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are combined with the two adjacent colors of one of them added, or one color is used in combination with only the two nearest neighbors of it's complement. For instance, a beach costume of bold print in yellow-orange and yellow-green worn over a purple bathing suit that shows in flashes between the openings of the skirt. (Perhaps not the best example for us, since so few, if any, can stand inspection with this little on, but nevertheless Or a rich gown all dull wine-red-purple could have jewel embroidery in green and yellow around the yoke and large sleeves.

illustrative.)

5: Triad: There are four triads to be found in the color circle. Each one of these combinations is an interesting combination. The first is made up of the three primary colors, red, yellow and blue. Visualize, if you will, a slack suit of vivid yellow, worn with a blue shirt and a scarf striped in red, yellow and blue. NOTE: how much of one, less of the second and very, very little of the third. The second triad is formed of the secondary colors, orange, green and purple, as in a pale lavender blouse with a dull green tweed suit and a hat of orange suede, perhaps adding a feather or two of bright green and pale purple. The intermediate triads are orange-red, with blue-purple, and yellow-green or blue-green with yellow- orange and red-purple.

Sometimes unrelated colors may be used together IF there are large areas of the neutrals, gray or brown. And as we see, white and black do the same thing. A great deal can be done with color in the choice of acces- sories, but before we begin to be sepcific in this respect, we should concern ourselves with the color as a theory then put in into practice in basic dress and only later use accessories for the balance.

All of the colors used in dress designing are repeated over and over and over, until we would become very tired of them, if the copy writers did not invent trade names of colors. Sometimes these glow in your imagi- nation, as for example, Chinese blue, Chinese jade, Cocoa brown, plum, Pacific green, etc. So, for many of you who will use this color theory, but who are not sufficiently familiar with the naunces, we draw your attention to the following chart to show the change in names, but not the hue.

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