Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1905-10-08
= ORTUNATELY. broadcIoths, vel !

II ORTUNATELY, broadcloths, vel
vets and furs are still fashionable
for outer garments. These do
much to make up for the lack of heavy
underwear in the street, and in most
houses it isn't needed. Cold baths, too,
have made the modern girl less sus-
ceptible to cold than her mamma was
when she was young. So she manages
to get along without more than her
share of influenza. And yet, when one
sees the gauzy undergarments and feels
the wintry New York blasts, in spite of
the steam heat conditions and the cold
baths, one wonders at her hardihood.
But there is one thing that would seem
to suggest the girl with the gauze I'M
derwear is not so far wrong, after all,
and that is that the modern man who
SILL wears his heavy suit, over which
he puts a heavy top coat, catches quite
as many colds as the lace and linen
enwrapped women at whose foolhardi-
ness he looks askance.
Only the least sophisticated women
nowadays look first at the trimming of
an undergarment. AS in everything
else in this age Of perfection in the
making of feminine garments, the fore
most attention is paid to the shape and
fit: If Paris has a rival in the other
realms of dress-if the tailors of Lon
don and the modistes of Vienna claim
equality along other lines, surely she Is
alone in the manufacture of exquisite
underwear. In embroidery, the hand
ling of lace and in the fineness Of the
fabrics employed ther' is much to be
learned from the Partisan undergar-
ment, but after all it is in the infinite
variety of shapes all attractive and be-
coming, in the careful cut and perfect
fit of the Partisan undergarments that
one finds their greatest claim to con-
tinue as models for the entire world.
Such delicate manipulation of fabrics.
such exquisite workmanship, fertility
of design and perfection of cut and fit
are not to be found united in the under
garments made by any other nation.
1t is now more than ever necessary
that all undergarments should fit
properly. All Of the latest gowns nit
smoothly in the waist and down over
the hips, and bungling undergarments
are no longer possible. Over the hips
especially it is necessary that all gar
ments should fit as smoothly as 1t Is
possible to have them, and the back CT
a corset cover must also be most care
fully looked after. In fact, the corset
cover throughout should fit as smoothly
as the waist. and if it does not the
outer garment is sure to suffer. The
the hips, and the night gowns, of
course depend very largely on their
fit and cut for their beauty. No mat
ter how beautiful the material and
trimming of a night robe, if it be badly
cut, so that 1t makes the shoulders
narrow or draws across the bust, it Is
a failure. In the other garments to
be worn with gowns it is not only the
stout woman who needs to be careful
as to fit around the waist and hips.
Thin girls and women sometimes
imagine that they can afford to wear
corset covers that blouse at the waist
or chemises that are too full at the
waist or over the hips, but this is a fall
lacy. The thin woman needs all the
curve nature has given her at the waist
line. No one looks well with a thick,
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