Evening star., 1912-04-11
QUAINT STYLES AMONG
THE LATEST NECKWEAR

Though nineteen out Of twenty frocks
this summer will not boast the cool and
girlish Dutch neck, as was the case last
year, the spring maid and her SUCCESSORS
of the next few months will not have to
smother their throats in high collars un-
less they so choose. The low neck, the
collarless neck, the narrow French band
and the high collar will all be in, and all
be becoming to some one or another, and
1t only remains for each to make her
choice. When she has chosen she may
leave her frock plain, or she may revel
in further choosing, of ruffs and collars
and fichus and frills and jabots. for every
sort Of pretty neck finish is stylish and
it would be a strange face and strange
disposition that could not be suited from
the lot.
Perhaps the newest and most generally
becoming bit of neckwear is the double
ruff. This has band of black velvet or
ribbon for indoor wear, headed by mar
row and stiff little outstanding fr.ll of lace
or plated net-perhaps a black fr.ll over
a white frill or vice versa-and a broader
frill that comes down on chest and shoul-
der after the manner of an Elizabethan
ruff. If gayly colored frock Is worn
the band of velvet in the middle may be
made to match. Such ruffs may be
bought by the yard. as may one with a
velvet at the top and the plated frill be-
low.
Then for out of DOORS there is a smart
little ruff on the same order made of
marabou or ostrich with malines or lace
or net or satin plating above and below.
Sometimes the white frill is headed by a
satin ruching in black.
The marabou and ostrich take many
other forms. and very soft and becoming
do they look In place of the heavy furs
with which SO many women are reluctant
to part. Sometimes the scarf is entirely
of the fluffy feathers, as in the case of
a chamois colored broad scarf of mara
bou marked with lines OF black willow
affair Is In five shades of gray ostrich
ranging from a very dark at the outer
edges to white in the center, In distinct
rows. This scarf is both broad and long.
satin rose. With costume in gray
tones this would make the most charming
finishing touch.
But it is in combination with Iaces' and
silks that the ostrich and marabou have
found their latest development in most
instances. Changeable taffeta makes a
rich and modish scarf when bordered
with the feathers. Black ostrich touched
here and there with cerfse makes a beau
tiful border on one such scarf in which
cerise forms the cross threads of the
taffeta.
One Of the handsomest Of all the scarfs
Is one Of heavy white filet lace bordered
with white marabou. Down on the left
satin rose.
These satin flowers are, as everybody
knows by now. feature Of all the spring
neckWear and corsage ornaments. From
the tiny buds, of which half q dozen or
more may be strung in a row to form a
crescent pin for the form of the collar.
to large full blown rose or orchid or
other beautiful blossom. every kind and
flowers. old-fashioned posies in tight little
punches.
The very newest and one of the most
beautiful Of these artificial flowers has
hand-painted petals. Just one blossom
of this sort Is thrust into the opening of
the coat or pinned to the corsage It
may be an iris of delicate lavender satin,
and then 1t has the markings Of the petals
applied with the paint It may be a
with shadings exquisitely painted on the
curling satin petals.
AS a. finish to the fichu these flowers
are most delightful. And. by the way
the fichu is one Of the best of the neck
| wear novelties. It may be in finest lace,
| In simplest net, In batiste, in lien, in
silk. One very pretty one seen the other
day was in the delicate shadow lace, and
at Its crossing it was held with three
| velvet holds other fchus, and bow of
black velvet is the almost invariable
finish Of the new double jabots.
Where the sailor collar appears It is a
small one and sheer and is likely to be
edged with the ubiquitous plating of
lace or net. Or it may be replaced with
| a small collar in pointed effect-one point
] on each shoulder and one down the back
Of plated null or straight edged mech
| lin lace.
On some frocks the only neck. finish IS
q row OF beads around q simple round
throat line,