The Minnesotian. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1851-1852, 1852-01-17
New York Fashions.

Two of our New York contemporaries
are mcddIing with what does not concern
them as follows:
LAcEs, &c.-Much as has been said and
written of the extravagances and tempta-
tions of this city, few realize the amount
of money spent in luxuries Of dress, BY the
ladies, unless they have the good Cor ill)
fortune to belong to a wife, a sister, or
aunt, who after a morning passed "down
town." will condescend, while making
your tea, to give an account of her days
''shopping," and perhaps of the purchases
made by her acquaintance likewise
There is department in Stewards mar
bic palace, of whose wonders that "do-
mestic man. will be sure to hear some
time in his life, the room appropriated to
that useless cob-web-like fabric, SO mex
plcable TO us, but so fascinating in its
beauties to our fair friends, termed lace.
A very obliging gentleman showed us the
last week, some goods in this line, of mar
Vicious texture and price certainly, over
which all the ladies present were indul-
gulging in raptures, to us most amusingly
ludicrous. "Spendid," magnificent"
sob. i'll had several thousands to do what
l chose with, how soon it would go here"
Well, if have weakness in the world,
it is for real Lace &c., Sc. Astonish-
ment was not lessoned as we saw collars
for sixty dollars, narrow laces for forty,
sixty, seventy and eighty dollars, by the
yard, offered for inspection, and pocket
handkerchiefs for one hundred and fifty
dollars only, held up to view. These, we
were informed, were articles indispensi-
bic to brides trousseau-andi in addition
wells were brought forth, in price varying
from three to four and five hundred
dollars; and q - set of bridal Lace" con-
sisting of the veil, berthe, sleeves and two
founces, for twelve hundred dollars, was
displayed, which made us inv ardly re-
ioice that the groom did not have to pay
for his brides clothes, but trenb!e, also,
os we looked down the vista Of years,
and remembered that papas were the suli:-
erers in such cases. These laces are
termed Guimpure, Brussels, Hointon,
Point, $50 called from being wrought with
the points of needles merely Valencien-
mes, &c., &C., according to their style of
texture.-[N. Y. Express.
PLAIDs.-Tartan is all the rage. The
Juror for gay colors which has prevailed
for the past year is scoiched, and, Judging
from what we see, will soon be entirely
kilt. The bigger the plaid for pantaloons,
the more fashionable they are, and when
the pattern is Of the largest possible mould,
it is decidedly ''the cheese" We saw "a
tall, lank individual crossing the Park yes
terday, whose spindle legs were plaided
or paEneled, on a gigantic scale. The en-
tire pattern On each Of his limbs consisted
Of two uprights and two cross bars, and
looked like scaiiold put up to build his
legs with, and left standing by the careless
architect. The girls are all Transforming
themselves into Gaels; and one scarcely
sees lady's back that would not answer
to play at draughts upon. In fact we have
never known life so checkered. The gay
est of the smiling throng have the hcavi-
est crosses! The reign of the watered
silks is entirely over, and you sec 10 LANES
in The streets that are moi in squares. A
lady, from the waist downwards, looks
like half sphere-a celestial sphere, of
coursc-marked with lines Of latitude and
longitude. Tie dry goods stores are be-
sieged by troops OF females in search of
tick patterns, and every wife tells her
husband that she must have a check
[Sunday Times.