The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-06-01
JAPANESE TEA GoWN3.
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II the street gown Is picturesque toe
morning gown is more. 1t is posi-.
lively romantic A volume might be
written upon the romance Of the pCip-
noir and yet leave a great deal unsaid.
Colors. fabrics, trimmings and orna.
ments all combine to make the morn.
ing gown as lovely thing as fancy
could paint 1t is light in weight,
beautiful in design and it Is carried
out with fidelity to detail which is
exquisite
Take If you please. the Japanese tea
gown or the Japanese tea coat or the
kimono,. The last, with its long lines
and its lovely Embroidery around the
hem and its long silk facings, is too
comfortable ever to be forgotten by the
woman who has once owned hmono.
As a tea coat the Japanese garment is
even more convenient. The coat,
which Is made of Oriental silk, either
figured or embroidered Is cut In the
threequsrter length, is fastened with
cords and ornaments and is worn with
a silk underskrt. The underskirt can
be made of Japanese goods or 1t can
be simply an old silk skirt, some rem
nant of .bygone grandeur, which does
| admirably, cut over and made into
house skirt.
IL a woman is making her own Japa-
nese gown, be II teagown or kimono,
she can afford to embroider II thor
oughly and showily. She must use silk
of many colors and she would be sensi.
BILE were she to take for pattern some
really elegant Japanese kimono, so
that she can copy its colors and its
| designs. These kimonos come at all
| prices and, while one is copying y
kimono one might as well copy nice
one as a common one.
The Oriental silks are so numerous
since the Japanese invasion of the
world Of art and they are so cheap and
| so easily draped, so adjustable, so
highly desirable, in every way, that
woman would do well to invest in them.
| One can often find remnants very
| cheap at sales. And these come in good
| for the making OF the peignoir. Per-
| haps. If the remnent be short one, II
can be combined with something else
and handsome teagown made out OF
next to nothing.
No better pattern can be found for
the amateur than the kimono.shaped
gown, ana she who would undertake
to make peignoir can make 1t up in
kimono shape, just escaping the
ground, faced with contrasting ma
terial, with deep hem OF the same
and trimmed up each side of the front
with bands Of stuff. The matter of EN-
brodery Is a question Of taste, but she
who is ambitious can work big strag
| Cling flowers down the front and
around the hem and on one side she
can embroider or applique big many
| colored bird This maks an extremely
| pretty finish.
| Teagowns are made of many mater
ials and are in many shapes, Que of the
| prettiest being the ribbon and lace
teagown. Those who have plenty OF
time and material can take satin rib
| bon three inches wide and stitch it in
strips to lace of the same width.
| There should be stripe after stripe OF
alternating ribbon and lace. And the
stitching should be done on the sewing
machine and should be vsable.
Visable stitching, by the way, is
very fashionable. Seams are strapped
with visible stitching and strips OF
ribbon and lace are overlapped and
sewed together so that every stitch
shows. 1t is the fashionable way OF
sewing and there is very little blind
stitching or scanning done
The teagown should be cut out after
the ribbon and lace are sewed together
and a pretty shape is the wrapper
shape, with slightly fitted waist and
with a deep sailor collar.
Those who go in for trailing effects
can make the teagown very long. II
is, perhaps, more graceful with its
trailing lengths though 1t is not nearly
as sensible. The French teagown
trails inches and inches upon the
ground and the French woman holds
1t up in front when she walks. Hold
ing gown up in front is called the
Eugenie lift.
One of the most elegant peignoirs
is made OF china silk and is cut long,
very long opening all the way down
the front.