Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1920 — USE DOILIES FOR COLLARS [ARTICLE]

USE DOILIES FOR COLLARS

Vogue for Biblike Neck Decorations and Drooping Cuffs Finds Place for Old Pieces. With the present vogue for flat, biblike collars, round or square, and oddshaped, drooping cuffs, comes a chance to utilize old-fashioned lace doilies. - Two doilies of equal size are required for cuffs. The linen centers should be carefully ripped out and the edge of the lace basted to the edge of the sleeve, from which it will fall in graceful rippling folds. - The collar dolly should be Borneo what larger than those used for the cuffs. After the linen center is removed decide whether you wish the collar to fasten on the shoulder or ih the back. If the dolly Is round all you have to do is to cut It in one place and hem the raw edges, and it is ready to be worn open either at the side or the back. But if it is square and the opening is to be on one shoulder one side win have to be ent and faced or hemmed after being fitted and a tuck taken in the opposite side to mite the collar fit smoothly. " Of course the doily Is quite large and the neck line rather low the lace Peed not be cut but just worn sllpover fashion, basted or pinned io Pla<*-