Floral Lingerie

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 277, 23 November 1935, Page 18

Floral Lingerie

DAINTY NEW FASHIONS Dressing for the bedroom and the business of getting dressed is as of great importance as any other branch of fashion, and stylos are changing from season to season just as in dresses and hats. There are numerous items the smart woman has to keep a watchful eye on to bo in the mode. The new dressing-gowns and wraps arc either severely tailored or very much flounced and lace-trimmed in alluring feminine styles. Some of the tailored types are very masculine, trimmed with rovers and cuffs in dark colours and are made in heavy plain, striped or plaid suits. Most of the less mannish tailored types come in florals this year, because florals in underwear are a new note. The fabric used flat crepe, and patterns are vivid i colour and indefinite in design. These wraps resemble very much a tailored evening wrap, having just as much decoration in sleeve and neck treatments. Most luxurious arc tailored satin gowns, which are invariably trimmed with quilting or stitching. Pale pink is the most favoured colour of lingerie and gowns in tliis shade look most attractive with huge shaped pockets and cuffs stitched all over. Floral voile is a feature of the new lingerie. Wraps arc unlincd and boldly patterned. Underclothes are of smaller design, usually cut on the cross of the fabric. Knickers, too, arc cut on tiie cross, and are designed to avoid a front seam and many of the now types now fasten at the back.

It is a matter of getting dressed, rather than undressed, for bed when night wear is as carefully designed as it is now. Pyjamas have all the tailleur of a suit, and nightdresses arc cut to fit the figure with the elaboration of an evening gown. Collars, yokes, sleeves, riffles of lacc, and sashes ail play a large part in design; but the height of sophistication is obtained with slit skirts and matching jackets that would pass for evening wraps. Floral sheers, erepc-de-chine, and voiles in large scattered patterns make into entrancing frill trimmed styles. What could be moro lovely than a