The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-08
h IDEAS for dWn1men.


Everyone remembers the good old days
in Cranord, when Miss Matilda Jenkyns
gazed at the five soyereigns laid by an
nually for the purchase of the year $
dress.
~Alack-a-day. if we simply had a single
one to buy now!
The day when a handsome heavy black
silk with good, strong canlbrie lining
did duty for every function is replaced
by an age where discrimination in the
matter of ones wardrobe is as important
as the possession of it
It was easy enough to know what to
wear in those good old days, the days
that our great-grandmothers love to tell
about. One or two silk d-resses-they
We're not gowns in their dictionaries
were distinctly for acknowledgements
occasions. a cloth dress was for the
street, a calico one was for the morning,
and a gown was for ones bedroom. They
I'D not nave to consider linens and
ducks, meusseline and chiffon, foulardes
and brocades, shirt waists and vest fronts,
boleros and Etons, to say naught of the
endless athletic costumes.
The wearing of a bit Of lace. whether
it should be a round collar or a square
che. a cape or a barbe, doubtless marked
the extent of Their perplexities in the
problem of dress. 1t is not astonishing
then that they don't appreciate our diff
culties. and they talk OF our f~rivolity
ana aver that we give more thought to
our clothes than ever they dix.
Certainly we do. We must.
In the license according to corsage
o10o5 . oxscy l-ra i,t1cr, ort of al
g~randnothers so tried2 a dozen differ
ent styles, and you want them, for one
skirt. However this may be. there should
he a rule 10 govern waists. as there is
one to govern shoes and gloves and neck
wear.
Some women have taken the position
that the Inevitable black satin skirt is
appropriate for all occasions, with any
SORT Of bodice. Abroad strenuous efforts
have been made to combat and over
come this idea.
To do this the French couturieres have
been turning out two toned skirts in
black CT white, with which either black
or white bodices are permitted, in con-
trasting blues, in green and black stripes.
in yellow and white, etc.
Thy insist that nothing is in worse
tast than a solid mass of white above
a solid mass OF black or any other strik-
ing contrast that makes a distinct divid-
ing line between one part Of the body and
another.
If this idea-and it is a just one-ob-
tains. where VIII be those who for dear
economy's sake expend their sheckels in
a handsome Black brocaded satin skirt
that was TO answer for every vagary of
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bodlce tney choose TO impose upon NJ
And yet l verify believe, the artistic
couturieras viii win before fail fairly sets
IN. Already the plain satin is out OF
vogue even for a black waist, and a
friend abroad 10 whom | wrote to buy
me a brocaded black satin skirt sent
word back: DON'T
She says the new materials will all
be broken, and If | do not desire a color
to get a skirt of broad black and white
diagonal stripes. They are very much
All this goes to show THAI what Paris
set out to do they usually
Tha what they think the
world soon THINKS.
Inc wneed on Iasnfon turns, ana be-
hold, the world sees what L thinks is a
new thing
Perhaps 1T IS out a very old vogue re-
Vlveo, put II serves the purpsse, II looks
new. Just now cotton has driven most
oEner textures from the held and rules
supreme Not alone are the most fash
5onapie dresses OF cotton fabric, but
cotton Is k-ng IN curtains, couch covers.
beaspreaas and even hoor coverings
CONSIDERED from a hygiefic standpoint
TINS IS al right Cotton sheds the dust,
holds no disease germs, and is quickly
Numbered Among the cotton goods made
up for sofa-pHiow coverings is the Java
paintsd blue and white cloth, almost
as light in weight as cambria, and Of that
lovely delft blue which is so desirable
1t Washes Ike a handkerchief, and is
not especially costly.
AS for the muslins, there are delicious
green shades this year. and rale mauves
as dainty as the lilac blooms of the
spring, such as l thfnk We never had 50
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A very pretty women whom I know has
a black lawn made over cherry silk lin
ings and trimmed with cherry ribbons.
II is a tr1ae gay, but not for her type.
She looks superb in the combination. Just
now I saw a unique costume of navy
blue muslin with a white figure in it.