The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-18
BEAUTY ADORNED.
Dazzling Evening Gowns and
Fetching Bonnets for
the Bewilderment
of Man.
LEANING TO LARGE HATS
Decline of the Separate Waist and
skirt-Preyalence of Jeweled
Trimmings-Care Of
the Hair.
LEANING TO LARGE HATS

There are three principal things which
the connoisseur of fashion takes notes
of in determining whether a costume Is
up to date or not; nameIy, the hat, the
wrap and the hang of the skirt, says the
Philad elphia Press. If these things are
correct the wearer passes muster and
may be admitted into the ranks OF the
superhcialy we'll dressed without further
examination.
The chief consideration in the mat
ter of hats is width. 1t is the fault or
that insignificant bit of headgear known
as the Ntapoleonic hat that it is so, and
the broad-faced feminines who bemoan
their fate for having to increase their
loneliness with the addition of a broad
hat may trace their Affections along
with those of many real sufferers back
to the great emperor himself.
COVERING THE EARS.
The French seem to Ia an aversion
for the organs of hearing. Ears with
them are vulgar, and should De con-
cealed. Anybody can see this by a glance
at French fancies in coiffures. Not a
single French beauty but manage in
one way or another to cover up her
hearing apparatus with her hair. II
she cannot cover the whole ear she fas-
tens a lock or so over the upper tip,
as if she were afraid it might lean out
too far in the effort to near and make
itself conspicuous.
Hats of the present season serve a
similar purpose. They are made wide
over the ears. with plenty of feathers
and tips peeping over the edge and
nesting down over the hair, SO as either
to completely obscure those afore-men-
toned objectionable features or to so
put them in the background that the
observer forgets they are there.
One of the daintiest evening bonnets /
have seen had a feather tip Gaping each
ear. 1t wasn't any particular shape-a
sort of cross between a Napoleon and a
Tam O. Shanter. The crown was white
velvet, spangled all oveer with gold Sc
quins. The brim was formed of wired
lace in a rose pattern. One little white
feather stood straight up at one side of
the crown, and facing toward the front
it MAKES a great deal of difference which
way a feather faces, by the way. There
were three white tips under the brim,
one curling around and concealing each
ear, and the third falling over the knot
of hail at the back.
A FETCHING BONNET.
of A %nastnrti hsa9h Veige nt'i Th eoR ReiVet wa Was Hi aid
in folds across the front, being caught on
each sid the face with ornaments, beyond
which it extended still further in double
loops. A black aigrette was set on the
side of the front to give the height nee
essary to counterbalance so much
breadth.
Speaking of aigrettes, they are an abso-
lutte necessity in an evening hat. and
the fashionable girl does not content
punches as ruthlessly as she does the
scalps -(metaphorically s%peaking) of her
the only dainty trimming in the market
which will add height without involving
h~eaviness of the bonnet. They are dyed all
combination was bright green and bright
blue. The lower part of the aigrette was
green and the ends blue, and the whole
and brown Dresden silk.
hi tendency in evening headgear is
toward hats rather than bonnets-not
very large hats as yet; but a ~forerunner1
new shade of pink. velvet. combined with
lace DIS a favorite for such hats. A pink
e e9lbro nae WIN In a wh lae e. fast plaed % eht1o a
steel ornament, n a bunch of black
aigrettes wrapped in a funnel shaped
of a brilliant brunette in a box at-well,
no matter where, for it is the bonnet we
are talking about anyway.
EVENING GOWNS MORE GORGEOUS.
Evening dresses grow more and more
gorgeous in he matter of material. No
plain silk, or eve chiffon, is admissible
something else. A plain pink silk waist
was covered with white Swiss, bodice,
sleeves and all-and It was very pretty,
call Impossible if it had not been for
the Swiss.
The silks are all heavily figured.
Tovx, af fIr1 til 1ax,N IL o,,r
which makes them adaptable to both
young and old. There are black silks
with royal blue single-rose .patterns-a
little anomalous as to color, but that is
nothing when beauty and not realism is
The figured chiffons are like q mirage
of all this gorgeous hued stuff. Their
patterns are somewhat similar to those
Of the silk, but being SO fine they look
libe shadows on a mist, and when one
taken yards!
A pretty demi-evening. toilet has a
broad satin collar turned low At the neck
are short, reaching only to the elbows.
Evening waists are not quite SO popus,
lar as formerly ! but a few ere e exn nb91fen
and lace with ribbon trimmings, or OF
silk and pa~ssementerie.
Jewelled trimming is at its height. 1t
is used for everything, but especially for
evening gowns.
To Preserve the Hair.
/. Avoid tight-ftting hats and collars
also close fitting caps, unless these
be of some porous material. h
two former prevent a due sup
ply of blood to the parts, hence
the hair papillae are put, as 1t
were, on short commons all the time the
hats aid collars are worn. The caps
engender c~aiosic, which sets up irritation,
and ultimately that most stubborn form
of dandruff, namely, pitytisis q. e., a
branny powder). Note that all headgear
which is not porous should be ventilated