28 Aug 1921

28 August 1921

Chalet des Sapins, Montana-sur-Sierre, Switzerland

I don't like any of the stuffs. Will you go to Lewis Evans & Selfridge or Debenham. Number the patterns & Ill wire a reply. Miss Read won't get them done, of course, but arrange with her to send them over. Try for ROYAL blue instead of cornflower. These are either 2 dark or 2 light. As for tartans - try for soft smoky checks on any coloured ground instead - like the red & black check we saw in Menton. You remember? Thats the kind of stuff I meant, too. They had both better be lined with v. fine silver grey viyella or cashmere, I think. And tell Miss Read to cut them on the big side so that I can wear my woolen jumpers underneath if necessary. Id rather have nothing than these ugly dull stuffs. I am a very MODERN woman. I like Life in my clothes. Its no good going to Liberty for plain colours - ever. Try & think of a picture in a French pattern book or a figure on the stage, cant you?
  Sorry to give you so much trouble. Id no idea it would be all so very difficult. My advice is to "concentrate more" & not worry about the golden leaves so much. Fall they will! I am up. I am better and at work again. Cheer up!
                     Katherine.

[To Ida Baker, Collected Letters, 29 August 1921.]