fashion and Strings feminine.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVI, Issue 4469, 8 September 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

fashion and Strings feminine.

By IDA MELLER. , . (Copyright.

a loose-fitting house-wrapper to slip oh in the afternoon or evening when occasion allows—a' wrapper dignified by the title of tea-gown, when of silk or satin, or cloth, even, if touched with lace or made on more "elaborate lines than , the usual bedroom wrapper. To the invalid a teagown or some such wrapper is a necessity. The kimono Still offers itself as a foundation on which are built many delightful designs for house-robes of various sorts, and flourishes in all the new materials that apply suitably to home wear, the simplicity of the kimono rendering it. a special favourite with the woman who clothes herself by her own handiwork.

Crepe materials arc particularly sought after in the interest of teagowns, and soft washing silks in pale blue and pale pink suggest also great possibilities for a similar purpose, while, coming to -woollens, nothing is better suited to house-robes of the tea-gown order than fire cashmere do sole, which hangs, beautifully, and gives most excellent wear. Some of the new tea-gowns indicate high waists by moans of satin ribbons, others flow plain and straight from nock to foot without suggesting a positive waist-line.

The tea-gown illustrated is a delightful model expressed in pale pink washing silk, but might, of course, bo copied in cashmere de soie—pale blue or pink, for choice. It essentially simple, the long, straight lines and pretty shape of the gown being particularly becoming, 'file bodice is covered by a big collar, trimmed with lace, beneath " I’ich is a ribbon-band that indicates a short waist-line, and the sleeves nro also lace-trimmed. Five yards of doublewidth material will be required for the tea-goun.