San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-02

cares Tor bright colorS TO express
her love for them.
There is a pathetic story about
drab little country woman who
always wanted to wear bright coz
ors, but stuck to her browns and
grays for fear of her husbands
criticism ana ridicule. She
thought, however, that God must
have loved bright colors himself,
because He made roses so red and
grass so green.
This may be an extreme case,
but the fact remains that Amer
can women have been afraid of
bright colors and have been con-
tent, as nation, to dress them
selves soberly and plainly.
Now the psychology of color is
so we'll understood th't any won
an at all who knows anything
about dress knows that she can
wear colors if they are the right
ones. And there are right ones
for every woman.
Perhaps no one factor changed
things so completely for the Amer
lean woman as the bright colored,
hand-knit sweater, which has made
its appearance as necessary and
very serviceable' article of dress.
Women who had always concealed
their longing for gay hues sud
denly realized the fascination of a
pair of knitting needles and col
lection of balls of gayly colored
yarns and woods.
Then the possibilities of this
same yarn and wool caught their
imaginations and they experiment
cd widely with equally bright
scarves and with colored wool for
decoration. There was no dress,
they found, no hat, no coat so
drab Dat it could not be bright
ened by wool embroidery.
Knitted golf sweaters in gay
colors took the place of the old
fashioned tennis and glof blazfier
: which had boldly Haunted all the
colors of the rainbow. Hotel
piazzas in the summer time bios
somed with color as the balls of
wool fell from the laps of the knit
ters on the golf course, the tennis
= court. the beach, and in the pail
room color appeared as if by magic
, and no woman needed be drab ur-
less she perversely refused to sec
where Fashion was leading her sis
tiers.
The Italian women. with red
5 and yellow handkerchiefs and
> rusty green shawls, the immi-
grants waiting in train sheds, show
, no more color nowadays than dc
their American sisters passing y
in their hand-knitted garments.
With the great popularity of color
1 it could be plainly seen, even by
; the most unanalytical, that after
= all America is a conglomeration of
r races. The inherited racial fond
t ness for colors crept out in the
n dress of the New Englander, the
a Southerner, the woman from the
I Middle West and the Pacific
a Coast. The decree of Fashion that
colors must be worn suddenly
p made every one long for the cos
v tunes of the lands from which
r their forefathers came.
: This summer the call to colors
: is not only loud but insistent. As
t usual, the hand-knitted sweater is
e the simplest way for woman to
t crafty her love of brightness. Ir
a hundred hues it will be seen, and
the new hand-loomed worsteds and
many hand-knit sweaters will be
: frightened by yarn embroidery
Think OF the joy of appearing on
a gray day with Chinese red and
green cross stitch on a neutral
= toned colored dress, or a golf
+ sweater in reds and blues, with
& touches of green, orange and vel
low. Think of the influence on
d the disposition and how The blues
s will be driven away!
!. A Helmet Developed.
% And yet, bizarre as it may