Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1913 — SURELY A SEASON OF COLOR [ARTICLE]

SURELY A SEASON OF COLOR

About Every Variety of Shade Is to Be Employed to Adorn Feminine Costumes. Experts whose business it is to anticipate feminine fashions declare that the coming season will find garments of daring and varied hues. From milady’s shoes to her sunshade she will present a picture of color that will embrace all shades known to man, and a few more of’her own invention. The wimple blue costume, which has satisfied woman’s capricious teste more than any other dress, will have to go with the black shoes and black stockings. This is what the experts say, but a buyer at a fashionable shop said that the change would not be quite so violent. "There is no doubt,” she said, "that this year there will be much more color in women's dress. The desire for a change from the more sober colors has been felt time, and has expressed Itself various ways. "The first step towards the color scheme was made by the hosiers who introduced stockings in all the shades of the rainbow. So popular did these become that bootmakers were obliged to follow, and for the past two or three summers there have been almost as many shades in shoes as In stockings.” “Is the blue tailor-made costume doomed?” "No, I do not think so. Blue suits women too well for them to give it up altogether. We shall probably not see so many plain blue costumes this year, but I question if the provincial girl will follow the new fashion Mindly. “Women, you know, are not quite the slaves to fashion that men suppose. Nor do they dress to please men, as many of you fondly Imagine. A woman's mirror is another woman's eyes. If she excites admiration there she knows she has succeeded. "Blue suits most women, and that Is why they continue to wear it”