Couleurs mode = Fashion shades = Saison-Farben
A 1920 swatch book issued by the Basel dye manufacturer J.R. Geigy A.G., printed in French, English and German, presenting numbered fashion shades of textile dyes for dyers and clothing trades. The pages show rectangular colour blocks grouped in threes or pairs under their catalogue numbers, with the tones ranging across olive, tan, brown, navy, black and deep green. A designer could take from them a set of muted, earthy fashion palettes of the early 1920s, with each swatch labelled by its shade number.
