The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-12
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The woman who cares for outdoor
sports is carefully preparing or planning
the best possible costume for the coming
season. Every year sweIls the ranks with
women devoted to bicycling. golf or not a
few refuse TO give UP horseback riding.
There is every indication that horseback
riding will be more popular than ever
with those able to afford the luxury. The
silent steed, the bicycle. gained its great
popularity principally because of its
cheapness and convenience. The correct
styles of riding habits are just as care
fully quoted as the latest golf waist or
bicycle skirt. That linen is used for rid
ing skirts, to be worn with shirt waists,
and a sailor hat is a very sensible idea
for the summer. OF course, this style is
limited for country or out-of-town riding.
The habit for afternoon within the city
walls is very severe and plain. The skirt
is short. just covering the feet and with
no fullness whatever. The coat is three
quarters length, small revers and tight
fitting sleeves. The last mentioned item
is to be deplored. Sleeves may be close
fitting, but never tight fitting. The mus
cles of the arm should be allowed free
play and in no way should the rider feel
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appearance is perfect Inconsistencies
and ease in the saddle A restive horse
is more readily quoted if the rider is not
hampered with her clothes. The Derby
hat is rapidly replacing the high hat; the
former is thought to give a smarter
air and finish to a costume.
Bicycling costumes have now become
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wardrobe that the smart tailors are reap
ing a great harvest. If one does much
wheeling it is far better to nave a relia-
BILE tailor make a costume and economize
in some other direction. Last summer
many women in the country found that
nearly the entire day was spent in a bicy-
Gle costume. Only the approach of the
dinner hour would compel them to change
for some dressy or poetic dream of a
gown. This year the tailors are learning
that there should not be any unnecessary
fullness in the bicycle skirt. The bloom
ers. knickerbockers and divided skirt are
all giving away to the well cut and well
hung circular skirt. In the shops the
skirts are said to be worn down to the
shoe tops. and hung with great care and
precision. The ~fullness is massed in the
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usually opens on the side. This is seen
by the curved flap with a row Of buttons.
1t is a hard problem for the enthusiastic
wheelwoman to solve, that is, to look as
we'll off the wheel as on, or vice versa
Many have given up the problem and only
aim to appear at the best advantage when
on the silent steed. sitting erect and in
correct position. Underneath knicker-
bockers or the equestrian n tights are worn.
The former may. be. of the. same material
as the skirt for early spring riding, but
usually the heavy cloth of the first is too
warm. Pongee, India silk or satin are
liked by some riders, and made in very
narrow boomers. Linen is also a very
popular material for midsummer riding.
The small jackets, shaped like Elton, are
preferred to the smart three-quarter
length jacket, because the Elton is readily
folded and strapped on the handle-bar If
it becomes too warm. Tt is usually devoid
of revers, n hanging loose. The one
thing to be remembered is that plaid
stockings are not becoming to large feet
and ankles, while tan shoes and stockings
are less conspicuous when dusty than
black mes.
The doubIe-faced cloths introduced by
the golf capes have always found such
favor that a light weight is-now made
for bicycle skirts. Thus when carefully
made the wearer has practically two
skirts, by turning one inside out. But
care should be taken that the plain navy
blue or black does not AVE a too brill
liant plaid lining. The golf skirt is not
cut materially different from the bicycle
skirt, though it is a trife longer. Ex-
perienced players claim that the cotton
shirt waists are too cool and that a light
woolen or silk are much better for all oc-
casions. Sometimes the cotton or linen
shirt waists are worn over light weight
wooden underwear.
The golf coat is the attractive feature
of the costume on the golf links, as it is
always red. with a collar of the club col
ors. The giitterirg touch of the gilt but
tons lends an irresistible charm to it all.
Both the single and double-breasted coats
will be worn. But it is considered mex
cusabIe taste to wear a blouse or Elton
jacket of red as a finishing up of the golf
costume. With just a word about golf
sunbonnets. They are quaint, pretty and
useful. Some are made of dimity and
others are fashioned out of Powered mus
lin. The exposure to wind, sun and per-
haps rain is very trying to even a very
enthusiast site golfer" Then something
must protect the eyes from the blazing
rays of the sun if the game is continued
Throughout the day. So the s~unbonlets of
our grandmotlers, with the smartening
touch of the fin de steele girl, is thought
to be just the thing to save the complex
ion. Of course. there are many girls who
still cling to the soft felt hats with broad
brims. easily bent into shading form for
the eyes. or it is possible to wear a sailor
or Alpine hat and play golf well.
Fashions in wall paper and hin are
reverting to those of the early part of the
century.
1t is the very newest thing to have the
side of a large dining room paneled off
with a scene representing a gondola drift
ing down the waters of the Nile, or show
ing peacocks trailing magnificent tails
oyer impossible walls round a garden of
Eden sort of place with a summer house
in the center.
These cover a wall anywhere from ten
TO thirty feet long, and they are so made
that they can be separated and the parts
used as panels between doors and VIM
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