St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-09
40 Io5 PARTISAN NIGHT ROBE.
All French Corsets Cut Low
to Form Lines Peculiar
lie ly French.
!STo cKINGs MATCH LEATHER
sse
Street Underskirts Ara Of
Silk, Alpaca, Gloriosa or
"a Serge.

Only rich women can afford white
body garments. Poor genteel women
are obliged to wear colored silk vests
ana skirts and black tights to suit the
season, says the New York World.
1t is all very interesting to read about
French lingerie with lie mstitched seams,
insertions OF lace that wear like gauze
and the sheer, airy, dainty linens, cam.
brics and DainsOUks; they are. as the
fashion scribblers say. "tne very acme
of femlpinity." but the laundry bill
would make any girls head ache unless
she.had an income the size of Helen
Gould's.
French lingerie of hand loom and hand
make Is not for the noble army of
martyrs who rear large families, type.
write, clerk, teach, sew. keep books or
even bicycle; they may live, die and be
buried without ever knowing the ex-
quisite sensation of wearing aS39 robe, de
mutt with thread valentine, sailor collar
or S45 petticoat with satin ribbon pull
backs. The life of an humble working
woman with patrician tastes in cos
mopolitan city like New York is rou gh
enough.
But the tariff law went into effect last
Tuesday. and let choice lot of
Partisan dimity out of thecustom house,
where it had been gathering dust and
yellow damp since the end Of June.
The prize package in underwear is
the bridal set. 1t comes in a box, and
consists of four piece s-gown, skirt,
chemise and dra wers. The fabric is
exquisite. the lace is precious, the
sewing is the very perfection of needle
work. There are always few wrinkles
in the shape of ribbons or fastenings
that set the seasons styles. AS for the
prices! A plumbers salary wouldn't
pay the simplest model for the season
Of 1894.
Whether the importer sells these we'd
ding garments or not ID immaterial. He
has to have them. They serve as models
for the stacks of domestic underwear
that are made In this city every season.
Then, too, orders to supply the sensa-
trade are sent back to France, with
hints from the super.splendid sets.
Just now hrides.elect are about. They
IOulO llOuu o0lidSs Ots CU6s OdlGud,
/ Sioux City, Louisville and all over.
| They are with their mas; they have
| mohey, and nothing is too good for
them.
| While materia! for this screed was
being collected. the writer saw sl64
bridal set sold to greenish.yellow little
| Jersey girl who is going to marry next
4 month. The intelligent young woman
who made the sale said that nothing
| finer ever came into stock. She had
been handling French lingerie since her
eighteenth birthday, and there seemed
| no reason to doubt her sincerity. Linen
batiste, such as birthday handkerchiefs
are made of, was the material. 1t was
featherweight, with silk finish; all
the lace was thread; all the ribbons
were cream white. half MORE and half
| grOs grain, with satin back and fancy
| edge. The seams were hemStitched,
the ruff1es were needle woven to the
collar, shoulder and cuffs; the tucks
| were invsibly stitched with drawn
threads of the batlste, and the cut was
up to the top notch Of French art, as
French models always are.
There is no describing the petticoat.
1t was a triplieate mass of trimming
| halfway up. The waist was stroked
| and gathered and tied with white silk
| lacings; the back breadths were full
| and at intervals of eight inches were
| three castings run with two-inch ribbon.
These pull-6acks alone cost Sc. They
| were cream white.
| 1t would have given the girls who
wear equestrian tights a shock to see
the absurd trousers. Actually the legs
| were half yard wide at the knees,
| rounded at the hem.rutfled and founced
three times over, slashed with insertions
| of lace and needie-tic wered batiste and
each nee % about with bolt of baty
| ribbon. lnere we're white ribbon draw
strings at the waist. that tied up into
tassel bOw-knots.
Here Is sad news. The old chemise,
yard and quarter long, Is in style
| and to stay. That settles the reform