flame and
henna; a combination of scarlet fever
bnd sunstroke. Tiger" is truly
gorgeous tawny yellow, almost deep
Enough to be glowing golden brown.
S>yr supposed to match the deeper
shades in the tigers stripes.
All of these colors are combined in
pertain of the sports materials which
eopy faithfully the decorations from
he various Egyptian tombs. The
fymbols, animals, human figures are
Pill there and even the frieze OF
lieroglyphs along the top-all this is
border to golf skirt.
Meaning Doesn't Matter.
Perhaps it is not amiss to wonder
whether, if the symbols and hero
glyphs were deciphered, one would
care to have wrapped about ones
knees the somewhat frank ideas which
probably were all right on Luxor