Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1912 — NEW EFFECTS IN COSTUME [ARTICLE]

NEW EFFECTS IN COSTUME

Accessories That Are Unfortunately Hard for the Home Milliner to Copy Properly. Three accessories in matching shades belong with the smart street costume of this season. One of them is the neck piece of chiffon, lace or satin trimmed with fur or feathers and brightened by a tiny nosegay of silken flowers, another is the muff of matching materials and ofttimes of freakish shape, and still, another is the huge rose of velvet and silk entirely in the ruling tone of the boa and the muff. A great, rose, its foliage and Btem all in taupe, may be seem like an absurdity, and so it would be if used alone, but obviously it is the smartest sort of trimming for a hat of white plush or of black velvet that Is worn with a boa and muff of taupe chiffon trimmed taupe ostrich feather fringe or with bands of moleskin. Another horticultural surprise furnished by the milliners is a deep blue rose that belongs with a boa and muff of deep blue brocaded silk, trimmed with bands of ermine. Clasping the neckpiece under the chin and trimming the front side of the rug-shaped muff is a butterfly bow of crocheted white floss, and falling from under it is a shower nosegay of white silk rosebuds mingling with bits of swansdown supposed to represent snowballs. The deep blue rose with its wealth of deep blue foliage is provided as a trimming for whatever hat is to be worn with the boa and muff set. Ail of these accessories are genuine "creations.” For an amateur to attempt to copy them would be to court the discouraged state of mind usually produced by failure.