Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1896 — Beware of the Tight Collar. [ARTICLE]

Beware of the Tight Collar.

“Headaches, eyeaches? Don’t wonder. You are undergoing a mild form of strangulation. Look here,” and the physician, who in a twinkling had sighted the foundation of his patient’s trouble, gave a vicious tweak at her board-like throat environment “Thia fashion,” he continued, “has put more of your sex upon the all list than any other of your dress absurdities. There hasn’t a woman come into my office for over a year whose neck wasn’t confined in this tortuous way. I have traced more than one case of congested blood at the base of the brain to this collar fad. “It is responsible for red noses, bad skins and other forms of repressed circulation. “Now, I cannot insert my finger between your collar and your throat, and yet you wonder why you are having so much trouble with your head and eyes. “Rip up your high collars, my misguided young lady, and tell your dressmaker not to put another bit of binding about your throat. When you do this, I’ll vouch for the headache’s departure.” The shirt waist girl is a trig little body to look at, from her neatly belted waist to her spick and span linen choker. It is half an inch higher, if possible, this stiffly starched collar, than the one she wore last year. It has crept up just as close as it could at the lobesof her ears, and she wears it in sublime indifference to its discomfort. But the time of reckoning is coming. When the drop in throat stock arrives, and it is only a question of time before it is heralded in Evedom, oh! what a walling there will be over departed throat beauty! The high collar will have left its traces in criss-cross lines, discolored skin and ugly neck circles. Then there will be a grand hustle for massage, for cream baths and like remedies. And the woman who has bravely gone about during the high collar period in waists with old-fash-ioned, turned-away throats, will thank her lucky stars that she had the good sense to keep out of the movement— New Orleans Picayune. There are some women who can’t speak to a man without getting a tender note In their voices.