Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1926, Page 87

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. U, TJANUARY 31, 1926—PART 5. Short Combinations and Petticoats Return in the New Lingerie BY MARY MARSHALL. HILE wear pieces women today only half of underwear did the good days of long ago. they take twice as much interest in the pieces they do wear and, it would seem, pay may as as in old FOR THE COLOR-LOVER HERE AND GREEN BALLOONS. MADE OF COLORED CHIFFON STUFFED WITH COTTON. TRIMMED WITH CREAM LACE AND EMBROIDERY. . AND EDGED WITH PINK MARABOU, WITH A CUSHION TO MATCH. YVIVID ORAN Hl COVERED WITH LA( many | Tour or five times as much for them. really there is nothing for the makers of lingerie to worry about. One used to speak about this pres. ent.day paucity of feminine under- wear in a whisper. It was o shock- |ing. And it was hard to tell which |phase of a flapper's life was most in | teresting to consider—the petting par- 1S A COMBINATI "Things INSTALLMENT 1| Several days passed quietly and Bub, from the r axperience ship around asking trom which the two « The third day after their Dan and Bub made a tip uf ton down to the hold of the They found it scrupulously clean Despite this, Dan recognized that the timbers were slowly roiting wl that it would not be u long time before the craft would sink Passing through the hold. with Johh for & guide, Dan noticed several cliests Iald neatly in o row. and inquired what they contained “Look for yourself side, the chesi wus “Why," sped Bul 1 got a fortune “There are ! 1 “but 1t for tathers’ t 1. but « no use trada it for so much wat “We nehbe von're r 5 Dan he same thinz when we Wi (I 1 the high sea £ . tn some share, you'll be we “We expect to re hore save that of tha Great Beyond,” said John Dan called to Bud “uddy,” he sald, “I've been think- ing about the fix these folks be in. I wonder If we can't help 'em.” “But what is there we can do?” sked. 'l tell vou. 1 18 moving all the time. of like the middle of a litile whirl- pool. Ali this seaweed has been broken off from the shore somewhere, and these berries, being filled with nothing but air, keep it afloat. So it keeps on growing, and the current, 11l moving in one direction and around In a efrele. brings it out here.” I2ub nodded, und Dan went on with explanation “Well, pretty siderable big m who were slowly of their shipwreck The inh of the were n arrival ins vessel. said John vith In i tohn =ht to it with We'd B This here Sargossa S It's sort bi s0on we get a con- ss o' this stuff, and around the ed the current is moy- ine around and around. So the whole ounch of it {s moving all the time. “Remember how close we are to the edge of it right now Well, in a month more, the ship might be in the middle of it again. So now’s the time to zet out, if we're going to do it at all. Now this looks like a good sea. aorthy vessel. and I'm a-thinking that 1! we ever get her out of this stuff, she'll sail to the good old United tes. Want to try?" ure I do I Bub. T don't want to spend the rest of my life out sere.” One of the first troubles on board the ship which had come to the at- tentlon of the two was the scarcity of fresh water. One of the mainsails bad beea arranged as a big cup over said | ties mhe attended, the cocktails she drank or the lingerie she wore—or rather didn't wear. The older, more sedate chaperons sat and talked about ft—but they find little thrill in doing it now, because the chances are that the chaperons themselves have left off certain articles of under apparel themselves that they used to consider as essential to respectability. What happened, of course, was that when girls left off corsets when they went to a dance—nothing seemed to come of it; and the girls who wore 3 ounces of lingerie heneath their pretty party frocks turned out to be as sane and decent and of the sort you'd like for a daughter as those who wore 6 ounces of such-like georgette and chif fon. Besides, chaperons found that their own clothes looked better and thut they felt better if they didn't wear bulky underthings, and that the necessity for wearing corsets really Wwas more a matter of pounds of flesh than ef respectability. So at least the atmosphere is clear- ed—and we can frankly announce the fact that all manner of combinations and step-ins are becoming shorter and shorter and will be as short as may be for Spring and Summer, without feeling that we have been a beaver of disgraceful news. There really have been some interesting, though not very drastic, developments in the field of lingerie within the past few’weeks and the garments that are shown in the shops now for Southern and Spring wear make one wich that one might spend one's entire dress allow- $ 'zl‘;'l [l § ! ance on theas few hits of chiffon, ninon or crepe that make up the bulk of a modern woman’s underwear. Lingerie, it would seem, always lags Just a few feet behind frocks and wraps _in following fashions. We wear flaring frocks when our alips are built on the plllowslip principle. Our outside frocks show a slight in- ward molding at the waistline when our vests or combinations or night- gowns are atill constructed as If we were proportioned like unto a string bean. And our skirts grow shorter and our slips must needs be shortened. We have to become quite sure that skirts are going to remain short for a season before we ask for very short Mngerie. We use our longer slips and turn up the hem if they seem too long for our curtailed frocks. We hardly dare cut off the extra material in the slips for fear we might need to make them long again. It is only when the short skirt has lingered so long that no one regards it as very | thrilling or naughty any more that lingerie definitely becomes shorter. now are short, so short that n't look like slips and combina- tions, and step-ins likewise are very short. Of all our garments apparently nightgowns alone remain long. There seems to be something rather grace- less about the knee-length nightgown and our as are still made with rousers down to the ankles. It's Ather luc that the mode for short skirts ha& not forced us into the fashion of wearing pajamas short like knee hreeches. OF WHITE CHIFFON RENDERED QUITE GAY BY MEANS OF A BORDER OF RED AT THE RIGHT IS A GOWN OF TRIPLE VOIL OVER THE COUCH IS THROWN A SPRE. OF A D OF PINK SILK Besides the shortness of slips and combinationa to consider there is the fullness. That, of course, is a reflec- 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-ina 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 mmy remember, the fashion for petticoats was as dead as Tut-ankh-Amen & vear or =0 ago. Only A year ago one woman remarked to another that she had actually come across a petticoat in her bureau | drawer. “1 believe T am the only woman left in the city that owns such a thing,” she observed. “I think 1 ought to send it to a museum." At that time a petticoat seemed to be about as unfashionable 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. T believe, are made for what is usually known as a ‘remricted” or “h lot customers. The rest of an-kind apparently have not vet rediscovered the fashionahle possibilities of this garment that starts At the waistline and for the nonce terminates its rippling career at the knees These brief little petticoats are con sidered especially desirable for eve ning wear. Young women especially like to wear them for dancing and they are sometimes made of two flower-iike tones of chiffon edged with lace and insertion. At the top the fullness is held in by an elastic band. It recommends itself to the girl who doesn't wear a corset, but lets her quota of underapparel consist of a vest and pair of stepins or French drawers with this brief little petticont, or a combination—plus the petticont If xhe wore a corset she would obvious Iy wish to have a_ slip to protect hide any part of the corset above the top of a possihle With fuller skirted dancing there veally does seem (o be 4 for something in the way of a pett- | coat But most women, of course, still wear slips and nrobably will continue to d #o for a good long time. And the o reason that one does not predict t they will never go out of fashion is on the strength of that old saving that assures us that all good things come to an end The 1926 ver cla ol on of the slip is ||vmn! short. Ladies of the Victorian -ra‘ wonld e considered it much too shor 00 low-necked even for a chemi what there Is of it is | auite « A slip of cl silver is | h of gold or cloth of regarded as he smart ives an attractive undertone n frocks that are being shown | for evening. A flesh-colored slip or | two ought to be included in the ward- | robe. , for there is nothing th. | 50 appropri W to wear with a | frock of gray. The smart grays of | season all have a tinge of pink them and for this reason they ssed over a slip of pinkish | 100, slips are heavily lace | ometimes with lace of silver | And sometimes there is =o ! much lace of one sort or another that | one has trouble in finding georgette or | | chiffon or ninon or voile between lace | |and insertion | Printed chiffons and georgettes are | | being used lavishly in Paris for mak | ing slips to go under the thin frocks for resort and spring wear. And these may be trimmed with a of picot | edge or with lace. Kcru lace is almost |always used in preferepce to that of pure white. Sometimes printed chiffon | ps huve black lace trimming —a de e that no une needs to be told comes from Paris. Often there chiffon, consistin nation, or slip lin alnost an es- woman's ward is| | [ stepin and vest Quite a strict for those is to be drawn be d morning ning or after woman does the athletic The sensil or taflored type of lingerie carry her so far as to induce her to wear these severs garments beneath an elaborate evening frock, nor should her pes chant for lacy, chiffony underthings persuade her to wear them beneath & simple, tallored silk morning frock. More and more women are coming to consider their lingerie with due re- gard to the sort of clothes worn over it. and dressing is such a simple mat- ter nowadays that it is no hardship to have a complete change whenever one’s frock s changed. 1t renlly is important to wear just the right sort of slip or combination if your sport frock is so arranged as to ‘depend on the undergarment for a vestee. Of course, You may wear & separate vestee which can be sewed or pinned into the frock, but the smart woman prefers to let her under- garment do the work. If you wear a slip then the front of the slip should be appropriate for this. If you wear simply a combination or step-n and IF YOU PREFER ALL WHITE, HERE 1S A SLIP OF WHITE CREPE DE CHINE, TRIMMED WITH BOW-KNOTS OF WHITE LACE, AND A COMBINATION OF ‘WHITE TRIPLE VOILE WITH GRADUATED PETALS EDGED WITH PICOT. THE LOWER ROW OF PETALS HANGS FREE. vest or brassiere then ths combination top, or the vest or brassiers should serve thia purpose. Eome of the finest taflored combinations and slips are made with fine hemstitching for their sole ornament and this gives just the right touch when shown beneath the taflored sport frock. The fact that very generally lingeria designed for late Winter and early Spring wear is of soft pale tints and that much of it is of white ought not to be surprising, nor does it really in- dicate that women have tired of bright shades. What it does Indicate is that women have set their hearts on wear- ing little silk frocks or jumper cos- tumes made of light-welght silks, and other thin materials. Though they are not actually transparent, the color of the slip or other underwear shows through. The amount of green that would show through a pink silk frock would be quite inconsiderable if that green was of the new varlety that is shown in some of the new lingerie—a green- ish yellow so pale as to be hardly green at all. But If it were of the bright green that has been used In under- | wear In seasons past the effect would be not so pleasant. So, t0o, you may like lingerie of a deep watermelon tone, It may sult your temperament, but vou'll have to admit that it 18 apt to give an unpleasant aspect when worn beneath & thin sllk sport frock of pale yellow. (Copyright. 1926.) . Jelly and Rice Cones. Pick over and wash onehalf a cupful of rice. Place it In a double boller, add one pint of milk and a pinch of salt, and cook until the milk {s absorbed. Pack in small cone- shaped molds and set aside to cool. Turn out carefully, scoop a little from the top of each, and fill in the hollow with a spoonful of jelly or preserve. Serve with soft custard. Which Are The City of the Deep. he afterdeck, and every time it ined some of the rain water was ight. This was carefully treasured in barrels, and each morning the | 1ay's ration of water was meted out to each person on the ship. 4 got all sorts of materials here” Bub said to Dan, “and 1 think it would he an easy job to fix up <ome vt of condenser. You're a <hi eman, and you ought to be able ane up. Dan fell in with the idea. “The thing 1 found he said t they use for fuel on buard this "he e they dry ot while it sn't al burn very s it makes the fuel they he two, that afte xploratic ey ve el wivs ' started un the ship, 16 ‘see on hand-—first, to il second, to find the ship from the il travel under irest port he in fair canvas of condition colonists had the event that time find need for of the hold they planking, barrels materials. They too, some thin sheet iron, which Dan said could used in nakinz the condenser “We can't sail until we have a sure supply of fresh water,” Dan said, “so the condenser is the first thing, eh, matey?” Dan had an idea in his head for freeing the ship from the seaweed, and he proposed to Bub that they call a meeting of the lead- inz men on the vessel, and put the plan up to them. Bub fell in with the idea at once, The meeting wes called that after- noon in the main cabin, a large room. The man John, who seemed to be the leader of the colony, by virtue of the fact that his grandfather had been captain of the ship, called the meet- ing o order, and told them that Dan wanted to talk to them. Dan arose, but before he could speak a swarthy, heavy-set man who was known as Alonzo arose. “This man.” he said, “has been picked up, due to our goodness, out of a_tomb at sea. Now he comes and would become our leader—we who have remained here for a century. They tell me he has plans for taking our ship away from where fate has placed it. Are we to allow this? No! No!” The man's tsemhly into a turmoi fup. “Brother Alonzo.” he said. “we are in courtesy hound to listen to | what he would say. You say fate has brought ng here—do we know hat fate has sent him. also, that we might be freed? Brother Dan,” he sowed to the sailor, “you may tell of your plan.” (To Be Continued riter ntity ind other words threw the as. John leaped fi Sunday.) but | of Int erest to Younger CALENDAR FOR FEBRUARY 1926 F 3COTS *FIS86- MARY *GUEEN EXECVUTED- *ABRAHAM LINCOLN- BORN-FEB*12:18C9+ GEORGE WASHINGTON * PORN-FEB-22+(73+ ST VALENTINES 38 DAy FEB- 4+ COLUMBUS SAILS FOR SPAIN-FEB> |493- LA CHATRLESTI *ENGLAND DIED -FERRUARY6+/86 5 SALLE SEEKING MOUTH OF MISSISSIFFI+ FEB+&* |68 Readers Mastodons of Early America. BY RAMON COFFMAN. 2 museum ¥ of Wiscon- as a boy. 1 gazéd with awe at the hones of a giant ani mal. Once upon a time the the skeleton roamed ahout Valley It wa 1 bout the size of s 1y was formed but the hide w nd the teeth were of owner of the Mis- mastodon n elept like { phant’ s coa hair shape. Herds of mastodons lived in thousands of yvears i tected of the glacial sh » mammoths icw. Both of the : but you can ke m apart in vou rembering that mastodons i which we only slightly curved mmoths, on the strongly curved One ¢ the most interesting todon d wveries that ever heasts tisks other han , N. Y. season. and a ive the soil dug Suddenly kers from a spade nck somet ths of Wi thought k. but -it n animal’ spot on had The were nd ,\4‘-\ M Americ New r seum ¢ “rtain mas- iment @ mas- up mber of and in front of Tisn't hers Take Them Bill—Why do vo out in the sunlizh Pill—I'm trying tan. Swimming. leave your shoes to make them And So Young, Too! Mother tuna Mother broke one of ieze had Jimmy is so unfor- ck meet he ds the col | “Where's the wife?" “Gone to West Indles.” “Jamaica?" “No, it's her own liea."