LE PEIGNOIR PARISIEN

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 267, 4 August 1908, Page 5

LE PEIGNOIR PARISIEN

' "How can you Englishwomen bear-to mako yourselves so ugly ennntimo?" said a little Frenchwoman to an English- writer tho other . day.' •'. . -v M': .:; "No Frenchwoman would do it for a mo- ■ ment. : Those flannel,:what you. call ? dressing gowns;": 1 ,Oh? but they tare de-testablo; and the ones' you wear -in.'tho summer, .they are worse. i! So much collar, so far too ■ many frills;'and' that ceintnro, why a cointure at all; hein? : Come wibh mo this afternoon, ■ and I will:show you, yes, how tr-ruly beautiful tho poignoir can "be." , did.' 1 • i, , At a famous ' etablissement in the Ruo . de' la 'Paix 1 saw; the .peignoir as.the true Parisienne .understands' it. . Poetised, etherealised, very expensive with-' al; 'but';of such'beauty.-a. . . .. . -In 'crepe'do Chine, in nmon de soie, in ninon, -rin soie Japonnaise, even in the less dignified cambric and-batiste, Empire models . all of them, 'with a broad ribbon run and- supporting thebust. • The newest, models had puffed' sleeves, ■'• the puffs; cunningly contrived on •a' draw string . m'-, such a; mariner .that they' pulled out quite . flat for'the lavandiere, .were also';caught in, by i ribbon's, but 'for the l rest,' save'' a ; 'simple ■ frill or' a' : group :of / flat 1 tucks at .the hem, - .tW'm'odish 1 peignoir is' simplicity; itself. ' ■ '^Vhyj' l a home -worker might 1 achieve - one '' 'easily. with tho-. aid' of a length ■of |-material and a little good lace and ribbon. ■> - ' ; . I thought of the over-trimmed models at ' home, and sighed: ■ ; ; , ■ ' '-111 this; as'in other 'things,' the-Parisienne is still• a long way ahead of us. I- ~ . j:-: