Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1911 — THE BOUDOIR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE BOUDOIR

FINE LINGERIE RULES

HAND WORK NECESSITY ON UP-TO-DATE UNDERWEAR. '■ ' , A ' / J" Soft Finished Dimities and Batistes Are Textures to L>ok for—Garments Must Accord With Skimp Lines of Dress. How can womankind resist the piles of airy white goods everywhere seen when fine underwear is de rigueur, and unmade matherials are so dheap, and ready-made lingerie so expensive? The textures to look for at this burning season are the softfinished dimities- and batistes, which, checked, striped and figured, turn out most satisfactory garments of the In-

tlmate sort The models for chemises, drawers, princess slips, skirts and combinations must all be of a sort to accord with the skimp lines- of outside dress, and good hand sewing Is a necessity. Yes, hand sewing, the dainty stltchery of our grandmothers, is almost compulsory on up-to-date

lingerie. Only the seams may be stitched, but all the rest —felling, hems and tucks —must be put in with patient fingers and with much dantlness at that Trimming? Well, you may be as much or as little trimmed as you like, or can afford, in your lingerie, but the woman with aristocratic tastes chooses a very modest trimming, preferring to put most of her money and energy in the material and good work. A little edge of imitation Cluny, run with doll ribbon and whipped to the rolled goods, is all that is seen on many lovely kimono gowns, chemises and drawers. As tucks take up a lot of room—or add a suggestion of heat —they are confined to skirts, but even then are put up and down, so that the flouncing in which they are used will fall gracefully. A lovely use can be made of a small quantity of dotted muslin, for this may form the flounce on a petticoat or shape coHars for gowns and frills for drawers. Lawn goes w‘ell with it, as well as a little edge of Valenciennes. In fact, there is scarcely a thin white material on the market that cannot be used for underwear, and as a contrast in material is very smart the home dressmaker can use up all the bits left from cutting one garment on another in a different texture. As the more ordinary patterns of Vai have been copied in cheap laces, this admirable dentelle has been set aside for novelty laces of all sorts where the garment’s texture, too, is unusual. But if all the underwear is of American lawn, which is a very useful and dainty material for summer, Vai makes about the cheapest and most effective edge that can be had. l Our illustration drops us back to the commonplace topic of underwear. It gives the separate ebrstet cover, a scant garment made of embroidery and finished at the armholes with a little hand needlework to match Through eyelets at the top, and the beading of the belt, is drawn a narrow wash ribbon in pale blue. Many women who regard the separate corset cover as a nuisance sew the belt of this model to the wide drawers now worn and so effect useful little combinations. The drawers are of the enormously wide skirt variety, with the bias upper part fitting the hips without a wrinkle and with their bouffant legs they quite adequately take the place of short petticoats.

Corset Cover of Embroidery Flouncing