Wonderful New Uses of Colour Prim and proper high wrinkled stock collars with a smartly-tied cravat or a lace jabot, are fast replacing the open neck dressing which women declared they would never abandon no matter what was offered instead. But the feminine mind is like wax where fashions are concerned. This latest fashion of neckwear calls for an unlimited uso. of lace, and white mull, and organdy muslin. Little waistcoate are made of many rows of little plaited muslin frills, white or pale-tinted, set one above another. A square collar with a frilled edge, and cuffs to match, complete this pretty parture which adds an extremely dressy quality to a simple tailored costume.
After a careful examination of the Rocher collection of spring and summer materials one arrives at the conviction that_any description of them must begin with colour! And how wonderfully one colour is combined with another, or with several colours, and shades of colour. The use of black is excess sive in all combinations of colour, and black is used alone in com: bination with white; for example, there are soft white voiles. decorated with large black velvet dots, "and rounds, and' also in inch-wide stripes. Inthe make-up of dresses from this material no colour will be used. except in accessories—the hat and parasol.
The dress will be wide-sashed with black velvet cut on a bias, or narrowly belted with black velvet ribbon tied in long loops, and long The latest combination of colours in designs of the new spring and summer stuffs is composed of white, black and jade green. The Diack' strikes the strong accenting note, and any ribbon accessories must be black. There is no end to the combinations of colour arrange in borders; rose petals are scattered loosely: there are little coloured squares and dots, and combinations of stripes in several colours, always with the inevitable black note. This gives an extraordinarily brilliant effect.
Designed for flounces is a wide ribbon in marine blue, old rose, and chaudron, fringed on one edge; an inch above the fringe is an inch-wide gold: stripe. It is extraordinary: lovely.
An astonishing novelty is a revertible velvet ribbon so thick and soft that when I saw the two sides absolutely different I attempted to pick them apart, but it remained firm. On each side the design was of highly-coloured flowers, but totally different in colours and i= forms.
The new foulard silks are figuretl in ola geometric designs of big balls, rounds, and open squares of \white or colour on @ coloured ground.
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