New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-06-21
Ladies' Shirt Collars, etc.

In the Home Journal, Of a late date, Mr.
Willis discourses as follows:
WelI--we had always thought gentlemen's
shirt bosoms to be a fascinating monopoly Of
establishment which it was a wonder the ladies
did not dispute with us The shield of spotless
linen on the breast, with the stads Of turkois
and an affectionate button and button-hole at
the proud arch of the neck and these tipped
with shirt collar, elastic in its starch. which
sustained the head like caressing vase there
was q becomingness in this-a hecamngness
abstract, chronic, intrinsic, and undimnishable
by. change Of fashion or age of the wearer--
which it was miraculous should continue from
year to year as an enhancement only of male
irresistibleness. But, it has gone oyerL Broad
way beholds, at present, SHIRT BosoMs WITH
rETTICoAT COMBINATIONS, and shirt collars look
ing upward to curls and bonnets The dress of
colored silk parts at the waist, and lays off low
around the shoulder TO the back, presenting the
snowy bust rounded and glitterng in the sun;
a conspcuousness of display, by the way, as to
quantity of linen, with which gentlemen can
only compete by going without their waistcoats
But, how charmingly ladies wear {not our
breeches, but) our shirts, after all How much
more neatly they button them, and how much
more ftly to the proportions Of head and neck
are adapted the small and modest lily cups Of
collars Really, those pearly edges Of rosy
| cheeks rise away from the collar much more
!
chins of peltry Suppose we turn it over to
woman as her charming monopoly Male mag
nanimity, which has been found to be unequal
TO the sharing with woman the sforked wear"
above mentioned, might now redeem itself by
| giDihg atp the shirt collar to her lovclier chin
altogether. While nothing could well be more
| un- statuesque, and artistcally inharmonious
than q collar lcith a beard, nothing could be
more embelishing than q collar to throat and
! chin ,cith0ut one. 1t must have been because
we were shaved TO look Ike women, that this
article of dress, SO becoming only TO effeminate
i baroness of face, could have been so obstinatey
| worn by us.
The Broadway pettieoat, however, is between
| two establishments of male Wear--shirt-co
above and high heels below. The peepings in
and out, upon the sidewalk, disclose the LoFTIER
! INSTEP of ladies' walk and conversation at the
| resent period, and not unfascinating. we must
| say The difference of aetressss pace dorm
| the stage, or up ii, shows what difference Of
dignity there is. in placing the foot on level
with the heel appraised 1t mavelously queen
| lifes the gait. We wpnder that this, too, has
/ been 50 long left to male monopoly of wear.
/ ROUGE, we are sorry TO observe, amounts to
! an epidemic scarlatina. just now, in Broadway.
/ 1t is not more 4'heinous." that we know of, than
| other attempted embellishments OF the person; :;
but, being usually made a secret at home, most
| probably, is put on without aid or consultation
byfthes wearer herself and is oftenest unsaill-
fully done In n new book which is quite the
rage is Paris, called .sTen Thorns for one Flow
ers," there are TWO passages, with which we
leave the ladies' fashions for the present:
ssThe savage paints his body TO frighten his
enemies; the woman--aot savage-paints her
| face red and white charm her friends; which
! of the two is the most rideplously tattooed
AT the sea- shore, women battle by them
selves; they are clothed with a long robe, which
eaneeals them from their e#n loaks hut in the
evening you encounter, at the balls these same
| waanen Just sufficiently covered to cause the
/ remark, how little they covered so, that
they have the appearance of dressing TO go to
the bath, and of undressing TO go to a ball"