Now.Solomon, as we all know, liked^color. The description given of one of his^ordinary business suits would make a pea^^cock envious, and as he was essentially the^wisest and therefore the most sensible man^of his day, the costumes of the court dudes^of that period would in all probability defy^description. Vet strange to sa^ the very^same spirit ^t evolution which Darwin^claims made men out of monkeys^is now developing a taste lor^colors and combinations of tints,^In this the niiiete* i.th n nlury, which even^Solomon would hc*itate to have made up,^etc.* pt tor a disguise or French ball. Of^course hk long as It k| the fashionable tad^U^ wear bright rotors there is no use deny^ing it. The Kuropesn courts are In n mens^ure responsible tor the BfMe, and at one of^the late n^VI I drawing roots*, at which MhT*^eral Ameiicans were BfaaaajlBel, one of the^fashionable Knglthh |^hj^^ m thus discusses^tin* costumen ' I here in a ureal deinsnd^for metallic silver bfuottdfli not broeadei^entire!) uieUlllic, but the bullion thread is^inter mi x.d w ith the silks, lor example,^with a pink satin ground the brocade is^partly silk, partly slaVSt, Silver designs^are also ihrown in broad silk utripos, a gooo*^example being mai/*- unci white with silver.^J^arge iHdd leaves of silver on whit*- and^colored grounds hud tayor.
i'hepatterns of the newer brocades^would serin to he all covering and the sii^ver scrolls borrowed Irom the empire p.^rbal on pink or blue satin ground have rare^^ly been couallcd tor beauty.
Thefashionable colors in silk are char^^treuse r level te mai/e, Nil. a green | eythire I,^a dreep nine saxe by name, vleux rose,^sueile, mouthe (a grayish blue) and ecorce,^white biendeil with black and with gray.
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