Evening star., 1937-02-12
-Sketched in Washington Shops.

ings star in trimmings. Necklipes
grow lower-2o to % inches are fire.
quently cited-and v shapes are very
well liked by way of change. White
is unequalled in importance with some
maize, aqua and pale rose used.
The important suit season gives
chief impetus to gilets and guimpes.
The cocktail guimpe with back
trimming to show as the wearer sits
at the bar, is a novelty. Pique tailored
with mannish shirt bosom stylings or
with fagoting details. leads the mas
culine fabrics for Spring.
IN THE palmer types of collars and
cuffs are the wide Puritan styles
sloping to deep points at the front.
These always have matching cuffs,
sometimes reaching almost to the ell
bows. They come in figured pique
and a more glorified version of wash
able mousseline, very sheer and very
much in the spirit of the early Colon
ial days. In fact this type is copied
from a costume picture that will soon
be released here in town.
Also in the trim, tailored mood are
the round collars with narrow cuffs
made of folds of fine pique fagoted to-
gether. Nothing to get out of shape
and mussed up about these. Fagot-
ing IS used great deal, and is shown
above in the very distinctive narrow
front tab collar with addition of Irish
lace edging.
Pique and Irish lace are nicely
combined in collar wide at the top
and narrowing to point at the waist
line that would be fine to camouflage
a plain dark silk frock. The collar
is open down the front, but held to-
gether with pearl buttons near the top.
If you have been faithful to high,
round necklines and want change,
you might cut out the neck of one
dress in shallow square. There are
such pretty collars with these new
square outlines. Usually there is a
band Of embroidery, perhaps with a
a ruff1e of some sort on the dress side.
Sometimes it is more of rectangle
with finely tucked center and border
of embroidered organdy.
Lace and net bows, and jabots, both
short and long, are very good with
suits as well as with dresses. A jabot
will often serve to fool some of the
people some of the time" into think
ing that you have another new blouse
under your jacket. The vestee ex-
tending below the waistline, that is
to be worn over the dress, gives added
interest. These come in net with lace
trim and in combinations of organdy
and lace. Often there is frill at the
front, or a bow.
SOME of the most intriguing items
at the neckwear counters these
days are those plain chinon handker-
chief squares that come in every i'm
aginable color. They are not new
in themselves, but they are doing
new things with them. For instance,
they are tying two or three colors to-
gether for both evening headbands
and scarfs.
Here's an opportunity to mix your
own favorite colors or match your pet
frock. One trick Is to take three har-
monizing colors and braid them for a
hairband, then three more are braided
into scarf with long ends left loose.
Such an arrangement was worked
out beautifully in black, beige green.
For a simpler effect, we saw two
squares, one of dubonnet and the other
Of Spring green, fastened together to
form a headband, with the colors
equally divided between starboard and
port. For the scarf, one color was
tied about the neck and the other
slipped through the knot in the front,
making four ends, two of each color.
These are nice to wear with the short
dinner jacket. There are many varia-
tions of this Spring scarf idea, and
with scarfs at so cents and 81 in two
sizes, you may spend quite neat little
sum before you get through, if you
want to do much braiding.
For information concerning items
mentioned in this column call National
5000. extension 3s5, between 10 and
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