The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-04-28
EASY ADJUSTABLE COLLAR
Pretty and Comfortable Stock
Which Suits ankle High ana
Low Neclrs.


Astock which can be raised and love
cred at will and suits the lowest as wen
as the highest necks is one Of the spring
novelties that viii be hailed eagerly BY
the tailor-made woman.
It is called the pulley stock collar
and claims a near relationship to the
pulley belt which has been such a sue
cess.
The collar promises much to the
woman who wears it. In the first place,
it is a thoroughly comfortable collar.
Owing to the way it is bound it can
be raised or lowered by simply an in
clination of the head. Tt is adjustable,
in fact, and is made with a little spring
50 that the ear 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 economic
al. Though it is really but one collar,
it a serve duty as three or four, for
the ends may be tied in a variety of
ways. 1t may be changed according
to the costume with which it is worn.
With a tailor-made gown it looks well
as an Ascot, and it can be easily tied
in this fashion. It is equally attractive
as a f~our-in-hand, and may also be
worn arranged in a bow with a short
loops and long ends. Its changing ca
pacity is mi of its greatest charms.
The collar is light in weight and in
no way binds or mars the w~hiteness
of the throat. One of the faults of the
average stock is that it is generally so
high and so tightly wound about the
neck that it invariably disfgures the
throat by causing a red streak. The
new adjustable collar claims to be
more hygienic az we'll 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 ~cleverIy 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 we'll
known pulley belt. The ribbon end
at the right is drawn through the
ring at the left and vice versa. Then
the two ribbons are pulled together
and r 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 the
rings used. Some r of white metal,
gilded OF silvered. Others are of glis-
tening jet. Then there are the enamel
rings and the more expensive rhine
stones and others studded with mock
jewels, blending effectively with the
shade of the ribbon.
The collars themselves are not only
made of the specially prepared rib
bon, but of light weight hemstitched
silk velvet. In striped ribbons they
also look extremely well. When a col
lar is made, for example, of pale vio-
let ribbon and striped with deep
lines the rings will be of the
same shade of mauve - Chicago
Chronicle.