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Show FOR NIGHTGOWN OR NEGLIGEE Exquisitely Pretty Robes Serve Both Purposes Crepe de Chine and White Lace Chiefly Used. Alluring robes in delicately colored crepe de chine and whtte lace are listed list-ed as nightgowns, but may quite as properly be worn as negligees, and most women buy them for that purpose. pur-pose. The back and front, each cut from a single breadth of double-width crepe de chine, are so gradually sloped from the lower edge finished with an a-jour-headed hem to the bust, that nowhere is there an atom too much fullness. At the top the crepe de chine width at back and front are opened at the right s'ide and drawn in a point to that shoulder, while the other side is caught under the left arm. The entire lower section is swung from a deep yoke of white lace whose neck is drawn taut by a ribbon rib-bon run beading after the robe is on, for there is no other opening and no fastening to bother with The elbow sleeves are simply wide puffs of lace ending in narrow ruffles gathered with ribbon and beading. |