The negligee or négligée, from the French: négligé, literally meaning "neglected", is a form of women's clothing consisting of a sheer usually long dressing gown.^[1] It is a form of nightgown intended for wear at night and in the bedroom. It was first introduced in France in the 18th-century, where it mimicked the heavy head-to-toe style of women's day dresses of the time.

By the 1920s it began to mimic women's satin single-layer evening gowns of the period. The term "negligee" was used of a Royal Doulton run of ceramic figurines in 1927, showing women wearing what appears to be a one-piece knee-length silk or rayon slip, trimmed with lace. Although the evening-dresses style of nightwear made moves towards the modern negligee style – translucent bodices, lace trimming, bows, exemplified in 1941 by a photo of Rita Hayworth in Life – it was only after World War II that nightwear changed from being primarily utilitarian to being primarily sensual or even erotic; the negligee emerged strongly as a form of lingerie.

Modern negligees are often much looser and made of sheer and semi-translucent fabrics and trimmed with lace or other fine material, and bows. Multiple layers of fabric are often used. The modern negligee thus perhaps owes more to women's fine bedjackets or bed-capes, and up-market slips than to the nightgown. It spread to a mass market, benefitting from the introduction of cheap synthetic fabrics such as nylon and its finer successors. From the 1940s to the 1970s, the trend was for negligees to become shorter in length (e.g. the babydoll of the 1970s). Negligees made from the 1940s to the 1970s are now collectible vintage items.‎

In the UK in 2004, negligees accounted for only four percent of women's nightwear sales, women's pyjamas having dominated since the mid 1980s. However, UK negligee sales are said to have been the fastest increasing sector of the market since 1998.^[2]

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Yoko Matsugane
Born	(1982-05-26) May 26, 1982 (age 30)[1] Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Ethnicity	Japanese
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	46 kg (100 lb)[2]
Website
http://ameblo.jp/yokomatsugane

Yoko Matsugane (松金 洋子, Matsugane Yōko^?, born May 26, 1982) is a Japanese gravure idol from Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. She is famous for her voluptuous figure. She has released several DVDs and photobooks and has appeared on several TV shows in Japan. As of January 2006, Yoko left her modeling agency, but is still active in producing DVDs and photo sets.

At the times of the release of her latest DVD she usually attends promotional events where her fans get to meet their idol and take a picture with her. These events are most often held in department stores in the Akihabara district of Tokyo.

She is also a traveling DJ and has performed in various clubs in Japan, Australia and Singapore.

DVDs released[link]

• Dulcet (2002)
• Spiritual (2002)
• Enrapture (2002)
• Violation (2002)
• Melon: Idol One (2003)
• Suika: Idol One (2003)
• Gekkan Yoko Matsugane (2003)
• Lolita Paradox (2004)
• Fruit box: Idol One (2004)
• Sweet Y (2004)
• Sweet Pie (2004)
• Nagomi (2004)
• Tsuki no Kodo: Idol one (2004)
• Taiyō no Yakudo: Idol one (2004)
• Yoko Matsugane Perfect Collection (2005)
• Tentai DVD Box (2005)
• Yoko Matsugane Perfect Collection Vol.2 (2005)
• Idol one: 5 DVD-Box (2005)
• Shutaisei Densetsu I (2006)
• Shutaisei Densetsu II (2006)
• Body Scandal: Idol One (2006)
• Chichishigure (2007)
• Ultimate (2007)
• Chichi Gurui (2007)
• Chichi Mamire (2007)
• Hojo (2007)
• Kindan (2007)
• Nakugeki Kyonyu Keiho Hatsurei (2008)
• Chichi Yure Zanmai (2008)
• Bakusho - Paishicho 24zi (2008)
• Tate Yure! Yoko Yure! Magnitude 95 (2009)
• Soul Bomb: Idol One (2009)
• Killer Body: Idol One (2009)
• Ryojo Aiyoku (2009)
• JAM (2010)
• BODY&SOUL BOX (2010)

References[link]

External links[link]

• (Japanese) Yoko Matsugane's Personal Blog
• Yoko Matsugane info, pics and tube movies
• A Fansite about Yoko Matsugane

Bibliography[link]

• "松金 洋子 - Matsugane Youko" (in Japanese). 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary). http://i-dic.dorachan.com/data?mtgyuk00. Retrieved 2009-05-15. 
• (Japanese) Yoko Matsugane Web
• (Japanese) Yoko Matsugane Maniacs
• "「乳の日」イベントに松金洋子がピンクの水着で登場 (Yoko Matsugane swimming suit event)" (in Japanese). Daily Sports Online. June 17, 2003. Archived from the original on 2008-03-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20080311120201/http://www.daily.co.jp/gravure/20030617data.shtml. Retrieved 2008-05-24. 

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Katie Webster
Birth name	Kathryn Jewel Thorne
Born	(1936-01-11)January 11, 1936 Houston, Texas, United States
Died	September 5, 1999(1999-09-05) (aged 63) League City, Texas, United States
Genres	Boogie-woogie, soul, swamp blues[1]
Occupations	Musician, pianist, vocalist, composer, singer, songwriter
Instruments	Piano, vocals, percussion

Katie Webster (January 11, 1936 – September 5, 1999), born Kathryn Jewel Thorne,^[1] was an American boogie-woogie pianist.

Career[link]

Webster was initially best known as a session musician behind Louisiana musicians on the Excello and Goldband record labels, such as Lightnin' Slim and Lonesome Sundown.^[2] She also played piano with Otis Redding in the 1960s, but after his death went into semi-retirement.

In the 1980s she was repeatedly booked for European tours and recorded albums for the German record label, Ornament Records. She cut You Know That's Right with the band Hot Links, and the album that established her in the United States; The Swamp Boogie Queen with guest spots by Bonnie Raitt and Robert Cray.^[2] She performed at both the San Francisco Blues Festival and Long Beach Blues Festival.

Webster suffered a stroke in 1993 while touring Greece and returned to performing the following year.^[3] She died from heart failure in League City, Texas, in September 1999.^[4]

See also[link]

• List of swamp blues musicians
• List of Louisiana blues musicians
• New Orleans rhythm and blues
• Music of Louisiana
• Swamp blues
• List of New Orleans blues musicians
• Louisiana blues

References[link]

External links[link]

• Katie Webster at Allmusic
• Short biography on www.alligator.com

Ian Abrams is an American television writer and producer, and, with Pat Page and Vik Rubenfeld, co-creator of the CBS TV series Early Edition, although he did not write any produced episodes of the series except the pilot and was only on the writing staff of the show during its first year. Other credits include Undercover Blues^[1] and Rolling Thunder (1996).

Since 1998, Abrams, who attended Duke University, has been Director of the Screenwriting and Playwriting in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel University. He teaches courses in screenwriting, film comedy, and contemporary cinema, as well as courses in the Honors College on World War II comedy and nuclear-war film and fiction.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Ian Abrams at the Internet Movie Database

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