DAINTY LINGERIE

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1681, 18 May 1904, Page 25

DAINTY LINGERIE

SQUARE YOKES UPON PRETTY NIGHTGOWNS.

Frills and furbeloAVS are relegated to the pretty petticoats of the present day, and all the smartest nightdresses, cache

corsets, and combinations are trimmed about the shoulders very synply, and without the use of ruffles. The smartest robes de nuit rival a blouse in delicacy of treatment Shout the throat, where they are cut square, and inserted with lace or covered Avith embroidery, according to the whim of their Avearer. Punched ambroidery, called broderie Anglaise, is very suitable for the purpose, and it is a great deal used; but this new, yet old, fancy is not ousting the employment of Valenciennes and torchon lace. It would seem as if the. ruffles that used to edge the deep collar of the elaborate robe de nuit were not, however, to disappear altogether; for, as well as on the wrists, one often sees them decorating the hem of the gown as they do in the pictoral model shown above. At the foot *of this column is shown a very pretty petticoat bodice, Avorn with a jupe of salmon pink modrette, edged with a deep flounce of the same ruffled at the rim Avith silk of the same colour. Composite petticoats, as they may very Avell be called, are extremely useful; for example, if the bulk of the skirt be made of so substantial and hardwearing a fabric as moireen or moirette, the ruffle® may be of taffetas* or even of muslin, and may be easily renewed from time to time.