Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1844-01-20
The Lady that was too Fashion.
able.

Why should we speak of the fashion, in a CITY
where it is so inconsistent Yesterdays fashion
= gone to-day, and that Of to-day will be gone
tomorrow.
In PATHS, those who dress according to he
fashion are always busy, they must not lose d
moment in the day, there is the morning undress,
and the morning dress; day dress. evening dress,
and concert or ball dress and this is not all; one
must have fashionable rooms, fashionable furni-
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These people to whom fashion is every thing,
are extremely unhappy when they are found
wanting in the smallest particular. This way Of
tying the carvat is no longer in fashion; coats
afe not buttoned up 50 high as this now; this hat
IS not Of the new shapej this color is in bad
taste, and this cane IS completely gone BY.
If you have been so unfortunate as to 20 out
without knowing all this, you are lost. Run,
hide yourself, quick, before any one sees you,
or your reputation is gone.
Fortunately for the Parisians, they are not oil
slaves to fashion. Men Of talent think very lit
tie oft; they have other things to think about.
Some austere philosophers and cynics affect to
despise It; they sometimes carry this too far
Est modUs in rebAs.
The following circumstance befel lady in
Paris, to whom fashion was everything. This
lady was forty years old; she was not hand
some; but she often wore things that made her
less 50.
cit is the fashion,n was her favorite saving.
sOne cannot 80 wrong when one Is in the fash
ion.'
"But, If the fashion is ridiculous one?" said
her friends.
"Fashion can never be ridiculous"
eff it il unbecomng?-
"lt is Of no consequence"
eff fashion direct you to expose your throat?b
81 would show it."
ssTo wear your dresses to your knees?"
81 would wear them so. would always be
in the fashion.
The husband Of this lady, who was by no
means of her way Of thinking, took into his
head one day to compose little piece, and put
Il in the Journal dee Modes, with picture, rep
resenting lady whose hair was dressed with
carrot. Underneath was written
"New style of dressing hair, drawn back la
Chnoise; natural carrot.n
The lady examined it long and seriously.
"Oh! what singular head dress-how new,
ali! they will wear vegetables in their hair after
tAis.n
The husband shrugged his shoulders, exclaim.
Ing.
"How ridiculous--it is not common sense--I
hope you will not make yourself ridiculous in
that manner?"
"why not, my dear? It is not ugly-not at all
uS OcotuCH, IL - tuc IdcIIiOu, 0Hu that 10
enough. must have carrot--I must haze 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 50 very
openly, that it was impossible for her to misan-
dcrsataad it.
The poor lady came home very melancholy
and quite disconnected.
III is very singular: wss dressed in the last
fashion, and yet the peoEis laughed at me.n
sMy DEAR" replied TIE husband, cali fashion,
are not becoming 70 YOU. have told you so
thousand tiEcs. You should adapt your dress
to yorr looks; 4 carrot Is not becoming to !
bicase.n
Since then, this lady has not followed the fash.
ions 80 implicitly. -Lady's Book.