The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-20
What's in Fashion?
Vases That Suit the Flowers
Directed BIZ AMOS PARRISH

NEW YORK, June 20.-There
~ isn't a flower so lovely that it
can't be made lovelier still By the
right setting Especially when it's
taken from its native garden habi-
tat and brought into the house-as
people are doing these summer
months
Heresy2 Mol Not when you
think Of big velvety pansies trying
to hold their heavy heads upright
in a bud vase designed for a rose.
Or Of flaming tulips dropping visit
fully in a too-shallow bowl.
There's a knack Of arranging
flowers attractively. But it's made
twice as easy when containers are
the right shape and size.
But there's even more than that
to think Of when you're choosing
vases. There's color, for instance,
and general character.
White Are Smart
White vases are one of the
smartest and at the same
time most practical kinds you
can have about the home. Not
transparent white, but Opaque
white-china, alabaster or pottery.
White accents are a fashionable
decoration note, and white vases
hold white flowers or colored ones
in an equally decorative way.
A combination Of crystal and
black Is easy to use effectively, too.
And green, because it is one of ma
lures own most used colors.
But some of the most pleasant
arrangements can be made with
sharp color contrasts between
flowers and container. Yellow flow
ers in a lavender bowl, for instance.
And the other way round. Dark
blue blossoms in turquoise vase.
Light blue in a clear yellow holder.
Match Table Glasses
When you're planning flowers for
the table, it's a good idea to think
of the color Of your table glassware.
In some of the new glass flower
holders you can match your pet
color scheme and in various
shapes and sizes.
Certain flowers just seem to go in
certain types Of containers. Lilies,
for instance-lilies Of the valley
heur de lys, madonna lilies-are
thought of as classic flowers because
they we're used so much in classic
type designs.
And for them there's nothing
more appropriate than a vase of
classic urn shape, such as the one
shown in the top sketch. The char
acter of the vase suits the character
of the flowers.
Mixed Garden Flowers
When you bring in a bouquet of
mixed old-fashioned garden flow
ers here's hoping you have a vase
of Early American type glass to
put them in. One fashionable type
-hobnail glass-is shown in the
second group.
Or try them in some of the old
fashioned looking china bowls and
vases, like the illustration next to
the bottom.
Your zinnias, marigolds or other
sturdy looking flowers go perfectly
in rather rough, peasant type
holder.
The interesting clay basket shown
at the lower right would be one
good type for such flowers.
Shallow Pansy Bowl
But for pansies or water lilies that
look their best when floating quiet
ly, try a shallow, wide holder.
The shell-shaped one in the sec
ond group is lovely, don't you agree?
But there are many others, low and
wide, that would hold them just as
One new good fashion is the use
Of vases in pairs, just as you'd use
candlesticks on your mantel or
table.
The cornucopia shaped vase of
bubble glass shown at the left in
the lowest group would make an
effective decoration used this way
with two or three peoples or bit
of coIunbine or some other delicate
flower.
Pewter Is Good
Glass, pewter, pottery, chinaware
they're all in fashion for vases
and flower bowls. You can have
them tall and slender, or tall and
sturdy; straight or curved in line;
simple in shape, or as novel
as you want them.
The main idea is to have them
suit the flowers and the room
they're to be used in.
Copyright. 1881. by Amos PARRISH
Next-FashiOnable summer silks
are discussed by Amos Parrish.
Mrs. In1o,c041 IL