The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-25
ALL IN Spring ATTIRE.
Latest Fashions in Easter
Dresses Observed on
Fifth Avenue.
DIRECTOIRE ALL THE RAGE.
Notes About Stylish Dresses and
Headgear Exhibited After Church
Sunday.

The Editor of the JERSEY CITY
NEWS presents has compliments to the
ladies Of Jersey city, and respectfully
dnUGtes their cooperation IN making
this column a feature Of general inter
est and utility. Information and s1g-
gestions are earnestly solicited, and
assurance as gioen that all comGnataai-
cations a0SW 7eceioe Immediate and
careful attention, and aoiU be regarded
as strictly confidential If the aoafters so
desire.
After church on Easter Sunday, on
Fifth avenue, has become the regular
time for an exhibition of styles. 1t is
as important in America in this re-
spect as the annual parade on the
Champ de Mars is to Parisians. Even
when it comes, as it did this year, very
late in the season, no woman can be
easily tempted to don her new spring
garments in advance of the occasion;
they do not want to take the new off,
as they say. All the dressmakers, big
and little, sally forth, with the inten-
ton of selling upon new ideas OF cut
ting, trimming, or combinations of
color. And, as to milliners, every one
in town is out, and they generally sue
ceed in capturing enough that is novel
to carry them over to the fall cam
paign.
yesterday for an hour and a half, after
the churches were out, the sidewalks
were so crowded that it was almost i'm
possible to move. AS a rule the colors
worn were much lighter and gayer
than usual; very little black "a seen,
the women looking as if they were
ready for some garden party instead
| of the street. This is a step in the
right direction, as the whole effect of
the city in this respect has been too
sombre heretofore. The prevailing
style of make was the Dir~ectoire;
in fact, there were so many
frocks with the coats and lapels
that it became tiresome, and
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deon. Green and gray were the favor
tie colors worn, sometimes combined;
other grays were made up OF coffee OF
tan. Immense punches of artificial
flowers were on every hat. Steel and
fringe were both much used used al
trimming. Quite a number of black
La Tosca net laces were seen, and a
few of the colored. 1t seems as If
there should be two waists to a frock
when one is to be worn with natural
flowers as they are so bad about stain
ing the clothes. Lilies were the ia
vorite flowers yesterday.
A young woman had on a frock of
pearl gray mohair with the under
skirt ACCORDION pleated. The Di-
~rectoire over coal fell from the waist
almost to the bottom of the skirt in
four deep points, instead of the usual
square panels. The lower part of the
front waist was crossed with pleated
gray silk, the point above being ar
ranged with the very latest fashiona-
BILE fad, which consists of covering the
foundation with slightly fulled null,
and gathering in on the right side
from bottom of small V to the throat,
a piece of embroidered null as wide
or somewhat wider than the v; this is
allowed to fall as it will, in the same
fashion as the men wore lace ruffieS on
their shirts q century ago. The ruffie
was embroidered with gray. The
gloves were precisely the same color
as the frock, and SO was the parasol,
which was of gray silk, with an ver
cover of ACCORDION pleated gray net
ting. The low patent leather shoes
were worn with uppers made of the
frock goods. The straw hat with
! briln was an excellent match to the
mohair, and had a lining of gray net
shiredr; the large bunch Of ribbon
loops on the left side at the back were
a combination of the gray tulle and
rose ribbon: a large bunch of wild
roses, with trailing stems and buds,
surrounded the crown.
Another stylish looking young girl
had on one of the pattern frocks in
thin all wool material. 1t was of the
new French slate blue, with a deep
border of delicate pink and yellow
roses. The skirt was made without
drapery, the front falling in side pleat-
ing, the material being carried up
around with the bordering to the
waist on the left side. The back was
worn with an Empire belt of the same,
carelessly pleated. A piece of the ma
terial in five tucks, a finger deep, was
set in below the standing collar. and
the fullness was side pleated in be-
tween the sleeves and belt, in the left
under arm sleeve. A black open
work straw hat, faced with lace and
tiny ribbon, worn with this suit, was
trimmed with black ribbon bows and
a wreath of pink roses around the
front.
A very pretty maiden wore a blue
mohair made with a Directoire coat
over a pleated skirt. The lapels were
faced with blue velvet, and the but
tons, as large as butter plates. We're
covered with the same. The brown
straw hat was faced with velvet and
trimmed with brown ribbons and
white apple blossoms. A mahogany
colored India silk covered with irreg-
ular white figures had the skirt, which
was without over drapery, made of
alternate pleatings and shirrings. The
left side was trimmed with a full
breadth of white dotted point d'esprit.
This was arranged before being laid
on the skirt by running strips of the
same lace, an inch and a half wide, at
distances of four inches apart, down
in points to the middle of the width of
lace. Ribbons to match the frock We're
run in these, with a bow fastened on