Green Is The Season's Favourite Colour
W
ITH this
on's successes
in full swin
with a defin- opulence
in
ite trend towards
clothes and accessories, from hats to footwear, with new clothes dis- tinctly and only for afternoon, with new streamlines, new waist- necklines, intricate lines, new drapery and shirring, feminine clothes are about to remake the former rather casually-dressed woman into an alluring decora- tive lady.
It's fun to shop in Paris these days, and still more fun to see those provocatively fragile clothes, the French suits designed for streamlines and a woman's active life, costumes, coats, and the most interestingly fashioned bles which are now on
ensem-
display. exacting
It takes génius and discrimination to pick models which will suit one from the ex- tensive array: It takes a fine knowledge of what will be worn and of what won't be worn, it necessitates unfailingly good judgment, a proper enthusiasm for beautiful textiles, and an in- tuitive sense of colour and colour- contrasts to contrive to pick unerringly the exciting clothes that are first rate, top-notched. But it can be done and it has been: done.
at the moment. The great Paris houses console themselves that red will probably come into its own later in the year.
But, in the meantime, the work- with rooms are full of green naturally a good proportion of knows, black, for, as everyone the Parisienne is never happy unless she has a good collection of black dresses in her wardrobe.
Green is the soothing colour,.. red the most irritating. Purple It is not a stimulating colour. is deadening and robs the natural colouring of vitality. It bleaches by contrast.
People with sallow skins should avoid colours, which tend to ad- ditional yellowing. Any colour in which purple predominate casts
a yellow shadow. Look at bright purple for ten seconds, then look away at a wall or black paper--you'll see a yellowish cast.
Black silhouettes the figure sharply, more sharply than any other colour-so that if there is any overflowing avoirdupois, it is apt to be emphasised.
Black satin, as usual, crowds out
evening other colours for wear, unless it is the newest "ink- blue," a blue which is lighter and Fitted more lifelike than navy.
or satins which sweep the floor swirl around the ankles with ful- ness introduced just below the hipline, with high front-necklines. subtly draped and with deep de-. colletees Moss
are made with jadechanting little fitted jackets of
pale colours, white or of silver.
And colour? What is the big favourite in the colour calendar. this season? Green, always green. -and green it is again. green, tilleul, water green,
absinthe grass green, green, green, there's no end to greens, and they are always beautiful.
In spite of the flourish with which reds of every tone were --sponsored in the first fashion showings this season, it is green which is carrying away the palm
en-
Beauty and You
by
PATRICIA LINDSAY
Fascinating Irene Dunne makes it a practice to smile when she answers her telephone. That is why her voice transmit so warmly.
ARE YOU CONSCIOUS OF YOUR TELEPHONE MANNERS?
The other day a very dear friend When you speak over the tele- suggested get a new. secre- phone you should always realise you tary. I was surprised, as my sec- are invisible. The person talking These jackets have smart little
am with you judges you only by your peplums, the briefest of sleeves,retary is most efficient and I
satisfied with her. "Just voice, how you speak and what you tiny satin-faced revers and fold- very over collars... Tiny, covered but why?" I asked him. tons streak down the centre front and keep them snugly fitted to the ribs.
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Constantly we use the telephone to ask favours of persons whom we
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It is for his welfare that she is how create
to paid a salary. If he, like I depends the telephone which would make all upon the good will of many people persons who speak with her anxious: |for success in a career, it is his to meet her. "Miss So-and-so must desire that the girl, answering his be a lovely girl. She is so pleasant and over, the telephone!" Is that the phone be courteous, patient, helpful.
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