Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1918 — GRAY IS GOOD THIS SEASON [ARTICLE]

GRAY IS GOOD THIS SEASON

Previous Objections Have Been Removed and the Color Is a Prime Favorite. The world has gone on for a century or two feeling that gray is the tone of sadness and that its Quakerish ugliness must be avoided. It has been a difficult color for decades. Women have adopted it only when the silver sheen on its surface made it. possible. This season, however, all doubts are dispersed by the superior tones which the dyers have imparted to the various fabrics grouped under the elastic names of gray. • There is moonlight gray, which may spell peace, but it is In close proximity to artillery gray, which stands for death. There is the gray of granite and the gray of London smoke. There is the gray of a New England sea mist and there is the tone that one gets from the glitter of cut steel. These grays are not used alone this season. They are combined with horizon and Chinese blue, with jade and Egyptian green, with incendie red, mandarin yellow and amethyst purple.