Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1912 — LINGERIE ALMOST TOO DAINTY [ARTICLE]

LINGERIE ALMOST TOO DAINTY

Elaboration of Lace and the Finest of Hand Work Is Now the Demand of Fashion. No notable changes have been made recently in underclothing. If possible, it is more than ever irreproachable’in cut and of a daintiness that entices one into spending every cent of one’s pin money, just as though no provision need be made for anything to wear over the fascinating frillies. Probably you have heard that so much lace was never used before, that chemises and combination sets are veritable cobwebs of lace and lawn and'even wholly composed of more diaphanous and filmy fabric. • It is difficult to avoid thinking of our grandmammas and how, in their view of it, pretty underclothing was scarcely respectable. Certainly we have changed all that and know no longer the regime of unbleached calico and handmade crochet—andTyet a lingering prejudice survives against the overdressy, overtransparent garment of lingerie, whether it be worn by night or by day.