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Colour Clash

ADVICE

FOR

PEOPLE WHO ARE

SHAKY ON WHAT

MATCHES WHAT

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OU hear a lot about looking at one colour they react to colour contrast and a complementary shade.

colour clash in the Try It

fashion news these days.

That doesn't just mean the

WORKING this way, then,

old idea of wearing a yellow you will and that

with A

cypress green, that sky

for instance, takes rust;

blouse to "tone in" brown suit, or a navy blue Bearf blue lakes a chestnut colour; that

sapphire blue ,takes

to "go with" a grey cont, you magenta,

know.

wear

your

Use your second colour boldly. but sparingly; a black dress, for instance, could take a while belt

white ploves, whitef buckle,

feather on a black hat."

Unce you've got +

set you your colours This year we are supposed to must thank around to can get colours as clear, as bright, see how you as strong un we can take them. the best effect out of With black of And the basic colour (the one you them. choose for the body of your frock) white s

our back-+ should be emphasised by setting ground you

On yourself go another colour off against it.

braid ita colour bas Every

opposite contrast; as long as you remember row band of terracotta red

round the hem of the skirt, edging n contrast two Wings:- number; that's to say,

second colour the jacket, picking out the pockets. which won't take away from, iu!

A chalk-white evening frock

black will rather strengthen, the orichiel must be clear and true: a decisive

This second colour may shade, not one of those misty half was narrowly banded with

sequins round the neck, down the colour. be such a strong contrast that it castes. Two, use it sparingly will seem like a clash at first sight; thread Instead of a band, a buckle seams, on the shoulder straps. but when you put the two together tristend of a whole belt. you will see that the effect is right.

How to find Out

Y

OU may be wondering

One, that your

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This last point applies to all two-colour contrasts this year (and we'll take it that you will stick to two; it gets tricky when you're handling three coluurs at once).

how you can be sure you've picked Make it Striking

a colour's true opposite number.

If your colour sense is a bit shaky.. there is a foolproof way of finding out.

of

UNCONVENTIONAL

A crushed strawberry sult went and with sky-blue gloves, start,

...A black afternoon hat-band.

& scarf and wash-buckle frock had of ice-blue; hat, bog, gloves, and shoes were binck,

In the evening it's the same; a shining celadon green frock Koes under a mulberry velvet cout.

and Experiment

T ALKING about colours

startling placing of colour was one the features of this year's Take a piece of white paper, and cut a quere out of the centre, fashion shows. The old idea was 10 line w all the accessories to con- Then spread It But over a mall trast with the main scheme; this year doesn't get you very far practic- to they like to pick out details singly idea if the contrasts in your mind ally; the best way of getting on piece of the stuff you

up, sond strongly. match, or rather contrast.

is to take chalks or paintbox and· A block suit, for instance, WAN that the only colour you can see in through the hole you've eut in the worn with a black hat tipped with colour up fashion sketches, as you magenta fenther; exactly matched, used to do on wet afternoons when to agenta gloves; rest of the de- you were a child.

centre of the paper.

want

gloves,

blouse—were

And don't be afraid to experiment

Concentrate on this small square tails-bag, of colour. Ataring at it as hard black. An ice-blue afternoon frock for yourself until you find the colours as you can for five minutes or longer, had a parrow black belt, Burrow and their contrasts that will really Then look quickly away at the white black bracelets-that was all. paper and you'll And that the con-

trasting colour you want will come For instance.

up before your eyes.

Sounds like a conjuring trick, but

I works. Reason being that when

your eyes get overtired

through

GOING round

the colours.

an olive green suit had a nur-

D

Rix

suit you.

Lucy

Milner

They're

putting pockets on their

CHESTS

POCKETS move

around

with every change of fashion. This your dress designers have made a jea- ture of them on suits and frocks-put them the waist, put them on crooked- ly, patched them with fur.

Here's a newer idea still--- ̧ tocar them on your chest.

These two are obviously not intended to carry things, except perhaps a slip of a coloured hankle. They are flat, square, xlit pockets, put

on dead in the centre of a plain bodice, stitched round their outside edoks with contrasting thread.

Good idea for bringing an into

old frock forward

fashion.

-here's a make-up to

go with the

new colours:‡ CYCLAMEN: You can (and) nust) mutch this exactly with+ Teyelamen rouge, lipstick, nail polish. Use pale ivory powders. Avoid at all costs orange or sun-E burn tints.

VIOLET BLUE: Royal red (a elean true colour with no tinis off

rouge, lipstick, yellow or blue)

nil polish: warm, roxy powder- Jour cinir, for instance, or light trachel.

.

BEETROOT: Azalea rouge, lip-I fatick, nail polish, pinkish powder.

Geraniumt SPINACH GREEN: rouge, lipstick, nail polish; light bronze powder (rachel fonce or baninu).

GOLD: Geranium or nastur Illum rouge, lipstick, nail polish,;

creamy apricot powders.

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Sleeplessness may be caused by a variety of things but chiefly it is the nerves which are at the root the trouble. Faulty digestion is another cause, although, in these cases the condition is not so devastating as it is in nerve cases.

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SEWING TIPS

If you are fond of dolug embroidery, but ind it gets soiled because you have hot hands, try this simple remedy. Take an ounce of alum and dissolve it in a pint of hot water, and bottle when cold. Just put a little of the solution on your hands before you start work, and they will remain cool and dry.

When Hemstitching by hand, wrap a piece of coloured paper round the Arst finger of the left hand, sewing it on if necessary. The fine threads will then be easily seen and eyestrain prevented,

Another tip to remember when do- ing hemiching or other drown- thread work is to rub a little soap along the linen where you intend to draw the threads. They will then come out quite easily

Keep a piece of beeswax in your machine drawer and use it for wox- ing highly dressed materials which ore dimeult to stitch. Falling bees- wax, a dry piece of soap will do as Is also useful n- substitute, This when hand-sewing rough and coarse materials.

A good scheme to prevent skeins of embroidery silk getting mixed to- gether in the work-basket is to make il container of ribbon for them. Choose a strong ribbon about four inches wide, double it, and then divide into sections just wide enough to hold the skeins by stitching cross two thicknesses at regular intervals. Slip one skein Into each opening made in this way, and the ribbon can be neatly rolled up when the silk is not in use.

Before cutting out limsy materials such as ninon or georgette, let your scissors stand in a bowl of boiling water for a minute or two. This enables them to give the material an even, clean edge.

When making a skirt, stitch the seams the same way. You can run

from waist to hem, or hem to waist, so long ay every seam is stitched in same direction. This simple the precaution Improves the hang of your skirt amazingly,

Always press hems before you stitch them, especially in woollen or thick materiais. It is easier to keep the folded edges straight and true, and to avold twisting the hem as you get half way along t

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Use silk when stitching scams in a woollen frocks or coat. Such seams will probably need a little stretching as you press them open, and when they do, the silk will "give" better than cotton, which is liable to snap.

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the other end as you lack, and your collar will be unpleasantly uneven.

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Perfume And Personality

PERFUME should be most carefully

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Although it is essential to keep to perfumes which suit one's person- ality, it is a great mistake to cling to one particular perfume your in and year out. There is the danger of becoming desensitised to it and applying it much too heavily.

Perfume should be applied to the skin and hair, never directly to clothes. To perfume clothes, powder impregnated with perfume should be used. This can be obtained in any convenient number of quaint and

bags, from huge, fluffy ones for lay- ing on top of a bed to thimble-sized sachets that can be scattered among lingerie. Here again the perfume chosen must suit the personality.

This season's vogue for flowers has enormously simplified the problem of what perfume to use in the evening, Exotic orchids or English rozes und carnations can be worn according to one's type, and perfume chosen to suit the flowers.

Just because perfume is such personal matter, it may easily hap- pen that a perfume one has chosen with great care is loudly decried by one's friends and relations.

But if the perfume is suited to one's personality and is used with due restraint at first, one can be pretty sure that in a fow-days someone will be saying, "I'm beginning to like That perfume of yours,”

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