Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1915 — LATEST IDEA IN UNDERWEAR [ARTICLE]

LATEST IDEA IN UNDERWEAR

Trouser Petticoat Is One of the Most Comfortable of Garments —Pretty Decoration in Vogue. ,

Quite a capital notion is a sort of trouser petticoat. This opens from waist to hem at the back, and is stepped into, small inner leg pieces being added for this purpose, these serving at the same time to curb the exuberance of a very full cut of some very light material, such as crepe de chine. It is exceedingly likely this model will have a notable success, since it is replete with reason and practicability. It would be a very useful method for the fashioning of a black, petticoat. Say that the petticoat is made of crepe de chine, or the above mentioned double ninon, trimmed with flounces of fine black Chantilly lace, each one bordered with a cross-way fold of chiffon* a satin ribbon dividing the two lower flounces and heading the topmost, with at the one side a Catherine wheel chou and ends. Of course different colors of materials could be used if so desired. An uncommonly pretty petticoat is made of delicately-toned taffeta, sliced up to the knee to form deep tabs, scalloped and bound all around the edges, and mounted over pllsse frills of net, a dainty festoon of ribbon beins caught up with little floral posies. This model is cut on circular lines, but many are arranged in a series of small jo res, which lend themselves to delicate stitchery. A black very soft chiffon taffeta modeled on these lines had each gore by handworked picot stitch in

old gold silk, and was furthermore ornamented with three very full tulle flounces, each one with its hem laid over a band of old gold galoon. A deep ivory lace flounce mounted over some pale-colored chiffon creates the most attractive evening scheme.