Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1919 — SOME NEW COLLAR FABRICS [ARTICLE]

SOME NEW COLLAR FABRICS

Scrim of Coarse and Chinese Silk Among the Decorations for Neckwear. There was a time, long years ago, notes a fashion authority, when we used to wear high, stiffened collars of velvet and satin and silk. We considered those fabrics —velvet and satin and silk —quite the fabrics for collars In those days. Then, when collarless frocks came In, we wore collars of white wash fabrics, organdie and muslin of various sorts. For, of course, though our. frocks were coliarless, they had collurs just the same. That is, there were turned back and rolled over collars, even more important than the high ones that hugged and marred our necks used to be. So we ran along for years with collars and other sorts of neckwear of organdie and net and laee. Then, again, satin came into being as a neckwear fabric in first favor. And colored muslins of various sorts were also used. * And now there are even some other unusual materials in vogue for collars. One is* scrim, of a heavy, coarse weave, embroidered, which is used on some of the frocks of serge and satin. Chinese silk —that is to say, silk or satin much embroidered in the Chinese fashion —is another fabric now used for collars on serge frocks. Needless to say, this doesn’t mean that if you happen to have a hit of such silk on hand you can simply pin it deftly around the heck of your new blue serge frock and think you have a collar of the most up-to-date sort. No; but your dressmaker can use a bit of this silk for such a purpose by cutting it properly. And „ very probably she will reiterate the sara® colors in some embroidery or other part of the frock.