The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-24
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The French manufacturers. fearful OF
American enterprise, are growing cilary
of their models, and with very good rca-
son. too. Last year they displayed Their
wares with great eclat, under the i'm
preston, of course, that the Yankees
had come over to buy. But the Ameri-
can looked at his watch and concluded
that he had just time to catch a boat
which would bring him home soon enough
to make some French novelties of his
own just as good as the Parisian's, ana
as there wasn't any copyright, or patent
or any sort of string on the creations,
he rather got the best Of the French
man.
This summer he went over. again. hop
ing to do the same thing. but by TINS
time the willy Gaul had learned a thlng
or two. and when the American asked TO
see his styles, he pulled his waxed mus
tache ana said: HJe ne sails rdien lie
nouveau," and the American had 10
come back and study them up for MINI
self.
Now. however the secrets are begin
ming to leak out, because 1t is too iate
for the manufacturers to start new mod
els and get them on the market.
1t is known that skirts will be narrow
at the top and fiaring at the bottom, ana
there are even dark hints of the tie
back within which women VIII walk
Chinese for lack of space, and compen-
safe between these fashionable sentences
to the stocks and the pillory by gymna-
SUM exercises for limbering purposes.
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1t is suggested also that there will be
basuues at the bottom of bodices, but
that there will be considerable freedom
of choice in the matter. One model OF
this kind has already been displayed in a
large New York store. It starts out to
be a blouse-one of the kind that is made
with frogs to fasten it. up in front, put
which is always allowed to stand open
from neck to waist. This one decided to
be a Jacket when it reached the waist,
and fared out into basques from beneath
a belt of two-inch braid. 1t had the
same trick of gaping open in front. and
even at the waist it was allowed to hang
as it would with its braid fastenings I'M
used.
The waist line is not to be ignored, even
if basques do become popular, and, by
the same token, belts are still in favor.
A pigskin belt for a dollar and a quar-
ter is really the correct thing to wear
that is, if you cannot afford to wear one
of the hand carved Mexican leather belts,
whic are the extreme of elegance
1 nave said before and 1 say it again,
with an earnestness born of conviction,
that gray is to be the September color,
and the girls who are too sallow to wear
it would best look to their complexions
if they wish to be fashionable. There
was a typical September costume at the
roof garden the other night. To be
sure. it was August yet, but it happened
TO be a cool evening, and since the new
September gown was finished why not
wear it?
The material was a silver gray SO ar
tistically combined with watermelon pink
silk and white mousseline hat it is well
worth considering by any u woman
who is planning her new September
gown. 1t is sufficiently light in color and
texture to be worn now, and yet will
serve nicely for a street dress all through
the autumn months. You will find here
a brief description, ana it ought to be
easy for any woman to copy it very ac-
curately.
The skirt was plain except for three
rows of heavy cording over each hip.
This effect was produced by inserting
pieces of feather zone about twelve inches
long and an eighth of an inch thick, and
gathering the material around it. The
waist had a yoke of deep pink ~taffeta,
yelled with white mousseline, reaching al
most to the bust line, and from there the
pouched front was a succession of fine
tucks of the gray material alternating
with bands of lace insertion. AT each
side of the pouched front reaching from
the bottom of the yoke to the waist was
a ruffle of pleated white mousseline.
Tucks and lace peeped out from beneath
the ruffles on the bodice between the edge
of the pouch front and the sleeves. The
back was made of alternating tucks and
lace in the sane "a but it was not
quite SO full and it did not have the ruff
hes. The sleeves were gathered in both
upper and under seams in the most ap-
proved -mousquetaire fashion, and just I'M
der the small puff at the shoulder were
three rows of shirring suggestive of those
on the hips except that instead of being
corded they were merely gathered with
small headings. Over the shoulders were
epaulettes of knife pleated gray taffeta,
and at the waist vas a ruffle of white
mousseline. The pink ribbon around the
neck was not yelled with white like the
yoke, but had a fluff Of pleated white
mousseline standing up over the bow at
the back.
Around the waist was a gray taffeta
ribbon folded quite narrow, but the bow
at the back had wide loops and long ends
chat grew wider toward the end in that
oar-shape which is the ~favorite for sash
ends these days. All around the edges of
the sash was a narrow ruffle of ~taffeta,
gathered SO full that it looked as if it
were pleated.
To crown this beautiful costume was
a magnificent, big, black poke, of fine
straw, trimmed with clusters of black
ostrich and osprey plurnes. Underneath
the brim and close to the hair was a
small black bow held in place by an ex-
quisite pearl buckle.
As a whole it was one of the most
tasteful and altogether stunning cos
tunes which haye yet made their appear
anee.
There is one most delightful luncheon
beverage made in Paris by the gourmet
that is rarely, if ever, tried here. Have
ciaret en- carat upon the table and your
most capacious win glasses, also, of
course, the finest of peaches. skin the
fruit and cut into very small pieces, plac-