South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-12-24

n EGLIGEES used 20 be very
~ popular as Christmas gifts.
MOther used TO give father a
5 y blanket bathrobe-often made by
her own hands. Sister Susie received
among her Christmas packages an in
triguing box with scented tissue pa
per EMBEDDING the latest thing in XII
monos. She was sure TO like it-be-
cause Il was the latest thing. But
now modlshness Is not so important
in a negligee as a quality known as
individual expression. Ones peisnoir
must bespeak ones individuality.
Ones teagown must hint-very subtly
hOwever-at ones mood.
SO each woman likes to pick out her
own negligees. Unless another person
has-Oh an extremely sympathetic ma
ture. how can that person know ones
temperamental complexities well
enough 90 match them with expires
sive garments? And as for members
OF ones family; well, II Is easily i'm
aginablo what might result II they
started in, matching ones moods With
raiment. For instance a sulky look
ing smoke gray bathgown for father
20 start up the furnace In. And q
billous-green affair for brother Ton
when he has been at a banquet and
comes down TO breakfast cross. And
a drabby looking kimono with limT
lines for ones selt-when one know:
tho particular mood so crudely ex-
pressed should have a negligee OF
plaintive mauves. oh no. II would
never do!
Christmas-money Goes For Negiigee,
SO nowadays everybody wants Il
buy her own negligees: or in other
words 20 express her own individual.
lty (as she herself imagines it, in her
intimate at-home wearables. Score:
OF women VIII be shopping for Christ.
mas money negligees this week; and
so we devote a special page 20 them
today-at what might be called the
psychological moment. in every de.
partment where intimate at-honne gar.
meuts are shown moods are rampant;
every mood from Joy 10 melancholy
from optimism 10 plalntlve wistful-
ness.
You would not feel. for instance
like donning the gorgeous peacock
and sold affair pictured. II you had
just received a letter from him that
all was over and he was sailing for
South Africa. The soft. clinging. subj
ly COiOred robe on the lady IN the
chalse Tongue would much better
agree with your mood. Only II you
were light hearted and gay could you
fro,lc about your boudoir in the color
ful hroCade trouser-negligee shown in
another picture. Sometimes you fee
Ike rosy satin and lace; sometimes
like smoke gray and violet chiffon
II YOU have ever devoted any thought
70 .he matter OF moods and neElisees
YOU know how much there is in IT,
Black TcagoWns Are Fashionable
Black seems to express more moods
than anything else. Queerly enough
black suits US when we are gay and
when we are sad. when we are pensive
and when we feel IKE sparkling. There
are shadowy negliEees Of black chif-
fon. one layer yelling another; and
there are gorgeous negligees OF SHIN
merlng black satin. lace and jet. some
times touched with CLEANS OF silver
or gold. The Oriental negligees sUg-
gest the ardent nature and hot tenn
per Of inhabitants Of FAR Eastern coun-
.rles Lovely pearl-grays and rose
plnks suit the sweet demure type OF
woman. Rosy checked beauties look
well IN pale blue and mais negligces
Diana types. cold and se.f-cOntaineo
are best set on by filmy white dra-
peries touched with silver All these
negligees are TO be found in the shops
and II YOU go 20 one OF the exclusive
, shops the canny saleswoman Will read
your personality az a glance and brins