The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-15
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While the American girl IS getting her
first tastes of the joys of summer bath
ing and rowing, the English maide is
full Of excitement over the races, says
the London correspondent Of the Phila-
delphta Press" Of course. the Derby is
the great occasion Of the season, but. for
tunately for the girl who didn't have an
opportunity to display her gown at that
time there are other races and many
more gowns. 1t is a remarkable truth
that Notwithstanding the fact that there
IS no place where a woman so completely
forgets her costume as at the races, she
nevertheless takes more pains with IT
beforehand than for the opera or a swell
reception.
It is at the races that one sees the race
Of fashion at It's best, and it is much more
difieult no determine upon the winner, as
there are so many of fashions goal posts
that one becomes bewildered in the at
tempt to assign the proper amount Of i'm
portance to each.
There are SO many different types Of
the fashionable woman, and yet a con-
noisseur never mistakes one, for there is
an jndefnable something about every
type that IS as unnistakeble as it is elu-
sive.
There is the swagger woman in her man.
nish gown with its stunning reycrs and
spotless chemisette. Even here we find
q number Of variations in the shape of
blazer with full shirt front-a style not
much worn now-tight-ftting Elton, and
Louis jacket with Its ripple back Thu
chief feature Of all these is the revers.
Revers are most stunning when made of
white. but very often the material Is liz
en-, or Is yelled with creamy lace.
A black brilliantine Jacket TO be worn
with a grass linen shirt waist has a dou-
BILE collar and revers Of linen. The cuffs
are also trimmed in the same way n
the effect is decidedly smart.
Then there is the tailor-made girl who
IS always correct 10 matter what the oc-
casion. she Is very much like the other
type, except in her digniied manner,
which is generally ladyiike but cold.
Then there is the girl who is always
the very arst TO bring out a new fancy,
the first, / mean, after the stage girl mas
introduced K. It is she who started the
popularity of the nose hat, and raconciled
The timid girl 10 the daring act of carry
ing a cane. The cane by the way, has
been found extremely useful as a wand
upon which to display ones sentiments in
flying coiors. It is used by the college
girls and the sweethearts of college boys
to wave the college coiors with. No pleas
anter prospect was ever witnessed than
M spectacle OF beautiful girls in beau-
afNsl gowns, brandishing graceful sticks
with yards and yards of ribbon floating
frcm the top. It is a fashion that viii in
crease rather h diminish in popularity,
for the days Of the yacht races are coming
on apace and the cane will be In great de-
rnand for the maid of a nautical turn of
anird.
Meanwhile, the English girl is carrying
her cane to the horse races with the col
ors at every end Of it. so that she can get
them Just as high as possible where they
will surely be seen
The English girl is really a truer ad-
mirer Of the horse than the American.
She rides herself and is brought up to
know the mobiles. of dumb animals. She
is. therefore, Interested in his proves,
and is eager to see him display it. The
American girl prefers TO see men fight
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thusiastic as when they are pounding each
lives 20 win.
Because the English woman has the
love Of horse flesh born in her she never
fails to honor the occasion Of a horse
race with her gayest attire. Colors are
more brilliant and materials more gaudy
here than anywhere else on British soil.
Greens and blues and puppies ringle to-
gether and form a spectacle that is daz-
zling. One hardly realizes that there are
go many coiors in the spectroseope as
one sees at a race.
Of all the tints probably purple leads
tht rest in popularity this season. It
certainly does N England. and, Judging
from the hats which American girls
wear, it Is a great favorite with US. Es-
pecially is 1t in favor in combination
with yeliow-not exactly purple and gold,
which is the proverbsal acme Of luxury
In color effects. but quite as effective.
A purple gown that was decidedly con-
spicuous at the races / nave been talking
about was made of a flmy purple stuff
over silk, with a shot silk skirt. An
edge of null trimmed the bottom of the
skirt. The bodice a strips of yellow
ribbon arrayed In rows running to a
point in the middle of the back. This
trimming Of the bodice in a striped effect
is, by the way, very popular. Many of
the new shirt waists that fasten IN the
back are laid in tucks that run round
and round, on the sleeves as well as the
bodice. A blue one has white tucks al
~ternating with the blue ones.
The same effect is obtained in a linen
waist by running seven or eight rows
Of valencisnnes lace around bodice and
apper sleeves.
Green is next to purple In popular IA
Yor and stands beside 1t on all fashion
lble public occasions.
A striking gown Of green made es-
pec.ally effective by its trimming Of
steel was admired almost as much as the
purple one. The material was green
silk. and was really q combination OF
two shades of the same color, an artifice
much employed by designers nowadays.
rhe skirt was trimmed with up and
Down rows Of white lace, and az the
bdge Of each strip of lace was a row Of
,teel buttons. The bodice had the same
trimming OF buttons and lace. but they
we're not put on in rows as on the skirt.
h collar and belt were OF a darker
shade of green velvet. The sleeves were
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