Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1918 — Concerning Sleeping Garments [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Concerning Sleeping Garments

Many women prefer pajamas to nightdresses and others acknowledge their advantages over the nightdress but are loth to part company with the lainty and frilly finishings that pa-, lamas lack. For their benefit we have been furnished, by those who make undermusllns their special study, with a variety of sleeping garments of a new sort. These include separate trousers and coats or jackets and one-piece garments in which trousers are fastened Onto a bodlee. Besides these there are full-trousered pajamas worn under short kimono coats and for all of them crepe de chine has proved as practical in every way as muslin. It is easily laundered and as filmy and dainty as batiste. The figure at the left, in the picture ibove, is clad in plain pajamas made of sateen. They are very like the garments worn by men and are developed in several cotton fabrics, percale and outing flannel among them, and., in crepe de chine. Occasionally a printdowered silk or men’s wear silk shirtings are made in this model —the latter recommended to withstand wear. The garment at the right is also classed among pajamas. Just now, flesh-colored batiste with narrow Vai lace and insertions or fine swiss embroideries used for decorations, is the favorite cotton fabric for these garments, but in the picture the choice teems to have fallen on striped dimity.

The full trousers have almost the effect of a narrow skirt and are drawn in about the ankles in fascinating laceedged frills. A beading, set in at the waistline, carries a satin ribbon that gathers up the necessary width about the waist. Trousers on pajamas of crepe de chine are often banded with silk in a contrasting color and made very full. The simplest of slip-over upper garments is bordered with the same color as that used in the trousers. These new sleeping garments will please the woman who likes distinctive lingerie.