Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1913 — WEAR SILKEN LINGERIE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WEAR SILKEN LINGERIE

FEMININITY HAS DISCARDED ALL OTHER MATERIALS. V Sense of Luxury and Comfort That Is Imparted Will Never Lightly Be Given Up If It Can Be Afforded. Never was there an innovation In feminine dress that caused such a reversal of an old and established stand-

ard as this modern vogue of silken under raiment. Woman has taken up the fad with enthusiasm, and, once accustomed to the luxury and comfort of silken garments next the skin, , almost any woman will economize to the last penny in other wearables rather than relinquish her silk lingerie. Crepe de chlner is the favored material and pure white the favored* color, though faint pink and palest blue crepe de chino garments of this type are worn by women who go in for color scheme fads in lingerie. Some of the underwear is very plain, with no further garnishment than a picot edge of lace; other models are elaborately trimmed with lace insertions and bandings, even little silk and chiffon roses finding place in the trimming. One very fetching robe du nuit in mind at the moment is of crepe de chine with a deep yoke and sleeves of shadow lace lp,id over flesh tinted mull, and the yoke Is joined to the crepe de chine gown under a strip of lace insertion, on which is sewed a festoon of tiny pink rosebuds. In contrast to this coquettish sleeping robe is a nun-like little nightgown of while crepe de chine, rounded out girlishly at the throat and trimmed with a narrow picot edge of real Irish lace. The short sleeves are also edged with the line of Irish picot and the neck is drawn up on a white ribbon. But the cut of this simple little nightgown Is especially graceful, for the garment clingß, without any effect of tightness, to the ankles and feet. Another variety of silken sleeping wear is the feminine night shirt, an innovation of this season, and just now more the fad than feminine pajamas, which have become too ordinary and universally accepted now to have an attraction for women seeking sensational effects. The feminine night shirt is patterned exactly after the masculine one, silt at the side seams, narrow collar, long sleeve and all. These garments are made of China silk, with narrow trimmings of futurist ribbon, imitating the braid trimming on a man’s cambric night shirt. Pajamas

Are of crepe de chine and brocaded China' silk, the brocaded stuff forming the little Coat and trousers of crepe de chine having cuffs of the brocaded fabric. v A little imported petticoat is made of white crepe de chine. From the knee to the hem the petticoat is trimmed with alternate bandß of shirred crepe de chine and same width bands of shadow lace. The bottom of the Bkirt is finished by a narrow plaited Mil of net Women who are traveling about or making a series of visits, appreciate this silken underwear, especially because it may be laundered so quickly. It is even possible to wear the silken garments, washed and rinsed, but uif ironed, at a pinch. * The glove silk underwear, or Italian as it is sometimes called, needs no ironing at all and clings to the figure beneath narrow frocks. Chemises of glove silk come in white or colors, and are the coolest, most luxurious little affairs ever donned beneath a corset. These garments look best when rather simply trimmed with a very little fine lace, and, perhaps, a beading run through the ribbon.,.

MARY DEAN.

Empire Gown of Fine Linen.