The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22

part Of Ivory satin with brown Silk
raised polka dots. The underskirt was
of dark mixed brocade in oriental de-
sign. There was a small figaro ar
rangsnent of the darker silk, with mar
row black lace at the edge. The front
and sides were exceptionally pretty,
while the back had a terribly fiat look.
Yet this very flat appearance is seen
quite often.
remember seeing on Easter morning
a very swell young lady with a loyaly
ashes Of rosez broaccloth suit. The
front Of tho skirt had a quare tunic.
the corners embroidered in white with
a touch of silver. Below that tunic was
a deep accordion plated ruffie OF silk
null or lisse reaching to he hem Of
the dress. The ruffie reached up toward
the back. but lost itself somewhere
about half way up. leaving the rest to
look very plain and unfinished and
scanty. Not all the glories of a wonder
fully befrilled and embroidered cape
could make it look right in the back.
There is some new lace just out. and
it is so woven as to give the impress
sion that 1t is festooned. 1t is woven in
| scallops, with the design of the festoon
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sewed on a garment almost fiat and yet
give the appearance of a rich fullness.
This is to be used for sewing on skirts
to simulate a tunic effect. Point de
venise "all over is used to make
sleeves, boleros. yokes and in a few in
stances tunics. Plain brussels net is
used to a very great extent in drap-
ing over other hin goods and also as
Foundation to chantilly. to which it gives
a new and agreeable lightness.
For elegant gowns for summer for
matrons and all young ladies not in
their first season there are crepons and
more crepons. There is almost no limit
to the different designs to these ma
terials. Some are of wool, others of
silk, and others again have a silk plush
foundation on which the silk crepon
seems to rest lightly. Polka dots of
raised velvet are also seen on some de-
signs, some very large n others quite
small, more like epingline. The blister
crepons are fixed up in some way so
that they show regular little squares.
Dots are really a vogue, and there is
nothing that does not show them. 1 no.
ticed a hat in one place where large silk
bows were covered with fine net where
on were wrought chenille dots as large
az q nickel. These look very large I'M
der the circumstances. Yelling lace Is
also dotted. some of 1t with chenille.
One half moon veil has a fine mesh, ev-
cry fourth corner having a small silk
dot, while all around the edge il a fan
cy border formed Of small chenille dots.
There are also chenille dots over the
central part, but sparsely scattered
and SO arranged that the dots cannot
come directly over the eyes. At the
very edge of the veil is a row of small
chenille balls like beads.
The new stiff STOCK collars have al
ready proved popular. These are made
of velvet, of silk, satin and white pique.
The newest idea is one where there is
a large gilt buckle, just like a harness
buckle in shape. This fastens through
q flap with eyelets. This style Of stock
is intended to almost if not quite do
away with white linen collars, the
pique stock answering all purposes for
which the linen collars are used, and
they are easier managed.
The black scarf with white ribbon, or
vice versa, Is the most stylish. Others
have chantilly lace gallons set on, with
perhaps a ruffie at the bottom. There
is a great variety of these. and all are
pretty.
There are also some novelties in fan
cy silk, beaded and spangled, buttons
and loops and bowknots and other de-
tached designs in jet pa~ssementerie. A
dressy arrangement Is made of crepe
lisse ruffles massed together SO that
they are from one inch to four inches
wide. The whole mass is then sewed
to a stiff net and used as a vest front
to a handsome waist.