The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-09
Dainty Lingerie Made In Many
 Designs
By FLORENCE CLARK


 EACH year lingerie shows more and
 more individuality. Consequently,
 women are buying fewer frocks and expressing their love of beautiful things by collecting quantities of lovely un- derwear. Cheaper than a frock (some- times, at any rate), a set of pretty un- derthings or a single fluffy bit of it gives all the joy of shopping and of having something new and different to wear.
 Then, too, it is much more sane to sit and stitch length of delicate fab ric that will eventually be useful, than, like our grandmothers, employ leisure moments making cross-stitch notices to be framed and hung over the fireplace. Lingerie styles are simple in this day of simple dresses. And that too en- cOurages the ambition to make lingerie at home.
 There are as many different styles sf undertakings as there are girls to wear them, so no one need be un- happy over her choice. Thirty-two styles of night gowns, for instance, in one shop. One might possibly be unable to choose because of bewilder- ment, but certainly not for lack of va riety. Not only night gowns, but com binati consisting of shirt and step ins leap all the way from man-tailored cotton affairs to those delightful hand fuls of nothing that might have been sewn by fairy spirits.
 Plain, But Not Too Plain
 In between the two is the sort of thing that most girls find the happy medium in everyday underwear. Dain- ty voiles, crepe de chine, glove silk and batiste, each with a redeeming touch of individuality and distinction. The picture shown on today's page illus trates the charm of the not too frilly nor too plain combination. Peach-col- ored washable satin is pleated on to band of Irish lace, which forms the only trimming. The soft sheen of the satin and the graceful hang of the pleats are left in their own simple way to create a charming effect.
 Pink glove silk underwear banded with folds in pastel colors is late novelty. Powder blue, banana, laven- der and soft green arranged in mar row bands that lap one over the other make these underthings look like bits of the rainbow fallen to earth.
 Strips of filet lace pointed at the ends are inserted in palest pink and mauve step-ins and chemises, and the edges extravagantly bordered with mar row filet. Perhaps it is not as extrava- gant as one might think, for real filet lace seems to defy destruction and the thrifty girl transfers it to other gar ments when the one it originally beau tified has been consigned to the rag bag.
 The Range Of COlOrs
 Point de Venise, rose point, and Oth CT laces are dyed to match the tone of the fabric which they decorate. Shrimp pink, rose, honeydew and cosmos, sort of pinkish mauve, are a few of the shades that have become popular with the merging of dyed lace and fab ric in undergarments. It is not a new idea in the realm of frocks, where the possibilities have been made much of, and with underwear it is altogether as charming and dainty.
 Creamy and white lace always pre- sented a problem when you wanted to refresh the color of underwear thus trimmed. The lace in a stubborn way took the dye too and one jumped be- tween the two fires of getting it into the material and in the same breath washing it out of the white lace, usu- ally with little success in either op- eration. Now, you may bravely dip the whole thing and know that to have dyed lace is to be most fashionable and correct.
 Slips are variously interpreted in washable and radium satins. Seal loped hem-lines are often seen on these practical costume slips. recently saw