The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-28

ported coats come with the collars at- tached to tho garment, often in such way that they cannot be removed without altering the whole appearance of the wrap. All girls and cbiidrens coats ex- cept those intended for school wear,-and these are not all exempt-have lace or fancy collars trimmed with lace, upon | them.
 Point de yenise, Irish crochet, point D Alencohs Plauen and St. Gall, Roman, cbd linen Clrnys lead in the collars now in vogue and 1t would be hard to tell which is the most favored. or course, the popular trade calls for the imitation heavy laces In champagne and ecru col ors, but the eye soon detects the differ ence between a collar of fine lace and one that is merely an ordinary imitation Fine limitations of old laces are valuable and elegant. Ha
 Boas and shoulder capes grow mere ex- quisite day by day and introduce novel effects in the, way of wide stoles of white moire and taffeta silk edged with flounces Of chiffon or liberty silk and having em- broidery, lace empecements or braided effects upon the borders of the stoles and such pieces of the silk as appear between the flounces of the diaphanous materials upon the shoulders.
 Stocks seem to lean more 10 white. trimmed, with white silk braid and hand Wiin WHile blik. They are mostly of the bishop variety and are often combined with black effects Pin ana French dots vie with each other In poin. of popularity and diamonds or satin are set in stocks, dresses and sleeves, ana are worked all over with these dots. Folds of satin worked with black dots are laid between plain folds in a very charm ing contrast.
 Lace robes sown with pearls, small jet de md orA16 o,,A ell ,-~lo~ be a feature of the season. Jet and pearls will be more used than any other spangle in vogue at present and occa- sionally small turquoise beads will ap- pear with them. Lace pieces that hay 9 these spangles sewed upon me lace al e effective as trimmings to gowns of other materials.
 Lace robes over point d'esprit and over dotted chiffon seem to be more popular than those over plain surfaces. Where the lace has a dotted or point d esprit ground the under dress is of plain net or chiffon or similar materials. Liberty silk of the new quality and wash-chiffon will be extensively used for oress occa- sions.
 Lace robes which have the design braid- ed upon them in silk braids of several widths are Parisian fancies that are, ap- parently going to have big run. Some of these have the outer braid in the de- sign bordered with gold or silver
 Lace fiounces and appliques of all kinds will be leaders in all the evening styles this year and never were lace fiounces so beautiful and so varied in pattern.
 Ribbons will be used to an enormous extent and sashes grow wider and wider until it is hard to guess just where they are going to end in this respect. They are more than a foot In width, now and are covered with enormous roses painted or woven upon them. Other flowers and pompadour effects appear in the sashes. They also have wide stripes of several tnts and these are of contrasting silks and are differently ornamented. A wo- man with one of these big sashes on need not trim the back of her gown at all as nothing she could put on 1t would show.
 Roman and Oriental effects also appear in sashes. but, for the most part, delicate colors are employed for the ground pat tern no matter how bright the design upon these. Ribbons of medium and nar- row width however have lost nothing of their prestige and velvet sashes are only waiting cooler weather to spring into more pronounced favor. Ornamented sashes are quite the thing and no word can describe half the lovliness of these.
 Belts of green leaves are worn with pointed punches of flowers instead or buckles