Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1912 — NECK RUCHE HERE TO STAY [ARTICLE]

NECK RUCHE HERE TO STAY

Despite Its Being Discarded by Parisians American Women Regard It With Favor. • As most of us have already noticed, «the tulle neck ruche is coming along in great Bhape and rapidly becoming a fashion. That is, on this side of the ocean. I made a note to this effect not long ago. Some one who read the Item asked me if I didn’t know that the Parisians were laughing at us about this little matter of the ruche. I said no, why were they laughing about it and he said because they’d fooled us. They gave out that neck ruches were to be In order, everybody doing it, that sort of thing, don’t you know and we “bit!” Whereas no one who really anything about such matters would ever be guilty of wearing a ruche. Think of it! The atrocity '! The bhinder! “The social error!” To wear a ruche when a Parisian wouldn’t! Isn’t it I said I thought the joke was not on us but on Paris. We’ll wear our ruffles if we want to. There are moments when I think that Paris might well go ’way hack and sit down.—Exchange.