Women in this country will have fewer dress colours to choose from than is usual at this time of the year.
But this does not mean that they will have to do without colour: there will be plenty of it. though in slightly less dense shades. The idea is that women shall be very practical and choose a summer suit of grey or blue, for instance. and then ring the changes every day of the week if they wish with different coloured accessories.
The ufaeturers are helping them to this end and offering them all sorts of coloured gloves and scarves, collars, lingerie bows, down to shoe-laces. Practical laced shoes have laces of every shade of the rainbow. and the craze for coloured gloves which was so evident this winter is te run merrily along into summer, with all types of coloured gloves in the new mixture yarns of silky appearance. There are also gloves made of plain and fancy cotton material to match hats or lingerie bows or collars.
Spring boutonnieres, by the way. reflect the news on Britain's Food Front Carrots. potatoes and oats should be all-important on the wartime dinner menu, and. to remind ourselves of the fact that the Ministry of Food wish us to eat these things, we are to wear boutonnieres of miniature carrots. potatoes and oats-Another lapel ornament I noticed in the West-End recently was made in the shape of a miniature red cab-page with rhubarb and lettuce!
Colours from Land, Sea and Sky It is said that the new colours resemble the lighter shades of water-colour paintings. some are blurred like charcoal prints, The British Colour Council's shade card is divided into three groups. lend, pea and sky—out of compliment to our fighting forces. Land tones include golden barley and wheat beige, which are the basic tones. Colours for accessories to go with them are rustic red. harvest brown. linden green, Devon earth and honey beige, with a rustic beige for stockings and leaf-Lrown for Jeather shoes.
Two new blue shades, sea mist (a soft light blue) and harbour blue (almost a light navy) form the basis of the sca shades with which go horizon blue. clipper rose (almost wine), butter-ball yellow, Venetian scarlet and Breton blue, ' Basic sky tones are silver cloud (a pale grey flannel shade) and smoke-grey with which should be worn the blue shades and coral pink for accessories. z citrus and other shades suggest the setting sun.
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