The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-15


sensation among the spectators. French
people love pretty crock ans much as
good acting, and in thds instance their
taste has thoroughly gratfied.
Actresses wear their costumes with a
grace and p-icturesqueness unknown to
ordinary people. and the dresses Of old
Venice lace with mauve orchids and
crimson roses tackled in at the waist, of
pale yellow muslin over white silk and
lace, of ivory painted cloth with a stole
and a trimming of turquoise, Z of
nasturtium silk embroidered with beads
and steel and decorated with white
orchids, and met with the fullest approval
and admiration.
Excepting where a Who'll shirt is worn,
no white Line serves to freshen the stuff
dress. Linen dickeys and collars are
off somewhere on furlough, and the
tadlor-dressed women uses a straight,
neat. marrow %turnove band of bright
satin. or she lets, according to latest adj
vices, a perfect doll baby OF geranium
satin quilting to peep out all around the
circle Of her high, dark-stuff necband.
Her sleeves are set, with three box
plaits, into the top of her armhole, and
at the wrist. They are invariably fin
ished in one of three ways-wfth braid
ed lines, q fiaring drop cuff, clear to her
knuckles, or a short bell turn back from
her hand. Buttons are used ever SO
sparingly, n those employed not large
nor very conspicuous, while later on.
when 1t grows too worm to wear a COR
duroy chirt. with a double-breasted cloth
coat. a horde of irresistibly attractive
little bolero Jackets will be dow upon
us. They promise to be braided, not
to meet by three inches over the bust.
and to exploit smau-pointed revers. But
this is all in anticipation of distant March
and Easter hnery.
Familiar fabrics among the fresh bolts
on the tailors' tables are blue and black
mohair serges, face cloth in pheasant
brown ane pine-green camels hair. These
two lest are new shades. And not a
novelty, but almost the most popular
goods for travelling suits. are Black
Watch. Gordon, Hunting, tuart and Fife
tartans. Their sober ~stripings are en-
HANGED by the gayest of plaid Innings,
and the voyagers toward Southern Cali
fornia or Canadian chimes wear, with
coats and shirts of them, high-buttoned
bright satin waistcoats that nave their
own collars and Haunting plaid neckties.
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Crepes and mousselines de sole furnish
beautiful toilettes, especially when en-
broidered or ornamented with inerusta-
lions of velvet and lace, such as valen-
c~iernes, guipures, English point, and
Gf1Jddnd uifh inUvo1c AOofn xrnry oh Tm-
ing are applications of mousseline de sole
upon such a mousseline-a novelty of
yesterday, which has become all the rage
today. Highly fashionable are also skirts
of white taffeta covered with another of
white mousseline de sole, pleated sun
burst" style, ~garlanded with flowers of
pale green mousseline de sole, inerusted.
and the contours outlined with a ribbing
of pale green silk. Each flower has in
the centre a small piece of strass dia-
mond. The toilette is completed by a
low-necked bodice of white mousseline
de sole with double revers of white
satin and pale green velvet, which are
entirely embroidered with pearls and dia-
monds, and open to reveal a choker en-
broidered with Jewels.
80
Some women displayed exceedingly bad
taste In the selection of the wells they
wear. Few realize to what extent COM
plexion troubles are due to the cover
ings that envelope the face during the
walks and drives taken about the city,
many of which are u~nbecoming, If not
injurious. Take. for instance, the dotted
black net most in favor. You wear it
and wear it so long as a thread of it is
wearable. 1t costs too much, you argue,
to be lightly tossed aside after a few
times out.
This is true enough. Women who wish
to be considered stylish must pay for 1t,
and nothing pays better than a really
elegant mesh as a face shield, but bet
ter never wear a veil unless you can af-
ford to wear one that is ~hygenicalIy re-
spectacle. The average We. is not. This
is a broad statement, but one which adj
mits of no denial. To save the complex
ion from dust particle the very best plan
to follow if you insist upon a friendly
covering is to wear only two styles of
yelling and these should be white every
time.
White, always white, is the tint that
is a complexion beautiier. 1t may be
chiffon. when you can tub it like a p.ecei
of white muslin, or may be tulle, This
is dainty enough for a queen, provided
1t is spotlessly clear. White wells show
at just the right moment when your COM
plexion is being damaged. At the first
sign of c%loudiness you must change this
piece of yelling for one that is perfectly
free from dust particles.
Such advice sounds ex~travagant. Very
well, If you can't afford this extrava-
gance don't attempt to nave a veil box.
80
Trimmed skirts gain in favor, and the
manner of applying the decorations is al
most 1imitless. Arabesque braiding and
straight rows and yandykes of Milan
braid are very popular. Stylish cloth
skirts are trimmed knee deep with lines
of narrow silk and metal gimp or two
inch bias bands of velvet in a. contrast
ing color. these bands set about an inch
and a half apart. Other skirts are trim
med downward from the belt to half the
length of the skirt, or else from the skirt
edge up, as is most becoming. A pretty
effect is produced with braid in two
widths. the wider in the centre. making
three rows on each skirt seam, with a
trefoil at the end.
Dress skirts are much narrower. but the
ordinary one Of everyday life will remain
plain, save, perhaps, for graduated lines.
of braid or perpendicular bands carried
down the seams; but broad bands at the
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