Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1918 — LATE FABRIC FOR LINGERIE [ARTICLE]

LATE FABRIC FOR LINGERIE

Voile Has Gained Place of Favor and Has an Advantage Over Satin and Silk. Voile is a fairly new fabric for lingerie, but it has already, in the few months that it has been used for undergarments, gained prestige. To be -'sure, voile lingerie ten or twelve years ago would have seemed absurdly unpractical. Voile was too thin, we would have said, too fragile for the hard wear that lingerie must have. But those statements would have been made in the. days before lingerie had had a chance to show its good points. And they would have been been made, too, in the days before we used fur and chiffon, tulle and satin-for lingerie. Nowadays, of course, satin is considered one of the most durable of fabrics —one is tempted to say undermuslins —in the good old-fashioned way, but undermusllns are now only a part of the matter, for most of them are made of silk and satin and crepe. Voile has one advantage over satin and silk in the minds of some women, at least for underwear. They cling to a liking for a regular tubbing fabric for underwear. It matters not to them that satin can be washed in soap and water and ironed; satin does not seem so fresh and clean as cotton of some sort. So to them voile is a welcome addition to the fabrics from which underwear is made.