The Archive · 1926

AUTUMN TINTS

The ison's Colours The fashionable colours this autumn are a deepening of the pastel shades which came in the spring. The definite, vigorous colour is still unpopular, ang subtleties are the favourites. In' the warm middle months of the year. women wore cool, fragile tones of bois-de-ore, mauve, and chartreuse green; for the autumn they will choose the same shades with the sort of added richness and depth that the Viegini creeper and the beech trees have already discovered.

The ten most fashionable colours have there decorative Mauvette: This is wine splash of purple in it; a melancholy colour.

Tulip leaf: A blend of chartreuse} and almond green, and not unlike the fancy of the Sherwood gallants who followed Robin Hood.

Sandalwood: A warm blend of fawn und an earthy pink, Delphinium: A. very dark. delphinium. It is this colour which is making people say that navy blue last fashionable again.

Pimpernel: Here is romance. A tingling "scarlet, not quite as exuberant as the' old pillar-box red at Home, per beech: A russet brow which should comfort many dul November days.

Barleycorn: The colour of cornfields rather more than ready for cutting.

Burgundy: Wine in a smeared slas; a dull, rich colour.

Golden brown: The ever-popular brown, of which most people are now @ little tired.

Mulberry: More cheerful Mauvette. A less romantic: "for it might be Beetroot.

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