WOMEN'S REALM.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 45, 22 February 1905, Page 10

WOMEN'S REALM.

THE COLOUR TO WEAK. There is a rule about women's dress which has been handed down for generations —that women, should wear the colour that matches their eyes. Now, to a certain extent this holds good, but it cannot be said it should always be followed. For instance, as a writer on the subject in "The Queen"' says: —Try to imagine a poor creature condemned for life to wear black or an exceedingly deep tone of sepia brown, matching her eyes, and fancy how terribly unbecoming it would be to the complexion which nearly always accompanies those dark eves. Certainly the blue-eyed woman looks her best in blue, but take a shade a trifle bluer and a trifle lighter than the iris (which is probably inclined to be grey—one hardly ever sees a genuinely blue eye), and the effect will be charming. Again, the reddish-brown colour which goes with auburn hair is an excellent guide to colouring in dress; though for the woman with hazel orbs I do not recommend the greenish brown, which, though very pretty in an eye, is not becoming in a frock. The deep purple-blue or violet eye is almost too rare to lay down rules about, but the real grey eye. at its handsomest when ringed with'binck and fringed with black lashes, would go most attractively with the same tone of grey in its owner's attire. One word "f warning to those whose complexions are florid or of that congested red which sometimes follows, sad to relate, upon the milk and roses of a Rubens-like youthful complexion, and that is: Avoid the reds and purples which we are going to wear so much this autumn. Also.,flee the new terra-cotta like the plague."