Carpet fashion

With the influx of Early American maple furniture in the middle thirties came hooked rugs—old, new and copied in every fabric at every price. Plain carpet colors were in the middle ranges, with rust and green leading the field.

Today the average bride is buying 18th Century English or Modern furnishings, and rugs or wall-to-wall carpet in a variety of textures, self-tone all-over patterns, or English florals. Colors in demand are even lighter, with many pastel tints and the accent on beige.

Fashion changes come faster today than they did a generation ago. The modern woman is restless.

She wants a new house and a new hair-do. She gets ideas from travel, the radio, the maga­zines and the movies. Manufacturers and retailers foster change because it means business.

So fashion is increasingly fleeting. It has never been the essential ingredient of a beautiful, livable home.