The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-08

which throw q soft radiance on the large
oval mirror. The brushes, trinklet boxes
etc., which lie on this fairy-like table are
all of dull gold and in every instance
May is written across them in tur-
quoises and diamonds.
There is a rumor abroad and for aught
We know, it may soon be verified, that
white stockings are coming back into
fashion again.
Possibly the laundress won't object, blu
am sure every n else viii.
1t is well enough to assert that ever
if they do come back, you for one won't
/ wear them, but you will-you will do as
all women nave done since the world be-
gan-follow the fashions.
Looking at it now from an entirely I'M
preiudiced point of view, this seems a
tragedy in fashion; surely no style could
possibly be so uglyi Surely white stock
ings were never intended for anything
except evening wear with white slip
pers.
There is one very pretty idea in stock
ings that is returning in the clocks at
the side. Whether the short skirts of
the wheelers nave made stockings a fea-
ture of the summers dress, is a ques-
ton, but a deal more space in the shops
and attention in the mind, is being given
to them.
| always did like clicked stockings,
n 1 am delighted fashion is advocating
them once more. Silk stockings are nav
ing a greater sale than ever, for women
wear short skirts so much of the day
with half a dozen forms of athletics call
ing for them, that they are willing to
put more money into ankle gear"
A year ago many of US thought black
stockings with plaid uppers werewolf
rather questionable, but now we go
abroad without qualms in gay silk Scotch
plaids, with patent or russell leather half
shoes. Custom is everything. In the
towns one does not see so much of this,
but suburbs and resorts are full of plaid
~stoekinged girls.
In very few patterns are the Isle or
cotton plaids acceptable. 1t takes silk
at a dollar a pair, to get an excellent
effect. They catch every color turn of
the heavy golf stocking perfectly, al
though 1 saw some lovely ones of Isle
and silk for 50 cents a pair, that I think
had the prettiest pattern yet.
AT first it was a question whether a
woman with a large foot could risk a
plaid stocking and patent leather
pumps but as all sizes of women are
now adopting it, no notice is paid to the
size of the foot.
The proper half shoes to wear with
these are made like a mons with broad
vamp, heavy stitching and broad shoe
strings. The heels are not fiat, but
slightly high, giving more shape to the
fo9t thar a fat heel would.
Plaid stockings of black and white@ pre
among the favored for women in semi
mourning, sometimes a touch of lilac is
added
For low slippers in the house the most
brilliant hues are adopted. For dancing
the plaids are not good form at all.
If a black slipper is worn a plain black
silk stocking goes with it, the instep Of
open work if one can afford it, for an
open worked silk stocking of good quality
ranges from $3.50 to S.
With a fresh percale gown, a plaid belt,
tie and stockings, a girl looks entirely
chic.
Now that September is really here, and
the summer season is on the wane, the
ohservant looker-on in the world of wom-
en- has jotted down the reflection that
wonen's draperies ere rapidly being di-
vided into two distinct classes; first, the
purely ornamental, and, second, the
strictly useful.
Last season the girls. who wore their
bicycle. or tennis suits anywhere but on
their wheels or at the tennis court had
to muster VI their courage a bit before
they yentured upon the streets, but his
year they We're as ordinary a sight as was
any outing costume. Bicycle parties
We're so frequent that the railway jaunt-
ings to and from the place of meeting
We're a matter of course, and one rarely
stepped into a steam car during July and
August without noticing at least two or
three girls or women in short skirts and
shirt waists.
The novelty has worn away. and now
the advocates of short skirts upon all oc-
~casions out of doors are coming with un-
answerable pleas for their adoption. In
deed, after a woman has gone up long
fights of stairs in a bicycle costume she
only realizes what she has injured in
stumbling up with her long skirts during
AK PAT u Htf udyS, ana COM
parisons are odious" here as everywhere
else.
AT the Paris fire, not many months
ago, when SO few women ESCAPED one
American girl told how. when the first
alarm came she at once picked up her
skirts to her knees and called to her
friend to do the same; both then ran for
tho doors and were free. but as they
went they saw dozens of women running
and treading on their skirts until sew
upon, while all were sorely hampered.
Scenes like those are coming TO the
of athletic requirements TO Danish
the ~hampering draperies, and it really
seems that conservatism is giving way
and the abbreviated skirt is coming TO
tains appreciate to the full the story that
Madame Jenness Miller is fond of tell.
ing now ascare was raised one morning
over a snake in the woods, and how She
and her sister scampered to a place of
safety in a moment, and then turned to
pity the scrambling, tumbling, shrieking
group of long-skirted sisters, who We're so
tied VI in the folds of their gowns that
could scarcely move,
House gowns still keep their long grace
full folds, and there is something about
the trailing garments of a woman thar
is extremely graceful and attractive. but
it will soon be time now for the rainy day
clubs to come to the fore again, and. as
wheels and tennis courts will still hold
their own for two months, it is fair to
predict that before another season has
passed the woman who wears a long skirt
of doors Will be as rare a sight as
were who donned short ones last
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