Word: carnelian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colors. Stylists noted dark brown and wine red predominated, relieved by orange, royal blue, chartreuse, honey-beige, carnelian. Black and white is "in," as always...
...21st Annual Automobile Salon, stood some 100 of the cars of the more expensive manufacturers equipped with various body-designs which will define the trend of the new year's elegance: Bodies that reproduced in lustre-lacquers the garnet, topaz, turquoise, sapphire, chalcedony, beryl, aquamarine, lapis lazuli, agate, carnelian, porphyry, opal, and the tinctures of those most exquisite of jewels stupidly known as semiprecious; bodies that borrow the dyes of those birds that streak green jungle tunnels with a brilliance as of exploding flame?the golden-headed trogon of Ecuador, the green tanager, the Chinese jay, the yellow woodpecker...
...they settle into their chairs, visiting notables may be picked out by colored stripes and chevrons on their hoods. A lady with maize and white chevron is from Bryn Mawr. Cornellians wear carnelian and two white chevrons. Olive and blue is Tulane; gold silk and blue, the University of California; brown and blue, Tufts...