The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-20
NEW IDEAS IN BELTS.
They Are a Great Comfort
and Meet With Cen
eral Favor.
HANDSOME AND NEAT.
Luxurious Silk UnderWear-Hints
for Fashions Devoteess

Belts IRE little things. but they play a
very important part in the toilette of the
summer girl. She has many waists TO
perhaps. fewer skirts, and combinations
are a happy idsa. But, alas! how few
manage TO belt in their skirts and waists
neatly. Last week, on Fourteenth street,
l noticed ut least every other woman who
were a belt sho wed part of the skirt band.
It's an awkward feeling one hes on finding
it out, and one almost wishes that the
kind Informant had remembered that
where ignorance is bliss, it's folly to be
wise" But one almost invariably does
find it our. This year, at last. there is "a
law to prevent It," Some genius has or
dered che pointed Cirdles or slightly
for this untidv h bit. II one has not time
enough to make the 10th or velvet girdle,
II leather one will go very nicely with hin
waists. Another easy way is get lug aiout
one and Il quarter yards OF Sonse light
silk. surah is preferIel, and tying it
loosely around the waist, finishing 1t in n
knot with steamers at the left side. This
latter way has IA tendency 10 make the
waist look naturally large, hence 1t may
perhaps not gain great popularity.
RIVALS TO SLEEVES.
The gi.dles were Il necessity. Now
they are made SO beautiful and attractive,
that sleeves ara somewhat put into the
backGround. Girdles are made all ayes
snti shapes and are not made succe 'sfuIly
without great ca Q and patience, A
II end told me last week that she had put
wv nty whalebones in hers TO make 1t set
well, but she had ever Il silk waists to go
with the same SKIRT and girdle, so it was
labor well spent.
While GU the subject # fastenings, it
may not be amiss to advise women to see
rhat safety hoeks join the Sits in their
gowns. instead of the old plain hook ard
eye. The latter ara almost always bount
10 open and give a very careless appeag-
ance to what might otherwise be Il careful
toilet.
LUXURIOUS UNDERWEAR.
Many woWea of refined tastes who in
times past louged for the delightful lux
ury of silken underwear can now revel In
it, for i'll all The stores are TO be fonud
good strong surahs aud washing silks,
white and tinted, ut astonishingly low
prices, and these silken garments are SO
easily cleaned aud freshened that the
price that WAS ask ed for freshening the
old STYLE rafting starched skirts, bedecked
with aouuces, frills and insertion, isSaved
over and over again by the adoption of the
silk garments IN their place. The modistes
he'll these skirts with great satisfaction, for
there are few toilets tina do not look and
hang better over silk skirts. and the pres
enJ sheath style OF gown re lily demands
them. OF course there ia, aud always will
be, q sense of neItness and freshness
about fine linen ana muslin underwear.
and in their place for certain uses they
haye no rival. In morning dress, for eX-
ample. many women sill prefer them
ualntiy Numbered, however, and done
uD" in the new method, with only the
very thiuest of water starch, which only
gives them a slight body and no stiffness
whatever. Still for general uses silk is
supreme. %