The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-10
london FASHIONS.
The Latest Novelties in
Dress Combinations,
Striking and Ugly.
HATS, BONNETS AND HANDKERCHIEFS.
Plaids Coming In Again-Russian
Styles Favored in Paris
Short Waists Popular.

furbelowed in the most delightful and
most frivolous fashion Imaginable with
lace and ribbons. For ordinary day wear
with tailor-made serge dresses there are
smart petticoats of slot striped silk
trimmed with flowers to match. saw
all the novelties IN these garments a few
days & together with a most lovely
evening dress, with a new style of train
made very long and cut quite round at
the end. 1t was of the palest SLY blue.
silk, with a trimming Of lace applied III
a light. graceful design all round the
skirt aud punches OF lilac nand emhroid-
cred on the silk here and there. A bit of
peach colored silk showed through the
lace round the extreme edge of the skit.
1t is a difficult matter TO inc Il good sub
stitute for he black lace evening dress.
but l was informed that fancy grena-
dimes with line stripes or flower patterns
will probably be in demand presently.
Some very dainty and inexpensive thea
ire or party dresses for quite young
women are of silk crepe in charming col
ors, trimmed with Valenciennes lace and
bebe ribbons.
Corduroy velvet is to be largely worn
during the autumn. This material has O
handsome effect. especially in rich deep
tints. A beautiful toilet of it is in ton
gray, made with perfectly plain skirt and
a coat bodice three quarter length, lined
with shot gray and blue silk and trimmed
with beaver, the fur appearing on the
tribe collar cape aud hemming the
fronts of the Goa. The little shoulder
capes ar. fulled out fussily and give
great width to The figure at the should
ers, and also it must be acknowledged an
air of style and fashion that is quite in
ntu n0ttsnn1 IL III In ra1uaf1or, aHo x..r,d ,,4
variety is rather thick. The needle finds
SOME difficulty in carrying the cotton
through it, and the worker wearies OF
The effort. The new fashions are being
brought forward i'll a tentative kind or
way, but it is still too early TO say def
nitely what will or what will not find
permanent favor.
sHoRT WAISTS TN
don't suppose for Il moment that the
new trimmed skirts that ave been put
GU the market will take" but short
waists are a dead certainty. The appall-
Ing natious of colurS that are being
brought out in French gowns will be
condemned instantly by all women of
TASTE 1 saw some fearful aud wonderful
gowns ut a West End establishments.
When the first of a series was shown 10
me / said Take it away, it makes me
ill.," And I couldn't help making q SINH
lar remark when a second and a third
were brought out. Never before had l
seen such fearful gowns. They were
quite the most lawful examples" of
color blending that l have seen for some
time. Que was a combination of purple
cloth and emerald green velvet. another
dark brown with tomato colored shot
velvet sleeves. and a third was in green
aud beliotrope-a sickly mixture.
Another gown that was ugly enough, but
not quite SO ugly as those just men
. A.zD r,,1 ~. n 1-y ,IrI- "a l-.l- lt..-
with waist belt of olive green velvet.
We are evidently not done with Russian
names for our fashions yet. The French
are still in love with their northern allies.
and continue to pay them the immense
compliment of calling their newest fash
ions after them. We Are TO nave the
Russian pelisse as a winter garment,
even as we have had the Russian blouse
and the Cossack cloak heretofore. The
pelisse is simply a long, plain polonaise
made in coarse ribbed serge or tweed and
bordered down the front with gimp. The
sleeves are Of the kind known as Bisn-
ops sleeves, finished with gimp at the
cuffs. The garment is tight fitting, and
is cut all i'll one with IL pelt of gimp at
the waist. An opposition garment is a
Prussian paletot, n it is smarter in
style. IL is of Prussian blue cloth, and is
cut rather like a Guards officers undress
frock coat. and braided in military style.
1t also fits closely, and being lined with
military scarlet silk it is light. It is,
however, essentially an outdoor garment,
While house dresses ma be made in the
style OF the Russian pelisse.
DAINTY MoUCHOIRS.
Some of the small niceJies of women's
wardrobes are the things upon which
most thought is expended and most affec-
ton lavished. Pocket handkerchlers
form one instance OF this. A woman-will
have designs drawn for her monogram or
Christian name and nave them copied in
exquisite embroidery for her pet dozen,
III not quite such costly fashion for her
second dozen or Two, aud will perhaps
have only y CIPHER done for the handker-
chiefs she uses ordinarily. The difficulty
is to have Il design like no one else'S
since one cannot expect to have a monop-
oily of a name, and it is now thought
smarter to hays the Christian name in
full than initials or a monogram.
A lady lost six handkerchiefs bearing
the word Cynthia" in Que corner en-
closed In a bower OF cyclanens. A
seventh was missing, and inquiries led
her TO suppose that tnev had found their
way 10 another Cynthia. with whom she
wa acquainted. Like fBrer RABBIT"
she lay low aud soon discovered one of
her treasured possessions with this woni-
an, whom she smilingly accused of hav-
ing annexed her hannkercniefs. After a
pretty little bit OF fencing it was cou-
coded that the handkerchief WAS hers,
and she had it back with many apologies,
but though shs never saw the other six she
heard of them from mutual friends as
being in the possession of the same
woman who had calmly announced that
she was ceria:u that she had only had
that one sent to her by the ~laundress in
mistake for some OF her own, very SINH
lar IN appearances. The woman who had
KEPT the haidkerchiels sent TO her by
mistake would not ave abstracted them
personally for anything, but her behavior
in the matter exhibited another of those
well known lille problems which sng-
gesL distinction without difference.
HAT N BoNNETs.
IdotPt know that there is anything
parIicu arly new to say about bonuets.
The most striking thing / lave managed
TO light upon during my rounds this
week is the josephine bonnet, which is
of brown velvet, with a light trimming
OF pink ostrich feathers round the edge
of the brim. pink ribbon strings aud a
cluster OF brown feathers at one side.
The IT ttiest hats nave come across
were in green aud brown and yellow aud
brown. A very flashing French hat was
in black and DC al leaf shot velvet, with
a trimming of initiation peacock's plum
age round the curiously curved about