The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-12

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
sparfngly trimmed with tailor stitching
around tho bottom. Braid or 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 tho skirt and an Elton jacket, or there
may DO a neat norfolk jacket belted in.
For some reasons the norfolk is prefera-
BILE as it does not slip up and leave a woe
full hiatus between the waist and skirt, no
matter how hard or fast the rider may go.
The Eton 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 arc numberIess
fancies in blouses, some having yokes and
plaits, some straps, and others arc 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
flrmer 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 its
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 will 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
Rauntlets, are the best of all. SUICIDES are
next to them, but do not wear well enough
to be very economical.
For bicvcling the hair should be dressed
in q close and firm manner and fastened so
that it cannot fly about or fall down.
sETrim and taut,'' as the sailors say,
should be the watchword when one dresses
for a long ride, most of the time against
the wind Wells are taboOed, and rightly
so.
Few ladies wear corsets on q 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, ana
the skirt, where one is worn, can be las
tened to the same buttons, or to others on
the under side of whatever waist Is worn.
The adoption of the divided skirt being
n matter of personal liking or dislike, L
Law 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 10 the knees.
Other ladies prefer the full knickerbockers
gathered wide at the knees and from there
the CATERS button down to the shoes. 1 De-
Heve some people call these legglngs-
Others have the knickerbockers reach 10
midway between the knees ana anAI n;s-
Otbers AGAIN have them reach quite to the
tons Of the shoes and wide at the bottom
like Turkish trousers. Some others nave
the trousers scarcely wider than those worn
nv their brothers, and these are held In at
the knees by elastics, and from there down