Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1919 — BLACKS AND BROWNS AGAIN [ARTICLE]

BLACKS AND BROWNS AGAIN

Sober Colors Just Now Showing a Revival of Popularity Hard to Account for. Why the recent vogue for black evening frocks? At the present time there is just the right setting for colors so brilliant and colorful—and gaudy, if you will—as to suit the most primitive of us. Fact is, dark colors were put on the shelf when the armistice was signed and there was a striking showing of colors of brilliant hue. But these new black frocks that a good many smart women are getting are rather different. They are of lace and they are sometimes trimmed with brilliant ribbon or silk sashes. They are as diaphanous and as sprightly as the wing of a dusky butterfly. Still they are black, and it does seem strange that one should want to wear black when peace has come and summer Is here. But even odder is the persistence of the brown frock. This made its appearance just before the end of the war, and it was extremely smart, but with the craze for bright Victory colors It went into short retirement, only to blossom forth more interesting than cause now that lt is sumraer one would think that brown, which is warm, if any color ever was, would have nc place in our wardrobes. But somehow It is true that the brown frock even in the evening has a certain distinguished appearance that is hard to account for. Sometimes it Is a golden brown that goes very well with metallic gold and bronze tissue in evening gowns, and then sometimes it is mordore, reddish brown. And by the way there is an accent on that “e,” giving to the word three syllables, a fact that does not seem to be recognized by all who I speak of the color.