Show SUMMER LINGERIE The luxury of fine Linen Cambrics Laces and Ribbons NEW YORK May 290n all the counters devoted to white wear this season wonderful is the array of fairylike fairy-like garmentsfine linens laces and embroideries em-broideries intermingled in bewildering confusion with knots of delicate hued ribbons Chemises drawers petticoats i night robes all are fashioned of the thinnest and finest linen cambric Nain I sooks and lawn so sheer that a cobweb i I i f r 1 W t r d J + y al as ti t tR THE MODE IN DRAWERS would look cumbersome beside It All are so pleated beruffled and edged With I fine embroideries and real laces that cine wonders if a new race of blanchissenses with fairy fingers and soap bubbles evanescent as summer dew are not also necessities of the near future CHEMISES FASHIONED BY MODISTES The dainty chemise in exquisitely fine cambric or linen lawn has again asserted itself It is cut to fit very closely to the figure and is finished around the neck and arms with delicate embroidery and narrow real lace The Bretelle and Bertha I Ber-tha ideas are evident Many have drap ingft puffy ribboned shirrings and even I frilly fichu collars The shirts are flushed flu-shed in a flounce edged with laces and some have tiny ruffles of real lace THE MODE IN DRAWERS AND GARTERS The drawers to show the dainty fin de sieclo touch They are cut extraordina 1 I h 47 1 THE WHITE PETTICOATS I rilyiwide with pleatings and rufflingsof lace and embroideries which are caught up on the outer side of the leg with pretty bows or rosettes of ribbons This ar I rangement shows the long garters fastened fas-tened from the corsets nbw altogether worn as it generally conceded that the timehonored way of gartering above the knees retard proper circulation These long suspender garters are things of beauty of pink blue or yellow silk elastic elas-tic tholatter color for good luckending in rosettes satin ribbon into which are fastened the jeweled stocking clasps CORSETS AND THE NEWEST CORSET COVER Corsets form a most important factor in the general ensemble for a delicate corset is the salvation of myriads of women who otherwise would sadly lack the symmetrical symmetri-cal outline so necessary to the correct interpretation in-terpretation of thepresent style Every ultra fashionable woman has her own favorite cut of corset There are corsets fashioned expressly for the empire waist very lowin the bust but keeping their length over the hips These are found essential to the short I waisted effects so much in vogue also they are worn by many women who care little for style but very greatly for comfort I com-fort Much worn and liked is the jaunty bolero corset cover rounded at the back I with long ends tying in a loose knot on I the bosom trimmed with exquisitely fine embroidery done on the cambric and finished fin-ished with very narrow real lace The material is so soft and transparent it takes up an infinitesimal space PETTICOATS AND NIGHTROBES The ribbontied petticoats are marvels of fluffy flounces and ruffles edged with laces and embroideries The festoon idea prevails in the disposition of trimming with ribbon fastenings Now that white shirts are again de rigour we shall miss to a great extent the froufrou and swishswish of silk against silk so dear to our feminine souls Everything is Empire BO the daintiest nightgowns is of this shape In fine cambrics embroidered with silk in dots of pink or blue and trimmed with deep frills edged with real laceeither valen cienne or mechlinthe sleeves falling loosely away from the arms and caught up with knots of ribbon A sash of rib bon tied In a bow with long ends confines i the gown around the waist 1 r This season almost all the lace is real and very delicately used It requires a nice sense of discrimination to know the real limit of lace and embroideries which good taste dictates THE SUMMER STOCKINGS The stockings are of everydelicate color one can imagine and have never before been so pleasing to women of taste Some y w i I L r n J Q J 3 1 1 + t yt ± t ff 1 Lll rr t f 9 I EMPIRE NIGHT DRESS of the daintiest are embroidered with pretty devices such as a fleurdelys or a true lovers knoteven intertwined I hearts are not uncommon There is an artistic perfection of finish now in all the details of a womans toilet I That a point in her equipment is not visible to observation matters nothing all is given a sense of importance Nothing is slurred over or incomplete Simplicity is only in the seaming and is i I about one of the most costly efforts to attain ISABEL DUNDAS |