The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-24
Like New Frocks Negligees Grow Longer and Take
ToThemselves Flowing Sleeves = Orchid and
Lavender Tones Fancied for Boudor Wear
Lace Feature of Winter Negieees.

49, ASHIONS I'm frocks always re-
ekW peat themselves to greater or less
W extent In negligees, and modes In
~ negligee wear are forever chang
Notwithstanding to the woman who
likes to reserve one special expensive
negligee for special occasions, like
weekend visit or a possible spell of
invalidism. Before that expensive
garment begins to show signs of wear,
1t has gone completely out of style
and must be hacked around-so to
speak--as an ordinary every-morning
peignoir, not suitable at all for its
purpose; while something new and up
to-date is purchased for the best par
ticular negligee.
This year there has been a sudden
and disastrous change In negligees, as
in frocks, for the woman who usually
manages to bring her clothes up-to-
date by little minor changes. The
new negligees are much longer and
their sleeves are a great deal bigger;
two features that no contriving will
effect in last-year model with a
short skirt and cunning little sleeves.
Bathrobes Last Word In Luxury
Take the pictured bathrobe for in
stance. See how 1t clings and Grapes
itself on the figure-yet the effect
looks so simple of accomplishment
And what a difference between this
exquisitely graceful bathrobe and the
shapeless things one used to don after
the bath; straight-up-and-d down robes
of printed flannel, with no lines at all
and cord girdle pulling in the full
ness somehow. at any waistline one
happened to strike. in knotting the
cord. The pictured bathrobe is a
lovely shade of apricot-pink, and the
robe Is lined with soft thin. silk of
creamy tint. Cord bound slashes at
either side OF the wide robe make
loose arrnholes, and the neck opening
and fronts are also bound with the
white silk cord. Frogs of this cord.
adroitly placed, make the unusual
drapery of the garment; one cord frog
fastened to the, front and another to
some pleats taken up at the center
back.
The corduroy bathrobes are gor-
Beous affairs, some Of them elaborate
y embroidered and trimmed with
bands of fur. A most beautiful model
for mid-winter trousseau is OF white
corduroy with white fox fur at neck
and sleeve-edge. and bold motifs of
sleeves and pockets of the gown.
Pretty little breakfast coats OF cordu-
roy In cerise. coral. Chinese blue or
the Just-now very fashionable violet.
are In slipon style, the wide kinono
sleeves slashed underneath and
weighted with silk tassels. The sltpon
hangs straight from the shoulder and
a cord girdle draws It In at low
waistline.
Sleeve Important Part or A NegiIgee
Most OF the new negligees are en-
tirely simple in line-just straight slips
OF rich fabric--but enormous and cum
ningly designed sleeves lend a dis
tinctive touch to the simple garment.
Some actually trail on the floor when
the arms are lowered, the great guam
tity Of soft material falling into lovely
drapery when the arm is lifted. OF
course, very expensive materials must
make these negligees, for only soft.
beautiful stuffs will take the correct
lines. One OF the pictured negligees
has huge sleeves that are like nothing
else than old-fashioned bolster cases.
open at one end and attached to the
arm by bracelets. the inner edge of
the bolster case fastened to the side
of the frock all the way down. Yet
see what graceful lines these bolster
case sleeves take when the arm is
lifted and lowered! This IS an en-
chanting negligee OF daffodil tinted
radium silk and is a bit OF morning
sunshine all in Itself, The straight