The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-01

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when only one lacing is used.
"A woman who dresses a great deal,
and always up to the occasion. really
needs a variety of ~corsets. A decollete
gown calls for a low-eut corset that con-
forms to the shape of the bodice. while a
tailor-made costume requires a corset
high above the bust and long on the abdo-
men. The negligee robe de chambre has a
corset that is merely a bust-support. The
] bicycle corset is usually a ventilated af-
fair made quite short from the waist
down, and has fewer bones than any
other. The corset for the Empire gown
is little more than a belt. showing little
or nc bust curve. And SO it goes, making
the wearing of corsets a thing Of comfort
if properly fitted.
The tendency mon women to take up
physical culture and athletics has not
driven out corssts. but mas done much
toward improving them. Modern times
have seen the anatomy of The human
figure SO carefully studied that the corset
has become an clement of comfort. and
some physicians SLY OF good health.
ITO be laced, in the general acceptatien
of the term, is now considered the height
of ~yulgarity. 1t is quite natural the waist
should be smaller than the bust or hips,
but it need not be fairly %strangled into an
hour-glass shape. What is wanted in a
corset is plenty of room at the bust and
on the hipe, with no pressure on the ribs
to interfere with breathing. Few of us
| are constructed on the lines of the ideal
figure, so that much of the beauty of our
form depends upon a good-fitting corset"
What makes a well-dressed woman? Is
it her milliner. her dressmaker or her
tailor? No! Rather it is the woman
herself; and she who knows how to put
her clothes on is the really well-dressed
woman. The art of wearing clothes is
largely a gift, but by patience and untir-
ing zeal it may be acquired.
First of all there is the charm of in
dividualNy-give that full play. A free,
graceful carriage adds more to that in
tangible something called style than all
the CONNECTIONS of the cleverest French
modiste. A becoming arrangement of
the hair is next in Importance, as untidy
or ill-kept tresses Will spoil the most
elegant toilette.
A woman who dresses in a hurry can
never be classed among the noble army
of well-dressed women. Let her gown be
ever so simple. a duck skirt, a well
ironed shirt-waist, an untrimmed sailor
hat, if properly put on, and all the little
accessories carefully looked to. may make
SO chic an ensemble that a less fortunate
sister who does not know the art of
wearing her clothes. will turn green with
envy. even though she herself wear a
Partisan costume or a tailor-built gown.
Look to it, then, that none of the little
things be sighted Linen immaculate,
shoes neat and well-itting, belt firmly adj
justed, gloves all that gloves ought to be,
veil guiltless of rent or ~stain-these are
the little things that go to make the we'll
dressed woman. May her tribe increase.
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81 wish I could make my girls UNDER
stand" writes Ruth Ashmore, addressing
The Girl Who Aspires to Art" in the
September Ladies' Home Journal that
while each one should aspire to the best
work. that girl is foolish who, having been
once made conscious of her mistake, per-
sists in offering mediocre work tina de-
serves no recognition whatever. If you
feel that you have the artistic instinct
and the love for color, then seek for your
self a good art school, and find out in
what branch of work your ability lies;
you will then be more apt to attain the
position you long for than If you are con-
tent with self-culture. 1t is a practical i'm
possibility for you to teach yourself. If
you have foolishly believed all the praise
that has been given yousthen be sure you
Will never succeed. You will be wasting
your money in going to any school. Put
out of your pretty head some of the silly
fanefes that are there. The girl who
learns to draw a good wallpaper design.
who learns how to combine colors so that
a rich-looking rug is the result. who un-
derstands how to embeIlish a book with
a suitable cover-she is the girl who can
be called an artist. She does not ask the
world to look upon her from a
point of view, because she has claims to
distinction and can demand recognition.
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The autumn bride will find that her
travelling dress will be the exception that
proves the rule that all skirts will be
founced or ruffled during the coming sea-
son. The travelling gown has a plain
skirt and the waists not overloaded with
trimming. A beige brown or soft gray
with lilac reflections in it) will be in
good taste. Gray seems the proper thing
for a brides travelling dress, quite indie
pendent from the circumstances of its
being the incoming fashionable tint. A
ho~psacking with not too close a mesh
looks well over a pretty lining silk of cleo
trio blue or other color fancied specially
by the individual. This would do for a
fall dress, but the thrifty maiden will
no doubt select a cheviot. serge or camels-
hair cloth hat can be worn far into the
winter as a walking dress. Rough sur
faces will be in demand for such pur-
pose. Notwithstanding we all know that
a smooth surface rejects dust better thar
a rough or crepe cloth.
A very smart and trim looking maiden
proceeds to the the bathing beach at the
c%anonical hour with her knitted Guern-
sey tmore euphonious name for sweater)
Of deep Guaranteed pulled over her shouI-
ders. 1t certainly looks more orderly to
see the human form divine" more fully
clothed until the moment of going in
the surf. To pull off the guernsey is the
work of a ONE and there it is again
ready when you emerge from the dip.
ready to put on for the game of ball
on the sands which some frolicsome girls
and youths and a frisky matron beside
are wont to indulge in to round up the
mornings a-musements.
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