The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-05-16
ESSENTIAL THINGS
In NEGLIGEPS
Whatever Else They Are, They Are
Comfortable and Becoming

That II should become her is the
first essential in negligee is the opin
ion of a prominent designer OF this
type of garment; too often there IS
no contrast because there are only
what should be the case, but what
actually is; for. although women
think first of fashion when it comes
to street attire and formal evening
attire, their first consideration when
selecting negligee and the more in
innate sort of evening things Is
whether it makes them appear to
best advantage. For this reason
There is always a wider variety OF
styles in this line of apparel.
The statement sometimes is made
Of course, that such and such a style
is all in negligee apparel, or that the
new style Of negligee wear is thus
and so. but there are really as mapr
styles as there are types of women.
The other day one of the big shops
advertised a new line Of negligees
that were built along lines that yrg-
gested the straight but ample lines
Of Greek or Roman goddess These.
said the advertising man were the
new negligees, leaving us to infer
that If we went ON wearing any other
sort we would be quite out OF it.
Now. of course. there arc many
women to whom these rather severe
lines are not especially becoming
There are some women who are al
ways most attractive in something
that is lacey and friliy. If such
woman is wise she goes on wearing
eht lacey. frilly thing, even though
the shops may be showing the most
brilliant sort of Oriental negligees
rich with metallis and highly colored
embroidery but quite guiltla5s OF
the purely Occidental effect Of frilli-
ress. Just as reticent is this type o.
woman to wear the severe Roman or
Greek negligees. But the woman
who looked immensely interesting in
classical drapery but dowdy in frills,
of course would not wait until this
sort Of thing came into fashion be-
fore wearing it,
The whole idea is that it doesn't
matter at all If one does look con
spicuous in ones home or rather thai
whether one looks conspicuous Or not
is matter Of contrast, and IN the
home there is no contrast because
there are only the members of ones
own family. Not to appear conspicu-
Gus in the street, one has to wear
clothes that are part of the picture
When skirts are narrow one does not
like to wear very wide ones in spite
of a general preference for them. sim
ply because in so doing one looks
conspicuous.
The French woman of fashion quite
often has her negligees made at
home. She makes them, in fact. with
the aid of her little sewing woman
who comes by the day. And the reas.
on she likes to do this is because
she can thus make the sort of things
that no one knows so well as herself
how to make. They are the things
that experience has taught her are
the most becoming When she dresses
for the occasions when she Is to APP
pear with number of other women
she thinks of the fashion, and for
such clothes she goes to as good a
dressmaker as she can afford, be-
cause she realizes that no one save
n professional dressmaker can repro
duce the fashion of the moment but
when 1t comes to making the thing
hat will be most becoming che knows
that she herself has the advantage
over the most celebrated dressmak-
ers in the world.