Not period maybe, but with deep purple-blue as accent color I'd go silver for the "white-ish" color. And I agree with Dawn about touches of an intermediate blue or blues, or, to my taste, violet. Just two cents' worth... Ruth Anne Baumgartner scholar gypsy and amateur costumer
-----Original Message----- >From: Dawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Feb 15, 2006 12:16 PM >To: Historical Costume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [h-cost] colors (was colonial) > >Diana Habra wrote: > >>>Oooo wedding dress!!!!!:) What color? >>>De >> >> >> Well, that has been the hardest part. I want to do a white-ish color >> white, cream, chanpagne, etc.) but my accent color is a deep purple-blue. >> I originally intended to make it white with the blue accents but the >> contrast is so big! I am still trying to figure out how to do it. >> > >Yellow? Maybe a paler yellow, but not too light. Get some shades of blue > that graduate up to your darkest color, to soften the contrast. > > > >Dawn > > >_______________________________________________ >h-costume mailing list >h-costume@mail.indra.com >http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
