Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1914 — Scarf-Mantle and Medici Collar [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Scarf-Mantle and Medici Collar

ONE way of arranging a scarf so that it becomes a mantle is very clearly Bhown here. A three-yard scarf of chiffon is finished with hem-stitching at the head of a two-inch hem on three sides and has a half-inch hem on the fourth side. A tuck, equal in width to the hem, and an inch above it, is placed across each end. This length of chiffon is thrown around the shoulder like a shawl and a piece of wide silk lace is laid over it to form a collar. The chiffon and lace are caught up in small plaits to fit the mantle about the neck. A narrow knife plaiting, made of the chiffon, edges the lace, and this eollar effect is finished with a flat bow of folded chiffon at the front. There is a little quilting made of a plain fold of chiffon, gathered on a shirring thread, which borders the edges of the mantle at the front The beautiful collar of black embroidery is quite as well worth consid-

eration as the novel mantle. It is one of the many flaring designs, modeled on the Medici collar, that have captivated womankind wherever fashion counts for anything. It is wired, to hold its position, with tiny wires sewed between the two thicknesses of material used. A strand of odd Chinese beads of mother-of-pearl and glass, fastened at intervals on a strong silken cord and finished with a tassel, adds an item ol interest to the quiet ■ gown of black cloth. With a mantle which Spain may have inspired, a collar patterned after those worn In France three centuries ago, and queer beads of ancient Chinese origin as to design, the youthful wearer demonstrates .how all ths world payß tribute to beauty and is busy fashioning things for its adorning. It will not grow less busy, for beauty instinctively believes In going beautifully appareled. i