Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1914 — MEN BEST NECKWEAR JUDGES [ARTICLE]

MEN BEST NECKWEAR JUDGES

Woman Makes No Mistake When She Submits Collar Effect to Criticism of Husband. The collar makes a difference in every garment. The woman who considers it a negligible part of her cos* tume makes a serious mistake. On its fitness, on its perfection of shirring, cut and fastening, rests the beauty or the ugliness of the woman’s head.

Many a woman has a reputation for being well dressed or good looking through the efforts she has made at draping her neck. It is an odd fact that men, who are more admirable judges of linen than women, because, as Paul Poiret says, their minds are geometrical and architectural, decides on a woman’s appearance by her neck arrangement. If a woman is in doubt about the neck line of her bodice let her appeal to a man. He may know nothing of style, but he„will never make a mistake about line. A well-, dressed woman with whom the public is quite familiar because of her social position and good works confessed that she bought all her clothes unlabeled until she arrived at her collars. These and her coiffure were submitted to her husband; he never failed to be able to hit exactly on the fjaults or Virtties of each. When she told this to a few intimate friends they decided to have her husband pass judgment on their costumes. He came to the talk with good-natured alertness, and passing down the lihe, he made his expert criticism. Each woman confessed that upon remedying that one fault she appeared to better advantage. Suppose you try this out with a man and see how it works?