WASHING GOWNS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 141, 17 February 1915, Page 2

WASHING GOWNS.

A recommendation with the washing gown patterns is that they are easy to make up. Styles just now are very amiably disposed towards the homoworkers. Bodices are all easy going, and skirts are not difficult. Tunics are readily adjusted, and sometimes cover at least a few faults. In the silk type of material simple chiffon taffetas, figured and plain crepe de chine, crepe pong, silk grenadine, and pretty delaines and voiles commend themselves. The washing materials are bewitching, especially cotton voiles. The doublepointed tunic allows yon to have a coat effect. Its points at aides, being rounded from centre front. You may select, voile —white for all but the second tunic. and that will be striped. Thus the patera breaks the other one away from the lower skirt. The blouse wil have a fichu collar of fine white lawn edged with luce, and the stripe, by the way, will be employed for a trim girdle with frontal bow and also for cuff. A suitable hat is of black edged with tulle and trimmed with pale powder, blue ribbon and pink roses, the stripe used in dress to the extent mentioned being corise and white. The pointed double tunic, but this time with arched fronts, is enhanced with bodice extensions pointing above bust for brace treatment. You may take a pale lemon delaine patterned in roses of a deeper shade for all but under blouse, which will be plain. The brace effect is late, and on the whole nice. The straps come over shoulder, wider there than where they buckle on to the extensions just mentioned. A hat that complexions is in.sc an straw with yellow ribbon, finished with a wide band of rich brown velvetacros crown. The rajah tunic has a taking name. It is simply a Russian, full and long with cross-blouse, fairly well embroidered. A scalloped edge io commendable,, straight hern repeating, and likewise the embroidery. Here is how another describes rajah:— 4 ‘There is nothing at all out of the ordinary in the plain skirt, the straight tunic or the floppy bodice with its deep armhole. The sleeve is of long bishop shape, lawn at the wrists into narrow 7 bands, finished with shaped hemstitched cuffs of fine white muslin, the same ak:o fashicning a becoming falling coiav. The sash is taffeta in any shape best suited to the individual wearer.”. A white tagel hat trimmed with flyaway whitt wings and white ribbon goes with the selection.