Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 43, DeMotte, Jasper County, 8 September 1944 — Dramatic Combining Of Colors Is Latest [ARTICLE]

Dramatic Combining Of Colors Is Latest

Costumes and Accessories Come in Radiant Hues.

By CHERIE NICHOLAS

Style creators are intensely, dramatically color conscious this season. This enthusiasm for color is not confined to accessories and trimming touches but dresses and blouses, and, in fact, the entire costume declares the supremacy of color in the fall and winter mode. Designers are taking delight in throwing several contrast colors together such as they would never dream of doing in days of yore, and the answer is costumes so dramatically and beautifully colorful as to call forth utmost admiration. There’s the sports dress, per example, displayed in a noted collection that drew extravagant praise because of its artful design. The skirt was of rayon flannel in a soft gray tone. The weskit top was gray only at the back. For the front the right side was red contrasted with a left side carried out in a clear aqua shade. To the home dressmaker the message of bi-color and tri-color dresses and blouses will prove most welcome in that one can buy short lengths of material and work them up smartly and successfully in versatile ways. Accessories are that riotously colorful this season one can have color at your waist via a wide capeskin belt in lush purple or chartreuse or aqua. A belt of fuchsia shade dramatizes even the simplest dress. Fashion colors up your arms too with “long-longest” gloves for evening wear in the most delectable blues, aquas, pinks, and so on that fancy can picture, and don’t forget fuchsia. It is carrying on for fall more triumphantly than ever. The newest dickies and w-eskits to | wear with your suit this fall go all ; out for bi-color and tri-color I schemes this year. Accessories that | tie up with millinery are all keyed to a high color pitch. Not only the fabrics for neckpieces, bags and so on contribute to the light-hearted color program but elaborate surface work is done in color-bright beads and embroidery.