The Jersey City news., 1901-04-10
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

"+~tSe SHu 1ur collars We have returned
10 our allegiance to all manner of pretty
haHy collarettes. They are re-editions of
me ooas We exploited last autumn, hung
VITA chenille ropes and frothed with tulle;
but many of them are vastly improved
and beautified over the models that reign
ed in the dead and gone season. For one
thing the milliners have now taken up
the manufacture of boas and ruffs. and
sell really irresistible specimens to match
the hat that one purchases. Some hats.
IN fact. are not sold unless its boa is
purchased too, and, If one is ambitious
for a neck piece to display in company
with ones Easter bonnet, the modiste
will whip one up in a trice.
There are, with this open season. boas
to suit the most conservative and tbe
most eccentric women. There are collar
cites with ends that drop to ones toes
and collarettes with no end Some of
them fasten in front, some behind and
some at one side. One of the newest
and orettiest is of palest, mauve pine
apple pleated silk muslin, edged with
ouillings of white tulle, made with long
Jabot streamers in a series of over deep
tapping fiounces, and diversified with lit
tie Hat blue silk roses, set on to the pine
apple pleated surface at artistic intervals
Another enyiable specimen is made in
the form of two huge Tudor ruffs of tuile.
The first is cream white laid upon one
OF equally full Jacqueminot red tulie and
finished with double ropes of changeable
red and white silk chenille. From Paris
come evening boas made all of huge silk
peonies. Silver cords hang nearly to the
feet in front and are weighted at the
bottom with peonies, one of which has
inner stiffened petals, that, at the wear
ers need, can be transformed into
charming fan.
goodly number of these neck orna-
ments are broadened out, in the center of
tie mack and on the shoulders, to serve as
small fancy capes when the wearer drives,
or requires bit of wrap after dancing
Costly and beautiful ones are made in the
form OF separate stitched silk leaves, upon
which fall frills of fine lace, and the
streamers in front are long ends of ac-
Gordon pleated chiffon covered with lace
and held at intervals with ornamental
circlets of brilliant paste Intrinsically
beautiful are the ostrich feather boas.
they no longer retain their hold on ferni-
nine affections, unless the proud feathers
are allied and intermingled with arti-
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tion of their beauty, but for the present
plumes are commonplace and hackneyed
TO a degree, and only the milliner who is
more or less of a genius at combinations
can make the woman accept the feathers
under any guise.
distinct sensation was created at one
of the last balls of the winter season by
the appearance of notably well dressed
woman in a boa made wholly of exquisite
silver tissue roses; from this hung a
dozen or more fine silver chains, that dam
gled nearly to her feet and shot white
lights from the many vivid little rhine
stones that were fastened at intervals
of an inch or two in their links Worn
with sumptuous black gown this silver
collar not only produced marked effect,
but set a fashion then and there for balls
that are to follow in the Easter holidays.
A beautiful tea gown is of white spot
ted gauze, made over sheath skirt of
white satin. The tunic of the overdress
is adorned with an exquisite and uncom-
mon decoration of fern leaves, made en-
tirely of graduated loops of white satin
ribbon. The same fern leaf trimming is
The chemisette. which is carried up to
the throat, is made. like the lower por-
ton of the sleeves, with lace. The white
ness of the gown is relieved with a deep
corselet bet of pale blue panne. 1t may
be noticed that the skirt. where il escapes
at the back from the tunic breaks forth
into mass of soft tuckings This style
is characteristic of the most becoming
gowns just now, which are all much
friiied or tucked upon the edge of the
skirt and the train, but preserve a close
outlire about the hips
A smartly pretty house dress in the
same trousseau is of sky-blue cashmere,
and the waist is encircled by simulated
corselet of pale blue ribbons From this
belt The skirt falls in new style, with
box pieats place at considerable inter-
yais at the sides. At the back II is gath
cred into the ribbon belt Over the corse-
let the bodice, which likewise is pieated,
falls in the style of a bolero. An effective
touch is a large cream guipure collar cut
sailor fashion at the back but in front
very deep, and laced across with narrow
black velvet ribbons, which are tied in
bows. All around the collar a ribbon is
run, in which touches of pink color ap-
pear. The sleeves come to Il little below
the elbow, and are there turned up with
a cashmere cuff, into which a folded band
of cream colored muslin is stitched
Another stunning gown is of black satin
veied with chiffon. This gown is in the
t,inic style, the black overdress being COW
cred with silver embroidery, and silver
sequins appearing lightly sprinkled upon
the groundwork. The opening of the
bodice shows ivory lace, and the long
transparent sleeves are also Of lace AT
the left side of the bodice is set a charm
ing bow of greenish-blue panne. made
with many ear-shaped ends. The waist
is belted with wide black velvet ribbon
There has been unanimous vote TAX
en- in Paris in favor of dressing the hair
quite low. There was an annual meeting
and banquet of the proprietors of all the
coiffure establishments, and the question
has been settled that in the near future
low hair-dressing will prevail. This soiree
w hat Shall We