South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-26
Lingerie Blouses
Are Frilly Affairs
Neckwear, Too, Will be
Crisp and Lacy = Here is
Chance for Needleworker.

1t is possible that woman may show
a liking for tailored effects OF the Sc
we're sort when they so forth to choose
spring street suits this season, but
one thing seems sure-the lingerie
bIouses and neckwear associated with
whatever suits women do buy are
likely to be frilly affairs.
OF course. there are plenty Of
simple bIouses, tailored or not tailor
ed; but the new lingerie models. over
which women show the most enthu-
siasm are the sheer ones friyolously
! inclined, breaking out into single front
frills, double front frills, soft jabots.
Probably the manufactures of lingerie
blOuses has Weakened TO the fact that
models of crepe de chine, china silk
and other silken fabrics that are
washable have cut into his trade sadly
and that he must make strenuous et-
forts to lure feminine fancy back to
sheer linen lawns and batlStes. WHAT
ever the cause, the result is delightful.
Nothing gives quite the effect OF
immaculate daintiness TO summer
morning attire that is afforded by
crisp and snowy frills of finest muslin
and lace incidentally, few things
are more expensive 10 buy and more
difficult to keep fresh than these same
frills, at their finest; but laundering
problems seldom stand between wom-
en- and summer coquetry, and while
the finest frills are, as has been said,
| expensive. there are pretty ones at
prices fairly reasonable. Moreover,
the frilled waist can dispense with
hand embroidery. though 1t does not
| necessarily do so, and it's an easier
and less costly thing to achieve hand
made frills with edging and inset
lines of lace or with little colored
hens than to embroider blouse or
collar by hand.
Given the ability TO do perfectly
plain fine sewing. any woman should
be able to make herself charming
blouses of the frilly type, or delectable
collar and frill sets through the ex-
quisitely hand embroidered blouse
may be quite beyond her skill.
When it comes to neckwear the new
things are legion and as interesting as
they are numerous High collars of
one kind or another, with rabats or
iabOts or with chemisette attachment,
are receiving much attention because
they seem newer than the roll collar
effects; but the latter are offered in
innumerable pretty forms, and like
the stocks they, too, often have frills
attached.
The simplest type of collar and
jabot is the high close stock of muslin
and lace, with some form of frill, and
this sort of model is by no means diff
fcult to make, provided one has time,
and patience for putting on lace by
hand Real valenciennes, of course,
gives cachet to even the most unpre-
tentious of such collars. but there are
effective imitation laces, and If the
batiste or linen or organdie is sheer
and fine and the handwork neatly
done one can obtain admirable effects
at very little expense.
The straight, high collar, addorned
by sharp points either turned down
fat upon the collar or standing out
crisplv from the collar top just under
the ears is another collar very often
associated with frills of some kind. n
touch of black usually appears at the
head of the frill as it does in practi-
cally all the models.