Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1914 — Maline Worn With Mourning Apparel [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Maline Worn With Mourning Apparel

NECK ruffs of maline in place of feathers and furs create little warmth, but provide a graceful finish for the spring outdoor costume. They are liked with all sorts of street costumes and all sorts of hats. But it seems they are at their best when made of fine maline in very full short ruches to be worn with mourning apparel. A glimpse of a handsome mourning toilette is given here, in which the hat and the ruff finish off a modish suit of black broadcloth in the best manner. The hat is unusual and very chic. The suit is cut in the new mode, with three-tiered skirt and Jacket short in front extended at the back some distance below the waist line and curved at the bottom.

The bodice has the V-shaped neck, finished with a fold of white crape. The Kinnard hat develops unusually well in mourning designs. The black of the fabric is pure and deep, with very little luster and very rich effect Its trimming le an odd decoration made of the same material as the hat and designed for it It is mounted with a little moire ribbon near the front. The narrow niching of fine lace laid in knife plaiting and falling

about the underbrim is a feature ihat every wearer of mourning millinery should note. It is a wonderful touch of becoming softness and relieves the somberness of all black. There is a short veil of fine Brussels net finished with two narrow folds of black crape. Just the needed touch to finish this snit of black is furnished by the neck ruff of airy maline. It is made of one of the waterproofed kinds in a very fine grade and keeps its crispness in wet weather. Besides these ruffs there are long scarfs of maline in white or black, to be worn Instead of the ruff. The white scarf is appropriate for mourning and to be worn with either an all-white or all-black hat But the white scarf of maline, and others in colors, are the prettiest of accessories for evening wear. Nothing quite equals white for this purpose. The scarf is made about one and a half yards long, with the ends gathered up and finished with a tassel of silk. Maline ruffs are finished with bows or rosettes of ribbon with eight-een-inch ends for tying. Moire is used with those intended for mourning.