WHAT NEXT IN NECK-TIES.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2088, 13 September 1875, Page 2

WHAT NEXT IN NECK-TIES.

The absurd lengths or rather widths to which ladies have resorted in the matter of neck-ties has come to such a pass that they seem to vie with each other in endeavoring to look ridiculous, hence we have the neck-tie once used as an ornament either pulled round to the right as if all awry, or twisted under the left ear in the manner in which Mr Calcraft adjusts the fatal noose in his official capicity, and not content with this some of them have taken actually to fasten it behind! The absurdity is so conspicuous that a spectator and wellwisher of the ladies as they appeared on Sunday last, has sent us the following lines with the hope (alas! too probably rain) that they may be induced to see themselves as others see them, and return to fashions more rational. It is obvious that the "bows" referred to, are intended to represent these neok-ties or back-ties,or whatever name they are called by, and have nothing to do with the French word similarly pronounced, though differently spelt:— \

Up. to St. George's Churcli ■ L - „,•■■•- „■■.-.: Walked the Thames fair sex So bright thatw> one.could. •'., .''; Their spirits dare vex. . Bows to.the right of. them, ;• . ■ .' : Bows to the left of them, Bows, too, in front of them ■ In the air fluttered. Swaggering in their stride, ' ... Each one bedecked with pride, Rolled up the Church's side ■ ■ v And their prayers muttered. Then they rolled back when they I These prayers, had-uttered. "~ Bows> to tne right of them, Bows to the left of them', Bows all around them, Some-thicker, some thinner. Hat on the back of head, Smalls heels on which to tread, Wobbling dress far outspread, Thus they walked back again, Back to have dinner. When -will this folly fade, When will each Shortland maid, Trust, in good taste arrayed, In her own sweetness T Dress as she did before, As ladies dressed, of yore, All men would her adore, Plain in her neatness.* [* c.f. Horace " Simplex MuuditiU," tj»nslated by Milton " plain in her neatness."] . :*.--.