THE NEW SHADES

Shannon News, 27 December 1929, Page 3

THE NEW SHADES

The -movement among the well-dress-ed now is for darker legs in the daytime. No longer are our daily legs the rose-pink of a baby's skin, rather are v they the bronzt, of the man from the wide jpen spaces? "Tawny" is the shade we 're all asking for, and it tones marvellously with our beach-leaf browns, our rusts and our nigger-beige tweeds. For the lighter tweeds and for our navy biues and greens we wear "Florence Mills" which has more of a putty tone in it than the "tawny," "Blue Fox" and "plume" are summer colours —by that I mean shades that "go' with light frocks. "Plume" is the shade to wear with white —never white stockings. nowadays, remember. It. is not so flesh as the stockings of last year; more the sun-tanned flesh of the Lido Lady. If all this seems a little bewildering here are a few broad rules for you when choosing daytime stockings. When you are wearing tones of brown let your stockings, wherever possible, carry on the colour of your skirt exactly, but if in doubt choose a lighter tone rather than a darker. If you are wearing tones with which you know stockings to matSh would not look well, choose a deep sunburn shade and wear shoes exactly to match yovr stockings or exactly to match your frock. Either is smart, but don't please have frock, stockings, and shoes ail different.

For evening the raost economical and safest rule is flesh ■ stockings—and sLocs dyed to match your frock. In choosing your flesh stockings actually place the stocking against the flesh of your arm.