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Show A WORD OF THE HIGH COLLAR. I The most amusing touch anent the high collar that the American woman , Is taking up is the fact that she hi decided to leave a deep Y-shaped ' wedre of her chest exposed beneath it. She saunters In the street in the cold-i cold-i est weather with her coat cut down 1 ' almost to the top of her corset show-i show-i ing a flicker ci bare sk-n between, and her neck enveloped in a fur stock that Is warm enough to d duty In i he Russian trenches. The new blouses also have high boned collars and the coats reach to j the ears. Some have tho directol'.e collais that rise high and turn back j on themselves in a .Straight line , others have the Consulate cellar which goes straight across the back of the neck, also high and turned over and made of some brightly colored stiff silk thickly encrusted with gold or silver arabesques. The smartest outside collar is of fur as w Idc as it Is possible to wear It. It is made like a downs ruff In that It rises to the chin and does not bind the neck under tiie chin It fastens at the left front with a rosette of vel-j vel-j vet ribbon, or with braid buttons arjd I loops. High black velvet dog collars are 1 again in stvle with house blouses that i are cui in b deep surplice opening In I front. Clever women use these on the j street under n coat so there will not be a bare expanse of neck between tho J chin and the coat collar I he usual 1 rolling collar of starched white muslin that extends in a surplice effect to the bust has had its day. |