The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-05-15
EToN SUIT FOR BICYCLING.

side beautiful rivers and along the hard
seabeaches are in order, and all those pref
ty riders want to know what to wear.
There are conservative ladies who,
though they enjoy the rides, yet fear to
adopt the trousers. For them there are
skirts made of brownish mixtures, tweeds
and storm serges, cut rather scanty and
sparingly trimmed with tailor stitching
around the bottom. Braid any other
kind of trimming is unsafe. With these
skirts, which, by the way, should be made
very strong and smoothly faced, there may
be worn a pair of knickerbockers of the
same material. Over the skirt there may
be blouse waist of the same stuff as that
in the skirt and an Elton jacket, or there
may be q neat norfolk jacket belted in.
For some reasons the norfolk is prefera-
BILE, as it does not slip up and leave woe
full hiatus between the waist and skirt, no
matter how hard or fast the rider may go.
The Elton jacket for bicycling should be
arranged so that it can button snugly
across the chest in case the day turns COOL
but it is not as loose or comfortable as the
blouse or norfolk. There are numberless
fancies In blouses, some having Jokes and
plaits, some straps, and others are simply
gathered in. Some have bishop sleeves
and some have the large leg O. mutton
with the snug wrist. Some ladies have the
waist and skirt sewed together and the
whole suit made of dust or smoke colored
serge or covert cloth. This is rather better
than cheviot, as it is of closer weave and
drmer surface and as consequence does
not take the dust SO much.
AS to headwear for fair bicyclists, there
are the Tam O'Shanter, the cap in all it's
varieties, the sailor hat and toques made
of the dress material with wee bit of a
bright wing or feather to add color.
Ladies' of true taste win be very cautious
in the use of color on wheel, as they are
quite conspicuous enough in the quietest
colors- Dogskin gloves, with or without
gauntlets, are tho best of all. SUICIDES are
next to them, but do not wear we'll enough
to be very economical.
For bicycling the hair should be dressed
In close and firm manner and fastened SO
that it cannot fly about or fall down.
Trim and taut,'' as the sailors say,
should be the watchword when one dresses
for long ride, most of the time against
the wind. Wells are tabooed, and rightly
So
Few ladies wear corsets on a wheel, and
instead of them there are several kinds of
underwaists with elastic shoulder straps,
and around the waist line are set strong
buttons to which the lower garments are
buttoned. The knickerbockers, whether
long or short, visible or invisible, should
be buttoned firmly to the corset waist and
the SklrG, Wnere one Is worn, can De IaS-
tened to the same buttons to others on
the under eide Of whatever waist is worn.
The adoption of the divided skirt being
a matter of personal liking or dislike,
lay down no law on that subject Some
ladies wear trousers cut very large around
the hips, where they gather, and they taper
down to the knees where they are tight
and button snugly under the CATERS,
which, in such cases, reach to the knees.
Other ladies prefer the full knickerbockers
gathered wide at the knees and from there
the CATERS button down to the shoes. 1 be-
lieve some people call these leggings.
Others have the knickerbockers reach to
midway between the knees and ankles.
Others again have them reach quite to the
tops of the shoes and wide at the bottom
like Turkish trousers. Some others have
the trousers scarcely wider than those worn
by their brothers, and these are held in at
the knees by elastics, and from there down