COLOUR.

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 3, 26 August 1931, Page 5

COLOUR.

Green seems designed for great popularity, especially in the lighter .and faded tones. There is a new shade that loolcs like Chartreuse, but which is much less trying to wear, the yellow in it giving it something of the wearableness of Patou green, still a prime favourite. There is also a definite movement " towards the lighter browns, and some have a golden-yel-low tint in them which is most fascinating. The popularity of yhllow may he taken to indicate its ascend- 1 ancy, and with yellow, the colours which look well with it will aso return to favour — blues, grqys, and the whole range of browns and oranges. Navy blue, always a perenniai favourite, may be relied upon to take the place of black, as the backbon'e of the summer wardrobe. It makes into such charming coats and dresses, and even in tulle for evening wear is much liked by some women, especially the fair brigade. A tulle dress, worn by a fair girl at a rscent diner-dansant at the Ritz, was in this sombre hue, and it was enlivened by trimmings of poppies, cornflowers, and daisies scattered here and there amongst the folds. Green is a chic rainy-day shade. It's the green of leaf-buds and daffodil leaves you should choose. It looks marvellous in the rain, and if you have a blouse of daffodil yellow or wood-hr'own, you will complete the summer effect that Paris likes for rain clothes. . A rather violety navy blue with red, lemon-yellow, or white is another smart and practical ensemble colour scheme. Brown, with a Pompeian ved blouse, or details, is still another, and dull viiolet with t^rquoise.