The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-28
down BY THE BLUE SEA
Natty Costumes Which
Dainty Women Will
Wear While Bat
Ting With the
Waves.
THE RUSSIAN BLOUSE IN FAVOR.
Materials, Decorations and COlors-
Pleasure and Pain of Too
Much Growing Glory"

And now the pretty summer girl is pre-
pairing to hid herself away to mountains
or seashore. She thinks deeply on the
question of dress, because she wouldn't
be the pretty summer girl If she did not.
The gill who is going to the seashorc,
who is fond of a real wet dip and not
afraid, wants a netty becoming bathing
suit; modest but not cumbersome. For
girls of the latter half of the Nineteenth
Century. as a rule, Allah be praised, are
getting over the habit of standing one
foot out from the beach, holding firmly
on to the rope and getting their ankles
wet once every ten minutes, %perchance
three dips in half an hour. / have known
such aud given them pity. when their
little shrieks and screams rent the air.
Sucn girls do not Sirsed bathing suits;
they should bttae az home. But The
fearless girl. who knows enough OF The
real dang. rs OF the sea, nof TO tecoll from
rapcied ones, who goes III for o healtny
bath and swim, wants u sui TO last all
summer with constant use. IL she makes
it herself she remembers that the sea is
sometimes very rough and that he
strongest materials aud thorough work
are needed.
RHYME WITHOUT REASON.
There has been 50 mucr Iun poked at
our 81 Is in bathing that IL
Sc ans almost time to suggest to the
would be funny man that he seek otaer
fields. AS a rule they are generally very
modestly dressed, unless the oil ugly
English dress with full gathered trousers
to the ankles. and long sleeves TO the
wrists are to be the standard. 1t certainly
must have required a great deal Of
Christian fortitude for a woman to robe
he sell thus, putting the objection or eX-
treme clumsineSs aside.
The girl OF to-day goes into the surf for
exercise, which Is mother reason that she
wears u sensible suit. And now what is
a sensible suit, and of what's IL madeP
MATERIALS AND MAKE UP.
The fabrics that will bear frequent
water baths are not many. Serge Is the
best, as 1t sheds water, and is non shrink
able. TwilleI flannel, when preferred,
should be bought at a reliable house
where 1t has been guaranteed as skunk
en-. Jersey cloth has been gaining favor
lately, bur it always hts a tendency to
rip. AS to %colors, blue always comes
fist, butths French favor black. Other
colors that do not ruu are scarlet, white
and cardinal, to noue of which l would
give the preference. except Tor children,
as they are very conspicuous. Gray,
when becoming. is very pretty, but fades
easily.
Now for the make. This years pat
terms, as for several years past, show the
drawers attached TO the waist, which 10
very tull from the shoulders. many pretty
styles of ornamentation being effected to
suit the individual taste. The drawers.
which reach below the knee are either
gathered in by an elastic hant,
or STRAIGHT with n decorative
bard. Owes this union garment IL worn
IL very full skilt belted in 'front.'. Some
will also wear suspenders from the outer
skirt. Sleeves, either puts or shor
tlimu.e ed with a tand.. reach half wa
between the elbow and shoulder. The
Ru :siaa blouse whi,h some persons, who
do not admire IL, declare to be tit for
nothing but q bathing suit. is, acc riding
to their ida, finulpg It's sphere, aud the
many varieties affected in these dressy
waists will, TO some extent. be carried out
in this seatoa' bathing suits.
Decorations must be fiat and consist
chiefly Of contrasting braids. A pretty
idea 10 to use wide bands of wool braid OF
a contrasting hue. feather stitched with
colored wool yarns. But be careful not to
feather stitch hens uuti they have been
securely sewed down f~irsfyAs the writer
remembers the weight of a suit iuto
whose seams the sane found quarters aud
the We ,rt + consequent lncon veuience.
AS for bathing shoes the writer aaS al
Ways found them uncomiotfa able. They
never fit. Nor is the time to begin to
save stockings, as they prove quite an ex-
pense. Keep Ill your old black pairs, aud
darn than neatly. You will need them
if you intend To battle ofleI.g
woMAN's GROWING GLORY.
The average woman has Only two
chances to show her hair to the world iu
~unconined b auty. One is in amateur
theatrictls, the other is before taking a
div Ins1A no m an Hhuf
walk from the house to tue surf, ant If
the hair is very ireIty, a wait to chat
with friends. about the weather, in cident-
ally, but principally Co SHOW the locks,
VIII compensate for the forlorn aptelr-
ancs Que presents with wet, cliug-
vanity is bought at the price of
much discomfort in the end, and one pre-
ents such Il striking contrast 1t is n uch
better to braid the locks and fasten them
carefully under an oil cap, with u few
,oqueitlsh locks left uncunaned One
bathes with greater comfort. even II the
hair gets wet in sDite If the care. For /
have never known n ON VINO really
bathes In the surf who succeeded In keep
lug her hair dry, though she iried oil
caps, rubber haudkerchiefs and eagerly
accepted all suggestions on the subject.
But l have known many VIII, have
threatened 10 cut off thz IL halr
after b thing, and were only kept from
doing SO by the disapprovHl of such
actions fathers, husbands or brothers.
For Of Mi times when Il woman needs
patience, it is after a'hing. When her
haIr. in spite of washing iG with borax
and CASTLE soap. and trying all other
| connections in vain. clings To-
cether like the strips OF old fashione /
molasse' candy. Here is an excellent
chavez for an inrentiye genius. A wa n
Which would rest IRE the hair to is
natural fluffy S u would sell mora
rapidly than one which would make 1t
,rnuu ~, hal6 hanIa ~