"CARROTS."

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1569, 12 October 1912, Page 11

"CARROTS."

THE FAVOURITE COLOUR, A strange shade, never before seen in fashionable society, has flared up like- a flame-coloured exotic among the whites and blacks, and greys which have so far been the fashion in the English summer. It is neither brick-red nor vermilion, nor any conceivable pink, and the dressmakers havo reluctantly agreed to call it simply "carrots." Whether the homely quaintness of the namo attracted seekers after novelty, or whether the sullen, gloomy greyness of the weather has so -affected people's spirits, that at any price they must obtain some-splash of colour, '.'carrots" has flamed into sudden notoriety as the fashionable shade. At Goodwood there were stockings of carroty hue ■ flashing tinder the inevitable blue coat and skirt. Carrots parasols bloomed in the intervals of sunshine,- and here and there an entire costume of- this striking, if somewhat bizarre, shade drew considerable notice. Half its charm' may lie in the fact that only one wonian in ten can wear it with effect. Fair women dare not wear it, paJe women must leave it alone, and only the dark beauty with a. really perfect complexion can be absolutely safe with "carrots." . ■ ■

Such a craze is "carrots," that up-to-date drapers are turning out carroty bathing dresses by the hundred, so that the seaside maiden can leave off the gaudy coloured print dress in which she has strolled/up the parade for a bathing one of the sanie hue. ■. .

The effect of this startling shade on the temper is 50 cheering, according to one health expert, that many people before going on ih<;ir summer holidays, left orders to have. their dining-rooms repapered in the- fashionable "carrots." One great drawback to its uso is the difficulty of matohing it in ornaments and flowers, for yellow diamonds and golden brown topazes aro almost the only possible jewels, while the absence of suitable flowers has caused a run on chrysanthemums of weird hues. Where the craze ie likely to end, no man can tell, and an enterprising firm of oarriage-builders are engaged in getting out a carroty-coloured motor-car body, 50 that madame in her "carrots" hat and "carrots" gown need not step into a car of clashing shade.