Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1911 — MODES of The MOMENT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MODES of The MOMENT

IN DAINTIEST FORM

THE SEASON'S UNDERWEAR REAL THINGB OF BEAUTY.

Costly, of Course, to Buy Ready Made, But Can Easily Be Put Together at Home —Pajamas for ) Night Wear. IHZSI r~7 “T r" " —r~

January sets the pace for the “white sales,” all the big shops advertise at this time, and from all the evidences there is likely to be a bigger display than ever of underwear. Together with the various dainty garments shown there will be the- usual exhibit of lingerie materials, with everything needled for home sewing from the tiny tapes to the smartest buttons. Good hand sewers are bound to revel 1 in the displays, for to such women the yards and yards of uncut fabrics spell garments of unusual beauty and cheapness. To buy them ready made would mean ruin to the average purse, for there is no use pretending that the best underwear Is cheap. What Is its quality? An elegance so unmistakable thpt the jaw sometimes drops at the price asked. With the more exquisite models fabrics are of a gossamer sheerness, laces and embroideries are put in by hand, and the side of the garment is as perfect as the outside. The bridal sets take first place in importance. These -are composed of three pieces, nightgown, drawers and chemise, and betrimmed to the utmost, decked .with ribbons twisted to form buds and roses, they lie like celestial garments In huge boxes. The rarest material used for such sets is a fairylike webbing called sheer mull. It has something of the look of the finest silkaline tfeat could be imagined, and one wonders that the delicate texture admits of the work lavished on It. The nightdresses are low necked and short Bleeved, the chemises scanty and the | drawers made In circular shape. The ordinary bridal set made of this mull, trimmed with Valenciennes —there may be two kinds —and decked with pink, blue or white ribbons, is $45. Other sets of lawn with quite pretty laces sell from S2O up. Among the odd pieces—garments that are not put together, but which may still be collected for a set—are some gowns, drawers, chemises and skirts In a broadly-plaided dimity. This lovely material responds exquisitely to the thinner laces, and those who object to much fussiness may find quite plainish and charming models In this goods. French nainsook Is still used for practical garments and for the really fat purse handkerchief linen that looks as if it

might have been woven by cunning spiders is offered. Into all these materials lace wends its way in profusion or else there is a skeleton banding called blind embroidery but between other needlework almost as sheer Mid beautiful. -—i

The most coquettish nightdresl* is in the kimono model, and as scantness is a feature of this the home sewer does not need to consider a quantity of expensive material It is square necked and short sleeved of course, for only the useful everyday gowns are made high necked and long sleeved. Some pretty kimono gowns were decked only with a lace

beading and frilled lace edge. No. 6 satin ribbon, in various colors running through the beading. Pajamas and pajamas materials are presented for the young person who affects such mannish attire, and it must be admitted that for slim young women such bed raiment is distractingly pretty. But the plumpish woman must eschew them —they would only make her ridiculous. The pajamas pictured are of blue pajamas cotton, trimmed, with a banding in blue and white.