Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1917 — Collars to Complete Spring Costume [ARTICLE]

Collars to Complete Spring Costume

Collars and Jabots must not be left out of tlie reckoning in completing the spring wardrobe, for costumes of any sort are not well finished without them. They are an essential part of the mode and sometimes the feature of greatest importance in the garment they finish. The best of the new models in lingerie Mouses demonstrate the importance of collars for it is In this particular that they differ from blouseS' of past seasons. Separate collars of organdie, swiss, batiste, georgette and crepe de chine are shown in a considerable variety of styles, with favor turning to those that are daintily finished rather than to much decoration. Tassels having attached themselves to everything else that women wear, find themselves particularly well placed on the new collars. A good example of this kind appears in the picture with a tassel depending from the point of a collar of batiste edged with narrow crochet lace. This is a long cape collar extended into points on the shoulders and shaped in the manner of a sailor collar at the front. Some of these collars have a square cape across the back and remarkably daiuty models are trimmed by rows of narrow ruffles with picot edges, running across the back. In georgette crepe the collars are usually hemstitched at the head of a moderately wide hem, but without other decoration. 1 Just now there is a great demand

for high collars with Jabots attached at the front made of net top laces. The jabots are long, falling nearly tothe waistline, and they are full and frilly—just , the prettiest things imaginable with new spring suits. But their prices are high, beginning at a dollar and a half for a fairly well made jabot of a net top lace and bravely atlvfttrcrng to five or seven dollars for fine embroidered net. There are cheaper grades but they are not well made. Among recent showings there are some Jabots made of fine lace handkerchiefs, set on to a plain high collar of batiste or organdie. 1 V