Evening journal., 1914-06-26

No, No, Percy, Mazie's not
In her negligee.
1t looks like dressing sacque
But the styles all say,
70 be really up to date,
Girls must dress that way.
Goodness knows they may wear soon
Nighties in the day.
NEW YORK, June 26.-Leaping |
lightly from blouse to basque, butter
fly Fashion has now settled on a type !
Of waist which hangs loosely from
shoulder to hip for all the world like
a regular dressing jacket One model
especially Of flesh color crepe de
chine hangs from a square cut neck
edged with a tiny ruching of pink
picot ribbon It's tucked in clusters
TO the normal waistline and then
flares out in untucked fullness to just
/ below the hips where It is finished
with another ribbon ruching. The
skirt is tucked I'm similar fashion to
/ below the knees where IL also flares
! out in a ruching- edged flounce TO the
ankles. The elbow sleeves are tucked
down halfway to fun out loosely over
the elbow with the inevitable ruch-
! ing.
Truly an ideal negligee for home
use these broiling days, the uninitiat-
| ed would eXclaim, but it's nay, nays
on the home stuff This little pink
and pretty confectiOn IL intended for
wear among the gaping multitude.
It's certainly going to be pretty
tough proposition these days to de-
eide whether she's undressed TO go
out or dressed to stay in.
Others of the models do concede
more to the conventions and assume
the indications of girdle or sash
loosely hung about the hips to save
them from a too exact resemblance to
combing jacket. The most approx
ed of these hangs from the shoulders
i'm a loose basque effect buttoned
down the front and girdled about the
hips with a wide crush sash of silk
guiltiess OF bow or ends. From this
hangs either a nOunce of lace or silk,
the straight skirt underneath falling
! to the ankles. Here. however, the
general effect is ludicrously like a
4 little girls fFOck worn over a grown
4 ups petticoat. Out of the frying pan
/. of the dressing sacque likeness into
I the fire of a child's dress similarity
seems to be the unacceptable stigma
of this newest mode but in spite OF
this It is being Haunted numerOusly
by the smartest dressers.
As for basques they are simply
= lasking in popular fancy for the
moment Already they are creeping
d closer and tighter 10 the figure and
corsetiers do say that q return of the
LOur-glass figure and a re-discovery
Z OF the sixteen inch waistline is al
most certainty.
1t was cinch TO let out waists. but
heavens You can't help shuddering
over the inevitable struggles there
will be to call 'em in again
XII There's a perfect craze for jet
( again as a dress trimming for street
and daytime wear. Particularly in
the form of fringe for the edging Of
4 basques. capes and parasOls. Basque
buttons are also very smart of jet,
( Both in the fringes and the banding
trimmings tubular effects have re-
n placed in novelty the old globular jet
4 beads and sequins What an appro-
n pirate carrying out of the aquatic
idea it is for a lady whose hair is
done in waterfall to appear in a
costume all jetty. The waterfall fad
OF hair-hxing is struggling TO the fore
!. and forehead along with all other
Victorian fashions. With soft curls
bObbing in front of each ear and
. caught up in a loose knot behind,
there is no denying this coiffure is
( vastly more becoming than the uni
4 yersal peeled effect of the nonce.
And germaine to the subject of
hairsute adornment is the fact that
no tortures of the inquisition we're
: any worse than those endured by
fragile flowers of femininity today
when they cheerfully submit their
heads for five and six hours 10 the
slow suffering of having 2 permanent
s wave baked in their hair.
Oi course it is done by electricity
+ and the wave is guaranteed for one
year In this Joyous season of ocean
4 lathing the damsel cursed with sleek
Y straight locks becomes = martyr 10
beauty. YOU can just bet she isn't I
4 going to let the ocean have anything
j on her in the nature of waves. She
Y HES herself to the hairdressers and
+ with Spartan fortitude has a wave
q put in her hair. a crimp in her bank
8 roll. and a kink in her nerves all at
4 the very same sitting.