Lingerie Novelties

Southland Times, Issue 20081, 19 January 1927, Page 11

Lingerie Novelties

London. All .the new French model nightdresses that autumn brides are having copied are short. There are no trailing, tripping tails to them—none of the ghostly Lady Macbeth lengthy folds. Instead, the newest are not unlike the attenuated silk frocks one wears in summer.

.They are made of crepe-de-chene or gorgette, and have jabot side fronts and an occasional panel on their skirts, and though there are many lace insertions, there is considerably more embroidery, which launders so well. Pale pinks, pale faded mauves, and white are the favourite colours at the moment, and their costliness is in inverse ratio to their length. But all of them are quite short, and allow for that easy spring from one’s bed that leads to the morning “twelve” of the habitual exerciser, who finds in these movements that lissomeness which is needed for the graceful wearing of lovely clothes. The feeling for blue is also noticeable in the lovely new dressing gowns, which, like nighties, are much shorter than they were. They are being made with long wrap-over fronts, like coats. Charming dressing gowns in embroidered Watteau blue taffeta, made with big frilly collars and frilly cuffs, the embroidery being in little floral pink and green posies, are the favourite “wrapper.” For cold weather they are interlined. Others are in ordinary floral blue taffetas and are less costly. The new velvet broches are also being used, with fur trimmings, for wrappers, and the bedroom furs are marabout, dyed hare, and white “bunny.” A chartreuse green velvet broche is lined in marabout of the same shade, and a rosered has a quilted georgette lining, and trimming and facings down the fronts and forming the collar.