THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 16, 1989.
SHOP-WINDOW GAZING
LATEST LINGERIE MODES FOR THE LARGER FIGURE
Attractive Designs On Slimming Lines Two-Purpose Mules
(By JANE GORDON)
Less than a month ago, on a pip-
ing hot day in Hollywood, I WAB
looking at models produced by
various famous Hollywood dress de-
signers. From there I went to
Paris to Bee the collections for
this coming season.
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that
I could not help thinking
glamour must come easily to the
Hollywood film stars, whose clothes
are designed specially to flatter their figures. They are fortunate
compared to the ordinary woman,
who has to adapt her figure to the
new fashions.
Then, in one of Bond-street's
most attractive lingerie depart-
ments. I asked to see some pretty
nightgowns and camiknickers for
older women. I half expected the girl behind the counter to produce nun's veiling and flannel, instead of which one of those special slid-
⚫ing
the
shelves was placed on
counter containing satin, chiffon and crepe de Chine models.
The first nightgown held up for
my approval was the one sketched.
It is in white chiffon, cut with a
straight skirt part. It is banded
with blue satin on the bodice and again at the hem. Another chiffon
nightgown also cut "on the
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HER LIFE A MISERY THROUGH BACKACHE
Pain So Bad She Could Scarcely Walk
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Both the white chiffon nightgown, banded with blue satin on bodice and at hem, and the brassiere-top cami-knickers are cut on fines for the larger woman. Black satin mules interlaced with silver can be worn for informal evenings at home. The mules, with a strap round the back of the heel and gold stitched motif, are shown with a matching bag.
used
straight," has a rouleau edge and finished with a bow motif. The same shaped satin waist section, V-shap-lace and bow insertion is
hap-lace Three years of horrible suffering and ed shirring at the shoulders, and on the front of the skirt just above then at last glorious relief! This woman feels it her duty to tell other again at the front of the bodice. the hem-line. sufferers how she got back her health. Here in her letter she tells her story:
"I feel it my duty to tell you how, after nearly three years of suffering
A white satin model bound with
In this same department they
with neuritis and terrible backache, blue and with a blue lace motif on have `cami-knickers specially have, after taking two bottles of Kruschen Salts, practically cured my- the front of the bodies, is shown desigsed for the outsize figure. The self. I have been in hospital, had ra-
diant heat, etc., but nothing touched it with self-coloured lace. A char-model sketched is an excellent ex- until I read about Kruschen Salts, and
the benefits derived from them. I can ming nightgown in satin or chiffon ample. It is in peach-coloured satin walk at least three miles a day now,
and before I could scarcely crawl about has lace insertions. threaded with appliqued with the dull side to allow the house. Kruschen is really wonder- ful."--(Mrs.) AN.
baby-blue ribbon forming a wide plenty of room under the arm, and The kidneys are the filters of the human machine. If they become slug armhole line, the ribbon being tied the slim-fitting design remains per- gish, impurities accumulate and find
their way into the blood-stream. The in two little, bows on top of the fectly smooth and unwrinkled even six Balts in Kraschen will coax your
kidneys back to healthy, normal action shoulders, White chiffon is used under a frock of thin material. so that they will rid your blood-stream
of every particle of poisonous waste for another pretty model, with two- A model in chiffon, cut on much matter. As an immediate result you
will experience joyous relief from those narrow bands of blue Irish crochet the same lines, has a narrow
old dragging pains,
lace inserted on the bodice and applique round the brassiere, top
_For_evening_wear_.or_“best” there.
is a most luxurious satin model with
a lace brassiere and a very deep hem of the same lace, which is a ample. It is in peach-colouredsatin
shade deeper than the satin.
SETS FOR THE DEBUTANTE
So that I should not run away with the idea that this department caters only for older women, they insisted on showing me some cami-
knickers for debutantes. One is
in pale crepe ruffled all round the
edges with baby blue lace and an-
other cami-knicker made to match
one of the nightgowns, in pink with
blue crocheted Irish lace. There are wispy models in palest pastel chif- fons bordered with hand-worked
ruching.
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The black satin mules in-
terlaced with silver sketched
dressy enough to wear with a house- coat for an informal evening at
home. Mules with the toes formed
of rose-pink velvet bands piped with
silver. Twisted blue and silver
strappings are used for another pair of mules.
Nothing can be prettier than the new satin mule sketched, with a strap round the back of the heel,
and two wide bands knotted over a gold-stitched motif at the centre-
front of the foot,
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