South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-13
Touch Up Machine
Embroidered Collars
If Purse Will Not Permit
Purchasing Hand Embroid-
cry Use Your Ingenuity.

The popularity of coat suits has
done more than to revive the lives
Of blouses: it has brought forth
great array of neckwear. phere are
all sorts of materials and styles from
which to choose. Hand embroidery
seems to be the thing on neckwear Of
the best value; so II is for this reason
that you are urged TO add a few
stitches TO plain models or machine
EN- broidered affairs. The hand-eIn-
brOidered neckWear for sale in the
shops may be too high priced for
some pOcketbOoks but this does not
mean that IL is out of reach If you
Will buy several yards Of Organdie-
this is the material that is used a
great deal for summer neckwear-
and Will cut from ii collars of the
newest shape, you Will be well along
the road to success, so far as neck
wear is concerned. The next step is
to transfer simple designs 10 the va
rious collars and embroider these in
all-white or in solid colors. or in a
combination OF delicate cOlors, SO long
as the combination results in an ar
tistic effect
When time is limited. it may be
better to buy machine-embroider
collars and then embrOider over the
design, using the machine work as
padding. This touch will add value
and beauty to the neckwear.
A most adorable collar, which re-
sembles the neckpiece Of peasant,
is made Of sheer white Organdie, fits
smoothly around the shoulders and
falls into points down the front The
whole edge is finished with a hem
stitched hem.
Lace Edging.
A few extra stitches will often do
much to improve the appearance of
an embroidered piece of linen. This
statement is proved by center-piece
which is embroidered in blue forget
me-nots. The scalloped edge is but
tonholed in white, and around the
buttOnholed edge is a blue edging
made by making a rather loose loop
or buttonhOle of embroidery thread
and inside of the loop, near the cen
ter. buttOnholing three times. The
extra stitches not only add beauty to
the centerpiece, but they prevent the
material from fraying.
PIaidies Are Coming.
Plaids large ones and genuine
Scotch ones, are coming along very
quickly, in the wake of the kits
which we have-seen now for some
time. In America. however. the rich
cOlored plaids are toned down some
what by combination with blue serge
OF BdDdTulue. "A pam Dlue serge
coat, made in the straight box style
and just a trihe longer than waist
length, is worn over a box pleated
skirt of plaid cheviot Plaids peep
out at neck and wrist from dark blue
gabardine suits and line some of the !
long separate coats.
Novel Wing Trimming.
Wings have flown into favor this
spring and have settled down upon
my lady's summer hat with the in
tentiOn of a good long stay. They
affect many poses, that which looks
as if poised on top Of the crown for
immediate flight being perhaps the
most popular. The advent of sailor
hats is bringing in a host of new
tailored trimmings. and wings too are
taking on a more tailored stiffness. \ !
particularly chic hat of midnight
taffeta is trimmed solely by a pair
of rather long narrow white wings
trimmed very evenly on the edges and
backed with a piece of stiffened blue
taffeta following the outline of the
wings and slightly larger Another
white bangkok straw hat has a sim
pie trimming of black wings backed in
the same manner with white kid. The
wings are trimmed very closely about
the edge and with a coat of black
varnish give the appearance of pat
ent leather. : sand-cOlor tUrban of
fine hemp shows a curious arrange
ment of chiffon in the shape of wings
resembling those of a moth The
chiffon of sand color has pasted to
it what might be called a bleached
peacock feather. The fine network
of a moth wing is then traced on chif-
fon and feather with white paint.