The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-14
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A correspondent writing from Londor
gives some interesting information about
evening dress there as compared with
present New York fashions:
Il see from a recent number of Har.
per.s Bazaar that 1t is now a well-estab.
lished custom that low-necked dresses
must be worn in the evening for any
sort Of entertainment, and even in ones
own home the same style is carried out.
There is an effort this season to return
to h fashion of square-neck dresses
for evening wear at home, but these
are rather the exception than the rule;
and no matter how simple the material
employed in plain Inner gown, the
waist must be decollete.s
las low-necked dresses in New York
become fashionable, they are in London
now rapidly On the decline, except for a
ball or a very large dinner.
a dinner party to which I went.
given by Wyndham at h Criterion
Theatre, there was only ome woman
in a low-neck gown present. Mary
Moore wore a turquoise blue satin, with
a high-necked bodice covered in tur-
quoise-blue velvet apnliqued on in figures,
the outlines of the figures by
some pearls and ~tnrquoises. Mrs. Ron
aids. who is always beautifully dressed.
wore a black brocade skirt and a pink
and black corsage of embroidery and
chiffon.
cat one time it was almost necessary
to wear a low gown to the theatre in
London, but now when one sees a de-
collete gown it looks provincial, al all
the smart set here have adopted beauti-
fl fluffy chiffonne hlouses for evening
wear, never was a fashion more SEN
sible or more necessary 10 London.
.aThe theatres are insufficiently heat
ed, the houses in winter are always
aslittle cold, and If we have a really
bitter spell of weather in London it is
exactly as If this great town were
paralyzed. With the thermometer n
where in the neighborhnod of zero 1t is
quite impossible to make any house
comfortable.
IT remember the winter before last,
when we had six weeks of icy weather
IN London, that Mrs. Craigie-John
Oliver Hobbes-gave. a very large dinner
tdAlt 4h k1S AOuS0 2 VA hSN* 80
Lancaster Gate.
The house is a large one, and even
with a blazing fire In the hall, two in the
drawing room and two in h dining
room, I never suffered more in my life
with the cold. Mrs. Louise Jopling-
Rowe, who is an artist-ahd not only an
artist, but a woman with the courage of
her own opinions and her W fashions
was the only woman present who look
ed really comfortable and was ap-
propriateiy dressed.
She wore a unique brocade of a creamy
satin ground scattered over with pink
flowers and green leaves. The bodice
was high necked and long sleeved. but.
being Of a light color and bountifuHy
trimmed with mousseline de sole and
lace, it was full dress enough for any
occasion.
cam now for all small, smart dinners
high necked 'dressy' evening blouses. or
tea jackets, or whatever they may be
called, are frequently II moi generally
seen.
Mrs. Nett1eship, whose husband is an
artist, and who makes all of Ellen Ter
rvs dresses. is greatly In favor of nigh
necked Or semi-high necked dresses for
general evening wear; and now, even at
a very grand and large reception, one
sees always a s~prinkling of what are
known In America as little Dime gowns
IF a woman has a slight cold in Lon
don she begins to take care of herself. An
English doctor said to me;--If you tell
an English woman that she is III and
must go to bed she will do it; if you give
a. -. a. = =, No. o-s h oaoc
to a ball, Perhaps, with the overhead
ed GUS in America, It Is healthy and
1 ~convenieft TO wear low dresses for the
evening: but I am Of the opinioa myself.
that unless Il is lone with greaz regular
ity every evening, there Is always more or
less danger Of taking cold.
Even at court presentations the Queen
permits a heart shaped or a semi-low
low neck, with long sleeves"
A royal dress which excited great ad-
miration at the Brussels receptions was
of white damask brocaded with sprays of
silver.
1t opened at the side over a petticoat
OF the richest gold tissue literally COW |
cred with sparkling stones. A thick
fun bordering OF white feather trimming
went around b skirt, and was repeated
on the bodice inside a high Medtci collar
of gold guipure. and Cd the shoulders
were clusters of plnmes fastened with
jewels. All gems and diamonds, especi-
oily, are strewns about to produce a gilt |
4ering effect, which is exceedingly fash |
1onable.
Nothing is more delightful than a
black tulle thus lightened up with bril-
liarts. which makes a costume equally
suited to the frivolous or the serious oc-
casion- It is made up over black satin, |
and sprays of diamonds should appear on
the bodice. !
a little diamond dust strewn over dark 1
hair would almost convert such a dress !
into a fancy representation of the electric |
Hight Young ladies are wearing gaze de |
sole very much. AT a smart country
house party lately one was very SUCCESS
fm tn white gauze yelled IN black and
made up over white taffeta. Clouds of
the finest ehantilly lace was arranged |
m cascades on each side of the skirt. |
rather toward b bak, and on the low |
bodice this same lace was draped and |
Iestooned, being held in position by
punches of pink geraniufns. |
The corselet belt was of gerana1pm mini
velvet, and the sleeves Were Of awbsto |