Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1911 — NEAT EFFECTS IN NEGLIGEE [ARTICLE]

NEAT EFFECTS IN NEGLIGEE

Timely Suggestions for Wedding Gifts Easily Mads by Those Skilled ; In Needlework. A negligee that will make a wedding gift is a loose kimono, reaching below the waist and held to the figure by ribbons drawn through eyelets at side seams. - • Persian lawn or Paris muslin is serviceable, the edge finished with "a German Valenciennes an Inch wide A rayed disk design is drawn as a border around the neck and down each side of the fronts; it .may outline the entire negligee. These are worked alternately in warm pink and deep baby blue, the straight rays running from a center of five French knots in black or sometimes from an outline the bolor of the rays with the black knots inside. A finish Is given by adding to the outside edge a quarter-inch blue ribbon sewed on with machine stitch In black and on the under side a pink ribbon that extends beyond the bine. Satin ribbon Is effective, but washes badly. . —x-