EXTRAVAGANT LINGERIE.

Shannon News, 7 August 1923, Page 4

EXTRAVAGANT LINGERIE.

i'B6,oo(' NEGLIGE. Negligee is becoming the fashionable attire for receptions, says the Paris correspondent of the “'-Weekly Dispatch.” Guests, who wear pyjamas are quite in the mode. A famous comedy actress is said to have worn a negligee costume worth £86,000. The “ frock ” consists of pyjamas made of pure silk embroidered, with pearls, diamonds edging the coat. Her initials are worked itt sapphires and rubies on the pocket of the jacket, which alone is valued at £20,000. The jewels can be removed so that the costume may be sent to the laundry. The actress sleeps in the suit, but when receiving friends she wears a beautiful Valenciennes lace cloak, with a train six feet long, heavily worked in gold, silver and pearls. This is worth £IO,OOO. Greek kid slippers that go with the toilette. are studded with and coht £20,000. An Amei'ican cinema actress is another who habitually receives her guests dressed in pyjamas. Lingerie is all tho rage -A husband in the south of France is applying for a divorce because his wife spends everything on underwear. Her visible attire when she walks abroad consists of mere rags by comparison. A famous French dressmaker declares that the ayerage Frenchwomen exhausts her allowance on lingerie.