PRELIMINARY INFORMATION
distance apart on the wheel as yellow green, blue and purple red. Here, too, have one color dominating and the other to supplement it. Probably such a combination would be used on the light tones of these colors. For instance, the bodice and drop skirt of a dance frock may be lavender, with overskirts of light yellowish green and blue tulle.
The fifth rule concerns black, gray and white. As black is a combination of all the colors in their full intensity, it can be used with any one of them. Gray is also a combination of all or several of the colors and can be combined with other shades. In gray material one color is apt to be in evidence. We have blue grays, pink grays, brown grays, etc. In combining gray with blue, use a bluish gray, not a pink gray. White is the absence of all color so it can be used with any shade.
These rules have to be followed most explicity where the colors are intense or vivid. Where colors are dark, that is, have black or the complementary color mixed with them, you can be more lax in combining them with other colors without striking a jarring note. The same thing holds true where light shades are used, more white being added to them. The whole rainbow of pastel shades can be used together in perfect harmony.
Caution must be exercised in using colors in their full intensity, as scarlet, emerald
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