More Gilded Age Style and Fashion

 

The day for very fluffy collar decorations has closed, and the new neck finish is a narrow frill of loose net across the back, only with two rosettes of the same crushed against the collar. 

This is Popular

The accompanying illustration shows the popular street jacket worn now in costume. “Coachman's drab” is the color, and dark green is the color of the velvet employed in the revers, cuffs and beading around its edge. A chemisette and collar of linen, with a green scarf of soft jib, finishes this natty “coat-let.” The back just fits the waistline and fits tight. The lining is drab satin.—Woman’s Home Companion, 1898

The New Collars and Stocks

The day for very fluffy collar decorations has closed, and the new neck finish is a narrow frill of loose net across the back, only with two rosettes of the same crushed against the collar. The latter is a plain band on a woolen gown, and often the same on a silk one, with a row of trimming at the top. Thin materials have a collar of the same goods. In small tucks, and ribbon, is folded in smooth rows, not loosely crushed as of yore. 

Collars are comfortably high, and white linen ones are worn with shirt waists of all kinds and with tailored gowns. Stocks of silk or satin have a smooth band with a bias piece from each side of the back tied in a neat bow in front, or arranged in a long knot, but these are for the plainest gowns or waists. Long net, mull and china silk scarfs are worn in place of collars twice around the neck and bowed in front with ends to the waist line.—Ladies Home Journal, 1898

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