The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-04-19
EASY ADJUSTABLE COLLAR.
Pretty and Comfortable StOcn
Which Suits Alike High and
Low Necks.

A stock which can be raised and low
cred at will and suits the lowest as well
as the highest necks is one of the spring
novelties that will be hailed eagerly by
the tailor-made woman.
It is called the pulley stock collar
and claims q near relationship to the
pulley belt which has been such ~ suc-
cess.
The collar promises much to- the
woman who wearsit. In the first place,
it is thoroughly comfortable collar.
Owing to the way it is bound it can
be raised or lowered by simply an in
clination of the head 1t is adjustable,
in fact, and is made with little spring
SO that the wearer may have a high
or low collar, just as she may choose.
Most collars which are in any way
new and novel are extravagant in price.
Strange to say, this novelty is economic.
al. Though it is really but one collar,
it can serve duty as three or four, FOR
the ends may be tied in variety of
ways. 1t may be changed according
to the costume with which it is worn.
With tailor-made gown it looks well
as an Ascot, and it can be easily tied
in this fashion. It is equally attractive
as four-in-hand, and may also be
| worn arranged in bow with short
loops and long ends. It's changing ca
pacity is one of it's greatest charms
The collar is light in weight and in
no way binds or mars the whiteness
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average stock is that it is generally so
high and so tightly wound about the
neck that it invariably disfgures the
throat by causing red streak. The
new adjustable collar claims to be
more hygienic as well as comfortable.
And yet, with all these practical
points, the collar is no inartistic dress
reformer's suggestion.
Instead it is particularly pretty and
quite as becoming and decorative as
the most fastidious girl of fashion
| could wish.
It is made of fine quality of import
ed ribbon and can be bought in all
the newest shades. The ribbon which
forms the stock is shaped and
strengthened by flexible bone pur-
posely prepared for it. Each collar is
made with three bones. They are in
cased between the satin and thin silk
lining. This cleyerly boned stock is
made with flowing ribbon ends which
cross at the back and are brought
around to the front. where to each
ribbon a ring is attached. It then
works exactly like the new well.
known pulley belt. The ribbon end
at the right is drawn through the
ring at the left and vice versa. Their
the two ribbons are pulled togethe,
and are tied according to the fancy
of the wearer.
The collars are shown in great vari
ETY.. The prettiest are of satin rib
bon in the delicate pastel shades
with dainty enamel rings matching
the ribbon in color. The collars vary
in price principally according to tn.
rings used. Some are of white metal
gilded or silvered. Others are of glis
. tening jet. Then there are the ename
rings and the more expensive rhine
stones and others studded with mocl
jewels, blending effectively with th'
shade of the ribbon.
. The collars themselves are not only
] made of the specially prepared rib
bon, but of light weight hemstitchet
, silk velvet. In striped ribbons the.
also look extremely WELL When a col
lar is made, for example. of pale vic
. let ribbon and striped with dee
mauve lines the rings will be of tn
s same shade of mauve. - Chicag
$ Chronicle.