👒🎩⏳ HELLO SUGARS! LET’S HAVE A MOMENT TO REVIEW THOSE OLD DRAWINGS
When I wrote about the orange and black color combination that was popular in the nineteen twenties, I found out that there are still some devoted lovers of orange out there. It turns out that orange and blue were often pictured together in Delineator fashion illustrations in 1924 and 1925.
Evening dresses and and evening wrap; Butterick patterns illustrated in Delineator magazine, February 1924.
Of course, orange and blue are complementary colors, opposite each other on the color wheel, and therefore they enhance each other when juxtaposed, — orange seeming brighter and blue seeming more vivid — so illustrators may have put them side by side for this reason.
Butterick patterns 4979 (dress) and 4963 (cape.) February 1924, Delineator.
Butterick dress patterns for July 1924. Delineator magazine.
But orange and blue — in slightly pastel tints — was a frequent combination in garments, especially in clothing for girls.
Butterick patterns 5797…
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