The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-06
WOMEN IN BUSINESS.
They are Strongly Advised
70 Wear Ready Made
Tailor Suits.
EFFECTS OF THE CHANGE.
1t Will Increase the Marriage
Gate-Adam vs.. Eve As
Sewer.

The question OF an appropriate
costume for business women has be
come an important one, and as such
is being considered by the "Nationai
Council of Women" The effort
hitherto has been not so much to de-
wise a costume as to influence public
opinion in favor of it. This object
seems to be already accomplished, for
the list of names indorsing the move
ment includes most OF the important
professional and business woinen of
tile country-women who make PUB
lie opinion.
The business costume, to meet the
largest demand, should be a ready
made one, corresponding exactly in
quality and excellence of cut and fin
ish to the ready-made suits which
most business men wear.
Within the lines demanded by dura-
bility and necessary resistance of
color and material to sun, wind and
rain, it is possible to choose materials
which should satisfy all tastes and
meet all pecuniary conditions. The
range of color, also, from the warmer
buffss and cool, silver grays OF sum
mer through the whole list of dark
greens, c~larets, browns, blues and
mixed tints, down to the lowest bass
tote Of Observation-Disclosures enough
choice to suit all shades of hair, color
of eyes or tints of skin.
The questions that remain are those
of style and production.
When any change in the worlds
conditions demands new accessories,
as the business suit of women is de-
mautied by the absorption of women
into the business world, it is interest
ing 10 note that the final form of the
accessory is predetermined and fore
Swallowed in fragmentavy fashion from
many different directions.
THE TAILoR-MADR GIRL.
Certain features of tile business cos
tune have undoubtedly been fore
shown by the tailor-lnade girl of the
last few seasons.
The scant skirt ;naugurated by this
flower OF fashion needs but small mr.
tailment TO become a light and cou-
venient part of the coming o S
tune The popular ~suspender
waists need only to take che
place of the corset: the vest and jacket
to be loosely and symmetrically cut
TO form the important exterior OF a
liealihful, convenient and durable
form of dress. while the fashion of
riding trousers, made OF the ain ma
teriaI as the skirt, and ieggings TO
match, completes a costume combin-
ing what is needed FOR all weather *
posure, and the inccnspicuousness
dear to all educated and sensible
women.
or course, it would be possible at
tic cost of considerable personal di-
rectiou and supervision TO have such
suit made in ones Own house, or TO
bave it constructed by ones own
c-fesstnaker; or, If the soul cleaves 10
fhp near seams and strawberry leaf
finish. the flat bindings, the straight
wigeiu-supported shoulders of the
genuine tailor gown, it could ven be
procured from Il fashionable tailor at
a cost not far from $i25.
But the business omar is not war
ranted in such expenditure, and her
inevitable recourse must be the ready
made suit.
But although all sorts of silk and
satin and serge and chiffon ready
made gowns can be found in shops,
and a perfect medley of coats and
wraps, trimmed and untrinmed,
frieze and diagonal, the complete,
well cut, we'll sewed. well pressed and
well finished ready-inade suit for
oin does not exist.
Wherefore it seems that for this last
and most imperative need OF women
We must fall back on the tailor.
NO WOMAN CAN MAKE THEM.
Privately, | ain of the opinion that
in no walk or speciality or accomplish
lment OF the human race is man so
pre-eninently superior to woman as
in the making of cluthes. There is q
masculine integrity in a tailor's seam,
an answering fidelity to principles
of construction in his cut, a fine at
ton to detail in his finish, that no
mere woman can hope to rival. And
when the business or professional
wolna can wear genuine taiIor-made
clothes-then Is the millennium come
to her and her kind.
Eve invented sewing. according to
Biblical record, but when she sub