Evening star., 1909-06-26

year the satin suits. both striped and in
plain colors, are especially smart. The
suit shown is simply made, but Is very
striking because of the way in which
the stripes are matched in vandyked
effect. The trimming is made of marrow
black satin ribbon gathered through the
center and put on also in points.
The sweater is new model. well suited
to mountain or shore wear. where warmth
is the first consideration. The revers
may be buttoned back, as in the illus
tration, or they may be crossed over
the chest and fastened securely. There
Is a big collar which may be snugged
up around the throat also. Yet with all
its warmth and roomy comfort about
arms and shoulders the sweater has IL
very trim and graceful fit at waist and
hip.
The happy maid who hikes away to a
jolly camp in the woods for her weekend
vacation does not bother with negiige
She will tumble into bed at the end OF
day spent In outing togs and tumble out
again early in the morning to don fan
mel shirt waist and short skirt, ready for
another days fun. But she who packs
for an over-Sunday visit at Newport, Bar
Harbor or the Hamptons will slip into
her trunk the very loveliest and laciest
neglige she owns. As our husbands and
brothers have borrowed the British Gus
tom of lingering over their cigars while
the feminine half of the company repair
to the drawing room, so have wives and
sisters borrowed the gentle habit of sitting
about in one another's bedrooms to gossip
over the nightly hairbrushing.
Only the harbrushing has been dis
pensed with-here in America. at least.
One cannot very well, before the eyes OF
ones most particular rival, denude ones
devoted head of all but a minimum OF
it's luxuriant tresses. And would II not
be a pathetic spectacle-that of half
dozen women sitting about with their
chignons pinned to chairbacks while they
combed, curled and conversed? Anyhow,
ones maid is supposed to do the combing
and curling, whether the tresses adorn
the chairback or ones Uranium, and so
one conyerses pleasantly in a comfortable
1ounging chair and ones prettiest peig-
noir. leaving the hairbrushing for the
privacy of ones own room.
Some of the negligeS worn at these
intimate er-midnight gossips are raw
ishingly beautiful. Many of them come
from Paris and show priceless trimmings
OF rare lace or are made of floating layers
of chiffon over pastel-hued silk. The
summer neglige is not supposed to keep
one warm and may be made of anything
from dotted swiss to crepe de chine,
with trimmings determined by ones pock-
etbook. Grace and becomingness and ut
most daintiness are the requisites for a
boudoir gown of this sort, and one may
be just as alluringly lovely in hand
made little peignoir of rose printed lawn
as ones hostess in costly creation OF
silk and lace.
The neglige shown is a Paris garment
of pale blue crepe de chine, elaborately
honeycombed with lace, but the model is
a pretty one, which any woman might
copy in a less expensive style. The wide
sleeves. separated from the loose. full
folds of the garment itself By the soft sat
in girdle, are especially graceful, and the
girdle. while not drawing in the neglige
about the figure, holds the full folds in
long, sweeping lines. The model could be
initiated very daintily in fowered silk
muslin and ribbon to match. an mex
pensive imitation val lace being used as
trimming.