These shots are taken from a great page of swatches 'for the coming season' from the Summer 1947 edition of American Fabrics. They depict a classic 1940s palette - I just couldn't help but share the colours and their names with you. So many of our vintage fabrics have mixtures of these colours.
The above pic has evergreen, woodland green, sapphire blue and sky blue.
The above pic has apple green, berkshire green, moonstone gray, pink ruby and peacock blue.
The above pic has shamrock green, guardsman blue, cranberry and clair de lune.
This final shot has capri blue, haze blue, beaver brown and pernod.
It's wonderful to get an idea of the colour hues and names. Aren't they a classic? If you take three to four of those colours you get so many classic fabric colourways - looking at them, they are a trul complement to each other.
I hope more of the AF mags have these type of swatch pages - it's one of the first I have come across in my many hours of pouring over the mags. On the next page to the fabric swatches I came across a table of what colours people were choosing to wear - I found them quite interesting, too - and I am sure you can see why. Favourites of 'classes'? Amazing. And Teen-Age Tallies???
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