The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15

,ameos. me largest IN the center. These
all had settings of small diamonds, and
between the canoes all around were oval
stones of a milky luster. They were not
opals. vet had something Of the faint col
oring. They were set in a fine hlagree
design which covered their surface like a
delicate lace
For afternoons there are also some
really fine brooches, buttons, pins, buc-
kles and bracelets of very pale anne
thysts. When an amethyst is lightened
M with a few brilliants it is not only
handsome, but fine enough for any me-.
We see few Cyrano chains and hearts,
and the four leaf clover lockets are alb
sent, but instead we see little watches
with great chains, great in girth and
short in length. There are two of these
to each watch, hanging it in chatelaine
style. Some hoop earrings are worn, but
/ fancy that they are simply heirlooms,
and worn because they are so quaint, or
to prove that the wearer had a grand
mother.
A novel idea was shown in an organdie
dress for a slender young girl. The
waist was laid in narrow plaits from
neck to belt, and from the belt down the
skirt - or IA inches. There they sloped
off, giving the skirt its fullness. Across
the waist was a crossed band of wide
Limerick lace. Another band encircled
the sleeves high up. Around the bottom
of the skirt were two rows of black vel
vet ribbon edged ON both sides with very
narrow ruf1es of white lace. Epaulets
were made Of white lace. The color Of
the organdie was green over lilac. The
hat to match was of black and green
straw with drapery of lilac malines, and
with a whole bunch of lilacs and a cou-
pie of roses placed on the top of the low
crown.
1t is in Saratoga that the picture hat,
with its flowers and sweeping plumes,
has its being, and here it belongs. | saw
one hat copied from some old painting.
The brim was wide and soft and of the
finest leghorn. 1t was faced under the
brim all around with a shirring of Italian
Grape the exact color of the stain. On
the outside there was a white silk null
drapery ending in one loop held up by a
steel and turquoise buckle. From this
started three sweeping plumes of the
finest fullest ostrich fues. One was
pale blue and the other two delicate
straw color. They lay rather fiat to the
crown. The brim was bent and pinched
up high on the left side, to drop down de-
cidedly Oh tho other. The blue feather
curled over the high edge of the brim. 1t
was altogether lovely.
Almost curious was another summer
promenade hat. Its style was undenia-
bic. The hat was in shepherdess form
and of black coarse straw, with 1uted
edges. On the left side, starting from
the front, was an imitation plume made
of closely gathered black brussels net,
the edges pinked. Then from the right
side, starting from under the lace plume,
was a real one. This was so long that
after crossing the front and right side it
dropped almost to the shoulders in the
back. These two plumes formed the en-
tire trimming and were certainly enough
Though the hat was as black as the
night bird Of Erebus, it had no mourning
look, and worn as it was over a dainty
apple bloom pink dress it was simply ir-
resistible, particularly as the wearer was
a golden blonde.
I was talking with a charming old lady
who has been visiting Saratoga for more
years than she cared to tell, and she said
that while there is certainly much fine
dressing here now it cannot compare in
| elaborateness with what it was when she
was young. She says that in the morn
| ing the ladies came down in most elegant
morning wrappers. covered with lace and
embroidery and ribbons.