Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 July 1914 — Page 21

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jNew French Boudoir Suits Have Baggy TrousersThin, Soft Silks in Exclusive Negligees for MidsummerWear=SpecialCorsetsforWearWith

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fLL the brides are not married in June these days. July bridals h£.ve become quite the fashion as the country wed-

,-ding increases in popularity, and many 3I& fashionable debutante whose engagement was announced in the spring has waited for the migration of the family to the country home to be married. There is a charm about the country wedding not to be equaled by a smart affair in town with policemen keeping the crowd away from the awning and a church packed with strangers who obtain tickets by hook or by crook in order to study styles and comment on the frocks and mantiers of the smart folk.

The country wedding also affords opportunity for a gay week-end party. Bridesmaids, groomsmen and a host of youthful friends fill the house and remain after the wedding for the inevitable dance, and there are gay doings of a happy and informal nature, lasting through several days. Clinging Silks in New Summer Negligees.

Exclusive boudoir wear these days Is made, not of filmy cotton-woven stuff, but of equally filmy silk, and the up-to-date bride is clothed in silk from top to toe her chemise and culotte of thinnest crepe de chine or daphne silk embellished with lace her corset of silk woven trecot, her stockings of cobwebby fine thread silk her petticoat and brassiere of silk and lace. Naturally her boudoir wear is of the fashionable silk also and the favored silks are crepe de chine, clinging, beautiful pussy willow taffeta, daphne silk, almost transparent in its sheerness, butterfly marquisette woven of silk threads, chiffon, and the silkwoven indestructible voile which is remarkably durable despite its transparency. With these soft, sheer silks

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the most lovely laces are combinedshadow, Filet, Val, Normandie, Chantilly, Lierre and even costly handmade "real" laces the heavier Irish crochet and Cluny being introduced in medallions and entre-deux.

Exquisite indeed is a little 'phone sacque, or wrap-negligee intended for quick slipping on when its possessor is called suddenly to the telephone outside her own apartment or when she wishes to run into another room for a moment's chat or gossip. The loose sacque, which crosses in front like an evening wrap and falls in soft folds at the back, is made of white I indestructible voile. The loose sleeves are edged with Val lace and there is a frill of the same lace at the neck and a big bow of soft louisine ribbon where the garment fastens on one shoulder with hidden snap-buttons. A cap, large enough to be quickly donned with the sacque, is made of white lace over a wired frame of net. Small pink rosebuds are wreathed around I the crown.

White Boudoir Wear Much in Favor. At least two-thirds of the fashionable negligees this season are pure white, for there is a momentary craze for white in the boudoir. Nothing is so lovely—or so perishable as the negligee of thin white silk and chiffon and the woman who wears white during her lounging hours must have a large supply of negligees, for half of them will be at the cleaner's constantly. When colors are preferred they are of the palest, faintest sort— mere tints of pink, blue and buff. For some reason or other green is almost never used for boudoir wear and lavender but seldom. Yellow is, however, a fashionable boudoir color just now and some of -the smartest negligees are of very pale buff with striking embroideries in black. I must tell

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you, while It is in mind, of ,a novel French negligee just sent over for a bride of this month. The sender, who is stopping in Paris, picked it up in an exclusive French shop and she avers that all the chic Paris women are wearing negligee "suits" of this sort during the morning hours at home. A Paris Negligee That Suggests Trousers.

The "Suit" includes a loose, Mandarin coat, slashed at the sides from hip to waistline to admit of inserted gussets which give a decided flare to the lower part of the coat. The garment is not cut out at the neck but is finished with a band of black hand embroidery around the neck and above the embroidery rises a frill of pleated net in Pierrot style. Black embroidery also outlines the shoulder seams, the arm-hole seam (the sleeves are big bishop affairs to the wrist) and runs down the seams that join the, fan-shaped gusset to the slashed coat. So much for the coat: the skirt is really the interesting thing about this French negligee. At first you believe the wearer of the "suit" has on Oriental trousers then you perceive there is no bifurcation, and you wonder how one gets into such a garment. It is very simple. The skirt is a long bag, shaped precisely like a pillow-case, and made of silk like the

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coat. Clashes are cut across the corners at the closed end, and one steps into the open end which is the waistline and thrusts the feet through the slashes. These slashes are outlined with the narrow lines of black embroidery. The lounging garment is really very modest in spite of its suggestion of trousers for it comes closely up about the throat and down over the arms and its wearer must keep her feet demurely on the floor—crossing the knees, even, would be Impossible in the narrow, pillow-case skirt.

Another negligee of the same type, has a pillow-case skirt of pale blue pussy willow silk and a coat of white cotton crepe with wide blue silk cuffs and collar.

Greek Robes In the Boudoir. Many of the fashionable negligees this summer are strongly suggestive of classical types. For example, the graceful peignoir of white tango crepe and pearl beads pictured today. This loVely neglige goes on all in one, though the skirt portion is cut a great deal fuller Uian the bodice which Is very negligible indeed—just two loose strips of the thin crepe, outlined with pearl beads and caught together over the arms with pearl ornaments. The skirt is draped up to suggest the Greek tunic with strands of the pearl beads, the material being shirred over very narrow

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wise and clever little housewife does not sigh discontentedly over accounts of expensive, marbie-fitted bathrooms with silver faucets, mirror-lined walls and seven different kinds of baths. She sets to work to make the very most of her own humble bathroom, knowing that fresh cleanliness, an adequate number of bright nickel fittings and plenty of generous sized towels hung in orderly array can achieve a- most attractive and satisfactory result.

Much color is never desirable in a bathroom. White walls and woodwork always look best and the handsomest bathrooms are of course walled and floored in spotless white tiling. A can of white paint will do wonders with a shabby bathroom in a rented house, and if a modern enamel tub has not been installed, give the tin tub several coats of special white enamel paint which comes for this purpose. If the floor is of ordinary pine instead of the desirable tiling, cover it with linoleum having a very inconspicuous blue or green figure on a white ground in tiled effect. Over this should be spread an Inexpensive rug. The light-colored rag rugs are very attractive in bathrooms, but they rumple up in most aggravating manner, especially when a door is pushed to and fro over them. If the bath-

Nickel fittings add much to the attractiveness of the white painted and enameled bathroom and it is wise to buy good nickel fittings at the start and not the flimsy polished tin ones which soon go to pieces and rust bad-

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strings of beads sewed over the shirring. White embroidered tango crepe was used for this peignoir which is exceedingly soft and clinging and which may be slipped on and off as easily as any bathgown of cotton crepe.

The most elaborate negligee on today's page shows a long coat of pale pink daphne silk over a pleated robe of equally soft silk a shade fainter in its pink tone. The extreme length of both gown and coat make the negligee very graceful and though the pleated gown suggests fullness, it is really rather narrow around the feet. Its pleated fullness Is attached to a square yoke of Filet lace and a cord and tassel of pale pink silk confine the pleats at a high waistline. This under robe is sleeveless, the coat having wide sleeves of kimono cut. Deep flounces of Filet lace edge these sleeves which are looped up with pink silk roses matching the rose garlands v. hlch trim the fronts of the coat. At the lower edge cf the soai whi-h is sloping in cut is an ungathered flounce of the Filet lace and three tassels swing from the corners at the front ind from a point at the center back. A turnover collar of lace is a feature of this coat negligee, the rose garlands suggesting long ties which start beneath the collar. The cap is of shirred net and lace over a wired net foundation, the turned back frill In Dutch effect being drawn up on narrow pink

include two towel racks—a short one near the washstand and a long one over the bathtub a sponge holder, drinking glass holder, toothbrush holder and soap receptacle. A glass shelf with nickel brackets, over the washstand, for toothpowder, talcum, toilet waters and the like will add much to the luxurious effect and over the glass shelf should be hung a white framed mirror. These mirrors are rather high-priced because of the thick beveled glass of which they are usually made, but often a search through the second-hand shops will discover Just the right sort of mirror only needing a coat of. white paint on its frame, and priced at a song.

A curtained shower Is an inestimable luxury but it is also a rather expensive luxury. If it must be dispensed with, at least have a bath spray which costs only a dollar—or very little more and which may be used with either cold water or hot water, or both combined.

The smartest way to curtain the bathroom window just now is with a hand-made linen or scrim shade, hanging without fullness from a nickel pole at the top of the window. Such a curtain may be very simple or it may be very elaborate. The handsomer it is, of course, the'more distinction it lends the bathroom for it is—In its posi-

room is long and narrow, a strip of jtion against the window—the first thing thick carpet stretching from one end that attracts the ey«* in the immacuto the other will make a luxurious late white room. floor covering. Otherwise a square carpet rug will answer very well. There should be. hanging conveniently in sight, a thick bath-mat to spread over the rug before the bath.

The really luxurious bathroom, whatever its woodwork and fittings, proves itself by its towels. Big towels of handsome material bespeak prosperity and a knowledge of the refinements of living small, thin towels suggest economy or ignorance of "what is what" in a well-equipped home. The most exclusive bathrooms show towels of pure white linen damask, hemmed or Bcalloped at the ends and ornamented only with hand em

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ribbon. Five new boudoir caps are shown in today's illustrations, the one just described being a particularly becoming style.

Another fetching cap la the "granny" cap which has an extension below the neck in the effect of the shoulder cape which used to protect grandma's neck from draughts and rheumatism before the day of steam heated hpusea. This "granny" cap Is most coquettish and is built of net, Irish crochet and French val lace. The back is shirred in as far as the ears on each side, ribbon rosettes being placed over the ears as a finish. Another coquettish cap, in quite a different style, is the Dutch cap with wired points at the sides. This cap is made of three strips of Filet lace insertion, the wire running under a narrow hem, in the lace. A gathered lace frill fin-' lshes the edge. The Dutch cap Is a breakfast cap and demands some semblance of a coiffure beneath it. The "granny" cap covers head and hair completely and may be slipped on for breakfast in bed, before the hair has been arranged for the morn1/ -/"•C in*- -1

Special Corsets for Boudoir Gowns. There are special lounging corsets for the boudoir which give a more graceful line to the clinging negligee than woulA be possible were the negligee worn over any but a faultless figure. Many women have presentable, uncorseted figures when standing erect, but a boudoir gown is for lounging and no one wants to look "sloppy" In an exquisite, clinging negligee of silk and lace. Hence the boudoir corset which Is of soft) woven silk mesh, almost boneless, and much shorter' than the corset worn with formal gowns. Some of these boudoir corsets are mere "slip-ons" with no bones at all. They are drawn on, over the feet and cling snugly over hips and thighs, holding the abdomen In a flat line even when the figure lounges.

Nightgowns de Iraxe.

The two "nighties" pictured are typical of the season's styles. On the seated figure is a nightgown of white daphne silk trimmed at yoke and hem with wide lace insertion, which runs up at the front to outline a slash in the narrow silk gown. The sleeveless lace yoke is threaded with white ribbon. The cap of lace is trimmed with white ribbon and tiny pink silk roses. Another nightgown, of sheer cotton batiste, has a most graceful yoke of St. Gall embroidery. Under the scalloped frill of embroidery a pink ribbon through beading draws in the gown slightly. Pleated net frills, form the sleeves.

broidered initials. Blue and red bordered towels are now considered bad taste, though if the bathroom rug and walls Show a tint of blue or buff the towels may be cross-stitched in matching color in narrow border effect. For the guest have ready special white damask, or linen huck towels of generous size. Nothing is more exasperating td a guest than to be presented with "dinky" little guest-towels which nobody really likes to use but which for some reason or other—probably their cheapness—have flooded the gift market and the bridge-prize market during the last year or two. For the JA. week-end guest there should be ready-,, at least three large, Initialed damask^ or huck towels, two bath-towels and. washcloths to match.

The bath-towel and washcloth pictured are part of the linen supply of a June bride. The bath-towel is thick :5. and absorbent, and at one end is a woven diamond-shaped inset on which the bride's Initials are embroidered in pale green—to match the color selected for a certain guest-room. The wash-cloth is striped in pale green to match the towel. In the bride's linen chest are similar sets, striped and initialed in pink and pale buff, to match other guest-rooms in her new home. A bath mat with initials or monogram embroidered to order in the center costs about three dollars and a half, and—hung beside the washstand in the guest's bedroom— adds much distinction to the room. Such a bathmat will be spread down by a considerate guest before the morning sponge-bath is taken.

For the equipment'of the bathroom in a small family, there should be two dozen huck towels costing about $2.50 a dozen one dozen bath towels at $3 a dozen, one dozen washcloths at $1 a dozen two bath mats at (1.50 each, and half a dozen special towels for guests' use in the bathroom at $6 a dozen.