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Show 1 - Fine Laces Within Reach of All ! ff 'jcc; HI WH-) tiV ' iiy AV,i'; jC--' TirrWcJ. ,-?'.-,, - -4 ., , s: v- ' ' . j .'tv ! v " ' i ' ' '' , ', v V-s L.3 ' " r :J Who wouldn't undertake to own a pretty boudlor cap and gown when both can be made for about two dollars dol-lars and a half expenditure? Since manufacturers of lace have said good-by good-by to the old band made patterns and have turned their attention to the original designs that can bo made by machinery, we have a new order of the filmiest and most exquisite laces, that cost hardly more than fine, plain cotton fabrics. This adaptation of design de-sign to mechanical workmanship has done wonders In putting pretty things within the reach of even woman. These laces are woven In wide flounc-ngs flounc-ngs as well as narrow edgings and can be used like any other thin material. mate-rial. They have made a tremendous advance In popularity this season. The cheaper varieties of machine-made machine-made laces are not specially durable, but they are not Intended for garments gar-ments demanding durability. But with a modest outlay one can buy the German Ger-man Val and better grades of shadow lace and be sure of their wearing quallths. It is laundering that Is barjT on 01 my lace. It Is so easily 1ouU that garments made with lace trlm-T mlngs abould -ever be aent to arjj laundry but done at home. No starching, starch-ing, no blueing Is necessary. They are wanned aa other laces are washed by band. The pretty nainsook boudoir gown shown here is made up with sleeves and trimming of the least expensive shadow lace which sells from twenty-five twenty-five to forty cents a yard. About two and a half yards of It provide for the sleeves, trimmings and lace strips in the cap. Five yards of ribbon an Inch wldo Is needed and two yards of baby ribbon. A yard of net ruch-Ing ruch-Ing for the cap and five yards of a very narrow lace edging In one of the simple Cluny patterns for the gown are needed. Four yards of nainsook: will be an ample allowance for the body of the gown. It Is easy enough to figure that this bewitching little outfit can hardly be called aa extravagance extrav-agance by any one. The same design can be worked out In wsMh silks and more durable laces of It Is not necessary to practice JfirMfconomy. Even In these material mate-rial j much prettlneaa can bardly be achieved at so small an outlay of snaji to any other way. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. |