COLOURS FOR 1942

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 13, 6 February 1942, Page 5

COLOURS FOR 1942

CLOTHES IN WARTIME

RATIONED BUT NOT DULL

Clothes in wartime arc rationed, but it does not follow that they arc dull; the opposite is the truth, writes Corisande, London fashion expert.

Colours for spring and summer, 1942, issued by the British Colour Council, give a wide choice. The general idea is based on colours of the English village. In other words, shades chosen have no connection with the war.

Here are some o,f them. Pastel shades, about 20 per cent of them are used for rayons. There is mustard flower, a pale yellow tinged with green, primula pink which borders on puce, gipsy sylvan and spring green. Gipsy is reseda, sylvan a pine and spring a pale water green tone.

Sungold is a pale yellow suggesting a. wheatear; blush rose and sweet lavender, river and china blue are self explanatory. Blue swallow is near navy, sampler pink is a dusty pink, bluebird is a deep aquamarine with a pronounced green tint, pimpernel is an orange red. Turquoise is the best description of cupid blue, lancer is a deep royal, and azalea is a pale peach pink.

Knitwear colours are self descriptive —there are six of them. Scarlet, gold, lancer blue, orange, jade and ruby.

Among the seventeen different colours in woollen fabrics are blue dusk and rustic blue. The first is a grey blue, the other a darker shade. Then there are popcorn and wheatear yellow, eggshell, and pineneedle, which is a deeper blue tinged with green. Brandy ball, as its name suggests, is a so,ft light-brown, linnet is a deeper-toried brown.

Millpond blue—you notice the English village colour idea—in pale blue with a dash of jade, maypole a pinky japonica shade, linden and woodpecker green suggest, respectively, green chartreuse and olive. Chequer green is the colour of a billiard table. Go.thic is a stone grcj r , willow the same colour in a lighter shade.

Starred colours for spring costumes are popcorn and wheatear, willow and gotliic grey, bluedusk and rustic blue. To put it briefly, clothes have plenty of colour, even if the rest of the world is grey.