YOUTH AND COLOUR.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 712, 11 January 1910, Page 3

YOUTH AND COLOUR.

; Wlule their and • fathers are moving heaven: 1 and earth and employ,-. ing e.vory. means to 'demonstrate their youthfulness, the extraordinary thing, says a Tendon; paper, is that girls seem to*-oe going out of their way to make themselves' look'older.- .You will see mamma in : pearl grey or bleu de ciel, and Mademoiselle in; a deep shade of heliotrope or dark brown, and while the former .j wears ermine or silver fox, the latter is enwrapped in sables .or black fox. It is ; much, the :saiiio story where headgear is concerned. ' The elder women rush an where their . juniors : evidently fear to tread.. Is it, one'sometimes wonders, that these; young people garb themselves -in garments and overwhelm themselves - with hats and furs more suitable to those of riper , years, as the prayer book delicately''puts it,, as an open protest against: the almost painful juvenility of their seniors? If so, one ventures; to suggest that their, course . of action is not wise. This way; the grandmother and irrepressible matron of—well, the age when she does'these things—are not to be lured, from the. pale pretty colours, the. alluring r hats, the dainty •shoes, and .all the fal-lals that .belong to youth, but which youth, now Tefusea' to share with them. It were far wiser : for s .the girls to stand firm and not only weaj ,;whafc. is theirs by. right, but to do so -exaggerated degree. : Youth can' afford to go to extremes, middle-age •cannot,; and ' surely we would all rather this^happened than;that'we should tend towards dinginess. . That the- brighter tints and-.most, becoming modes '* should be monopolised by those .. who' •, cannot show-them to the best advantage,, is not. right; : / Or,' at least,; it is whollywrongfor • youth to . go :in dreary garb and sombre'"shades;' : V-. ; The; writer forgets that youth loves to go clad in sombre : shades. Eighteen years will choose a simple frock of sober grey where tbirty-eight.t years, with : a more developed ' sense of colour, will -choose some.;bright-hued fabric with plenty ;of trimming.