The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-29

The heads of the great stores look upon
this matter of display from another point
| of view, and I certainly do not blame
them, and just now it seems as though
they had surpassed themselves. One win
dow this week is given up entirely to the
dainty new silks, and as this particular
house always makes it's spring display
| while the others are trying to sell smarked
Down winter goods, it is not only up to
date, but considerably in advance of date.
In this lot of spring silks the thing one
first notices is the softer and daintier col
| ors, and next it dawns upon one.that they
nearly all are stripes or plaids or fne PIN
head checks. This last named design has
always been a ~favorite one and is neat and
pleasing. There is a frosty sheen over the
surface that is unusually pretty and is, I
was told, due to some application of cleo
tricity at some period of it's manufacture.
This kind is crisp and like the glazed tat
feta.
There are clan plaids, but mostly in
medium and small designs, in solid blocks.
The stripes have the delicate haziness that
| comes with the surah twill, though the
| silk is not twilled. The stripes vary in
| width, some being almost hair line, others
inch wide and some pieces nave stripes Of
the widths set rather tar apart. There are
| also numberIess pieces of silks in solid
color and in a deft mixture of two shades.
Black taffetas and soft lusterless midas
and pongees are shown, too, and I am told
that they will be made up into bodices and
blouses of every description and also that
the pongee will be employed to make up
~lounging and home summer dresses. They
will be in a modified Mother Hubbard
choro with vnloc nf nod r7c1lnyv m hI1Q
velvet Or silk with lace drawn over them.
Peau de sole and some faille are presented
for richer wear, and no end of black silks
with satin tigurings and also duchesse.
These latter are for separate skirts.
The barred ~taffetas are in all the tender
new spring colors, among them the prin-
cipal ones being salmon n coral pink,
reseda, cadet, gray, fawn and beige. Cher
! ry, lilac, turquoise and blue are all among
the new oolors. The brocaded silks will
not be worn except for separate skirts and
even then the preference is for ottoman,
sicilienne and the ribbed bengalines and
MORE. In ribbons there seems to be every
thing. The roman and bayadere stripes
will doubtless be useful as trimming for
children'S hats, and also for some run
about hats for their older sisters. The
wide plaids for sashes are very rich, but
will cost too much to be worn very gen.
orally. The dainty striped satin ribbons
are SO very artistic that it seems as if every
one ought to want them just to look at, if
not to wear. Gauze and other transparent
black ribbons are light and will make
handsome garhiture for the straw hats
now in course of preparation. Poplin
weayes are shown in some of the striped
ribbons, the stripes being in satin. Satin
ribbon is seen to an unusual extent and
in all widths. In black it will be used to
trim all sorts Of garments, either in fiat
lines or plated up into ruches or ruffles.
Plush and velours du nord are, among the
goods for spring mantles and it is predict
ed that they and velvet will have a run
next fall never before seen. Satin berber
and bebgaline ought to be cheaper than
they arc, seeing hat there is scarcely any
silk in them, nearly the whole weight be-
ing obtained of linen, cotton or hard twist
ed wool. Poplins are now offered in solid
colors and It is pretty enough, but very
| little use for hard wear.
IN the new woods we have old weaves In
new colors and designs. Whipcord is one
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