The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-27
ANNA HELD's LINGERIE.
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To Miss Anna Held belongs the dis
tinction of bringing to America the TN
est rousseau of lingerie in the world
She purchased for $500 the trousseau
which won the first prize. gold medal,
at the Paris exposition-the most ex-
quisitely embroidered fine linen which
the best looms of the world and the
most expert needleWOmen OF Europe
could produce
Her finest chemise in the world cost
$3.50. II is almost literally trifie light
as air So soft and fine is the batste
of which it is composed that IL can De
crushed easily into the palm ana De
held and almost lost there.
The batiSte is the SheereSt manuIac-
tured The finest of looms and most
expert OF workmen fashioned II into It's
original form OF four yards or the Iao-
rio. The garment is cut medium decol-
lette. and the fullnesS, front and back
is formed by eighty tiny lengthWiSe
tucks. 1t is finished by broad hem,
headed by a group of eight wider tucks.
About the neck. front and back is a
row of inverted squares or diamond
shaped figures OF white silk Illusion,
decOupe or set in. and securely fastened
TO the gown by overcasting of white
silk. The upper edges are strengthened
by embroidery of hemStitched design,
and less than a quarter OF an men
wide. Upon these pointed scallops thus
enciennes lace. one and half inches
wide
On either side of the front and back.
at the shoulders. is a large silk eyelet-
White satin ribbons are run through
the eyelets and tied together in a large
bow upon the shoulders Where the
old-fashioned sleeve is expected ap-
pears instead a full ruffie Of the inch
and-a-haIf-wid Valenciennes-
The chef d'Oeuvre uDon the chemise
Is he = n sa= ion NJ a
roses on either side Of the cluster of
eighty tuckS in front The design Is
conventional and the workmanship
fiawless. The owners monogram Is del
icately embroidered on the left side be-
tween the clustered tucks and the
spray of roses
The nightgown cost a little more than
$500. The chemise required the work
of eight women for a month The robe
du mutt required the work Of a dozen
women for six weeks. There is not a
stitch in this nightgown that bears the
stigma of the machine"
The rounded yoke is tucked length
wise and into il is set the design of rose
sprays in illusion ana worked with
white silk The high standing collar
! is also tucked lengthWise, and the de-
| sign decOupe illusion extends about the
neck The collar is finished with a
graduated ruffie Of Valenciennes at
tached to the baStie by a narrow row
of the hemstitch-Iike embroidery At
| the back of the collar is a large bow of
white satin ribbon
The fuIlness of the gown is confined,
! front and back, by clusters OF fne
tucks. There are groups of forty tucks
on either side of the front, just over
the bust, and a plain space between
on which is the delicately embroidered
monogram
The sleeves are very full and flowing
| They are scant where they join the
/ shoulder. and yard wide when they
| reach the wrist. Into the body of the
sleeve on either side is set a row of the
| inverted squares or diamond shapes OF
| silk illusion. Above this is, so skillful-
dropped on the sleeve by some careless
| The under seam of the sleeve is gath
cred full, and set into it is a quarter
/ inch piece of narrow embroidered in
! sertion.
Where, in a simpler gown, the upper
seam is expected is row of the illu-
/ sion squares The sleeve is finished
/ with a six-inch deep fiounce, which is
/ full, is trimmed with four narrow tucks
and a full gathered edge of an inch
! and-a-half-wide Valenciennes- Two
| bows on either side cOnf1ne some of the
/ fullness of the flowing sleeve.
Miss Held also bought the trOuSSeau
/ that received the second price at the
! exposition This is known as the blue
| suit, because of its wealth of blue rib
bOns- This suit has also a decOupe il
fusion design, the necks OF the chemise
and nightgown being defined by tri-
/ Valenciennes- The second suit cost
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