Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-11-03

FALL Decentralization has shed its
gossamer summer foliage. The breath of Au-
tumn changes the colors, and compes a
warmer covering for ''matron grave and maid
en- gay" Skirts thicken, and hounces deep
en-. What amplitude of mousline and silken
sails flash under October sunshine our wo-
men, craft-and crafty women-never career
ed the highway more respondent in the
wealth of spindles and looms. The weaver
cunning and the milliners skill seem taxed to
the uttermost. But fashion is tireless dis
coverer. Beautifully as it gilds now, it will
hasten to find richer tint for its velvet,
fairer gloss for Its satins-and as for modes,
the variety to be conjured thereof is circle
infinite.
Below the head, Fall costumes are taking
to the eye. Still given to street-sweeping,
there is something in their rich rustic exceed
ingly soft and silvery, or like the careless
crumpling of new bank bills. Who could be-
hsve times are hard after a pleasant afternoon
saunter in Broadways Yonder goes blonde,
with years house rent, or the living of
moderate family, depending in laces, and silks,
and jewels, from her graceful anatomy. Here
is brunette, with nice little farm wrapped
in cashmere about her fair shoulders.
Say what they will, give woman the run
of long purse or good credit, and she will
be gay bird in plumage. Why mott Do
not all the most beautiful things shine and
sparkle most-the sunshine, the stars, the
spring flowers, the meadow brooks, the bird
songs, and iced champagne-and is not wo-
man vastly more beautiful than all these ,
The only query is, does it pay-in woman's
case-all concerneds Is the account kept
square with silk-grower and wool gatherer-
spinner and weaver-ma manufacturer and mer-
chant If SO, all is well. The more con-
sumed the more created-trade and labor
thrive, and money circulates IN proportion as
we eat drink, clothe, shelter, aud surround
ourselves with the products of human handi-
work.
The empire of plaids, monopolized by the
gentry so long, is being more and more divid-
ed. Tall women look becomingly in plaids if
the squares are kept in limit and the colors
subdued. Cutting the g big figure" and sail
ing under Z" flaming eolors " can never be
agreeable to the eye that has a sensible idea
behind 1t. That sort or :" external," real taste
will leave to the nymphs and g darkies OBJ
de gentler SEX"
AS to head dress, there is not much of it
left. The bonnet has been gradually melting
off there is but a shell remaining to cover
the top-knot The bonnet in vogue is no bar
to the phrenologist all the bumps (save those
under special dominion of Cupid and Hymen)
are laid as bare as if bonnets never were. And
what wiry, spriggy, huttering, glistening.
glass beady garniture. is given TO the little
apology of bonnet that is worn.
1t would be idle, doubtless, to advise Ameri-
can women to be more reliant on their own
good sense and taste in the matter of fashions.
Some one has said that if the Empress Eugenia
were to don skirt with five miles of train,
our women would add half mile. This
subserviency-thisI monkey spirit of imita-
ton is bad. Every woman should select her
stufs and colors, and order her modes i'll har-
mony with her figure, her complexion, the
season and the occasion, regardless in some de-
gree of the prevailing French fashion,"
Then we should have beauty in variety, and
most daintily set forth. But the yellow gait
ers are banished-that is something. When
shall we see, as the sailor would say, the
"slack " of those dragging skirts taken in
Are the Street Commissioner and garbage
man to be eternally interfered with in their
vocation by an outrageously dirty mode IN.
y Mirror.