Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-20
Correspondence Of the New York Daily Times.
raris Gosslp.-A Chapter for Ladies'
The Latest Fashions.

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farls G0ssip.-A Chapter for LADIES'
The Latest Fashions.
PARIS, Monday, Sept. 22, 1856.
ROOM FOR THE cRINoLrNE, GENTLEMEN e
Decidedly the most ludicrous innovat;ona ~
modern civilization, are those which apply 10 the
Increase of female Developments France il pre-
eminently the country Of ideas and distractions !:
pnt while her great ideas are great failures, her
small ones are perfect successes. Thus IN the
articles OF ladies' toilet, che reigns the queen Of
taste and elegance. Her inventions in this line
are bizarre and unique. The provincial or the
stranger, a. he passes through the streets of the
capital at this moment, must be no little intrigued
at certain white pyramid shaped objects which no
sees moving in all directions through the streets
and which conceal behind them man or wo
man most likely woman for a man, although
washer OF linen, would be ashamed of the parade
ne was making. AT distance, you might take
the object In question for a second Joan of Arc
with banner in air, or half distended parachute
or an tinerant hand-bill, or what you please, but
you would never divine the truth. As you ap-
proach you see it is one Of the new petticoats in
crinollne, mounted on a broom-stick to prevent
rufiing till it arrives in the boudoir of the fair
owner, but what petteoatl Gummed, starched,
inflated, snper-infated, like the balloon OF M. Go.
dard! For at the hour ] write, the Increasing
ambition of feminine launches no longer per,nits
the washerwoman to avail herself of the primitiye
and less conspicuous means of conveyance respect
ed in the time Of our mothers. The fearful 4 up- no,
wards and onwardsp of the crinoline respects
neither boxes nor baskets. Nothing but a broom.
stick will preserve their starched interrityp
THE NEW INVENTION
From the common starched crinoline they pass-
ed to crinoline with rings of whalebone. then to
the rings Of whalebone without crinoline' and now
within month all our bellies have adopted the
steel rings--the last new invention. Imagine tn
yoursef lady in her most intimate garment alone
standing upright within the hoops Of hopshead
nom which the slaves have been removed and the
hoops liked in position, and you will have a tolera-
biy clear idea OF the new invention. The steel
rings are small, almost like the main-sprIng Of q
watch, and are wrapped with strong cloth They
commence small in diameter at the waist and 90
on enlarglng in regular proportion to the feet. In
front they contain spring. by which they can be
enlarged or diminshed-to small extent--at will.
but they are usually worn so enormously large
that as the wearer walks they do not touch the
person at all They are thus healthy. and as a by-
gienic invention are worthy of all praise. As the
wearer sits down they fold up with ease-that is,
from bottom to top, not in diameter But they
present TINS inconvenience, that when they are
pressed on either side at the bottom the onnosite
side is elevated into the air to an inconyenient dis
tance for those who do not wish to show the color
OF their garters This the ladies' declare to be the
only Inconvenience Of the new sons;upe. But in
Paris this Inconvenience is not great one. =
AccIDhErs THAT MAY HAPPEN
Before the steel rings were introduced, few
crinolines were made, to date by means of air.
compartments, like life preservers They possess
ed this convenience, that more than one person
could mount into the same carriage at time. for
they dld not need to be blown up till the party ar
NG q tk,x
they were going. The pipe by which they were
blown up was in caoutchouc, and lay concealed
nnder the dress. Ii was only necessary to have
for cavalier good blower; but the tableau pre-
sented by the ante-room of soiree were too RI
duculous; the gentlemen revolted and the air cri-
nolines collapsed. N. Bragelone tells a story Of a
young English lady who had just arrived in Paris,
and who had the pretension to believe that she
knew how to speak French and to dress herself in
the French mode. She bought one of these air
crinolines, ordered it home, and put on for the
hrst time fora soiree. But the cloth, It appears,
was detectives for the first time she sat down after
arriving at the party, formidable noise startled
the people present: n a Fl 3sei ~ a.ir
Aais un bruit de telle taille ..sye.s
Que janais jour de bataille, g5
Canon charge mitraille
Ne TIT un pareil effet.l q Sikah3
And the lady sprang to her feet fat as a balloon
collapsed. Like true Briton, she did not lose
her presence Of mind, and added, TRANQUILITY, oh,
that Is nothing, nothing at all; 1t is only my me-
eanique that is derangedi" .a, II.
Es H k REFoRM. II ffy
A revolution is preparing for the milliners.--
Some lady with more good sense than the rest Of
her sex, has come to the wise conclusion that bon
nets were made for some other purpose than to
carry in equilibrium on the nape of the neck
From this thought to that of radical reform there
is but the thickness of mesh of hair. So the re-
volt against the species Of cap dignifed with the
name of bonnet has commenced. The innovation
is q sort Of Panama hat, much like those worn by
the gentlemen, which bears on one side a black
ostrich feather, jannty fixed in the band, and all
around the rim of which is attached piece of
black lace four or ive inches wide. have seen
already perhaps thirty of these bonnets, and they
are extending. The innovators, who look some
thing like the cavaliers Of the Fronde have brave