LINGERIE FASHIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 281, 30 November 1935, Page 11

LINGERIE FASHIONS

FLORAL DESIGNS POPULAR Dressing for the bedroom and the business of getting dressed is as of great inportance as any other branch of fashion, and styles are changing from season to season just as in dresses and hats. There are numerous items the smart woman has to keep an eye on to be in the The new dressing gowns and wraps aro either severely tailored or very* much flounced and lace-trimmed in alluring feminine styles. Some of the tailored types are very masculine, trimmed with revers and cuffs in dark colours and are made in heavy p.ain, striped or plaid suits. Most of the less mannish tailored types come in florals this year, because florals in underwear are the new note. The fabric used is flat terepe, and patterns are vivd in 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 luxuious are tailored satin gowns, W’liich are invariably trimined with quilting or stitching. Pale pink is the most favoured solour of lingerie and gowns in this shade look most attractive with huge shaped pockets and cuffs stitched all over. Floral voile is a feature of the new lingerie. Wraps are unlined and boldly patterned. Underclothes are of smaller design, usually cut on the *cross of the fabric. Knickers, too, are cut on the cross, and are designed to avoid a front seam and many of the new types now fasten at the back. It is a matter of getting dressed rather than undressed for bed when

night wear is carefully designed as it now. Pyjamas have all the tailleur of a suit, and nightdresses are cut to fit the figure with the elaboration of an evening gown. Collars, yokes, sleeves, riffles of lace, and sashes all play a large part in design; but the height of sophistication is obtained with slit skirts and matching jackets that would pass for evening wear. Eoral sheers, crepo-de-chine, and voiles in large scattered patterns make into entrancing frill trimmed styles. What could be more lovely than a nightdress of watergreen sheer pat terned with large single flowers in a vivid green with amethyst centres. It should be cut on the cross of the material and flaring slightly at the trailing hem and could have a sailor •collar at the back. The collar should be edged with frills of the fabric and the same frills could trim an accompanying jacket. At present nightdresses are more in demand than pyjamas, but pyjamas lend themselves to tailored lines, and there are some lovely mannish-looking suits in lolly-stick striped ,seesucker, and plain heavy silks to be obtained. Pyjama legs are not so wide as they were, and those of mannish types arc cut quite simple. Even slippers have come in for a new vogue. The newest are floral mules

and are frequently made to mafch the fabric of a gown. Not content with the patterned fabric of the slipper, designers have decreed that additional posies should be clipped on to each slipper and this covers about half of the toe.