Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1912 — NEGLIGEE AND ITS SETTING [ARTICLE]

NEGLIGEE AND ITS SETTING

Harmony With the Surroundings Is the Desired End It Is Sought to Achieve. Imagine a kimono of China blue and white silk in one of those illusive designs of the far east, and let it be the gown to be donned only in a room decorated in the Chinese style so prevalent in modern day furnishing revivals. There would be curtains of rich blue, with cretonnes of willow pattern covering the armchairs, tall damps with shades of blue and white and a few vases of Nankin blue. What a fascinating, restful, retiring harbor for a tired woman, where she can sip the fragrant beverage which is China, also, in cups of egg shell daintiness. Another fascinating fashion in tea gowns is the Watteau style, which gives scope for delicate color harmonies, and which conjures up a vision at once of a Louis Sei&e boudoir with pink and blue tapestries aud gold legged chairs and tiny tables.' The newest Wattean gown, made with a box pldit from the shoulders, hangs loosely from thq center of the back and is draped in graceful folds below the hips.