In combination their results are as satisfactory as those of the musical scale. In thirds and fourths and fifths and sixth they do very well; and a leading note of a third hue can be introduced with excellent effect.
Moreover, the various classes of colour provide for a number of combinations; the tarn-blue dress of one costume will look delightful under the brier brown coat of another, while the mist pink blouse belonging to the brown suit can be worn with the storm blue coat and skirt of' the first get-up.
Among the colours put by the British Colour Council on our agenda ior autumn dress, there is a noble group of wine tints, including a clover which has the warmth of purple with the clarity of violet; a Bacchus red which is more restrained than its name; and a prune which would be on good terms with any colour in its ancient colleague, the prism. There is a chrysant red which rises from these tones, leading up to Chinese lacquer, flame poppy, and then dividing to Cabaret red or Indian orange; satisfying colours which burn without. scorching.
Browns will be browner than ever.
Nigger is' weak in comparison with earth brown, and, while "black coffee" will delight all brown-lovers, a sample of it in woollen should be hung up in every kitchen; thus and not otherwise should black coffee look— are matched by some very accommo dating colours in cobweb weave for stockings and supple or sturdy leather for gloves and shoes and bags and belts. There is a beautiful leaf-beige for stockings that will lead from buff Or dark green shoes to beagle green or larch green costumes. A colour which is best described by its name of "moon dusk" makes the connection between blues and clovers and wine tones in shoes and dress.
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