The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-26
DRESS AND SUGGESTIONS ANNE r.isaru.p.. FOR WOMEN
The War has caused so many we'd dings that originators for trou- seaux have taken precedence over other September costumery.

New York, September 25.-One of the 1 photographers along Fifth avenue has [ put up a sign that no civilians need apply for appointment until after cer- tain date in october.
 The entire time of this shop is given l over to those who are going to war
 It might be said, judging from surface appearances, that the majority of dress l makers and shops would be truthfully able to put out the same kind of sign. 1 The world is as full of wedding as it is of war There is a contemptuous atti- tude toward war weddings that makes affairs bit unpleasant for those who 1 have hurriedly arranged to be married because the man has been drafted. | The word stacker is being heard i as much in America as it was in Great I Britain last year. Our women j. have not yet paraded the streets with white | feathers to be pinned on the coats of virile young men in civilian clothes but , no one knows what may happen when ] the casualty lists come in and the women of this continent see happy young men going about their business or taking l part in the frivolities of life without | thinking of the battlefield upon which 1 some woman's son, brother or husband lost his life. It is this knowledge of | inequality that confronts nation when some men die and others play during a battle. We may yet come to it, and woe be the siackers when the women begin their battle of derision and contempt! LINGERIE FOR BRIDES Hundreds of young men in uniforms, however, are leading girls to the all tar. and it is these military weddings that occasion the greatest amount of
 consideration and sentimental enthu-
 siasm. When the 1918 class of West
 Point was graduated a year ahead of
 time in order that it's 152 men could go
 under the colors, there were r weddings
 as soon as the diplomas were handed
 out.
 This is but an echo of what is going
 on from Newport to Coronado Beach.
 Therefore, it is we'll that the dress makers and shops provided an extra ordinary assortment of original under clothes for the hurried and harassed bride to choose for her hastily assem- bled rousseau.
 The striking feature in these war time trousseaux is the introduction of pastel shades of chiffon as a substitute for white muslin Happily, we are done with those atrocities brought over from Paris and put out as the last word in fashion, made of black chiffon with scar let apples and green birds of paradise cavorting over the surfaces. There was an unwholesome tone about such origi- nations. It is safe to say that more women wore them in America than in Paris, for there is no use denying that our women accept many ugly fashions without asking themselves much about the source
 NIGHTGOWNS OF SKY BLUE
 There is no artistic reason to be ad- vanced against the use of sky blue, pale pink and faint lavender for lingerie These colors are more attractive than white, and the new nightgowns which have been brought out for the wartime brides can be used for house frocks or negligees quite as we'll as for the hours of sleep.
 The sketch shows a gown which is called La Cigale. It is made of sky blue mousselne, which is a thicker quality of chiffon that we often use, and 1t has scallops at the neck and hem of the skirt which are bound with the material. Bias folds of the mousseline are used in layers to build the sleeves and straps of white ribbon go across the shoulders to hold the decolletage in place. Button holes around the wastline allow broad band of ribbon to slip through and tie in sash end at the back, and there are loose cravat bows of the ribbon to hold the two scalloped fronts together Even if woman does not care for sky blue mousseline as fabric for her sleeping gown, she certainly should not be averse to copying this pattern. That idea at the neck is very well worked out and the scallops, which are bound with ma teral and not embroidered, make an agreeable finish.