The age-herald., 1897-11-12
THE LATEST WHlMS ABOUT
 COLLARS, CRAvATS. SHlRTWAISTS

The fashion writers say that whateve you decide concerning the makeup of your pre.l.y winter govins, as to cut and color, pray be sure to throw gayeity and charactetr into the finishing of the collar. That is the salient point in all dressmaliog for the season. Let GIhe CO.'S tune atself be as sober as you please, but lthe collar touch so bright and unique that every woman will give you a kindly little glance of admirang envy in passing. Butt abdve all things, and whatever you do, let your collar of dress or coat be high. Remember that long necked women are very much the fashion al. this ntonent, aIEd that the dress makers hlave been at infinite pains to plot and plan and give even short, full- ithroated patrons the aspect of o'fding the.r heads high and on a slender colmun. One way of gaBning this point is is not only ito intsafine the collar vii In a crino- 1ine of sltee1-like stiffness, but 10 set a couple of Wha1ebones inside ribbon stocks. just back of Itile cars, so that the Holds of the satin can never be pressed down. It is good lining to be able to say that the ribbon stock will staunchly holds it's own. The vast difference now alOS III iuAlS l-iuNOl ul ID Ii1Qc Ol II Ot nscdwear we have a score of new and mosIt lovely weayes. Mohair and silk suede are the newest. The first IS woven exa.ItGy like any hig'h-grade brii1ia1t mo- haiir. with possibly "a rather 7av.sh inter mixture of silk, finished with simple edge arid colored in the latest plaid pat ferns. It wears like satin of the best qualI,y and almost refuses to wrinkle
  and really it is a velvet ribbon only with the silk pils shaved closer than a moles fur. llt comes qn the new tones of the castor gray and nectarine red, tha are replacing the long-admired lstic brown and wats rmelon pink.
 IRibbon fourth hand necl1ties promise fQ rr'ake their prsssialoe felt far into Iyhe season, and for this purpose women wno wear plaid silk shirt waists with white linen collars use fourth hands of rib boiR, colored in small vivid ch scNs and fastened on either side the knot of the bow with short gilt el.ickpins, tipped with pink coral knobs. Suede gloves are ap- pearing more and more universally ev ry day as the season advances. 1'he.r backs are heavily sitftcIhed, aal1 niahogony red is the color chosen for dress occasions. InRS IS EOlOV IOL seen DcIOre, ana III place of Ithe heavy giace kids for morn ing and shopping use, Fashionable hands are encased in stout carltor gray and oak brown antelope skin gloves, four-but- toned and stitched with black silk. There is no gaipsaying tIhs fact ufl-lt antelope skin oulhwearS even uhe heaviest kid, and having an unidressed sullface it fits right in with the Neln.and for a change from the finished skins. Perhaps ithe most inltereA ing departure made so far in the manner eff dressing preltty hands is Ithe selection of nsw colors in the long suede evening gloves. E1ack and white. pearl-gray and tan of shadss are ignored for ithe novelties in rich moss green, pure dull, or, as it Is technically called, am tique gold and poppy red dancing gants de suede. This may sound a daring de- parture, bu. Nhe effect of a white gown worn with mosts-colored mousquetaires, wrinkled Ito the elbow, f.o a black net dim ner dress with gold-colored gloves, is satisfactory beyond criticism.
 Satin foIrns the foundation of waists