Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-21
STYLE OR NIGHT-DRESSES.
DAINTY CREATIONS OF SILK AND LACE
FOB SOCIETY LADIES.
Mrs. yanderbiIt's Beautiful Night-Gowns
Purple and Fine Linen of
the Marquise LAMA.
From the New York World. |


Three hundred dollars seems prepos-
ferrous price to pay for one petticoat and
underskirt, and when you think of any
ones buying dozen such "trifes" you
must own it's enough to make the aver
age woman gasp with envy and amaze
ment and the average man quake with an
awe that will penetrate even the fbers of
his pocket-book.
And this is just what Mrs. Langtry has
done. Felix has just made for her twelve
suits of undergarments, costing 1900 francs
suit. They are two separate pieces and
are exquisite shades of rose, lemon, blue,
lilac, scarlet, mauve, pale green, as well as
white and cream color. There Is that
little affair that is neither chemise nor
an undervest, but which goes on first. Over
this is worn the corset, and then comes a
garment which is the French conception
of the divided skirt A yoke is fitted
smoothly over the hips, and to this is
sewed the divided skirt, each half of which
measures four yards in width and is made
in almost infnitesimal accordion pleats.
Over this, also sewed to the lower edge of
the yoke, falls another skirt of tiny accor-
dion pleats, and this is ten yards wide.
Each of these skirts is edged with the
finest of real lace, yards upon yards of it
being used, and each suit contains 100
yards of silk. The material is exquisite
in texture, and yet is at once very light and
very firm.
BARONESS BLANc's WARDROBE.
The Baroness Blanc, who wouldn't let
the Queen of Sheba herself Guido her in
fnery if she could find out just what her
Majesty had worn, has similar sets of this
silk underwear, all trimmed with the most
costly lace. She has also night dress to
match each suit in color, and some of
these have 500 worth of lace upon them.
Felix of Paris, who made this tinery, is
dressmaker whom many consider quite the
equal of Worth, but he isn't above making
petticoats, ETC., for anybody who can pay
his prices-and he makes nearly every
thing in this line that Mrs. Langtry
wears.
The woman of society, who cannot abide
to be surpassed nowadays in reckless lavish
ness by any one, has determined to distance
all competitors in the cost and bizarre
splendor of those unseen garments that
though lost to sight are so dear to every
woman. Hence the most fashionable thing
about a fashionable woman is her under
clothing. They are the true test of the de-
gree of her ton.
For one thing, styles in underclothes are
sort of Freemasonary business. They
are not given to the public through ordi-
nary fashion channels; the picture of
nightgowns and chemises in woman's fash
ion magazines are quite with outinterest to
the Four Hundred. Neither can the Sc
lections of these exclusive DANES be seen
even in the smartest and SWEETEST of shops.
1t is considered the proper thing that
there should be an individuality about I'M
derwear. 1t is the field for the expression
of personal and poetic fancy, yet individ-
uality must not run into eccentricity even
here. There are set fashions, definite ten
denotes, which must be needed, and which
fashionable women must learn from one
another.
ROBBED THROUGHOUT IN SILK.
The great distinctive tendency of the
times woman is to silk. The typical fash
ionable is silk-robed from the skin out !;
even though the last garment, the one for
the public eye, be of Irish frieze or alleged
homespun.
The Chinese and India silks that have
been imported in such variety in the late
years are responsible for this laying aside
of the fine muslins and linens our mothers
gloried in and put their eyes out en-
broidering. These silks wash perfectly,
and they have provoked Occidental manu-
facturers to such competition that now a
great deal of surah silk is made that is
washable.
These goods gave lovely woman chance
to do something delightfully."- novel by
abandoning all the traditions of all time
and making her underclothes of silk. At
first only few were in the secret, and it
was regarded as deliciously expensive. But
soon experience began to prove that silk
outfits were not necessarily expensive, and
their popularity increased to such degree
that they no longer conferred distinction.
1t is, in fact still increasing. The shops
now have suits of underclothes in white
Chinese silk that are comparatively mex
pensive.
Clearly, the fashionable woman must be
I'D and doing or she will be overtaken by
her imitators, and that is the fate she can
never endure. But no one is more ener-
getic than the fashionable woman about
her fashions. White Chinese silk no longer
concerns her. She looks upon white I'M
derclothing as antiquated; hers is all the
coloEs of the rainbow-not all the colors at
once, but successfully. She wears every
thing to match as scrupulously as if were
ali for public exhibition.
In fact, some things that used to be con-
sidered as restricted to the deepest privacy
are now indeed made in degree public;
nightgowns, for instance. Nightgowns may
be worn through the early hours when
feminine friends are being received in
boudoirs. Certainly it would be shame
if somebody did not get to see them.
THE MORNING RECEPTION ROBE.
A lady ACQUAINTANCE calling lately on
Mrs. Frederick w. Vanderbilt about noon
was received by her in a pink concoction
that can only be justly described as a
dream. 1t was of pale pink surah, pink
with delicate lilac tint-or like lilac
with the first blush upon it. 1t was laid
in the tipiest handmade tucks in the back,
running from the throat to the shoulder
blades. The front was composed of two
straight widths ofthe surah, hemmed about
the neck and edged with an exquisitely
fine lace about finger deep sewed on
plain.
Through the hem were run tiny pink
ribbons, which drew the gown either
loosely or closely about the pretty wearers
throat, and which thus gathered up the
lace and impaired the necessary fullness to
the beautiful garment. The sleeves we're
made up of lots of tiny perpendicular
tucks from armhole to elbow, below which
they fell in a loose founce edged with
lace both within and without. If lady
could not have rose-colored dreams in
garment like that, there is no hope for
hanniuess for her is there