The Whig standard., 1843-11-29

THE LADY THAT WAS TOO FASHIONABLE
Why should we speak Of the fashion in city
where it is so inconstant. Yesterdays fashion
is gone to day, and that of to-day will be gone
tomorrow.
In Paris those who dress according to the
fashion are always busy. They must not lose a
moment in the day. There is the morning un.
dress and the morning dress, day dress, evening
dress, and concert or ball dress and this is moi
ALL One must have fashionable rooms, fashion
able furniture, fashionable carriage and horses,
iashionable liyeries, and fashionable harness,
and fashion is always teeting.
The people to whom fashion is every thing
are extremely unhappy when they are found
wanting in the smallest particular. This way
OF tying the cravat is no longer in fashion !;
coats are not buttoned up SO high as this now !;
this hat is not of the new shape; this color is in
bad taste, and this cane is completely gone by.
IL you have been SO unfortunate as to go out
without knowing all this you are lost. Run
hide yourself quick, before any one sees you, CT
your reputation is gone.
Fortunately for the Parisians, they are not all
slaves to fashion. Men of talent think very
little about it; they have other things to think
about. Some ausere philosophers and cynics
affect to despise it they sometimes carry this
too far. Est modus in reJus.
The following circumstance befel lady in Pa
rls to whom fashion was every thing. This lady
was forty years old. She was not handsome,
but she often wore things that made her less so.
1t is the fashion" was her favorile saving.
"One can't 60 wrong when one is in the fashion, .
But if the fashion is a ridiculous one" said
her friends.
Fashion can never be ridiculous
1t II is unbecoming!" Z"
. II is Of no consequence"
Il fashion direct you to expose your throat z"
would show it,"
To wear your dresses to your knees 2"
Il would wear them So would always be
in the fashion,"
The husband of this lady, who was by no
means Of her own way of thinking, took it into
his head one day to compose little piece, and
put II IN the Journal des Modes, with picture,
representing lady whose hair was dressed with
a carrot Underneath was written
New style of dressing hair; drawn back a
La Chinoise; natural carrot"
The lady exclaimed it long and seriously.
"Oh, what singular head dress-how new.
All! they will wear vegetables in the hair after
this"
The husband shrugged his shoulders, ex-
claiming
"How ridiculous. II is not common sense.
/ hope you will not make yourself ridiculous in
that manner"
"Why not my dear? 1t is not ugly-not all
ugly. Besides, it is the fashion, and that is
enough. must have carrot--I must have one
immediately fine large carrot. We are going
to the opera must have my hair dressed so.
The husband affected to oppose her the lady
persisted. She put the carrot in her hair, and
went to the opera
The effect was extraordinary but not what
she expected Everybody laughed, and so very
openly that it was impossible for her to misun-
derstand it.
The poor lady came home very melancholy,
and quite disconnected.
" II is very singular. was dressed IN the last
fashion, and yet people laughed at me-"
"My dear, replied the husband, all fashions
are not becoming TO you. / have told you so
thousand times. You should adapt your dress
- your looks; a carrot is not becoming to
blonde.r
gHinoe t1en this lady has not followed the
fa6kicns - implicitly. Ladys Book.