Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1915 — Easily Made Bloomers and Night Robes [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Easily Made Bloomers and Night Robes

AS a substitute for the underpetticoat, to be worn for additional warmth or for freedom in walking, bloomers of crepe de chine, or other wash silks prove-acceptable to women. They are sensible and they are also dainty and attractive looking, a combination that spells success for them. -, What are called “hike skirts" for walking, made of fairly heavy suitings, are made np with a plain pair of pants of the same material as the skirt, to be worn with them instead of a petticoat. These skirts usually are open down the front and provided with buttons and buttonholes which fasten thtem. When mountain climbing is to be undertaken, or a long tramp, this combination proves Us merit * But for warm weather, the pants of suiting material are too heavy. Bloomers of silk, worn with the short full skirts that are fashionable, promise to displace long underpetticoats with all skirts made of suitings. Combinations of bloomers or short pants and corset cover, made of crepe de chine, and lace trimmed, are worn in the same way as the bloomers and separate corset covers —that Is, they replace the underpettlcpat when the outside skirt is a not Mo thin fabric. A pair of these bloomers Is shown in the picture. The fullness at the wadst and knees is taken up on an band run through a narrow

hem. There is no trimming on them except a little rosette of narrow satin ribbon sewed at the outside seam of each leg. A pretty design for a nightgown of either batiste or wash silk is shown at the right of the picture. Its new feature is the sleeve of elbow length terminating in a double ruffle of lace, gathered into a band of wide beading. There is a group of fine tucks at the front, and the round neck is decorated with rows of dainty insertion and heading Into which narrow satin ribbon Is run. The body and sleeves appear to be cut in one but are in reality set together with a strip of lace insertion. And a second strip is let in the body of the gown, following the curves made by joining the sleeves to the gown. It is a simple and pretty model. Those who sew at home will find these bits of new lingerie eftay to make.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.