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Show Hand Made Sailor Collars. rLAT turnover collars to wear with collarless frocks and over the collar of jackets are apparently to be even more popular this spring nnd summer than formerly, and many girls who arc accomplished needlewomen are engageu in making a varied assortment of these collars, which, when made by baud ond daintily designed, are m valuable an addition addi-tion to all sorts ot costumes. 'lhere is an immense variety of shapes and styles of trimming in these collars, ,md they range in point of elaboration from the heavy collar of hiitclier'n linen trimmed only with buttonhole MilchingJ ;to exquisitely Hdc collars of linen batiste triinuie-d with the most delicate embroidery embroi-dery and the finest ot real lace. One very necessary oint to remember Sd making the collars is that they must be-well be-well cut and must tit the person for whom they are intended, for tho most perfect stitching will not make up for n badly cut or ill lilting collar. Another Ikiug, which must be remembered ia the jiecea-sity jiecea-sity for fine material mid enreful workmanship. work-manship. The simplest design, on which very little work is expended, is greatly to be preferred to the one which is muchi more elaborate but less perfectly executed. exe-cuted. One of the newest collars of this sort rejoice in the now popular mime of; "Charite-cler." It is a round collar of medium width laid in.fiue plrats alb around und trimmed with an edging of fine lace, Cluny, Valenciennes or guipure, s-ometiuiej there are also insertions of lace, but this Is not necessary. Very sheer batiste and linen are used for thesu collars. There are also round collars of sheer linen which are embroidered in straight lines from the collar band to the edge and between these lines with delicate vines. plain edge of guipure, a narrow insertion inser-tion of tho same lace and a second insertion in-sertion around the top of the collar tiuish this collar, .Other heavier linen collars are embroidered with little sprigs and finished with a border of Irish crochet. Square collars on tho sailor pattern lure also made of line and heavy lineu and (rimmed with baby Irish, guipure, Cluny, Venetian nnd Valenciennes lace. Very sheer collars of this sort have a band of tiie Venetian lace around the edge and are embroidered in light, delicate designs. Others are edged with embroidery und have the lace set in in circles, squares and narrow strips. There are also square, collars made to fit over Dutch necks nud these are niade of the sheerest qualities oC linen and batiste so that they will ho suitable to wear with fine summer frocky. Some of tho sailor collars wilh long tdiuwl fronts for wearing over jacket aro of tine batiste nud' tritume-d only with borders bor-ders and insertions of Valenciennes. Those urc most attractive, the quality of material and lace being po tiuo as to rcn- , dor more chbtate ndornuieut unuccc -j l.iry. |