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Show SFVIART TIES AND STOCKS. Woman . With Clever Fingers Can Turn Out Numerous home Made Articles of Neckwear. The woman with clever fingers .can turn out for herself numerous smart ties and stocks If she is keen enough to copy the shop ones. Fashion jabots from handkerchief linen or fine lawn cut into oval, round or oblong tabs that reach to the bust line or half way above it. Finish the edge with a narrow buttonhole stitch, in small scallops all around or in straight buttonholing on the sides and three deep scallops on bottom. In center put a medallion of lace with material cut away beneath, and around it embroider a row or two of pin dots or small eyelets" to form a frame. Newer are . the medallions made with a center of punchwork, with a design embroidered or outlined around it These tabs are most serviceable In all white using fine mercerized cotton cot-ton but are pretty in color which is repeated in the collar, belt and stockings. stock-ings. As they are not plaited, laundering launder-ing is simplified. Another smart tie to be worn with a turned down or Dutch collar is made from a straight piece of heavy linen three inches long and one inch wide. Round the ends scoop out sides slightly slight-ly and finish with straight edge of buttonholing. but-tonholing. Make long eyelets about half an inch of center and through them, run velvet ribbon to match embroidery. The ends of the ribbon project beyond be-yond the ends of the linen. If desired, a small design in eyelet or solid embroidery em-broidery can be worked in each of the rounded ends, midway between eyelet and edge. |