The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-17
MAS NEW YORK FASHIONS
Hints of Fan Styles-Some old Fash ions Return-High Collars Or
 dered by Fashions Decree

At this season, though sweItering with the heat, it is customary to be given d hint of advance fall styles, not only in write ups, but by actual window displays in the leading shops. These expeditions serve to, empha- size the main new features. But these of course must be taken with a grain Of salt. It is rare to find at the height of any one season the modes thnE were shown as a forecast, save in modified form.
 Of one thing we can be quite sure, there is to be revival of the high collar. Jumping from an almost too pronounced decolletage on the summer gowns, coraas the high stock of black satin with Charlotte Corday turn over wings, ofslawn or satin in colors. On some Of the late summer gowns this efHect is carried out in linen. Evelyn Thaw, whose taste in dress has never. been questioned, no matter what our opinion of her personally may be. wore this modish high collar during the Thaw investigation this summer. really think 1t was large tw due to this stiff satin and linen combination that she was described as holding her head high in arrogant de dance ofEthe cross questioning.
 She couldn't have dropped 1t II she wanted to. I believe likewise that much of her school giriish air, that was repeafed1y used in describing nef when her husband first went on trial for murder, was similarly occasloneo by her style of collar. It was or the school boy turn over fashion, exposing the rounded young throat
 There ia no use denying the influence that such small trifies can have on woman's appearance, to such an ex- tent that she appears as quite new character according to the style of her RppRreL
 The present and apparently the near fnrt7rre mode of hair dressing, VIII have d tendency to make all women look more youthful. The low. .colfture, with soft parted waves held in place bv a band, Is generally becoming All we'll bred modish women no Ionsel wear the rats and puffs that d1stoft- ef khe shape of their heads, and were friEhtfuIly unsanitary as well.
 The same woman with her halr 6rksEed in these two contrasting styles lon1xs like two different women. 1T ypurhfulness is a desideratum, lneii the low coifture should be adopted-
 m the advance styles there is hint thai trains will be revived. Inis seems hardly compatible with the low Etvfe of hair dressing.
 Evidently 1t is not fashions wish that women should turn Time oack. ward too radically. For the short skirts and low coil form harmonious rombination of a decidedly girlish ' trend. which the trailing gown fails to create.
 while 1t is a good plan to wear gen erally what is becoming, we cant pe too fixed in the adherence to a slyie that makes a woman consplcuousa q
 Tnnr- example one of the best known u.ornen in Society found that her. hair worn ~over her ears was parucularly r1.ited to the contour of her face. Sne never changed this style, though Pom- Dadours. Psyche knots, Marcel undu- iaffons and the latest Madeline Force hur came and went. Finally sne heard d rT76or that people believed N ahe either had no ears, or that they were seriously misshapen. Then pres to chanFe. she appeared with ha1r SC arranged that she completely disprov- 1d fine theory. The mischief had been done. however, and to-day many De fizmra that her adherence to the severe 1~r unusual style was forced upon hel 6v d physical misfortune.
 To return to the fall fashionlE nanniers are certainly going to stay 5r various degrees of bouffante draper ses And there are strong indications r,f real overskirts, such as our Moth CTS used to wear with fringe trim
 well. they say, keep a thing ter years and it will come into fashion arain." Perhaps a double decade vii make the mode doubly fashionable, Ii the overskirt and fringe combination lR any criterion
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