Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1912 — SAFETY IN BLACK AND WHITE [ARTICLE]

SAFETY IN BLACK AND WHITE

Matter of Colors May Be Eliminated From the Minds of Women While Fashion Lasts. Surely a woman does not have to worry much about colors this winter. It is sheer waste of time to look in the mirror with the sunlight and the electric light at different times to see whether a piece of purple or green or blu* or brown, piaeed under tfae chin, reflects a becoming glow on the skin. The stores show dozens of colors, and the dressmakers offer them to you in a half-hearted way, bdt if you know what’s what in the world of fashion you will brush them all aside and go in heavily for black and white. There was some sense in struggling against this edict last summer because here and there barbaric and Byzantine colors darted their heads

up into sight like asps in an urn, but the urn of fashion is now given over to the two sharply contrasting colors. You must not wear all white, and you must not wear all black, but you must juggle with the two until your skill draws applause. You may think the wearing of black and white fa monotonous; that it lacks variety; but when you hear an expert talk on the subject you feel as if you were at at food exposition lesson where a cookery teacher describes one thousand and one different ways in which eggs can be used. <