The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-01
ideas for luomen

which was laid at the door OF more TRAN
one bride of 1896 when unkind folk in
situated that the october weddings of last
year We're the produces Of leap year pro-
posaIs in which the woman in the case.
made desperate at the prospect of eight
years before another leap year, took mat
tiers into her own hands and secured her
man while yet there was time. This
year, however, there is no room to sup
pose that the progress of the various
couriships differs in any respect from the
old fashioned way OF doing things.
Indeed, all the new fashions pertaining
to weddings are decidedly old, paradoxi-
cal though it would seem. Wedding in
vitations are worded exactly as they were
two years ago, and as for dress styles
have gone back TO the time of the
Queens marriage in honor of her jubilee.
Americans should not object TO British
influence in this instance, where so re-
mote a cause as the war between China
and Japan set everyone to giving ia
panese teas and Mikado parties. For an
other instance of the influence of current
events upon matters of dress one has but
to visit the furrier's and see how he is
hugging himself over the Klondike exo-
dus. as he displays his wares in the win
dows with a prodigious copy of some
Alaskan enthusiast who talks of glaciers
and snow mountains so feelingly that one
shivs in mild September and decides
that 8 about time to purchase that win
ter collarette.
Ia view of the foregoing facts, it is
evident that now Is the time to get out
grandmother's wedding fnery and see if
there is anything in the collection which
can be pressed into service for the 'some-
thing old in the familiar couplet.
Combinations of several different kinds
of material are allowable i'll wedding
gowns to a greater degree than for years
before. A model brida gown has two
materials in its composition, exclusive of
the taffeta silk Innings. The pleated pet
ticoat which forms the front of the skirt
is mad of white ~bengaline, as is also
the pointed waist with its lace ruffle
from waist to shoulder. The collar,
which is made of white mousseline, with
a frill of lace overhanging, gives a soft
eniBg effect about the face which every
bride who wants. to outshine her brides
maid should strive for. The sleeves also
are made of mousseIine in the wrinkled
mousquetaire fashion and are finished at
the shoulder with a draped heading Of
white bengaline. The train is made of an
entirely different material and is a stripe
of satin and brocade, which requires nine
yards of material. 1t has a lace ruffle
running around its entire edge and form
ing a trimming which falls over the
pIeated petticoat front.
A suggestion for stiffening trains and
giving them body was given me by an
experienced modiste. In addition to the
white haircloth, which is laid between
the brocade and the silk lining from
the end to the place where it joins the
bottom OF the skirt proper. an interlining
of outing cloth extends throughout the
train. OF course. If one happens to W
lace in ones family chest here is an
excellent opportunity TO give it an air.
ing in the shape of a ruffle around ones
train or merely around the yoke If the
supply is limited.
White faille is a favorite material for
wedding gowns, but the very newest
thing, and the most to be desired on ac-
count of it's weight and veluminousness
is white MORE poplin. The latter materi-
al is twenty-five inches wide and varies
from $l.50 to 81 per yard. From fifteen
10 LWcHlS-usC satdS = t4hAiSh teCto
ing to the size of the train.
wedding gloves are suede, and NOUS
q~uetaire in cut where elbow sleeves are
worn.
Some of the daintiest things in bridal
underwear are the Marguerite petit
coats in various d~ainty-colored silks.
Pink silk ones have strips of cream lace
insertion running across the little waist.
Vale blue ones are trimmed with ivory
Matte Honiton of the very richest de-
seription. A white silk one has very
little trimming on the waist, but is hem
stitched to the n which forms the
dividing line between the waist and skirt.
Fine null skirts trimmed with lace and
bands of insertion are laid in the finest
OF pleats, an arrangement which is very
dainty and fluffy when done in null.
Bridesmaids gowns are dainty and
fluffy as usual and give the touch of
color which is necessarily absent from
the costume of the bride. Heliotrope and
straw color is one of the newest combina-
TONS. A flmy yellow gauze with hello
trope figure is being prepared for a fash
ionable October wedding. 1t has a sur
plice waist whose sides do not match;
for one, the right. is shirred, and edged
with a wide pleated ruffle, and the other
is simply laid in folds with a shorter
ruffle running over the shoulder. The
surpiice crosses in such a way as to form
A small v at the neck, which is left open
"a decided change of fashion in a gown
which is worn with a hat. Around the
waist is a broad sash of heliotrope silk
which is trimmed at the ends with two
wide. pleated and lace-edged ruffles head
ed with three rows of shirring. There are
also tive ruffles around the bottom of the
skirt. This bridesmaids hat will have, the
Victoria fare away from the face and will
be trimmed with gorgeous straw coiored
feathers and a heliotrope bow just over
the hair and underneath the brim- Hello
trope satin shoes complete the costume.
For the brides going away gown noth-7
ing is prettier or more appropriate than
dove gray. A suit which has the new
combina ton of gray and pale yellow is
made with a jacket that suggests a
mans evening dress coat. In front it
looks like a close fitting Elton and has
long lapels reaching to the color, but 1t
is cut out with an upward curve at the
side and ends in long, plain coat tails in
the back. The straw fsolor comes in the
soft blouse front, which is trimmed with
a fuccession of small b,c-K velvet bows
81 together as close as buttons and ex-
f6ndiup from the uexf fo the waist