Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1914 — NEW LINGERIE COMING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW LINGERIE COMING

FULLER SKIRTS AND DRAPERIES WILL NECESSITATE CHANGE.

Return to Old-Time Frills and Folds May Be Looked Upon as Sure— How Reign of Tight Skirts Has Done Good.

By MART DEAN. The amount of underwear worn by a fashoinably dressed woman at any cue time has, during thniast two searsons, diminished almost to a negligible quantity, but the designers have done their best with the handicap and have produced undergarments that are dainty and beautiful. *

With the threatened return of full skirts and drapqries and normal waists there will presumably be an accompanying revolution in lingerie. The

frills and folds that have been ruthlessly suppressed may re-as-sert themselves. Something more tangible than chiffon may be available for underwear. “Culottes” may lose their prestige; but all the extravagance in the suppression of un-

Corset Cover for gerie'fullness and Evening Dress. w eight have taught lessons that will probably linger.

Even when it is no longer necessary that not a crease or fold in underwear shall show through a dinging, scant frock, the value of carefully fitted underwear may still be appreciated. Women hate learned how to db away with clumsy and unnecessary fullness around waist and hips. Charming combination garments have been evolted which are in no way extreme. For the moment the underskirt adapted to the narrow skirt still holds sway. Only in the shops of the fashionable corsetieres does one hear much talk of coming Innovations in undergarments, r For wear over the corsets there are combinations ot many types. Some are cut in one without even the beading waistband, and have a corset cover without fullness, continuing in culotte, or comparatively close-fitting drawers, which, instead of being open and flowing at the bottom, are drawn closely to the legs above or below the knee by ribbon. These are made of lingerie materials, in light-weight wash crepe, and in the soft Ital-

fan snk, and are beaut lfl e d by hand embroidery and flat Inserts of lace, but have no sign of frill, -save, perhaps, a narrow soft lace edging the top and armholes and culotte ends. Other combinations have the one-piece cut, but the drawers are not drawn in at the bottom, and they are wider throughout their length than the culottes. EVen those are, however, likely to finish with flat trim-

ming at the bot- Blue Crepe de tom instead of Chine. with the old-time frill, and to have but little flare.

There are still other models called “Pantelettes" which have been in evidence for a few months past. These were designed for wear with the dance

frocks, which, in order to have free movement when dancing, were slit at the side of back. These pantelettes are usually made of crepe de chine and trimmed at the bottom with deep frills of lace or plaited frills of the crepe de chine. The crepe de chine upper part reaches to well below the knee and fits rather snugly to the plain upper part when attached to the frills of lace, net or crepe de chine, which extend to the ankle.