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Show OUTFIT FOR READING IN BED Russian Blouse Gown and Cap Go With This Somewhat Reprehensible Repre-hensible Habit. To read -while in bed is most reprehensible, repre-hensible, but if you persist in the practice be sure to have the proper outfit a Russian blouse reading gown and a curl paper covering cap. The gown, which reaches almost to the knees, is a front closing blousfl with' elbow length cut-in-one sleeves and rounded-out neck which is finished fin-ished with a broad collarette of side plaited white mallne. You may make the blouse of pale-toned wool, satin or messaline, and embroider or applique It with birds and butterflies or of a flowered thin silk lined with lightweight light-weight flannel. Just above the normal nor-mal waist line draw in the fulness with a rope of silk cordage. The cap of silk matching the grounding of the gown is merely a circular piece fulled on to a narrow ribbon, over which Is placed a wide frill of plaited mallne, and at one side, usually above the left ear tip, may be placed a big bow of black velvet ribbon. |