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Show NEW FRENCH NECKWEAR-IS NECKWEAR-IS IT EQUAL TO OURS? Paris. Tho knowing ones say that America has better neckwear than France, and that a greater variety of things Is to bo found In our shops than In those of Paris. Possibly. BUt tho Idea In neckwear, neck-wear, as well as In the rest of clothes, sprung In tho rue do la Pals and copied nt onco on the Boulevard Haussmann, from which spot It drifts Into tho world. Tho word drift Is scarcely appropriate connected with any fashion. Tho word leap Is better bet-ter for ono part of tha world knows what tho other part is wearing so quickly that tho fashion reporter Is conipclled to bo a mentul subject. America rarely accepts the French neckwear entirely; It plaB upon tho general theme and produces fashions of Us own. First It took the MedecJ collar and put it Into muslin and mado tho tdrnover part most pro nounced. Then It used tho Robespierre Robes-pierre in several ways; It never quite adopted the Gladstone in its original lines, but France also changed this model quite materially beforo It be came popular. . Tho Stiff Rolling Collar Now there Is a new collar In tho French shops. It Is made of muslin, in bright colors like turquoise blue and watermelon pink and amethyst purple. It Is formed exactly like tho yoko put collar. It Is a turnover, turn-over, both Bides of which are of equal depth, but Instead of being flattened flat-tened out, It is deftly rolled at tho edge. There Is no trimming on It beyond be-yond a lino of hemstitching or of hand embroldorcd French dots. It does not reach far down In front, and tho neckband Is slipped Into tho surpllco front of n whlto blouse or a dark bluo frock. Shirts Match Collars Tho size, tho stiffness, and tho bright coloration of theso yoko collars col-lars give such emphasis to a blouse that many smart women havo determined deter-mined to match them with liner, skirts. For Instance, many of tho smart costumes going to Deauvllle have very short plain skirts of watermelon watermel-on pink linen with full whlto blouses having long satin sleeves finished at tho neck with a yoko collar of pink muslin. With this costume aro worn pink and whlto strlpod stockings those aocordeon stripes that aro quite pretty" pret-ty" and tho now white canvas pump with the smooth rubber solo and no hools. Tho sailor hat Is of white satin with an onormoua black velvet poln-sotta poln-sotta at tho back. Thero aro all kinds of collnrs and designs In theso now collars. Thore aro plenty of block and whlto stripes and women who llko a more brilliant touch ot color than a plain surface gives nro taking up tho Mnrtl.:e stufTs with their broad stripes against which nro backed brllllunt flowers. |
