The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-20
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a~ccoqdingly. If a woman knows well how
to combine she can wear W hats
through the eatire season and look better
In her two than the other wona does
in her twenty who is without this all
valuable gift.
For the women who form the majority
are the ones to whom each season means
a single hat and no more. no matter how
unnecoaning that one acquisition may
prove. With gowns it is pretty much
the same way. Ditto shoes, gloves and
parasols.
Therefore, each woman, in laying out
The seasons wardrobe, owes it as a
to society in general to be well on tine
alert. An unwrftten but we'll authentl-
Gated law rules that she shall make her7
self look Just as well as possible and cos
tune herself to the highest point which
comes within the limit Inscribed IN hef
pocketbcok. Therefore, before going into
the vortex of bargain counters and fire
sales she should know to a fine point just
what she is going to buy.
One of the best dressed women in this
CITY accomplishes her enviable effects ON
a sum which would be discredited by
dozens of her sisters, who spend thrice
the sum and do not rear cne-third Of the
rewards. This clever little individual has
a system of providing her wardrobe which
never varies. and which saves time and
money each year. First of all come a 0
pie of tours of o~bservationsin order TO see
lust what the shops have set forth where
with to tempt her. This occupies two
mornings.
Then she empties her closets and pack
ing boxes. She spreads within view
everything pertaining to the season which
they hold. She then makes a definite plan.
just what will be necessary in the line OF
new goods. how these will combine with
these already on hand and just how many
really fine effects can be produced with
what is on hand. For being really we'll
dressed, SO say the connoissenrs con-
corning this all-important question, lies
not so much in having a great variety
of material on rand as in being able to
show off a little to the best advantage.
If a hat be the article in demand and
you can afford burt one, invest IN a good
safe color shade and variety which will
combine we'll with most gowns. The
woman who buys a theatre onnet be-
cause it Is ssueh a dream and then is
oblige to wear the dream upon the
streets of a morning, with a plain black
broadcloth tailor gown, cuts a figure to
make angels weep.
A light colored unserviceable walking
frock.i is an u~n1oveable object after several
DAYS business IN an office. however we'll
kept and clean Yet ten to one this IS
lust what the woman picks out wins
buys her outfit without sufficient reiec-
tion-and she wears 1T with a dark severe.
-. -~zir1r%f- H-,ck- orc-1;Ea hat
nl-chosen gloves spoil many a woman's
costuming completely. II only occasion
color which combines with the greater
part of the wardrobe must be selected
With footgear it is the same. If h
can afford but one pair why does she
buy white canvas just because she means
to spend a week at the ~seashore2
In this age of tasteful dressing one
skirt may be made to combine with
various Jacket fronts" and so on to
form a variety of pretty costumes. so
that most people would not realize that
there was not used a variety of ma
Of course, there are women who never
can nor will learn TO understand the
color value in dress ane to appreciate
the value of selecting harmonious wear
ing apparel There are women who, If
they have a purple velvet gown, would
be certain to don American beauties as
a corsage suggestion, Instead of pansies
or the like. But then such women are
happily in the minority, and the gem
crafty of women would be far more
charmingly gowned If they thought
more about the possibilities Of color and
combination.
Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt has lately
received some new gowns from abroad
trousseau. One who has seen them
describes them as suggestive of styles of
a quarter of a century ago. There is a
skirt Of irish popiin silver gray hav-
ing four double box plaits. one in front,
one at the back and one ON each hip.
The sleeve Is of ancient design also.
having two rather small puffs at the
shoulder and the remainder of the
sleeve buttoning tightly from wrist to
elbow down, the inside seam with small
buttons of silver and bronze. The wrist
finishes with a cuff of golden brown
silk embroidered with silver. and having
an edge of sable fur. The fur also is
used in the centre of a full ruche of
poplin that finishes the bottom of the
skirt and appears again as a finish to a
stomacher of the brown embroidered
with silver. The waist is laced up the
back over two rows of tiny buttons Ike
those on the sleeves. placed close to-
gether, and finishes at the neck in front
with a high band of poplin about four
inches in length Meeting it is an equal
" high turned over collar of brown.
edged with a silver cord, and edging the
top of all is a narrow band of the sable.
Another rather unusual gown is of silk
and wool mixture in crepe effects, figured
IN arabesque design, the ground in
shades of blue. gray-blue. with pin dots
Of hunters green and with long. slender
green leaves scattered over it at. in
frequent, intervals. Two box-plaited ruff
hes, a finger apart, trim the foot of the
SKIRT they are of gray-blue silk lined
with green, The long, tight sleeves have
one puff ait the shoulder, and finish at
the hand in a point and a full fall Of
beautiful lace. The bodice is plain but
has a hchu of silk null, which erosses
the bust, and 8 full fril of lace match
ing that ON the sleeves falls over the