Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-01
SPORTING EMBLEMS.
What New Neckwear Has to SHOW

Written FOR The Star.
The tailor made girl has everything her
own way this season, judging from the
array of her special wearing apparel dis
played in the shops. One learns from a
tour through the shopping district that
biouses and shirts on the most approved
mannish lines are to be prominent In the
summer wardrobe. But in no wise Is this
tendency toward severe simplicity so no.
ticeable In the new neckwear. The lacey
stock with ribbon and frills OF a season or
two back Is distinctly passe. To be quite
up-to-date you must wear linen of good,
stout quality, made up into ascots, four
in-hands, or even bands running around the
neck, with stitched strips buttoned on at
the front and extending down the shirt
waist plat.
Embroidery plays a large part in the
finishing of these stocks. The wonder of
1t is that French knots, dots and even
sprigs Of flowers do not take away from
the strictly tailor-made effect This is
due largely to the faultIessness of the fit
ting and the erispness of the linen; good
quality of linen sheeting, or butchers linen.
often being used for the entire stock. Again
pique enters into the makeup of the collar
proper, with the ends of the smooth linen.
But as regards embroidery. Imagine
sprays of forget-me-nots corn flowers, or
even yiolets with appropriate green leaves,
embroidered upon your tailor-made ste *;
one spray directly under your chin, two
others upon the tie endsl Yet the smart
est stocks display just such startling in
noYations And the. flower sprays are in
color, too. 1t will be quite the proper
thing to match the flower on your stock
with the flowers on your waist or the
color of your jacket suit. So before you
get out your embroidery hoop and silks,
decide upon the color of your spring run.
about frock.
If you are athletic girl you can have
embroidered stocks as well The girl who
yachts. or swims, or COLTS will, this sum-
mer be identified by the emblems which
symbols are most effective. A wheel in
dull blue underneath the chin, with tie
ends decorated with another star in old
red, sounds bit unusual, but that is what
makes the combination smart. Tennis rae
quets, golf sticks, oars ere embroidered
upon stocks intended to be worn with
shirts, ungathered, untrimmed and fitted
with a jaunty pocket. Even the unassum-
ing business woman with no outdoor fads
can have embroidery upon her stock, and
very effective bits, too One of the hand
square ends decorated with graduated dots
of black and white. The dots were large
at the bottom of the tie, running to the
size of pin head three inches up. Each
not mixed, and the black rows were shorter
than the white.
The girl with no taste for embroidery
need not be discouraged. There are the
plain white ascots, short, with square ends. .
The latter, by the way, are newer than the
points The stocks are held In place by a
pearl pin and are decidedly chic. There
are fat bow ties OF linen unadorned, four
in-hands, which tie beautifully, and In
Vulnerable stocks with buttoned ends. some
of them with line of French dots to mark
the middle.
There are so many styles that all can
be quilted and the successful. wearer of
stocks will have a supply large enough to
warrant fresh one at the least show OF
soil Their immaculateness is their chief
charm after all.