Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-01-09

, alone must go directly against the
bare flesh of the neck. or course, the
public might have rebelled, but some
how it does not It calls itself free.
and yet it shows itself bound hand
and foot by the strange laws that
are called fashion. which, in its final
analysis means the thing that every
one is doing.
Years have gone over our heads
bringing war and peace, famine and
plenty; nations have fallen and kings
have lost their thrones under the
urge of freedom, yet millions OF
women have made themselves uglier
than nature intended because their
neighbors went without their col
lars.
Now France puts collar or two
on young women. Will the new
fashion thrust the other out OF ex-
istence? One wonders Collars are
costly in their facility for accumulat-
ing dust and soil. They stay clean
about a minute. When this side of
the case is brought up. the men enter
the discussion. What would women
do to us If we abandoned our white
collars merely because clean one
was required twice day. argue they!
Would we escape criticism because
we claimed that fashion permitted US
to do it, they say? There is no an
sWer, There never was between men
and women on a subject of dress.
1t looks as though women would
be induced, however. to change their
ways and go back to the problem or
the clean collar, for it is a real
problem when one lives in a city.
Possibly the struggle to keep clean
in our coal-burning epoch has had
much to do with the decision by
women to go on enduring a fasnlon
that gave them relief from prettler
fashion that caused no end Of worry
expense and time.
If certain of the designers have
their way with the neck and wrists
of dark frocks there will be an I'm.
provement in their looks, but not OF
their temper. for white organdie mas
no rival in the matter OF showing
soil, for crushing. rolling up ana
behaving generally in careless
manner. These new collars and cuffs
are immense No scarcity of material
keeps them limited. The neck adorn-
ment follows a new shape that one
sees here and there in sufhclent
strength to induce one to believe that
there is a concerted movement to put
the thing in the fashion The fabric
, is arranged like q deep yoke, carrying
out the acknowledgements second
empire shoulder line. and the cufrs;;
| which accompany 1t. are fashoneo
We're inspired. probably. by the deep
fngerless gloves of fur. which Paris
attached to it's sleeves in early
autumn These are still worn. and
| when the spring is seen over the
horizon, women will substitute or
CANDY for fur
cuffs of this kind are tied in at
the hand with black velvet bracelets.
Women who like to attract attention
in Paris are not loath to wear these
/ accessories on the bare arms. making
a conspicuous feature of the wristlet:
The sketch shows Paris frocK
of flag red Moroccan crepe with
twisted Persian girdle and elaborate
collar and cuffs of organdy. Gray
ones are added to blue serge gowns
and mauve ones are placed on church
purple.
| emitted nv the woman who may feel
that life has put enough burdens on
her shoulders without a voluntary
act on her part, she may not be
ayerse to the turnover OF white az
the neck. but it is well to whisper IN
| her ear that she must be young to
wear organdy. 1t does not go with
any but the perfect complexion.