Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — HANDMADE UNDY [ARTICLE]

HANDMADE UNDY

Sheer Garments, Tucked and Embroidered, Are Costly. f Factory Work, When Hundreds Are Cut at One Time, Result* in ______ Great Saving. If It is a hand-made affair of sheer pink linen, with a few tiny tucks and perhaps a simple edge of hand crochet you pay a good price for It because one person has made it—by hand. If It Is an elaborate affair of pink batiste or voile trimmed with lace Insertion and edging and. made by machine, perhaps a dozen people have worked on it —yet you pay considerably less for It That seems queer, does It not? But the distinction of the linen chemise lies in its hand-made quality and in Its material —fine, soft linen which is a bit of a luxury but the smartest fabric now for lingerie garments. Have you ever been in one of the factories where machine made undergarments are turned out? Big, bright and — nowadays — beautifully clean places are these factories, and despite the hundreds of people at work and the whir of the busy machines, there Is a wonderful order. Your pink batiste and lace chemise was first fashioned by a special worker. She produced it on a special machine from a sketch made- by a high-salaried designer. The garment thus produced was called a sample. It went into a glass case where It was displayed to buyers who came to select models for the season’s business. Before the sample went to the glass case a working pattern was made from - it.