Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31

| Besides the shortness Of slips and
| combinations to consider there IL the
fullness. That. of course, Is a refiec-
tion from the fashions in frocks. The
lingerie designers have had an inter
| esting problem to work out. Seem
ingly we wanted to have combinations
and step-ins and slips that flared and
gathered. not because we wanted any
extra bulk beneath our frocks. but be-
cause the flaring line had come to look
smart. However, our frocks, flare
though they do, still must needs be
worn over a slender foundation. So
the lingerie makers have had to work
| carefully, adding the semblance of a
| flare and the effect of fullness with
| out really making the garment any
| bulkier
Petticoats have come back into
fashion. Maybe you have already
| added a few to your stock of lingerie.
And yet, as you may remember, the
fashion for petticoats was as dead as
Tut-ankh-Amen a year or so ago. Only
year ago one woman remarked to
another that she had actually come
across a petticoat in her bureau
| drawer
Il believe / am the only woman left
| in the city that owns such a thing"
she observed. Il think l ought to
send it to a museum
At that time a petticoat seemed to
be about as unfa shionable a garment
as one could imagine, costume slips
| had so very generally taken their
| place among women who strove to be
fashionable.
Now there are dance petticoats. and
| these, l believe. are made for what is
| usually known as a "reNricted' or
"high-clasS" lot of customers The
81 of hi
| not yet rediscovered the fashionable
possibilities of this garment that starts
at the waistline and for the nonce
| terminates its ripping career at the
knees
These brief little petticoats are CON
| s1dered especially desira BILE for eve
ming wear Young women especially
like to wear them for dancing and
| they are sometimes made of two
| fiower-like tones of chiffon edged with
| lace and insertion. At the top the
fullness is held In by an elastic band.
II recommends itself to the girl who
doesn't wear a corset, but let's her
quota of underapparel consist of a
vest and pair of step-ins or French
drawers with this brief little petticoat,
| or a combination-plus the petticoat
| III she wore corset she would obvious
| ~ wish TO have slip to protect and
| hide any part of the corset that came
above the top of A possible petticoat
! With fuller skirted dancing frocks
| there really does seem to be need
for something in the way of a petit
coat.
| But most women, of course. still wear
| slips and nrobabl will continue to do
so for a good long time. And the only
reason that one does not predict that
| they Will never go out of fashion is
on the strength of that old saying that
| assures us that all good things come
to an end
The 1926 version of the slip is quite
short. Ladies' OF the Victorian era
would have considered it much too
short and too low-necked even for a
chemise. But what there is of it is
| quite charming.
A slip of cloth of gold or cloth of
| silver is regarded as almost an es-
| sential in the smart woman's ward
| robe. 1t gives an attractive undertone
| to the thin froCks that are being shown
| for evening. A fiesh-colored slip or
| two ought to be included in the ward
| robe. too. for there is nothing that is
| so appropriate now to wear with q
| froCk of gray. The smart grays of
| the season all have a tinge of pink
| about them and for this reason they
should be posed over a slip of pinkish
| cast. Then. too, slips are heavily lace
| trimmed, sometimes Win lace OF silver
| or gold. And sometimes there is so
much lace of one sort or another that
one has trouble In finding georgette or
! chiffon or ninon or wolfe between lace
| and insertion.
Printed chiffons and georgettes are
being used lavishly in Paris for MAX
! ing slips TO go under the thin frockS
for resort and spring wear. And these
may be trimmed with bit of picot
| edge or with lace. Ecru lace is almost
always used in preference to that of
pure white. Sometimes printed chiffon
| slips have black lace trimming-a de-
vice that no one needs to be told comes
| from Paris. Often there are sets in
| printed chiffon. consisting of slip and
combination, or slip, Step-in and vest.
quite a strict line is to be drawn he
! tween slips for sports and morning
wear and those for evening or after
noon wear. The sensible woman does
| not let her fondness for the athletic