South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-06
Ravishin9 New
Bits of Neckwear
Flesh Colored Organize or
Cretonne with organdie
Are Beautiful.

AS usual, the neCkWear counter is |
showing some exceedingly attractive |
new inspirations. IL does seem that |
both in neckwear and millinery there !
is an unfailing. constantly flowing /
stream OF new ideas. Let all other /
sources fail a Misunderstanding nose |
and searching eye on the shopping !
tour yet are they appeased by the !
gratifying array of the neckwear
counter and millinery shops.
So it is that today 1 can tell you of
/ a new and ravishing bit of neckwear
/ that splendidly promises 10 soften
/ both features and beautify complex
| iOns-hesh -cOlOred Organdie made up
| in collars. cuffs and fchus! 1t is of
| course, an evolution of the white or
] candle. the later still being in excel
| lent standing. Description Will not
doiustive TO the lovely new flesh
colored bits of neckwear. One has to
| really see them TO appreciate their
"softening" effect
| An exceedingly pretty and new ef-
| feet is also obtained by the cOmbna-
| ton of two 10 longer spick-span new
ideas in neckwear-White organdie
and cretonne. Both collars and cuffs.
| but principally collars, Of cretonne
are yelled with an upper layer Of the
( white Organdie. The Organdie Is
usually picOted about the edges and
/ is arranged in the form of one loose
/ flap To each piece of the neckwear,
] being stitched only at one side TO
keep it in place.
Taking a general survey Of the
newest neckwear. a touch of color"
] is undoubtedly its chief character
/ istic This is sometimes obtained by
| cretonne, sometimes by edging folds
/ of lawn in plain cOlOrs Call cOlOrs),
/ sometimes by colored embroidery,
and in one particularly striking and
very chic bit of neckWear, by a rain
bow edge. The latter is a pleated or
candle jabot, One-sided, of four-inch
width. hating along its edge a one
| inch lawn border of rainbow stripes.
! These stripes are about a quarter inch
| in width and each of a different color.
! It's really ripping style.
| Have you seen the newest brace
| let's? Proud jewellers are displaying
| them in the cases devoted to their
| most exclusive goods The bracelets
are made entirely of that new green
! gold which has met with really a re-
markable degree of popularity, con-
! sidering it's recent appearance. No
| name is attached to the new bit OF
| jewelry. The bracelet is a flexible
| strip which lies as fiat as a silk rib
l
| made of tiny squares OF heavy gold,
nTysteriously linked. the squares being
not quite a quarter inch in diameter.
! The jeweler tells me that they are
partly hand work and partly engine
/ turned, and a most exquisite produc-
ton Green gold, by the way, isn't
I dull 1t has quite as high a gloss as
the bright yellow gold so long IN
favor. Green gold is charming sub
| stitute for the woman who thinks
platinum too pale.
/ You will like to hear about some
trinkets which all wOmankind would
! covet-tiny boxes about an inch in
diameter cut from solid bits of rose
quartz jade. lapis lazuli. and one
would you believe it2-from a single
lovely violet-tinted amethyst Each
| has lid made from single bit of
stone TO match its box proper, rim
med and bound TO the box by thin
| bands Of gold and tiny gold hinges.
Another beautiful thing about them
was that they ranged in price only
from $25 TO S65. The boxes could be
used for many things-pins, bOnbon
scents. ointment, etc.
Corals and canoes are in fashions
| front ranks at present, and If you are
fortunate enough to possess any heir
| looms of this character. be sure that
they see the light o. day at an early
! worn at the thTOat-they are appear
ing upon hats. frequently being used
to pin tailored bows at the side OF
hat crowns Usually. however. cheap
| er pins than those worn as brooches
are used Belt buckles, those you
| buy for his birthday, are now to be
had without tongues. They are ever
so much nicer than the old kind, and
very fashionable among suspenderless
males. Women are bound 10 be in
terested in them as one more item
added 10 the painfully small list OF
things one can give a man and feel
that he is really grateful
In the millinery shops there are the
cutest little quilted hats imaginable.
They are OF silk. usually in pastel
I shades, and are worn for anything
from sports To afternoon affairs and,
indeed. for very informal evening
wear. Consequently. a chic hat of this
description forms a very economic
1 purchase for the woman who possess
/ es but a slender purse.
The swanlike turbans OF smooth
white coz feathers have been follow
ed by similar turbans formed of
grayish brown feathers that give
them the appearance of our common
sparrows The bird" hat indeed is
quite the rage that is the bird hat
made entirely of feathers always in
turban foTm), and not SO much the
hat OF straw. fabric or felt ornament
ed simply with stuffed birds as in the
past.
CAROLINE HARPER.