The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-10
HER NEEDS AND HER DEVICES.
sENTABLE FOR THE FETEs
OF MIDSUMMER,
WHEELING AND THD HEIGHT.
Making the Woman of Today
Taller. ~

seem to increase with each day. In
addition to her ordinary bicycle cos
tunes and their many accessories she
now requires bicycle fete dress, If she
is to be happy and keep up with the
times. And this suit is not only i'm
practical but costs a neat little sum
Of money.
But she couldn't think Of attending
a bicycle tea or appearing in a bicycle
parade in her everyday wheeling suit,
so the fete costume has to be ordered.
These fanciful bicycle suits cannot be
bought ready made. They are either
fancy dress costumes or designed after
an ordinary bicycle suit, but of costly
material and most deliberately trim
med. The fancy dress suits are by
far the most picturesque.
A fete costume which will appear at
Richfield Springs this summer is a
striking affair, made to represent night.
1t is in black satin, trimmed effective
ly with silver braid and silver stars.
The divided skirt is a ripping mass of
accordion plating, worn over black
India silk, accordion plated boomers.
jacket and broad sailor collar of black
satin, edged with a cerding of silver
braid and ornamented with two silver
buttons shaped like stars. The front
of the waist is black chiffonette, ac-
Gordon plated. With the waist is
worn a belt of wide silver braid, fast
ened with a silver star buckle. A big,
fluffy bow of white chiffon, striped
with silver, is caught at the neck. The
sleeves are short, accordion plated,
black satin puffs, Joined by long sill
very gray suede gloves
The fetching Napoleon hat is of black
satin ornamented with a silver star
and a white Prince of Wales plume.
The boots, which are9one Of the most
costly parts of this costume, are of
cleaning silver kid, trimmed with black
patent leather and laced with black
silk cords. This costume amid a gally
dressed throng is particularly attract
i've
The boots to be worn with fete cos
tunes are one of the novelties Of the
season. Many of them are made of
satin, gorgeously embroidered and
strapped with high colored leather. A
pair of black patent leather boots just
outer side Of the boots by rhinestone
stars in graduated sizes.
When the fete suit is not to be
fancy dress creation there is no better
material out of which it can be made
than mohair. This season the mohairs
rival the silks in beauty Of coloring and
lustrous texture. Jf tx N'9+
A charming fete bicycle costume may
be made of delicate rose mohair The
at CHI h -l,n, LIT,
worn over pink silk boomers The
jacket reaches just to the waist line,
and should be trimmed military fash
ion with gilt braid mingled with black
1t should be opened to show a full
vest Of changeable rose and gold silk
The belt would be effective Of black
satin, fastening with a gold or gilt
buckle. The sleeves should be of the
rose mohair with small black epauI-
cites almost entirely covered with gold
embroidery.
caught UP at the side with a few pink
roses would be a jaunty hat to wear
with this costume.
The boots should be gilded kid, trim
med with black patent leather
If linen Is the material chosen for the
fete costume 1t should always be made
up over bright shade of silk.
When the handle bar Of the wheel
Is trimmed with flowers the same
flowers should appeal" somewhere in
the costume. If the day is not too
warm flower boa is, not to be de-
spised.
Greatest care must be exercised by
the wheelwomen in the selection of a.
corset. Under this corset is worn a lit
tie silk vest. One Of the new bicycling
corsets is of coarse netting. with
broad steel supporting the silk elastic
webbing which forms the Sides The
corset is only about eight inches from
top to bottom, thus allowing free move
ment and escaping danger Of being it
self broken. Many women make shift
when they begin to ride the wheel by
resurrecting g. pair of half-wern cor
sets, and allowing them to take the
place of some specially made But
most of the corsets designed for ordin-
airy use are too long for comfort in
riding, besides being too heavily boned
about the hips and stomach.
A useful healthful corset has a de-
tachable addition to the lower portion,
which laces at the sides in much the
same manner as the ordinary abdominal
corset. This allows freedom to the hips
and gives added strength to the waist
line. Another style is a lightly boned
little thing, cut short on the hips, and
still another reaches only to the waist
line in front. At the sides 1t comes as
low as the ordinary corset with doll-
bic elastic bands around the body that
give at every motion.
PANTS
I am willing to pay for a half-page display
In heavy-faced letters, declaring
That I'll give new dime for a word that
will rhyme
With the garment fair cyclists are wear
ing.
&c. give me some space in prominent place
And send sight draft for the payment;
Though It takes my last cent, IN remit with
When supplied with a rhyme for those
raiment.
Only poets can know the extent OF my woe
When-intent on some brilliant effusion-
1 am knocked out of time for the lack OF
rhyme
Conveying the needful aIIusion.
I might fill up my purse writing bicycle
verse.
At the price it is usually rated,
But my troubles intrude when 1 strive to
ailude
To the girls garb bifurcated.
/ could reel off dead leads of good sonnets
am sure they'd be regular gol-sousers-
But mention Of breaches would forfeit my
riches
And how can use the word "trousers?"
So, please give my adi she5sbest place to be
And. meanwhile. I'll go down in my lockers
And hsh out dime for word that will
With those toys that are not knickerbock-
IS. D. Barnes. in Bearings.