The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-27
THE BINGHAM GOWN.
Now Is the Time to Buy
This Summer
Article.
HOW MADE AND HOW TRIMMED.
The New Fur Collars The Train
Banished Even From Most
Evening Gowns.

Along this months page of the thrifty
woman's almanac stretches, as the weather
predictions did in the oid-fashioned yellow
kind, the words Observation-Disclosures
g~inghams." For there are two reasons for
this course. In the first place, you can have
your choice of the summer stock, its very
most novel of novelties. before the rest OF
the world has chosen all the p~rettiest do
signs. All the shops have just put the sum
mer ginghams on sale. And in the second
place. if economy be any object, you can
buy for just about half price. That is, you
can buy what is left of last summers finer
grades, which are just as pretty as you can
get in this years stock, and which the-shop-
keepers are selling off to prepare for fresh
goods. This is only another way of stating
the weli-known fact that it sometimes pays
to buy things out of season.
Speaking of novelties, there is one undis-
puted novelty in the gingham line this year
which deserves all the popularity 1t bids far
to have. 1t is a washable silk Bingham, a
mixture of silk and linen, with a surface.that
glistens like pure silk. The silk threads make
little diamond shaped dots, scattered th1ckiy
over the surface, giving It a beautlful eHect.
1t comes in such pretty shades, too, not the
crude red-pinks that gingham-makers AFFECT,
for reasons best known to themselves, but IN
the most aesthetic tints of cream and yellow
and mauve and blue, dark and light. A
very pretty white one has a narrow SATIN
stripe, bordered with the faintest tracery OF
green silk threads. Another has hair-line
stripes of yellow and white. 1t is the little
satin dots that give the fabric its unique ap-
pearance. And it washes, to my knowledge,
like cotton cloth. 1t is not especially mex
pensive for a wash gown, since all the shops
sell it for 90 cents a yard. but it is much
wider thar wash silk, looks prettier and
washes better.
HOW TO MAKE THEM UP.
I saw a pretty model for making up these
gowns, this week. The material had wide,
irregular stripes of pale green and white
satin threads on a white ground. IL had a
plain, round skirt without gores, the stripes
running around instead of up Il down, and
there were three rufies at the waist, knee
had a similar rufae going from shoulder to
shoulder. These rutfies were edged with
narrow lace-and it must be
the heavy laces now SO much worn are
all outof place on these gowns. Nothing put
the lightest will do.
Another pretty gingham Of the ordinary
Scotch kind, but fine as linen. had hair
stripes of pink. shading from rose to almost
cream, grouped in threes, and alternating
with lace stripes, on a French grey ground.
This is to be made up with bias rutf1es, OF tne
for the idea is now that gowns should
preserve one tone as much as convenient,
avoiding violent contrasts. The color OF the
gown comes from the pink stripes, reinforced
by baby ribbons of the same colors on the
ruffies and the belt.
THE EToN JACKET.
The Elton jacket still holds its own, even in.
ginghams, only now it comes just to the
waist and has very large revers, which are
trimmed with white. washable braid. This
ought to be shrunken beforehand or you will
have a funny-looksng gown the first time 1t
is washed. There is no prettier combination
for a hot day (which seems funny to con-
template with the snow on the ground than
French gray and white, especially if it be in
a gown of gray Bingham, with narrow
white and black stripes, made with an Elton
jacket, the reyers on the bias and the under
part of the finest white null. The only
with making up ginghams this time
of the year is that n generally gets them
too hot, even if cool and comfortable enough
for n weather.
NO MORE TRAINS.
The decadence of the train is complete.
They have not only so entirely gone out f or
street wear that the sight of a woman
clutching a yard of skirt from the mud is a
sight to meet with its deserved ridicule, but
it has even met with much diminution on
evening gowns. Even brides gowns no
longer nave the extreme length of yore. The
walking gowns completely and UNI
mistakably clear the ground, and, as a result,
are paying more attention to the
heels of their boots,which have a depraved
taste for running down. The frilled trim
ming around walking skirts, either at the
knees or the hem, has been given over entire
ly to young girls, to whom it does seem more
appropriate, and fat bands Of gimp or jetted
passementerie are substituted.
H NEW FUR COLLARS.
The new fur collars that have come to
take the place of those neck-scarfs with the
jolly little beasts IN them, are much wider
and much warmer. They come down in
like the old Puritan collars, having
square ends across the front: Altogether,
give much more protection from the
cold than the neck-scarf of the past two
seasons.
The question now is, what is the frugal
minded one to do with the fierce little head
on her last years searf1 Nothing but a
freak of fashion allowed him a place in
millinery or dresSlnaking, and now that the
freak is past he will soon be as much out of
place as an a~llegator's head would be. The
only place for him seems to be in the nursery,
where the children, who nave longed for
him to play with for SO long, may muse
to their hearts content with his
fierce white teeth and his frank and open
countenance.