The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-03
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This is the season when the woman who
bought her outing suit a month ago is
raging inwardly. On every side she sees
serges and ~brilliantines, canvases and
linens, at the~ most attractive marked
down prices. And the frocks which are
not marked down. are SO much more
charming than the simpler ones of d
month ago that she cannot refrain from
helpless rage or from wild extravagance.
One of the prettiest of the cheaper out
ing suits is a severely plain one In ecru
linen, closely woven. The skirt is full and
is finished by rows of stitching in white
at the top of q rather deep hem. A double
breasted REFER, fastened with two large
white pearl buttons and further adorned
with broad, short, pointed revers, COM
plctes the suit.
A French conception of the outing suit
is of embroidered white pique. The entire
surface of the cloth is embroidered with
tiny rosebuds. The skirt is plain. The
jacket has revers which contradict the
generally accepted theory of revers by
broadening as they descend toward the
waist line. The coat fastens below the
chest with two straps. Instead of the stiff
English chemisette or shirt waist, chiffon
is gathered to form the collarette that is
worn with the coat.
A white duck which commends itself
to the young person of yachting procli-
vities is made with the customary shirt
and blazer, but it has numerous straps
and bands of dark blue, fastened with
small pearl buttons. Another frock is tan
linen, striped with old rose. The short
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in front with very broad, pointed revers.
A brown serge, which is particularly
attractive has a full skirt ard a short
jacket, with the belt which girds the
back slipping under 1.-THE long, straight
loose lapels in front. The wide sailor
collar, which comes over the shoulders
and the down the chest midway to the
waist, is trimmed with narrow ecru in
%sertion, which is the only Frightening
touch about the gown.
1t is the French conception of the
proper dress for athletics which is par
tacularly interesting. Paris scorns the
severe simplicity of London ard the
Frenchwoman will not wear a gown
which does not have at least a few
"feminizing'' touches, as one tailor calls
them. The piques and ducks are there
fore embroidered.
Miniature buttons take the place of
bone or mother-of-pearl. Instead of
straight linen collars, ribbon and lace
stoeks1are worn with these gowns, and
Waisteoats futtering with lace jabots or
chiffon frills take the place of stiff
shirt and blouses.
In fact it a little difficult to tell
whether the French outing dresses are
MADE for outings or for afternoon teas.
They are pretty. however, and conse-
quently rather popular.
In cloth outing suits the combination
OF checked shirt and plain Jacket is a
favorite. AT first the checks We're of
mathematical, and therefore inartistic
exactness. But rs time has gone ION
the geometrical effect has disappeared
The plaids have become slightly broken
and clouded at the edges, SO that the
Wearer looks less like an animated
checker board.
The plaid skirts come in black and
Whate, in blue and white. in brown and
cream and in green and grayish white.
The jackets are of cloth the color of
the darker check, and the effect is chic
and dainty. The jackets have invariably
the short ripple back and are lined with
~changeable silk, of which the predomi-
mating color is the same as the coat.
though of a lighter shade.
Norfolk jackets suits ara among tho
novelties which are appearing as the
season ~advanees. They are made Of the
mixed cheviots and of the plain brillian-
tines ortener than of plain serge. Often
merely the back of the coat is plated
and the front flies loose in short blazer or
Elton erect. The belt, of leather. satin
or OF the same material as the suit.
passes through Sits made in the under
arm seams The Norfolk suits are. like
all the others, made with the short
basque effects.
economic women who have duck and
linen dresses left over from last sum
mer and the summer before need not
either recklessly and e~xtravagantly
them or sadly wear them in
their questionable state. The longer
Jacket ends which were popular a few
seasons ago may easily be converted
into short basques and the material cxt
off from e will supply the needed
additional fullness in pladts let into the
seams at the waist line.
1T is unfortunate that we have in this
life our ours. which seems SO full to
SUNNI VI Us, 81 many women VINO can find
nothing for their hands to do" writes
Edward w. Box in June Ladies' Home
Journal" discussing Women and Card
Parties" 81 do not mean by this those
whom we call the wealthy and the leisure
slasses. The greatest dangers to our
~womanhood do not arise from these
classes. The woman most dangerous to
modern society is she who is married,
and yet it is Indifferent to domestic ties.
who lives in boarding house or hotel,
and who is constantly on the lookout for
something to occupy her attention. And
a woman in this condition generally flnds
the very thing she shouldn't. Instead of
filling up her life with something worthy
OF her womanhood she drags it out
through a succession of such enjoyments
as these progressive card-parties." AS
she cannot play alone she seeks company,
and, unfortunately, 1t is never difficult
for a woman of this sort to find com
panions of her own kind. She is one of
the types of women who have made these
card-parties what they are today among
women. The we1l-bred woman; the
woman Of intelligence who can see the
relative fitness of things; the woman
who believes that God gave her some
thing to do in the world; the woman
p,ifh mica narppnffonS. fba uuopna, ~