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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 22, 27 January 1915, Page 9

The Melbourne correspondent of the Adelaide Observer writes: It is as well while away t»n our summer holidays to make the most of our freedom. It is neck freedom I am alluding to. For with the autumn fashions returns the high collar. It seems only a few weeks ago that we were reviling the collarless code, making rude remarks about necks, saying, " How perfectly awful," and that " nothing would induce us to wear them." And now we view with positive horror the revival of the high neck. But it is coming — boned ! On a coolish morning quite lately I met a smart Melbourne girl just returned from abroad. She is nothing if not sactorially up to date, and my first glance at her was caught and held by ncr tall collar. She laughed at my dismay when I heard that every blouse from Paris last autumn wore tall collars. Her coat of fine blue serge was a kind of belted blouse coat, cut with raglan sleeves, a deep basque was pleated back and front, plain at the sides, and decorated with pockets. Think of that! Pockets! Her blouse was of thinnest handkerchief linen, not a scrap of fulness in it, which gave a flat-chested look. This flat-chested appearance is the latest effect. All very well for the thin ones of the earth, but how those who possess an over-abundance of chest are going to achieve flatness it is impossible to imagine. The skirt was our old friend the straight-hanging, pleated skirt, and frightfully short. It must have been seven inches off the ground. She said, " Paris made it so, ' so it must be right, and with this toilet she -wore lace boots, patent leather vamps, black cloth tops, and flat heels. No tottering about on stilt heels and showing pretty ankles any more. Uncompromising laced boots, that, do what we will, thicken the ankle by crossing every step we take, are the thing. Headdresses of enormous dimensions are indispensable for evening wear, and one night recently at the theatre she divided the attention of the audience with the people on the stage. If glasses were not focussed on the stage, they were levelled at her head. She wore a broad ' black velvet band well down on her forehead^ encircling the head, six branching aigrettes reared aloft in centre front, and a pear-shaped emerald pendant fell on her forehead between the eyebrows. Emerald drop earrings swayed from her ears. The frock worn was of chartreuse taffeta, and she economised so drastically in the matter of sleeves and bodice that there was practically none of the former and little of the latter. Yet her whole appearance was oddly charming and delightful.