The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-26

WOMAN'S
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If you will ask the average woman
how much the style in shoes can change
In a Year she may say mot at ALL but
on second thought she will tell you that
there are subtle changes all the time
which, at the end of the year, count for
/ great deal.
There have been so many things for
the clubwomen to discuss hat the de-
nunciation of the French heel has made
the most of the hull and crept back into
vogue.
For the house two styles of foot wear
are used-a heavy. broad, thick, rolled tie,
either entirely Of patent leather with
large brass eyelets for the broad silk
strings. or heavy black tan leather with
black heels and soles.
Then there is the Puritan slipper of
soft tan leather with a narrow square
toe, quite a heavy extension sole. a high
1aring tongue and leather bow held by a
nickle buckle. There seems scarcely to
be an end to the vagaries in house slip
pers. 1t looks, sometimes. as though the
odds n ends of the dressmaker had
been purchased for the purpose of MAX
ing pretty fancy slippers.
For the boudoir a dainty slipper is a
null with just the cloth toe of Scotch
plaid silk and pasted over the dangerous
ly high heel is the same silk. Across the
lnstep is a band of black fur.
For evening slippers ones fancy can
have full sway. Satin ties in all colors
or dancing slippers made from a scrap of
the gown with which they are to be worn
are seen.
For a quiet little dance there are pat
emit leather slippers with high red heels
or the smartest little patent leather
pumps" made very manish with little
or no heels.
The fur lined brocaded silk evening
boots to wear right over the dancing slip
per are clumsy looking, but Indispensable
to a girl who goes out a great deal. These
are often seen in a cable car or elevated
train of an evening, as well as in a cab.
The velvet-covered, fur-edged foot warm
ers used in a Victoria or Landau are very
comforting.
From shoes to stockings is but a step,
and as many novelties are shown in one
as the other. The most marked is the
return of clocks, gayly embroidered on
black, blue or maroon silken hose, some
times in the form of a rose vine. or again,
just green leaves. but the embroidery is
always in light shades.
Nickel blue stockings are powdered
with white silk polka dots. and navy blue
stockings have bias light Roman stripes
running around.
Plaided stockings in silk or fine CASH
mere are more used than ever: some
times the pIaids are bias, but often
straight.
The half-colored stockings are not used
as much as formerly, but an odd pair
were checker boarded with black and
white half way up, then black alone.
Open-work stockings are the favorites
for evening, quite often showing real lace
~appliqued. Stockings with sequin trim
ming over the instep are actually seen,
but, of course, they are to be worn only
with slippers.
Fancy stockings are so expensive that
many women with more taste han
money, are making them at home. They
buy the plain stocking and embroider it
to suit the slippers.
In shoes for winter a dull finish Is
sought. This is put on with a kid glove,
which has been wrung out of oil until
almost dry. The shoe gets, in this way,
a dull, dressy finish which is admirable.
On pleasant lays the shoes come forth
shining, for then patent feathers are
worn.
1t is the style in Philadelphia to be
healthy. therefore, warm, comfortable
stockings are worn in the street. and
stout, good shoes. The paper sole is
for dancing only, or for the par1or; but
in the street its Thin and necessarily sog-
gy appearance is a sign of poverty.
Not the least striking thing about a
man when he goes a~-shopping is his
tendency to buy things Wholesale, writes
a clever woman commentator. You saw
this propensity in fine working order
while the holiday crush was on. At
counters where a woman would select a
single article, a man would say Here,
I'll just tax a dozen O these and often
er it was two dozen. The fact that the
twelve or twenty-four recipients of the
little notebooks or silver-tipped blotters or
penwipers might perehance compare pres
ents didn't seem to enter into the pur-
chaser's calculations; he had happened to
strike some article that it suited him to
buy, and, manlike, the effect such a
scheme might nave on others was of
small account so long as he, personally,
was satisfied.
The same propensity reveals itself at
other times, however; it is simply raised
to the dozenth power during the Christ
mas shopping crush. A woman went to
see an intimate friend not long ago
and found the latter engaged in I'M
packing and storing away in an empty
closet a quantity of toilet soap. you're
not setting UP a shop for toilet articlesp',
cried the woman at the sight of the big
packing case filled with soap. 'Oh,
dear, no." replied the intimate friend. 81
only wish we were, then there'd be
some chance to get rid of the stun It's
merely Mr.. Blanks Interpretation of my
request to order some toilet soap when
he went to town yesterday. I asked for
"a few cakes he sends out a gross.
"It seems impossible for the masculine
mind to regard things, particularly pur-
chasable things, in anything but a large
wholesale way. Our small, feminine,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS way of
shopping is apparently impossible to
them. Under sudden stress / once asked
Mr.. Blank to bring me out from town
a parasol. He brought a dozen, all ex-
actly alike. He said he couldn't see the
use of buying just the single article when
YOU could get the dozen all at once"
This points to another reason for mems
propensity for wholesale shopping. Men
are so accustomed to dealing with large