The Newest in Neckwear.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 26, 29 June 1910, Page 69

The Newest in Neckwear.

EMBROIDERED STOCKS, LAWN AND LACE JABOTS, AND DUTCH YOKES. THERE is always some distinct novelty in neckwear each season, and this winter it is the lawn and lace jabot for wear with the tailored costume with the long

In Ninon or net over satin, trimmed insertion and ruched ribbon.

revers. The jabot in its new form, with its high neckband attached is much longer than the design of a season or two ago. The pointed ends in some cases run nearly to the waistline, and a small butterfly bow of the lawn breaks the joining line at the front of the neckband. The up-to-date jabot is in pleated lawn outlined with a narrow frill or flat band of lace, and a touch of the colour of the gown with which it is to be worn is introduced as an edging between the lawn and lace. This edging is usually in velvet, and it finishes the top of the neckband and borders the butterfly bow in front with a becoming effect. Cream lace' jabots edged with coloured lace are also to be seen. Linen stocks are being worn with the tailored shirt-blouses, and there are stocks of black silk or satin and lace, and embroidered stocks ornamented with black ribbon velvet. In all the white stocks there is a liking for black ami white, and jet is very prominent as a trimming. It finishes the pointed ends, and it appears in small glistening carved insets on the part of the stock which encircles the neck. Velvet collars are very fashionable trimmed with jet buckles and pendant drops. Printed satin ties are ornamented with jet, and there are crepe de Chino ties with tassels and buttons or jet drops. TAILORED CREPE DE CHINE TIES. The tailored crepe, de Chine tie with open ends is one of the features of the new neckwear. This 'tie is smartly shaped. and the edges are quite plain. Its colourings are very artistic, and they cither tone or harmonise with the tailored coat and skirt. In fancy crepe de Chine neckwear tilers are charming collars made to fit smoothly about the neck, with a square gold buckle fastening in the front. Peter Pan collars are still popular. Not only do they appear on the house gown, the smart afternoon toilette, but they are being worn with cuffs to match with

the tailored tunic dress in tweed or tha coat and skirt. DUTCH YOKES POPULAR. Flat round Dutch yokes are among the new ideas in neckwear. They are inserted on the tunic dresses with a little cravat or straight tab of the Lice in front to break the plain front lines of the bodice. These little eollar.’ess yokes of lace or tucked not sua very becoming tc some women, and > yoke of this kind can be easily removed and cleaned.

The Morning Wear.

Coat and skirt costumes in serge, tweed, and cloth will be very much in evidence, the skirts made in quite a short walking length, and the coats cut fairly long, but neither so long" nor so t;ghtfitting as they were last year. Those who are slim and slight will rejoice in the revival of the Russian blouse, for

To be made in light-weight cloth. A pretty shade of saxe blue is suggested, with narrow collar and cuffs of black panne.

•fonts on these lines will be very generally worn, trimmed with fur, and drawn in at the waist under soft leather bells. Smarter, however, than any of these are the coats and skirts in black velveteen, trimmed quite simply with wide black silk braid, and worn with stoles, mutts, and toques in skunk or ermine. There is tv quaint Early Victorian air about the combination of ermine with black vejveteen which is irresistibly charming, especially when the .mow-white fur tppcars in the form of a pelerine stole with long straight ends in front, iMtrdercd with a fringe of tails, and again in the shape of a turban toque with a head and a bow of fur at the side. For the smarter kind of afternoon frocks intended chiefly for indoor wear, crepe de Uhine of a peculiarly silky texture is being employed, chosen in rather

vivid colourFhgs, and arranged in various picturesque styles, with long flowing skirts, edged sometimes very narrowly with fur and sometimes with fine silk embroideries worked always in several shades of the same colour as that which is chosen for the crepe de Chine. A number of the tailor mades for school girls have the shawl collar, and with the small sleeve worn nowadays a broad rever is really necessary to give the correct breadth across the shoulder line. These revers are shown made of ottoman silk, moire, velvet, or of the

in pale blue tweed, and there was a princess tunic draped lightly about the waist, clinging over the hips, falling to the knees, and opening up the sides. At a high line above the waist this tunic joined a blouse of tucked ninon in the same shade of blue, with a round neck of yoke of embroidered lawn, bordered with a narrow line of black velvet. The underdress was kilted from a plain front panel, and the coat was caught in at the waist with a stitched belt of the material, and fastened down tiy> side like the tunic.

For winter wear the Shirt-Blouse is ideal, for it is—if well made, well cut, well designed, and of new and dainty colouring—the neatest and smartest of modern garments.

material itself with trimmings of soutache braidings or rows of stitching. The sleeves are usually finished as the regulation coat sleeve, with a few bands of stitching and two or three cloth buttons, or if preferred may be adorned with two inch cull's of the same material as the collar and revers.

Three piece Costumes with Tunics.

Tunics are appearing on the dresses with tailored eoats to iriatch. and many of them are skilfully draped. The long lines are maintained, and these tunics, pannier suggestions, and over-skills fit smoothly over the figure with a clinging effect, even when the most intricate draperies are used. Some, of the tunic dresses show a narrowing and curving .panel at the back, though the sides are still quite straight, and the tailored coats to accompany them are the same length as the tunics. The coats are made to fasten down the side from the shoulder, and they an* collarless, the necks being rounded and finished with rows of narrow braid or machine stitching. A three-piece costume of this type was