The San Francisco call., 1898-05-29

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 ~- Last year she was new; the GS O year before she was newer; and
 the year before she was newest. This year she is settled and she knows how to dress herself.
 Bicycle dresses were bizarre two years ago and last season they were not much better But the bicycle styles this year are all that can be desired. They are really beautiful creations, such as one would not hesitate to wear anywhere.
 In travelling through New England last Tall l was surprised to notice how many women wore bicycle dresses On the cars, on the boat and journeying by stage and over land, the bicycle dress was the rule and the long skirt the exception. It was really refreshing to note how these New England ladies stepped on and off the railroad trains without getting entan- gled in long skirt. It was delightful to see how easily they handled their bag gage without cumbersome folds to bother them. After a little practice with the short skirt one becomes really grace 1ul, and 1t is safe to say that the long traVeling skirt has been banished from New England forever.
 Would that this might be the rule in other parts of the country In August on Q steaming hot day what is more refresh ing than the sight Of a young woman in trim bicycle skirt with natty low shoes and comfortable blouse waist? And what is more enjoyable to the young woman herself than such a travelling garb?
 l noticed last week on a train going to LenOX, that fashionable Mecca for wealthy New Workers, young woman in a travelling suit which caught my eye at once. It was so fit The skirt was made of very light weight wool goods with a fine dot scattered over it and through it The waist was of the same material with straps and belt of thin white patent leather. The hat was a Tam of leather and cloth with plumes stuck in one side
 But the neatest thing was the adjust ment of the skirt. This consisted of a row or large smoked pearl buttons set at in- ierVals of three inches around the hips Connecting the buttons and the belt was little silver chain. This chain; on being pulled at one side would lift the skirt un- III IL was Of convenient bicycle length
 saw another, later. which had links in- stead of buttons, the silver chain running through the links. This struck me as be- Ing more reliable, as the chain could not slip off the rings as easily as it could off the buttons.
 The bloomer bicycle girl is almost gone; put not quite. You still see her. She wears very large bloomers which are so arranged that when she stands you would scarcely notice that they were not skirts. Indeed, you would hardly notice that fact even when she rides. The boomers are each two yards around and are brought up ana hooked around the leg in Turkish touSeI fashion. They are gathered around the belt with godet in the back so that really you would not be conscious of ne uIoo5ner- The divided skirt and mat the bioomer hooks around the knee W1IIe the divided skirt falls open. 1he SIX shirt waist will be worn largely Cn the wheel. HcH can get a quality of silk that really does wash. It is a china SIX. Such as Is used in mems neckties It -.,.-L3o -- -o4oers perfectly; The shirt waist is l-llng blouse Avoid making a shirt waist Witl IuI blouse for the wheel The wind lAiIates the blouse and produces a most loon on a bicycle
 Have the waist as blouse as you please. put Tt IL close at the sides and back and -eL IT blouse only in the front
 mere Is a very trim skirt for the cen l-Il HCer or for those who like to spend z great deal of time upon the wheel. It buttons a the side, conceaIing a voluroir- ous pocket. This skirt is very short and | Is or dust color Quartz gray is an ex- SSe-!eIlt shade for bicycle skirt, as it pos- ] S@-<lT @ | Is lined with a bright scarlet which | I4iyslt 1+1 Tt-s IL very ornamental on the wheel | pat3siS l9sIleS of scarlet show as the bicyclist PSGaIS her way along the roads
 1o1 can Say what you will about the ,nc+ CJ pe worn, but after all there Is | Aolhlng like the shirt waist A little jack ct or light coat can be lied on inc b9nj4o H.
 
 oars 10 be put on in case of shower ar if a c0ol breeze springs up. But for regular cycling nothing will do except the shirt
 The newest things in bicycle sufts ara me dresses in which more attention iS pald to the lining than to the dress r3a terlal. This Is positively true of all ina imported suits, and ali those that are l now attracting attention in Central parlr i 1 neSe dresses are the very acme of stvla ana are so chic in effect that vOr cCnid not help stopping to admire them. Their length Is about to the calf of the leg. and their color is dull shade of brown or gray or blue. Nothing very brilliant is Worn- But when it comes to the lining it is q different matter
 One of these dresses seen that sun- shiny Sunday a week ago was of new leaf green goods, lined with violiene near silk shirt waist of violiene China siil, was worn, and over it set a little iacket with very short ripple around the waist The ripple was lined with violiene tai feta-
 The hat was of green, with q scarlet bird with purple tail-feathers. The gloves were white. This costume. while not at all startling in effect. was very becoming, and was one of the prettiest seen that Sunday in a long array of fashionable riders. It is quite the thing to have your stock ings match your dress skirt. This if the match be good, is a very excellent idea without the cumbersomeness of the same. | With steel gray skirt and steel gray stockings the young woman can cycle in black ties without attracting half the at tention which she would if she wore black shoes and stockings, as the contrast be- tween stockings and skirt is very great. | Taffeta Things in bicycle skirts are a plague. They tear so soon and hang in long fringes around the feet. And here a