The more fastidious a woman is the more carefully she studies her type and dresses according to it. Whether she has the dignity of a queen or is a fairylike, naive little person, she will always delight in the selection of new lingerie, and be most concerned in the quality of the materials and character of the workmanship. Then of-course design is to be considered, and becomingness. These considerations not only have become of vital interest to the woman of discerning taste, but how she revels in designing, in planning these exquisite bits of sheer love-lines, where her imagination and love of the beautiful can be given free rein.
Because laundering soon wears out the most practical lingerie, replenishing supplies is necessary almost as often as new designs are introduced. This fact gives the woman who is always searching for the novel in everything a sensible excuse for visiting the shops in the springtime and selecting what is newest and most appealing. However, the more staid and conservative person having determined her type in lin-gene' as well as gowns prefers to conform to certain materials and trimmings and cares for few innovation in style.
TEMPERAMENTAL STUDIES, After all is said, what one wears is reflected in mood and temperament, and most of all what one wears underneath. It must be appropriately in harmony with the costume, just as the costume must be suitable to the occasion.
The negligee, most adored of feminine apparel, and most frivolous, has ita place in the hearts of all women, and even the so-called feminist finds in it a subtle means of enhancing her charm and in her boudoir in her more intimate moments alone, it can transform her into quite a fascinating feminine sort of person.
Spring has brought the most enchanting and exquisitely lovely negligees we have known for many a day. Some are unusually original too, for instance Paisley prints are being combined with plain coloured crepes de chine for boudoir robes, the vogue for an unusual sleeve making this effect particularly nice. The black negligee still parsi and is reflected in the long waisted, bloused robes that fasten with a single flower of crave, ard shew linings of bright colour. In the more unusual negligees the Spanish shaw] is not forgotten, in colours or black, embroidered and fringed and draped into wrap form. Two shades of chiffon, hemstitched together suc-peeed in a naively simple but unfor gettable garment for one's intiniate
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