Harmony and Contrast of Colors.
- The following is a list of colors which contrast and harmonize:
- White contrasts with black and harmonizes with gray.
- White contrasts with brown and harmonizes with buff.
- White contrasts with blue and harmonizes with sky-blue.
- White contrasts with purple and harmonizes with rose.
- White contrasts with green and harmonizes with pea-green.
- Cold greens contrast with crimson and harmonize with olive.
- Cold greens contrast with purple and harmonize with citrine.
- Cold greens contrast with white and harmonize with blues.
- Warm greens contrast with crimson and harmonize with yellows.
- Warm greens contrast with maroon and harmonize with orange.
- Warm greens contrast with purple and harmonize with citrine.
- Warm greens contrast with red and harmonize with sky-blue.
- Warm greens contrast with pink and harmonize with gray.
- Orange contrasts with purple and harmonizes with yellow.
- Orange contrasts with blues and harmonizes with red.
- Orange contrasts with black and harmonizes with warm green.
- Orange contrasts with olive and harmonizes with warm brown.
- Citrine contrasts with brown and harmonizes with green.
- Citrine contrasts with crimson and harmonizes with buff.
- Russet contrasts with green and harmonizes with red.
- Olive contrasts with white and harmonizes with black.
- Olive contrasts with maroon and harmonizes with brown.
- Gold contrasts with any dark color, but looks richer with purple, green, blue, black and brown than with the other colors. It harmonizes with all light color, but least with yellow. The best harmony is with white.
[Dress for Special Occasions]
“The beautiful is the suitable.” “A woman careless of her dress is either unloved, or unhappy.” “Dress is to the body what good sense is to the mind.” “Dress is really a department of manners,” and appeals to the eye with the same force that gracious words and softly keyed voices appeal to the ear. Costliness is not the measure of the beauty of dress. Nay, rather suitability, harmony, becomingness, unobtrusiveness, fitness for the place and person are the qualities that make it perfect.
And because these canons of good taste are so frequently sinned against it has seemed best to give the proper dress and appointments for the proper times. Not as to particular styles for they are fleeting as the breath of fashion, but as to general principles which are well nigh changeless. Once certain of these fundamental principles, embarrassment and self-consciousness are banished.