The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-01
FOR SUMMER WEAR.
The Market Already Stocked
With the Popular and
Useful Shirt Waist
TO BE HAD AT ALL PRICES
Bodices Lately seen-Remnant Pos
sibilities-A Lesson in Econ
omy-''Men as Lovers"
TO BE HAD AT ALL PRICES

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The ready made dress. SO scorned by the
ultra fashionable. is a great boon to the
woman who works. II one is an ordinary
size and has a moderately well proper
toned figure 1t is possible TO buy almost
anything in the line of clothes, made up
ana ready to wear. It is hard enough fer
the idle woman to drive herself to the
dressmaker's shop for that ordeal of an
hours fitting or draping which it is i'm
possible to escape when one has one's
clothes made to order. Much worse is It
Tor the busy. time saving woman, whose
daytime is not her own. but the property
OF those who pay her day laborer's wages
Of say 81 a. day, says the Philadelphia
Press.
~ ls doubtless very much to her advan-
tage that ready-made garments nave be-
come so popular. Home made underwear.
for instance, is very nearly obsolete.
Those who cannot afford to buy lace-triIn-
med cambria underwear have recourse to
the woven garments, which are cheaper
because they diminish ones laundry bill.
Time was when. people knit their own
stockings, but they don't do it any more,
except. of course, in primitive localities.
Just so. the day will come when we shall
buy our dresses in the same way that we
do our jackets; but that will be after we
have experienced real dress reform and
the corset is no more.
Meanwhile. we are interested in the
transition. The ready made garments
which everybody buys now are petticoats
and other underwear. separate waists and
separate skirts. One can afford to pay
a good deal for a black skirt that serves
as q Ioundation FOR naif a dozen costumes.
Tr0r Erva- H. - - -
preferred Rrilliantina IL also verv des;r-
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dple' ana tnefe are some new varieties
which are almost as dressy as silk. The
real standard rosdx, naaa o.rma,+ hov.
ss a.Is iiaue nien., NV
ever, is the shirt waist. and the raid upon
its raltvine efo1,nd hoe heo,,n eollao-
+;ar = ,arao
y y Wonietlt afouao. d shlrt ais coun-
a meal. 1t is altogether too early to
waar tbe wais+s of or.s ~ a. aa,1
a,s ~ ooulse, put ueai.
ers nave dlsplayed them and every woman
is trying to get first choice.
Tho sb;,.t 1pais+ of zoe ri, -. ,;u,+ -
W "as' . 90 WIZ not llinil II
sell IN the cnolce or materials. 1t Will be
admissible in percale. dimity. dotted Swiss
and grass linen in all its varieties
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Inc better class OF waists-those that
able wh,ts nnsn onsys and da',srs ~
coliars are very nigh and turn over like
those on some of the Winter coats. A
| faw If the orffs t,,rn hoor i, +ba sama
oaeh ~ lux saAiS
way, out most OF them have the ordinary
link buttonholes at the wrist. A shirt
waist of thiss kind can be worn almost
three times as long as the old STYLE by.
removing the cuffs and collars and having
them laundried separately.
The favorite colors are green and linen
brown. The greens are checked and cross
barred. The browns are grass linens and
are striped and barred in lace patterns.
Some of the linens have silk dots IN green,
blue and purple. These make the most
| expensive waists and are sold for SSH IS.
The new varieties Of dotted Swiss viii be
much used. Almost every pattern which
is seen in wolen materials is initiated in
swiss. There are plaids, and crossbars
and stripes in every hue, and as the mat
erials is cool it will be a great favorite for
Summer wear.
Last years waists will not do for this
season on account of that ever recurring
stumbling block to economy-the sleeve.
This bugbear is larger than ever, as far as
shirt waists are concerned, whatever may
be said of the sleeves of other waists. 1t
is laid in pleats around the top, like some
of the. last. years. coat. sleeves. This is
one him that makes them so expensive
there are so many yards in the sleeves. A
linen or Swiss waist cannot be bought for
S5 but when one considers that once