Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1913 — DESIGNS ARE VARIED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DESIGNS ARE VARIED

WIDE CHOICE ALLOWED IN THE MATTER QF NECKWEAR. -\ '■ \r : V-. Medici Shapes Probably the Prettiest es the Many That Have the Approval of Fashion—Selection a Matter for Care. Not all the collars rolling away from the throat belong under the Robespierre heading, though that j classification has become elastic enough to cover the host of shapes that have not the remotest kinship with the original Robespierre model. The socalled Medici shapes have followed close upon the hels of the Robespierre fad and now one sees quantities of collars, which, instead of rolling slightly and then turning down in deep points, flare out from the throat and roll at the edge without turning down. Of course in all such shapes there is some faint echo of the famous Medici collar, and so the name clings to all the variation on the theme. Some of the Medici models are exceedingly attractive and, if becoming at all, are extremely so. They vary greatly in width, spread of flare and closeness to the throat, some of them hugging the throat quite close at the base and flaring only toward the top, others being set lower and standing away from the throat a little all around. One collar standß high at the sides and back, rolling slightly at the upper edge, and the flare widens at the sides. The sides of the collar slant toward the front at the base and fasten with a soft bow of silk. There is also an attached frill of lace which falls to the waistline in cascade effect.

Many of the Medici models are made up in satin and worn outside a transparent close collar, or are resolved into a flaring Medici frill topping a close stock of satin or velvet But a wired lace collar such as described is, if made up cleverly and of lovely lace, a very picturesque and delightful bit of neckwear. Apropos of the high close stocks and frills, much is done with that sort of thing and when the throat of the

wearer la slender and fairly long the effect Is usually good, but the short* necked woman should avoid the stock with top frill as she would the plague. When the frill goes across the back merely, the collar is more generally becoming than when it runs all around, and these net or lace frills at the back are often quite deep, falling far below the base of the neck. The all around frill varies in width from an inch to the depth of the collar. * /

The craze for Bulgarian or Oriental colorings shown in frocks and blouses has reached the realm of neckwear, and collars of coarse linen or voile are embroidered in Oriental

colorings and designs. In many case* the background of white colored eon broidery. 'Very wide and plaited frills are used! with many of the low rolling collars,i but there 3 are narrower models, too„ and" the number of arrangements 104 net and lace covering the greater parti of the blouse with which they are worn is large. These may be high, necked j>r low necked, but whether 1 there is a high close stock or turndown collar, some sort of plastron or* bib or bertha goes with the collar, falling low over the front of the bodice and well over the shoulders and back. Such a collar, If dainty and of fine material and well designed, islikely to be rather expensive, but will do wonders toward freshening a worn, blouse and looks extremely well between open coat fronts. - - MARY DEAN.