Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-03
HER STIFF STOCKS
NEW NECKWEAR FOR TAILORED
MAIDS.
Hand Work Reigns on Collars and
Cuffs in Linen or Filmiest
Lawn.
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star
A smartly tailored maid should have deft
fingers indeed, SO endless must be her sup
ply Of linen for collars and cuffs in order
that it may never be otherwise than i'm
maculately clean and fresh. Frills and tabs
of accordion or side pleating, tiny linen
buttons, French braidng and embroidery,
and the English eyelet work, together with
new and striking combinations of linen and
fagoting. are the distinguishing marks this
season on all the linen finish for neck and
sleeves of the tailored bodice, while mar
row edge of ruching tops off the linen it
self Half sleeves and plated chemisettes
are smart for wear with the Wrecked, puff
sleeved bodice. Cuffs, whether the straight
band or the newer stiff flare, are from four
to six inches in width, and show the same
design of heavy embroidery or pleated tabs
as does the accompanying collar. For wear
with fiaring cuffs the rounding sailor col
lar stands high about the neck and is fas-
tened through embroidered buttonholes by
a long, narrow tie.
handkerchief with wide hem and sheer
body, or with the tape border, are made into
the trimmest of stocks and cuffs. Plain
bands for neck and wrist are made from
either very heavy linen handsomely emboSS-
ed with embroidery or braiding, or they are
built from the filmiest of linen lawn, show
ing a wide hem and large dots inwoven or
embroidered IN Dlack- lavender, Dlue, green
or pink. Wide bands of Irish point and
Irish crochet lace with large and striking
Bower designs are extremely stunning and
VERY expensive. Bands of broderie anglais
or French braiding in fantastic designs are
crossed at the front of the neck and fas
tened by three tiny linen buttons and a
five-inch tab of accordon-pl ated linen or
lawn falling from the end of the upper
band.
Styles in Cuffs.
square in their middle and slope gradually
or with jagged edge to The rounding cor
ners. They show heavily embossed sham
rocks, or openwork embroidery in lattice
work alternating with roses. These cuffs
often have small tabs of plated linen to
match the stock which is encircled at it's
base by two-inch ruffle of fine pleating,
with or without two pointed jabots of pleat-
ing falling from the center of the front. One
dainty set of cuffs shows a two-inch band
of French embroidery in elm-leaf design
two-inch pleatng of lawn and lace finishing
the wrist edge, with three-nch pleating
for the upper edge. The neckband is SINH
larry built. but has the wide pleating turned
down. ValencinneS and lawn are also COM
bined in narrow strips for these collars and
cuffs. Delicate shades of satin are formed
into rounding collars and cuffs. and have
their edges embroidered in a darker shade
in a sunburSt design.
StocAs of fagoting and linen In odd wind
ings have long triangular tongues extend
ing nearly to the waist line. These tongues
are also built of fagoted linen folds and are
sometimes finished with a ruffiing of VAL
enciennes
Bands for the wrist and neck can be made
very stunning by a design in white or coll
ors done i'm the Russian cross stitch on
heavy white canvas. Basic piece of scrim
on the canvas, and by the help of cross
stitch pattern book a clever girl can work
out her own design, pulling away the scrfm
thread by thread, when the pattern is COM
pleted. A eoronet or a pair of Mercury
wings is particularly decorative, and Initials
In English script. embroidered in white
thread, are unique and unusually elective.