Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1920 — COLORS IN VOGUE [ARTICLE]

COLORS IN VOGUE

Chinese Shades Are Much in Evidence This Season. White, Floss Embroidery Is Conspicuous in Some of the Newest Evening Gowns. The question of colors In clothes is always a most important one, but one that is hard to write about, observes a correspondent in the Buffalo Express, for it is practically impossible to describe a color so that every one who reads about |t_will see it as it is. But prefty nearly every one knows the characteristic colors of Chinese embroidery—there Is a dark shade of blue and a light opaque shade, a green that is almost a jade, much old rose, light lemon yellow and a darker citron color. Often In embroidery representing flowers, however, a great range of shades is used, producing an effect that is almost realistic. But it is the shades used in the more conventional designs that are spoken of "as Chinese. And in the parlance of clothes nowadays one hears much of Chinese bluer Chinese green, Chinese rose, etc. It is these shades that are used in some of the embroidery produced in France. Quite different are the Egyptian colors —rather stoney, cold-looking shades with considerable brick red always predominating. In some of the newest evening gowns you see white floss embroidery on white silk background and this, though it may not have been borrowed from China, is not infrequently seen among the finest of Chinese embroideries. White is interestingly combined with colors in the embroidery of some of the new frocks. In three charming frocks recently exhibited I saw white embroidery on brown, a bright green on a light yellow and delft blue on white. It is not unusual to see in the' new blouses the use of opaque white beads embroidered on blouses of the light pastel shades. Gray seems to be coming in for much popularity. Navy blue with a light tracery of gray embroidery always looks distinctive. There is a new shade called in France tourterelle meaning turtle dove, that is much admired.’