Ladies.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 43, 20 January 1894, Page 12

Ladies.

THE COLOURS TO WEAR. Black makes a woman look slender ; it is the thinnest colour a fat woman can wear. It also makes a person look old. It is the worst colour an ageing woman can wear. In the religious orders of the different churches the black uniform is adopted not for economy, but to protect the gentle nuns and novices from admiration. There is no colour so levelling and unbecoming as black. Black is a Ave-in spiring. Black is also depressing ; it has a disagreeable effect upon men and animals. Dogs and babies will make friends more readily with brightly dressed people than with those in black garments. In normal Colleges pupil' teachers are advised not to dress in black any more than is necessary. No physician of the present day will allow a black-garbed nurse to care for a serious case. White makes a woman look big, wholesome, innocent, winsome, and classic. The girl in white with a blue ribbon under her chin is the one who has all the beaux at the party. Slim, sickly, careworn and colourless women look best with velvet-bonnet strings and a lace ruche or scarf about the neck. A woman with red hair should beware of pink, strawberry, and scarlet. Blue above her waist is apt to make an unpleasantly strong contrast. Green is her colour, white will be her stand-by, and there are red, browns, coffee, oak, and copper that will make her a model for an artist who dotes on beauty. A fat woman should leave plaids, flounces, and ruffles alone, and a thin woman must avoid stripes. Red will brighten any woman but a red-head ; it is the most charitable colour in chromatic. Invalids on their “up ” days look their very prettiest in red-robes.