Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1912 — Unusual Combinations. [ARTICLE]

Unusual Combinations.

A combination seen a x good deal just now is of blue and lavender mousseline. It is often touched with black velvet or else trimmed with ermine tails, thus giving the necessary contrast But we see other pretty and unusual combinations, too. For instance, old pink and old blue, iavender and buff, gold and purple. Many of these have a touch of dark fur or black velvet, for while delicacy characterizes all the evening tints they must not be too dry. Fringe of all kinds is fashionable for the evening. Perhaps chenille Is softest; hut bead fringe is rich, and also jet And jet fringe trims so much just now, both for afternoon and evening, that one might say thqre was almost a craze for It It is put ion goods of any color and any weight, the chiffons em. ploying it fully as muc-h as the velvets.