1937-11-29 — Page 2

Colour

Clash

ADVICE

PEOPLE WHO

SHAKY ON

MATCHES

FOR

ARE

WHAT

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-OU hear a lot about looking at one colour they react to

colour contrast and is complementary shade.

colour clash in the Try It

fashion news these days.

That doesn't just mean the

W

ORKING his way, then,

cypress green,

takes rust; that sky

old iden of wearing a yellow you will add that b'ouse to "one in" with for instance,

brown suit, or a navy blue scarf blur takes a chestnut colour; that

blue Kapphire

to "go with" a grey coat, you magenta. know.

This year

we

We enn

Jukes

Uner you've got set you your colours are supposed to

must think around to wear colours is clear, as bright, see how you can get

strong as

take them. the best effect out of And the basic colour (the one you them With binck or back- your choose for the body of your frock) white as should be emphasised by setting ground you Can let

011 yourself Ko another colour off against it.

Every colour hos number; that's to say,

your

Use your second colour boldly but spartiply; a black dress, for instance, could take a white belt

white

white- gloves, buckle,

feather on a black hat."

its opposite contrust, as long as you remember row band of terracotta

a contrast two things:--

which won't take away from, but

One.

that your second

red braid round the hem of the skirt, edging colour the jacket, picking out the pockets. A chalk-white evening frock with black

a sequins round the neck, down the

will rather strengthen, the original must be clear and true; a decisive colour. This second colour may shade, not one of those misty half was narrowly banded 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 instead of a whole bell. you will see that the effect is right.

How to find Out

Y

OU may be wondering

This

A crushed strawberry sult went last point applies to all with sky-blue gloves, scarf, and two-colour contrasts this year (and hat-band.

A black afternoon we'll take it that you will stick to frock had a scarf and sash-buckle two; it gets tricky when you're of ice-blue; hat, bag. gloves, and handling three colours at once). shoes were black.

how you can be sure you've pleked 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.

UNCONVENTIONAL

.

In the evening it's the same; a shining: celadon green frock Koes

under a mulberry velvet cont.

and Experiment

starting placing of colour was one features of this year's Take

white piece of

paper, of the and cut a square out of the. centre, fashion

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shows. The old Idea was TALKING

to line up all the accessories to con-

about

trast with the main scheme; this year doesn't get you very they like to pick out details singly ally: the best so and strongly.

Then spread it flat over a small piece of the stuff you want to match, or rather contrast, up, that the only colour you can see in through the hole you've cut in the centre of the paper.

Was

A black suit, for Instance, worn with a black hat tipped with a magenta feather, exactly matched

colours

for praclic- way of getting an idea of the contrasts in your mind is, to take chalks or a paintbox and colour up fashion sketches, as you tised to do on wet afternoons when

to magenta gloves; rest of the de- you were a child.

gloves, blouse--were

Concentrate on this small square tails-bag, of colour, staring at it as hard block.

And don't be afraid to experiment An ice-blue afternoon frock for yourself until you find the colours as you can for five minutes or longer, had a narrow black belt, narrow and their contrasts that will really Then look quickly away at the white back, bracelets-that was all. paper and you'll find that the con

trasting colour you want will come For instance

up before your eyes.

Sounds like a conjuring trick, but

it works. Reason being that when your

сусп

get overtired through

G

OING round the colour:.

an olive green suit had a nar-

Riz

suil you.

Lucy

Milner

They're

putting pockets on their

CHESTS

POCKETS

move around

with every change of fashion. This year dress designers have made a fea- ture of them on sulta and frocks-put them at the waist, put them on crooked- ly, patched them with fur.

Here's a newer Idea still- wear them on your chest.

These two are obviously not intended to carry things, except perhaps a slip of a coloured hankie. They are flat, aquare, slit packets, put on dead in the centre of a plain bodice, stitched round their outside edges with a contrasting thread.

Good idea for bringing an old frock forward into fashion.

-here's a

make-up to

go with the

new colours: You can (and CYCLAMEN:

exactly must) match this

withe Teyclamen rouge, lipstick, nail polish. Use pale ivory powders. Avold at all costs orange or aun- +burn tints.

VIOLET BLUE: Royal red (04 elean true colour with no tints off yellow or blue) rouge. lipstick, nail polish; warm, rosy powder Jour clair, for instance, or tight trachel.

SEWING TIPS

IF you are fond of doing embrokiery,

but And It gets soiled because you have hot hands, try this simple remedy. Take ari ounce of alum and dissolve it. In a plot 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 first finger of the left hand, sewing it on if necessary. The the threads will then be easily seen and eyestrain prevented.

Another lip to remember when do- ing hemstitching or other drawn- thread work is to rub a little soup along the linen where you intend to draw the threads. They will then come out quite easily

Keep a plece of beeswax in your machine drawer and use it for wax- ing highly dressed materials which ure dificult to stitch. Falling bees- wax, a dry plece of soap will do as a substitute. This is also useful 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 a container of ribbon for them. Chinose a strong ribbon about four inches wide, double it, and then divide into sections just wide enough to hold the skelns by stitching across 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.

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

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When making a skirt, stitch the seams the same way. You can run from waist to hem, or hem to waist, so long as every seam is stitched in This Eimple precaution improves the hang of your skirt amazingly.

the same direction.

Always press hems before you stitch them, especially in woollen or thiek materials. It is easier to keep the folded edges straight and true, and to avoid twisting the hem as you get half way along it

will

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

Always pin the centre of a collar or cape to the matching neck centre, and work from that point to either end. If you begin at one end, you will find that you have pushed u towards the

BEETROOT: Azalen rouge, lip-shade extra fullness stick, noil polish, pinkish powder.

SPINACH GREEN: Geranium rouge, lipstick, nail polish: light bronze powder (rachet fonce ort Ebanana).

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

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