Quality Not trans of lingerie seldom In singly nowadays. and women who can afford to spend lavishly on their underthings often arrange to have entire sou. including corsets or corselell. made to web. It is an extension of the ensemble idea ap- plied to underwear. Just how extensive you wish to make your lingerie set. however. de- pends much on whether you cling to oldotime ideas on the subject or whether you share the ideas of 'the very young. very modern young women who regard more than two pieces of under-clothes as entirely superfluous. Everyone knows that daughter doesn't wear so much under her frock as mother used to wean—there is nothing very novel or very shocking about that. But from the point of view of the folk whose business it is to make feminine underthings. the important thing to know is lust what two garments are worn. This tendency toward less and lighter unWeu can hardly be looked upon as a calamity by them. for in demanding lees quantitatively women are asking much more quali- tatively. A women in moderate cir- cumstances now pays an amount for a single chemise that would have been considered quite shocking a generation ago. But in those days a chemise was just one of some seven or eight other garments that went to make up the perfect foundation of a welbdreseed woman's costume. Pink Ie Favored Shades of pink seem to most women eminently suitable for under- things of all sorts. They may choose pink mingled with a suspicion of violet and call it orchid. or pink overcast with a little yellow and call it apricot or peach. It may be a very light creamy pink that is called flesh color. The range of light pinks that women wear beneath their frocks is really as universally re- garded as suitable for underthings as white was in Victorian days. We take it for granted that corsets and corselcts should be of pinkish or apricot cast. and the same applies to diaphragm belts, brassieres, and the numerous other trincs that women wear to straighten out the too- rounded lines of their bodies. It is the white corset that would look out of place now. The pink corset didn't seem quite respectable to the ladies of the last century. who prided themselves on the perfect whiteness of their underwear and even felt a little shocked at' first at the thought of blue or pink ribbons to run through the beading of their lingerie. Every season there is some one sort of pink shade that is especially liked for underwear. There is a charming soft shade of light rose that has been used by the lingerie makers of Paris. Melon is the name of rather deep apricot that is liked by many women—and that is more becoming to brunettes than to biondes. Turquoise and\Cherry Are Used from the several plnky shades. which include flesh, rose, peach and a shade celled sweet pea. there is demand for other light, soft “I!“ u "11- Nile am and tur- quoise blue are to be found with snails and coral. It is interesting that this turquoise blue. Which m rather more noon in its make—up than the old-time turquoise. and which was revived recently mm the. milliners. has now come into savor with the lingerie makers. Per- venche or psi-twinkle blue is another "shade of blue vihich is used either for whole sets or separate garments or for pipings on flosthOlored or flg- ured For the woman who wants a really vivid ioundsdon for her new frocks there is a new shade celled Juliet reda—a sort of rich cherrybthat IP- pears in the new lingerie. Dealers in lingerie notice nowadays that the demand for pure White lingerie is always highest in May and June— when brides are assembling their trouseeaux—and is least in demand in late summer days and dull winter months when weddings are less numerous. But there are many brides who depart from the all white tradition. Beneath their wedding frock as pure white as fresh snow, they wear georgette lingerie of tur- quoise blue or nile green or even of Juliet red. Quite the gayest and most pic~ turesque of lingerie is that made from printed georgette. showing rose and green and violet. blue, yellow and the whholo rainbow all assem- bled in one diminutive garment. Chemise and Slip Show \Vniotlino Though the existence of a waist- line may still be disputed so far as the dressmakors are concerned. and fashion designers may be unable to convince women that it is time to give up the straight, curvelees con- tour that we have cherished for so many seasons. there seems to be no doubt of the change of contour in the realm of underwear. The waistline chemise. though a newcomer. is by no means a stranger among us. And the waistline is a real waistline. Sometimes there is merely shaping at the seams and again a wide band of cntrc-deux is placed at the waistline with ribbon run through which tics usually at the front. Many of the new slips are shaped. There is a. slight in- l l . a. ' o a, . r l :2 fag-V43“ lo I. .v 9' 1 u I if F}, “7 :i N word goring at the waistline with considerable attention devoted to a smooth tlt of the garment across the bust and under the arms. Tlis type of slip of course has drawbacks to the woman who likes to buy all her things ready made and to pop into them without a stitch of alteration. But the new frocks, though not usually showing much of any feeling for a waistline themselves. do re- quire a. more carefully fitted founda- tion that did frocks a year or so ago. Among the newer underthings there are drawer combinations with a fairly well-defined waistline. Often the top part of these garments but- tons at the back. ‘ At left, peach-colored me do chine trimmed with lace fashions a slip that con/arms to the moulded contour favored by the new mode. Then there is a set consisting of white batiste .bloueo with corset cover to match, both trimmed with watching. “I ‘ 4s 'JIWMIIIIMA/lwa\ “it... Anecmingktofmmmistsofoacormslipmutcsrviowie the heck, trimmed with lace, and secured over the shoulders by detach- atle straps of we beads. The careers are of «once silk with cin- broidsryond cereals of beads to'eaotch. . Eventhingl’sOflaed Most assuredly we are in a traili- tlon stage so far as underwear is concerned and never were we fur- ther from unity in our choice of things to wear beneath our frocks. You may wear corsets. no corsets or- one of a dozen different corset aub- stitutes. you may wear gaunents that take the place of 'corset and everything else in one, you may wear bloomers. step-ins. drawers or combinations. You may wear a lght bandeau by way of bodice. or you may even one of the little garments recently i troduced by one o: the lingerie designers, that re- mind one very definitely of the pep- lumed corset-covers that ladies wore thirty years ago. You Must Yourself Make Choice And it is quite absurd to lay down In If 1 tags to be gained from "shopping around." there certainly is in this matter of lingerie at the present time. There are all sorts of new garments that you perhaps know nothing about. and you won't know anything about them until you visit‘ the shops and see what they have to otter you. New styles in hats and wraps and frocks and shoes you may see if you keep your eyes open. at your club. at parties, in hotels. in your own drawing-room—sven in church. But new styles in lingerie are to a great measure hidden underabusbel. n il......t",'l'..il ' '1“ net-l drawers and nightgowne. \ \ J WVVi/liil H M ,) it) % Hi * in" a ‘”‘ Block satin is combined with red and gold fringe again/m suit at “a. w)“ 1!”. new» red crepe do chins Mae tried with narrow ri was chosen a "W" !" “" a"; to make no tony-mm nightgown at on right. HAVE YOU NOTICID? That souls of the very young people are losing interest in dancing, or rather have never been so inter- ested in it as their older brothers and sisters? The fact is that there is rising up a younger generation among us who are not so dance mad as their predecessors. And now the amasing situation is thit the most devoted dancers are apt to be moth- ers ind fathers—grandmothers and grandfathers—who dance till they are ready to drop while their younger children or grandchildren regard them with amused toleration. SCARF sessao oven K‘Nsss As the summer season trips along on its way people are asking anx- iously: Are skirts going'to grow longer or—? They don't finish the sentence because it seems sweet in- decorous to suggest that skirts could grow shorter. Now you know skirts have become so short in Paris that neck scarfs are almost a necessity- not to keep about the neck, but to droop across the lap when you sit down in one of the new short-skirted frocks. The skirt. you see. goes right up over your knees and the scarf saves any blushes you might other- wlse expend. Pouch-cow oeorpotts laid in m pleats and m M ”I‘m peach-color stile. is rationed late e charming cement that agrees either . Wm or maltose new» on the men. In W circle. cum on M it or!“ O dot-w flours that shows every onto; a! the meow, is meant into a set m 1 denotes. Pure white chines was used tor the set at the left d “a.” circle, trimmed with com lace, and white ballets fled in the thus-piece M d “0 do“ of the circle is eniivrncd by bionic pica: edged not and bow- el eerie M 0“- BRIGHT FURS ARE USED FOR EVENING Don't imagine that brightly hued furs have been discarded by the French dressmskers. Not at all. A roeewolorctl velvet evening cloak is trimmed with rose-colored fur of the , same ehndc‘. At first this fad for dyed t‘ur was perhaps overdone. and some people even had apprehension lest bct'uro many years we should have nothing but red and green and blue and violet colored furs. But now that the first fad for it has passed we see it used only for eve. ning—usunlly bordering some lovely wrap or scarf. Besides rose there is a brilliant apple green and a purple. the color of Parma violets. that are used by the best dreasmaksre. f 4— Maintenance-assigns»; "one laid over the erase—uses this little set which is W with OM- neee embroidery and bound wit Chinese grass linen. ' ii ‘ n.4,. . c.- a.- nuuuui.au a “immense.“ am when -4~;m§:‘ -4“... ’em4e.«.~u-e....._.. e. '.
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