JEWELLED NIGHT ATTIRE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 182, 1 August 1923, Page 5

JEWELLED NIGHT ATTIRE.

EXTRAVAGANT LINGERIE, £86,000 KEGLIGE. LONDON, July 25. Negligee is becoming the fashionable attire for receptions, says the Paris correspondent of the '"Weekly Dispatch." Guests, who wear pyjamas, arc quite in the mode.

A famous comedy actress is said to have worn a negligee costume £86,000. The "frock" consists of pyjamas made of pure silk embroidered with pearls, diamonds edging the coat. Her initials are worked in sapphires and rubies on the pocket of the jacket, which alone is valued at £20,000. The jewels can be removed, so that the costume may be sent to the laundry.

The actress sleeps in the suit, bnt when receiving friends ehe wears a beautiful Valenciennes lace cloak, with a train six feet long, heavily worked In gold, silver and pearls. This is worth £10,000.

Green kid slippers that go with the toilette are studded with brilliants, and cost £10,000.

An American cinema actress is another who habitually receives her guests dressed in pyjamas.

Lingerie is all the rago. A tuis'oand in the south of France is applying for a divorce because his wife spends everything on underwear. Her visible attire when she walks abroad consists of mere rags by comparison. A famous French dressmaker declares that t'-->e average Frenchwoman exhausts her allowance on lingerie.