The National Register.
London, England, 1808-12-04 00:00:00

Thomas Crump, Westminster-road, tinman, at one,

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at Guildhall.

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CERTIFICATE. Dec. 21.
John Catley, Harpers, Lancaster, cotton-manufacturers.

ESTIIICITIES OF FASHION FOR DI:CROMER.

THE recess of beauty, fashion, and elegance, from the micro-
mosmie metropolis, is now nearly expired ; whilst invention.
guided by taste and accompanied by svmetry, stands on tiptoe to
produce her chefs d'oeuvre to an admiring world. Midst such a
crowd of goad eatirpana, the conductors of a periodical work,
who ought to be the harbingers, as well as recorders, of the
various changes of the motley goddess, can scarce find room
to stalk in and "show the lions;" were we, iialeed, only
called on to say what ought lo be, or were we even called on to
specify all that has been, the task might be accomplished, but to
bread is hat will be, midst the varied whims and caprices of
the fashionable and eccentric arbiters of the mode, would be a
tisk for tEdipus, Cassandra, or even the witch of Fodor ; a
task, w hose cabalist ic obscurity is so appropriately entlilemalized
by the Sphon.ces which decorate our bout/Ars, drawing-rooms,
and ti monger. In the rapidit with which our fashions
hate been adopted, and in the pautomisuic celerity with which '
tin hale been changed, Faia y I-as been obliged to ransack
every region of the globe for variety. Our belles, in the coarse
of a few short weeks. have been gi psies, %itches, Paissannes,
Grecian statues, and Egyptian mummies ; in short, so alien
has Variety herself been varied, that nothing is left for rasl •
but a bizaria union of incongruities, to produce the harmony of
cmarast ; or, by the whimsicality of contrast, to excite won-
der and surprise. To aid in this grand undertaking, the arts
and sciences theinsel ses must he called in, and surely within!, can
he more piede in this learned age, w best philosaphic klow-
ledv is not only supplied by wholesale in Albemarle-Street,
and at the Surry Institution, hut even retailed, in small goats-
at the :I.lshing female jelUifilaieti of every degree, from
Illarsaetith to the humble road-si;.e tWtti4oo, w hew " yonog
Lies" are boarded and hcdtlicatcr!. The statuary's art has in-
deed 'wen exhausted, 'a it not so the sculptor's. Architecture
supply Kill a thaws:tad novelties ; thus the fair philosnpher may
take 1 eisulel from the Cacyalidee. and glide into the skais
room use half a %ammo, one half a pedcVal ; or she may adapt
the Ilse iir:ler; to her pli•nioll4 awl pur-uits. The prude, of
(AWE..., tt.ii pEt--eot the sober alikicsi, of the lassie the, chaste
ant clegaut ivativa will resume the boric.; Ihe Imsolll dame,
ho scorn., to dinch her glas-, with natural! s apt the l'us..an:
'llle new imp ortltiou from the Moors and reils a ill :a first
npimic in the ruslie, the coquette will be tlnlivositr, , and the
title st siman of fashion will he carinthian!
Mkt e pccs Mg this ue v da a a of science, we may just fib.
cerve pasoua, that our early w inter fashions are as yet an-
ti sed ; but the oto-t senvonable, as researbliog the fallen leafs
i• a Ititod,olue yellow adopted in ribbands mai other ornaments.
mat which associates equally well w its the scarlet pelisse, and
the dark blasts it mantle. In Mari' this colour is distinguished
by la prince d'aignons," but as our fair dames e not of
sip light a texture as the Parisian rlrhantc,, that name would
here he ioapproanate. 'I he single wrap imitate, and the
India
'has% I nave soil their votaries, Clough iWper,e4c.l iu Some de-
give, by a must whiutsical robe of dark Oro;, floorgiaa cloth,
cut all in one length, but doubled at a this.i, aid thus tied
tuffint the neck the which of course hang Acta
are arnaineuted with a deep orange fringe, and the /oat taisentL4
is as elegant as it is Lica. In the head ores-, little vabets is
yet t: shibited, except a skew Walla!' of twisted straw; but in