Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1916 — Showing Dainty Bridal Garments [ARTICLE]

Showing Dainty Bridal Garments

Shops Make Lavish Display of Pretty Things That Once Were Made at Home. FINERY THAT IS EXQUISITE t ~V a Artistry, Frivolity and Originality Have Been Combined With Wonderful Results—Gorgeous Colors Rule in Most Cases—Empire Styles Have Popularity.

While acknowledging that the young bride of today is justified in selecting for her trousseau only those bits of lingerie that are suitable for the fashions of the hour, still, one has pleasant memories of the preparation of a dozen of each, that was the sum and substance of a wedding chest of other days. One thinks of the patience, eagerness and joy which went Into the work of making those dozens of garments and the long hours spent by the family together, cutting, basting, stitching and putting on the handwork. It was always a task of love, this preparation of the underlinen for a girl in the family, and all her Intimate friends added their share. But this affectionate task, like many other things that were once cdnslderedr necessary In the family life, has gone by the board.

The shops do our work for us, and it is all a part of the substitution of the radiator for the open fire, the electric stove for the charcoal and wood, the readymade gowns and suits for the home sewing room and the machine stitching for the threaded needle. Women Have More Leisure. In every way women are finding that drudgery is loosening its hold on their lives, and soon all they will have to do is give their time to social service, reading and the lighter forms of pleasure. x In the last few months the smart shops have made a strong effort to in-

troduee original house robes. They have gone to Venice and to Moscow for their inspiration. There are negligees that look as though they had been filched from the stage of the Russian ballet, and there are others that could easily be worn in a more formal manner. That which is known as the wrapper Is dead. The calico Mother Hubbard of practical life has absolutely no place in the modern finery. Even with her simplest combing sack, the bride-elect sees to it that it is touched with artistry, frivolity and originality. Displays Draw Customers. The outpourings of the shops today In matinee, sleeping sacks and breakfast gowns, allure the most economical and conservative women to their windows. . .. One of the attractive negligees made for an October bride is of white chiffon lined with flesh pink chiffon and edged with wide bands of white marabou. It is girdled above the waist with large pink roses, from which fall at one side loops and ends of nattier blue velvet ribbon. There are no sleeves to this negligee, but the long kimono armholes cover the top part of the arm. This is an example of what is considered fashionable today for one’s own room. Invented to go with it Is a piece of headgear which is neither cap ftor crown, but which borrows a suggestion from each. It is made of a fine pattern of white lace, with broad points running upward and wired to stand. Lightly brushing the tips of these points and floating away to the shoulders and back, is > veil of white tulle. • Hie mules are of flesh pink colored

silk, with satin heels, and are touched at the Instep and toe with pink rose buds. Gorgeous Colon for thrf House. For the same tronsseau there is another negligee made of white Lierre, draped over American beauty satin. •In this the arms and neck are also bare, but there is a comfortable shoulder cape which keeps one from catching pneumonia. This cape Is caught at the bust with an American beauty rose, and the lace which falls away .from the high waistline has two long points at the back which are weighted with crystal tassels. ~ Along with this negligee go silk stockings of American beauty pink and cloth of silver bedroom slippers. One of the fanciful caps which are supposed to be worn by the bride-elect in the morning when she has breakfast,- is a curious cross between a nurse’s cap and a Brunhilda helmet. It fits well over the forehead, but leaves the back of the head in full view. “This,” as one bride-elect explained, “is to cover the multitude of combs which every girl sticks in the hair in the morning to obtain the water wave which we are all quite "keen about.” Of Really Novel Design. The cap in question shoots upward from the forehead in broad panels of embroidered satin, and there Is a wired MU of white tulle that aspires “to the heavens. It Is tied on the head by a band of silver ribbon which begins with a pink rose between the eyes and finishes in a flaring bow at the nape of the neck. No one who goes out t<xbuy the underlinen for a trousseau can be guided, by what has been worn before or by what tradition once laid down as the proper equipmentAr a lady. It is best to go through a &wGT the shops which make a specialty of original underclothes, and if it is not possible to pay the price, to duplicate the garments elsewhere. One happy solution of this problem is that the department shops get out,

at small prices, an amazing assortment of dainty and fashionable lingerie. Colors Most Favored. What is the tendency .today? Well, it is toward flesh pink as a color, hemstitching and picot edging as trimming, blue ribbon against a pink supface and a flash of roses wherever it can be placed. Whether or not the first empire styles will come Into our afternoon and evening gowns, they are certainly here in fashionable lingerie. One might think that Josephine’s famous white satin robe had been taken as a model for the new nightgowns. Some of. these have the puffed sleeves, although the tendency is Grecian. ''There is often a surplice bodice, back and front, and draped armholes finished with hemstitching or picot. There are crepe de chine gowns that are cut out in the form 6f a mandarin jacket, with a long, round decolletaga edged with picot. Nightgowns With Trains. There are pale pink dimity gowns caught under the bust with two-inch blue satin ribbons, run through picotedged buttonholes. There are white crepe de chine gowns cut entirely like a Greek robe caught withHi cameo in front and resting in folds on the floor. There are exquisitely fine handkerchief litoen nightgowns cut with a deep V front and back, tied across the waist with rose pink satin ribbons and cut with a long, pointed train at the back, the hem edged with a three-inch ruffle of linen and lace. ~~ The majority of women prefer the Italian sflk knickers, although there is a revival of the square-legged, whits muslin ones trimmed with deep ruffle* pf Irish and val lace put together.