Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-02-22

THE DALI oy means of darts these very darts deftly concealed by means of embroid. cry, or even by the setting in of lines of beading arranged so skilfully as to indicate the lines of a deep-and high-girdle. Others are tucked ill such little tucks and so many of them that the fullness is cleverly disposed of without seeming to take up an equivalent amount of room.
 Corset covers are treated the same way. only there are very few which depend upon tucks as a means of get ting rid of fullness, and those few are cut relentlessly off at the waist line and finished with a perfectly fitting shaped piece below the belt
 By further ingenious working of wits both chemise and corset cover are cut in some mysterious way that permits of their being made of the same sheer, beautiful stuffs char acteristie of the loose styles. without a consequent straining out of shape. Hand embroidery and the wee edges Of lace, Nalenciennes usually freal, if you can afford it). which are so doali- Eant part of those other older styles, are used as freely as in them
 The corset cover pictured is one of these tight fitting affairs, made in the simplest ways. but accomplishing it's purpose without in the least q scount- ing it's beauty. Darts take out the ] fullIess about the waist. It is intended to be embroidered in a simple pattern, the merest edge of lace set under the scallop around neck and sleeves, but machine made embroidery may be substituted if the tandwork seems too artlucus.
 The most satisfactory idea that has appeared for a long while is a corset cover which buttons down the back, and is really little slip meant fer wearing under lingerie blouses. In like the tight fitting styles it is i.ttle full and is finished quite simply at neck and armholes with beading and narrow frils of lace Any of the sheer, washable materials, or silk, may make it.
 Even nightgowns have taken on princeses lines, although only in few instances as yet For no mat ter how carefully the tueks or darts are managed, the gown is rarely great success, except, perhaps, for a first wearing. A style with smooth fitting yoke, yet not separate yoke, the fullness below it controlled by a little line of beading. is as satisfactory little style as there is. Like every thing else in linger.e, it is at it's pret tiest when the trimming consists of hand embroidery, although it is a [ pretty enough affair made With the more usual machine made trimming.
 Petticoats (and even drawers) fol- low the same general rules as do corset covers and chemises. Every thing is done to rid them of fullness ss- yokes, cut on circular models, SO deep that they practically make the top of the skirt, the deep founces fuller and "friller," if possible, then ever before. Short petticoats are dispensed with by the majority of women, the ex- captions made as flat as possible, fin ished at the top with tiny, flat hem, instead of the one-time indispensable band; in fact, bands are conspicuous by their absence to most marked degree. Strings are done away W tn as much as possible in the finer things the fiattest of buttons and strongly buttonholed loops taking their place.
 Swisses are about in greater pro- fusion than even last year saw them, most of them fairly powdered with small figures, so well are the grounds covered. Even when a rather large figure is used the space between is dotted with tiny editions of that figure o~ with dots.