Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-25

sleeves Will usually accomplish this off
ference in character. and. of course the
neglige may be gay with fiuttering rib
bons and honeycombed with lace inser-
tons. while the nightdress is trimmed
only about the neck AID sleeves.
A very charming neaisc OF this sort
is illustrated. and this pretty gown could
be worn at the breakfast table in the
privacy OF the home though it is one of
the conventional laws, as rigid as any of
the Modes and Persans. that no negliSe
garment shall ever appear in hotel or
boarding house dining room.
The pretty neglige Or Breakfast gown
illus, rated is ready-made model OF white
Persian lawn, with trimmings of mex
pensive lace and embroidery. 1t is the
arrangement of these trimmings. in panels
and bands, that gives special good style
very graceful and is rather full. being set
into the belt with small tucks over the
hips. The simply fashioned bodice is
loose and comfortable. and so is the wide
and there is a kncr of blue ribbon where
the edges OF the bodice come together
below the throat.
This model could be copied in almost
any summer material, either plain white
lawn or dimity. or Powered dimity or
swiss. White dotted swiss is one of the
most charming materials for summer neg
liee wear, and though a good quality of
dotted swiss is rather expensive at first
buying. the material wears and laundefs
NEST satisfactorily.
Fresh, dainty ribbons cost so little that
it is anna ling that so many women neglect
this opportunity for charm and appe al III
tn, summer neglige. When the lawn or
dimity wrapper goes to the laundry the
ribbons thereon should not be taken on
and pressed out. but should be thrown
away and new ones substituted. Nothing
is quite SO forlorn as shabby ribbon.
and the pale blues and pinks soon lose
their bright luster and their color. as well
as their crispness. Twenty cents worth
of new ribbon will do wonders In freshen-
ing a faded or half-worn nesiise, ana as
for a white garment of this sort. II IL
is Immediately clean and fresh and trim
med up with pretty ribbons no one VIII
notice that it has been mended. or Is not
quite this seasons shape.
Dotted lawn breakfast and morning
dresses, which are really no more than
wrappers conventionalized, are made this
season in the Russian fashion. with the
fastening down one side of the front from
throat to knee and sleeves cut in the
peasant or seamless style. \ white cimity
gown OF this sort, sprinkled with old blue
cots. had half-incn bands of old b.ue
dinity stitched on as trimming These
bands outlined the square neck, edged
down the opening at one side OF the front
Along the front opening as far down as
the waist peeped out pleated lace friil,
and similar frlliS were set upward at the
top of the trimming band on the sleeves:
Small blue covered buttons in groups or
three followed the line of trimming down
the side opening. This dainty little gown
was also shown in lavender dotted DIM
ity and in white lawn with red dots anu
red BANDS and buttons.
Some of the impoi ted Paris negliges
are as elaborate as lingerie gowns-and
quite as expensive. hundred dollars
seems a substantial sum TO pay Tor
boudoir gown, but the saieswomen in the
exclusive importing shops will without the
culver of eyeiasn show you boudoir
gowns of mul. and lace costing twice
that sum. Of course. these garments cost
much more here than in Paris, and the
woman who can buy her trousseau in
Paris and wear every garment of it be-
fore submitting it to the eagle eye of the
customs officer can have marvelously
pretty things at a remarkably Little price.
Three Partisan negliges are illustrated
on today's page: Two charming h,tle
sacaues and a very beautiful lace tea
costume-or tea coat and skirt. One OF
these garments comes from Jeanne Hal
lee, the great wizard of neglige wear in
Paris.
There are two sorts of dressing sacques;
one sort that is never worn out of the
privacy Of ones own bedroom. where it
is used as a comblng jacket which mi
lady dons while her maid does her hair or
while the manicurist does her rosy fin
gertips; or the little jacket, quite uncon
nned at the waist, may be slipped over
the nightdress when milady breakfasts
in bed. Such a sacQue IS shown made of
cream lace, set in a deep founce on
pointed yoke which runs down the outer
edge of the sleeves. The yoke is made
of narrow insertions in plain and shirred
strips. These sh!rred strips are attached
| to plain strips of lace beneath and pale
| pink ribbon is run through. There is
| also a very pale pink Silk lining which
| CLEANS through the cream of the lace.
| The other sacQue is a more practical
| affair, which may be worn at the break
| fast table or used to receive woman visit
| ors in in ones own room Of morning. 1t
Is a new model, and the little apron front.
which is duplicated at the back, falls we'll
over the skirt beneath and makes the
sacque long and graceful. The lace up
per portion of this sacque is lined with
| thin silk. fitted to the figure and lightly
featherboned. and over this little fitted
| lace bodice the apron portion is draped
with an effect of carelessness, the