WINE SHADES

Shannon News, 2 August 1927, Page 4

WINE SHADES

Dame Fashion has certainly looked through roce-coloured spectacles this season. A pink glow is over the West End shops, says a writer in an evchange. It is a glow that deepens into richest wine colour and then breaks into every shade thereof. I counted 78 and then grew' tired of counting. A buyer came to my and she stopped at 100. There are port-wine, lie-de-vin, Bcideax, fraise, cerise, fushia, rubis, ibis, coraid, rose-du-Barri, magenta, cyclamen and others. Two of th e shades are combined — sometimes in a hat or in material for a coat. Grey is the fur to wear with winecolour of any shade and the choice is wide. Occasionally wine-colour fur is seen. Hats are in variations of Avine colour, and \ r elour has taken the place of felt. The shape is high with a flat crown ,and the hat is soft. Gloves are \A’ine-coloured, and even shoes are in fashionable shades made of kid and satin. Lizard skin is the alternative for the correct colour scheme. Complete dresses are made of fringe, and fringe—often shaded—is used to decorate the front of a flounce. Fringe surrounds the cA'ening wrap also. Nowadays special jeAveliery is designed for each frock. The dressmakers are all for black and gold at the moment. For instance, a black gown will haA'o its OAvn trinkets, consisting of a shoulder brooch, a hip buckle to much, ear-rings and a dozen thin bangles, all of gold. Stillborn calf provides trimmings for many costumes, and one or two round cap-shaped hats and coats are made of it. The art of the furrier, hOAA'ever, showed greater success in its treatment of summer and Avinter ermino in a model coat. The AA-hite AAinter ermine Avas worked in narrOAV stripes into the broAvn skins of the Avinter ermine.