The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-19


had for the past three months and more
over our shoulders, says Dorothy Maddox
in the Philadelphia enquirer They have
glued their ewes with ~ecstatic JOY to the
pair that pleased them and openly jeered
at razor-edged collar bones and shoulder
blades.
our daring. our audacity was something
staggering. We wore guimpes, guimpes
such as infants in cradles wear. We were
piriish when we should have been matron-
II. we were kittenish when we should
have been sober sides, and all because
we were guimped within an inch of our
lives.
Three short months ago I wager not
one benighted man in a hundred knew
the meaning Of the word "guimpe-' Not
so today. Today he is wise. He can
tell the cut and make of one of the shoul-
der n armlet covers down to the tucks
ana insertion spread over its giddy
widths.
we have educated the animal. and in
the process if we haven't made hoty
shows of ourselves no women ever did.
l am not a prude, | hate a prude- 30
do all of us who have two grains of COM
mon sense. There is nothing prudish in
affecting to out and out shocks They
RS came DIS Lit SulliAt1C4 1~J@
greater force. The display of flesh grew
reckless. Some displays were seductive,
some pitiful.
We took our shoulders shopping with
us. Wei. to be sure, we always have to
do that. but not quite as We did this past
season. When did we not take them?
Thaes was a fimsy drape of something
and We called it, for courtesy's sake, a
guimpe. Sometimes there were big holes
in it. sometimes tiny ones. And through
these the dust of the city traffic sifted,
the dust of country lanes settled, the
sands of the shore filtered.
1 remember one pair of shoulders com
ing back 10 my cottage and when the
gui:npe shat covered them was taken off
those shoulders looked and felt like sand
paDer. Every delicate pore was cloggea
with minute black s2seks. Interested men
were asking ali during the summer what
the women could be thinking about. One
told how in tona he had sean shoulders
and arms that made nin positively sick
they were SO piastarsd With CRIME from
shifting particles Of dust.
Girls used 10 taas las.r shoulders and
arms with them out esa55tng, sai.fng'
fishing, lounging and tasa tkey would
come homa with sha sorriest liesh. II
had to be done up in creams or aathed
in lotions ana how the tan IS ever % be
gotten rid Of IS 1 question. There IS galng
to De sons Styling As ioa1 as furnace
bellows when the time comes % wear ban
gowns.
Shoulders clothed. n tissue oeloag 70
moonlight and starligh. and waxsn saper5
and for very full dress, but never 20 the
unrelaEtlass glare Of daylight.
We'll, we are under cover once more;
out of doors at least. The mere apology
for a guimpe has found its way TO the
rag bag or is doing duty asspart Of a house
gown. The men are sorry ana am glad
Ny protest looks as If 1t had been u lii
tie late getting here. Let me tell the
whole truth. I cross my heart as I used
to when a kid and declare honor bright
1 was afraid to utter a syllable against
our clothes fad until october winds had
whist.ed it out of sight.
I should nave made so many enemies.
The guimpes were ready to wear. They
had costs heaps of money and l might
have cried them down from the house
tops. What difference would it have
made2
A woman does not work over a fancy
as we worked over our pet guimpe to
IdKE 4 L 5AOgE0 I'LL " SIT - N<Ct
There is no shaft of sarcasm that can
strike it. We become as imperious, as a
water tight macintosh to hints, taunts
and angelic advice if we once make up
our feminine minds that a thing has got
to go.
And next year? Don't let's bother
about next year. Yes, let's. Why we
shall hardly get well Struggled under our
woolens and furs before we shall have to
shed them and then will we begin all over
again to plan more guimpes?
/ shouldn't be a bit surprised. If we had
plump shoulders and white skin we took
all sorts of malicious delight this summer
in making the scrawny ones and the SAT
from tinted ones feel completely out of II.
That is woman's way. She cannot help
IT any more than she could when she was
a mite of six and gloated over her new
shoes because her p~laynate's toes were
out on the ground.
We are lovely at times. And the again
we are the q~ueerest souls that ever set
foot on terra irma,
.sRich and rare were the gems shewore."
That's true enough, but one might as well
add, rich and rare are her ribbons. also.
OF a truth there has never been a time
when ribbons were more varied and beau
tiful. nor a time when these same airy
fairy, beau-catehery streamers were worn
in greater abundance. You simply can't
have too many. The only thing is that
they must be caught on according to the
present mode; that is. sewed down tight,
whether straight, in Fuckers or %ruffles,
big bunchy bows or what not. The old
beau-cateher streamer in practically un-
known.
And these graceful, shimmery lengths
of huttery loneliness range in price from
three cents to 50 a yard. The baby rib
bon is the former, as we all know Though
now it's only used for wrought work and
bunchy ~tasseis, and the babies for whom
twas first ~intendedl, while the latter may
be almost anything from wonderful Per-
sian effects, fairly wide as silk, to SPLEEN
did and exquisite broche effects, with any
number of puckering strings. strings for
making said ribbon into fiounces or puffs
or rosettes- If you don't choose to pucker
them. the strings become simply rich, or
namental cordings.
The tiny baby ribbon is no longer the
favorIte for o~rnamenting lingerie, and
MADAME &c 4fred nf r5,nnfn0 da7anr ~