Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-23
Bridal Lingerie.

OF all snares devised to tempt woman
kind from the narrow path of economy
to the broad highway that leads to ex-
travagance none are more alluring than
the fad for collecting lingerie Truth to
tell, half-dozen sets annually are suffl-
Client for the average woman who takes
the timely stitch, but when a bride-to-be
is collecting her trousseau she should
be allowed some latitude and not be con-
demned as wickedly wasteful should she
indulge a fancy for dainty underwear.
valenciennes has ever been high in
favor for lingerie trimming because OF
its beauty and reputation for launder-
ing satisfactorily. Some bridal sets are
wholly trimmed with French or German
valenciennes, cluny or torchon, using the
inch wide insertions entire deux with fine
linen or batiste or joining 1t In solid
rows to form Jokes for night dresses,
chemise and corset covers or the lace
bands form Van Dykes holding small en-
broidered or appllqued medallions Of mus
lin or flet net.
Quantities of allover muslin embroid-
cry are employed for Jokes, sleeves and
fiounces, and in many instances the all
over ruffies have narrow lace edgings
set beneath their scallops and points as
on the lingerie frocks. The value OF
lingerie beading is fully appreciated. for
1t joins all seams and trimmings so
that the reverse side of every garment
is quite as presentable as Its exterior
and nowhere are there rough edges
visible.
While n few women still cling to the
hall U
their grandmothers, the majority prefer
sik-woven undershirts. Over these are
worn combination corset covers and I'M
derskirts, both deliberately lace or mus
lin or hand embroidery decorated, the
neck, shoulder straps and waist band
closed with ribbons. The drawers,
trimmed correspondingly, are exceeding
ly wide and SO deeply hounced as almost
to form divided skirt.
Petticoats of the heavier qualities OF
lonsdale have deep founces formed OF
many wide tucks, and some have edging
of wide unbleached linen lace of coarse
mesh. which wears well and Is correct
beneath tailored white skirts of heavy
cotton or linen.
Umbrella-shaped petticoats are of such
exceeding daintiness that 1t seems a pity
to conceal them beneath even oeauti-
full gown. Their foundations of medium
weight linen or lonsdale are fye-gored
and fitted smoothly about the hips with
out suspicion of gathers at waist. The
knee-deep founces are very full and OF
the sheerest linen. Some are formed OF
successive entire deux pintucking, with
muslin insertion, fancy handstitching or
lace, or there are trple broad tuckings
snaeed with lace ara muslin embroidery
edgings. exceedingly pretty to look at
save with the eyes of laundress. In"
wardly, triple rows of lace or embroidery
edging finish the bottom Of these hounces.
Night robes have become SC elaborate
that their original shape has greatly
changed. They are twice as voiuminous
as of yore. especially in the empire ana
yoke models, which not only have many
gored breadths, but slight trains. ano
might readily pass muster as negligees
Their yokes, often entirely of embroidery
or lace or combination of both trim
mings. are cut low at the throat round
or pointed in shape, and equally elabo-
rate at front and back. Among gowns
TO be drawn on over the head are both
souare-necked and y-shaped designs, very
mucn cut away NJ th1 shDN
a high.necked night dress Is rarely seen
save among the coarser faprics.
The Japanese craze is evidenced even
among reposing robes, the kimono peins
duplicated in batiste and lonsdaie with
fancy linen borderings. The sleeves are
precisely like those Of the familiar nesh-
gee and the entire garment "ni'e
replica of the original, save that the
flowing fronts are drawn together with
linen cable cordings and buttons
Rarely does one encounter long
seeved night robe. So great Is the
license In this matter that any sleeves
suitable for a negligee jacket or tea gown
may be used. But the fayorites are tne
puffed elbow sleeves, deliberately deco
rated with muslin or lace GALLON, or the
short ones, triply box-plaited at the top
of the shoulder seam and falling faniiRe
over the upper arm
The fancy for wearing low-necked ana
short-sleeved night-dresses - practicaiiy
elongated chemises-has brought into
vogue the French fancy night Jackets OF
the sheerest muslin. finished with lace
or hand -hemmed null ruffies. They close
7 at the throat with delicately tinted rim
bons. and their sleeves are SNAPPED simi-
larly to those of the American night
dress.
Many women are beginning to adopt
the fashion of an elder day In the form
of nightcaps, with puffed crowns of soft
est linen. fuled widely with lace ana
tying with soft strings. So becoming are
these caps that the wearer OF one OF
them may complacentiy face critical
burglar or the prospect Of feeling hastily
from a burning house. The chief reason,
however, for adopting nightcaps is to
protect the hair from dust, the head from
drafts and to conceal curl-papers.
Because china silk may be rolled or
folded so compactly, 1t is an Ideal fabric
for lingerie when travelling, but 1t should
not he lace or embroidery trimmed; all
that is necessary is to featherstitch all
hens and hounces and to finish necks
and sleeves win narrow beading, through
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