The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-09-14
What the 6)omen Think .4bout.
DAINTY IMPORTANCE OF LINGERIE.

not very deliberately trimmed. The fichu
corset-coyer Is as popular as ever, and
now new era has come I'm play. n Is
10 have this same fichu made 20 tie I'm
the back. or rather to have the ends cross
In the back. IL is the best possible kind
OF "A corset-cover TO wear with shirt
waists, for IL holds the figure I'm place
better than any other thing that has yet
been designed. It Is trimmed with a mar
row beading OF lace and line laco edge
The ends are long enough 20 cross at the
back. and have ends OF tape that tie I'm
front. IL takes up very little room, and
with the low-busted corsets that are
fashionable makes II often possible for
stout women TO wear shirt-waists and
look well In them without having them
boned or lined,
Nght-gowps are made more like wrap
pers than they were. They are larger
and fuller the sleeves are larger, and
there is a return to favor of ,ne round
collars that finish off I'm point I'm front
Bazaar.
English underwear was spurned by
american women before there was anyt
consular declaration on the subject and
none of them ever thought OF buying IL
under circumstances that lett them any
alternative An American woman who
has lived In England for some years was
telling her experiences the other day and
ly ve a demand I'm England for the Amerl-
can lingerie, superior as II Is to the home
made article. Paris. where the most
beautiful linen I'm the world is made and
worn. IL not far from the English shops:
but there Is little or no importation Of
the French work. The homemade article
seems entirely satisfactory TO the average
English woman who has never seen or
heard OF anything else and has no appre-
ciation OF the delicate and dainty effects
In which French and American women
reve
English lingerie Is made entirely for
utility" the American woman said. land
there is evidently no other idea I'm the
minds OF the manufacturers. Occasion
ally tuck or bit OF embroidery may be
added. but even that IL considered un-
necessary and IL seldom allowed 10 inter-
fere with the extreme plannesS OF these
garments which horrify American won-
an. They are made OF coarse linen or
cotton, they are roughly sewn. and the
whole style OF their making is objection
able To American women. who, next 10
the French, are able TO buy the daintiest
OF things OF that kind I'm the world
THE English woman. reared 20 be sat
isfied with the kind of lingerie that she
has always seen. imagines that exquisite
linen. laces and ribbons are IN some mys-
terious way improper ] shall never for
get the uay sHoWcu an English ffIfnd n
lot of lingerie that had Just got from
Paris. She gasped when 7 opened the
box. OH she said. az IL she had just got
into a tub OF cold water. DO ladies In
America wear-things like those?' told
her that they did most assuredly. and
that the pretticr they were the better sat-
isfed we always felt. III she hadn't
known my family for years, I'm sure she
would have thought that my morals were
I'm danger. becauseI took to those combi-
nations OF delicate lace and diaphanous
linen in place of cotton and tucks.
You know 7 asked the question: she
went on. because I'm England ladies do
not wear such things. I'm fact. 7 never
saw anything OF the kind before except
on the stage and 7 did not believe that
anywhere took care 10 assure her that
anywhere took care to assure her that
IL was "A national custom I'm the United
States for women to wear the most at
tractive lingerie they could find as was
afraid that her snspicions Of me might
grow more decided if she thought that n
was merely personal feature.