Evening star., 1928-02-26

Spring colors. you would have a
rather odd menu. You would be-
i gin with pea soup. No choice
whatever there. And then you
would have a fish course Of salmon
served with French artichokes. After
that roast duck of the teal variety. with
green apple sauce. Your burnt biscuits
you could spread with butter and help
hide the scorched favor with a second
spread of honey. For dessert there
would be peaches strawberries. raisins
and bananas and for beverage you
would have to choose between chocolate.
cafe. creme or water.
For town wear the best dressed
women still seem to cling to the dark
or neutral tones. Black. alone or COM
oined with gray. white or a touch Of
color. is especially smart. Navy blue is
coming back into its own-sometimes
the conventional dark blue and some
times a lighter. somewhat brighter
shade that is spoken of as MILDLY. Grays
are smarter than they ever have been
before. but they do not seem to have
diminished the prestige of beige.
For sports wear brighter shades are
predicted. A revived interest in yacht
ing. they say will revive an interest In
bright dark blue and red. or blue and
white-good, strong. substantial colors.
Pastel tones for some reason seem most
Inappropriate for yachting-and wheth-
er you ever set foot on yacht or not
you will doubtless be Influenced by the
revived interest in these yachting color
schemes
Pinks. soft blues and yeilows are GER
tainly favored at present at the South
ern resorts. but the so-called drenched
colors. such as poppy red and billiard
green. are coming 10 the fore.
FASHIONS In tuels always reflect the
fashions In ~colors for fabrics. and the
present interest in va, tous shades of
violet has been linked y with the re-
viyed interest in an -thysts. Yellow,
which has already ASST ned great popu-
larity both for daytis.e and evening.
may be associated with the revived in
trest In that other semi-precious stone
the topaz
seen IN the clothes for Spring-eitner
alone or in combination with other
tones-and this may indicate a revived
Interest in rubies. In Paris. it is said
r1bies have recently surpassed emeralds
u favor with smart women.
There are, 10 be sure. pastel shades
this Sp.ing-but they are not quite the
same pastel shades We had last season
They are lighter. softer and possess q
characteristic that is sometimes spoken
o: Is ''frostiness Sometimes they are
So light as TO be spoken OF as of
white cream white. water blue, palest
pink. white suEused with the nierest
suggestion OF green. So the smar.
choice in colors this Spring lies between
these of-vhi.es or light pastels and
Pre sj--c SkSrt1 sol rfs
ed" sort.
Lion red Is a color used By Worth
and other prominent dreSsmakers In
Paris and II is described as the red OF
the British flag The blue Of the
British flag Is also used and sometimes
combined with the red and white. But
Lon red is not precisely the same RED
as that Of the French or American
flags, Nor is the blue o! the British
emblem precisely the same as French
"drapeau" or flag blue. Much has been
saic about these various nag coiors and
before long We may see q revived in
teregt In other flag co!ors.
There are clear. strong shades Of
green 70 be found In the flags Of
Austria, Italy, Mexico, Brazil and
Portuga!--as well az Ireland. There
are yellows worth reproducing In the
flags Of Belgium. Spain. Sweden, Brazil
China. Ecuador and Venezuela. In the
usual oolored plates all the reds are
siike-and al the blues. greens and
ye.lows AS well. But to get the feal
fig Or orapesu coiors one must go 10
the trouble u consulting the actual
fags be!oYe they have been faded by
the sun
YOU may enoo6e an ali-ene color
effect or sou may USE some one ~ the
coiox combinations already chosen by
tie Emportan. dressnakers. Here are
soYae of them:
Brown with beige. Beige trimmed
WITH yeilo~~worn by well dressed
women on the Riviera.
islack ard white with PEA soup green
Tres chic" j" Paris, White auc
egple green's art At Palm Beach.
The f1attlrs. wool tone known a:
gfege. USED With various soft tones
synaeaiules with PINK.
Navy blue or the neH slightly lighte,
tof1e combined with white - gold oi
gray or light tan. Or navy blue c1fn-
blnec with French biue~or. smaYtes,
u ali. with lo.)py red.
Beige with rose anc brown Gray
trimmed with sofl shades u blue anc