Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1918 — EFFECT OF LATEST NECKLINE [ARTICLE]

EFFECT OF LATEST NECKLINE

Delta Haa Superseded the V and White Collars Seem to Be Doomed, Writer Asserts. In the settlement of fashions there is one predominant feature that interests the majority as well as the minority. It is the hew arrangement of the neckline, observes a fashion writer in the New York Sun. Those who were not observing fashion closely went about with their shirtwaist collars pulled out over the coat collars or the wide collars of guimpes pulled out over the bare edge of a onepiece frock. Then suddenly the whole process seemed to be wrong. The careless public observed that the fastidious crowd had abandoned white collars. They also noticed that the neckline of a one-piece frock was not outlined by a collar except at the back. They noticed that sailor collars had disappeared from fashionable garments. They realized that the neckline instead of being V-shaped was square and deeply decollete, or delta-shaped—-the decolletage that we associate with Dresden shepherdesses, Dolly Varden styles, Mozartian opera and Janice Meredith. This kind of neckline was accepted only .for frocks. But whatever the garment, its neckline was no more hidden and enveloped by a white collar. It is quite probable that this somersault in fashions disturbed the minds of more women than even the incoming of the tight skirt