Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1917 — BLACK PUT FIRST BY PARIS [ARTICLE]

BLACK PUT FIRST BY PARIS

Placed Above All Other Colors in France but New York Puts Browns at Head of List. Imported or domestic, the new clothes are lovely. Exaggeration has not yet begun to do its worst, and modes are, on the whole, of considerable distinction as well as of charm, declares a fashion letter In the New York Sun. Paris has perhaps put less emphasis on brown, more on the blues and grays and greens, than has New York, yet brown is an insistent noth among the Importations, ■ and the woman who bought a brown suit a month ago need not regret her choice for any reason save that the shops are perhaps a bit flooded with brown. The blues of gray and green tones, the dark blues, taupe and all the soft grays, greens in bluish and grayish shadings, as well as in the harder, stronger ivy and billiard cloth; beetand other deetFTedSi ;inßhogany and copper, some good purples, the long line of browns from beige and castor to seal and, above all, black — these are the colors Paris loves and New York, as we have said before, is inclined to put the browns at the head of the list* ■ ■ Never, surely, were so many models sent across s'eas in black. There’s a grimness back of that statement, back of the fact itself. When one stops to realize why Paris thinks so largely in terms of black and gray, the fashion element in these colors seems vastly unimportant. Parisian black is a fact beyond dispute. Often it is lightened by other color, though this color is quite likely to be nothing more lively than gray or beige or some soft blue; but black velvet, black satin, black cloth relieved but lightly, if at all, figured prominently in every group of imported models.