New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-24

IKE Discrepancies
The TAI, SO. i. of courre here, AZ everywhere. the
main ,pb;eet oe ineYest and attraction. There would
10 No charm v,bou, those beautiful flowers. scattered
in the parks in the aleys in the streets ana on 'ne
pazza.. They are gay bat well behaved and dressed
freshly ard elegantly great number 81 them aPpro
nrately 70 the place and to the sea>'a Re" Only
aucrc the mass commit mistake against the rules OF
.re elegance in wearing heavy s'es or velvet robes.
sous d,e.s Young being old bat such anomalies are 10
| be encountered everywhere, generally. ony the
Fret CD az TIE Russian women OF what IN Edrpe IS
cor dred higher society understand to harmonze ana
blend their apparel with their age. Here, however
see very little overdre.srgi ana IN such cases ms
seerrely its source IN the misunderstood democratic
spirit Of the visitors from the country, "isnios 7"
move 10 the meiropolitaps that they equai 'he'"
y fashion. and thus easily overshootDg the mark.
Others, very likely, must wear ont toer heaVy "e'
hsd,es~s Moreover, the art Of dressing .astefuiy
or appropriately TO certain hours OF the cay "na non'
ofte Is not 90 generally dfased neither here nor
in Europe.
Observation hos taught me that all over the word,
in IFS old and rev sections, with few and rare excep
tons commercial classes, their Offspring ana HE of
business conditions have similar fashions aii'cg irom
the love and the tendency to show, often TO VAN ds
| pav, Of wealth. They have mostly similar notions,
similar demeabor at vsriance with that Oft nobility
as well as with that Of the educated prosperous rura
populatons The prominent feature OF this similarity
between here and Europe is the display ofJewe OF all
kinds, above all Of diamonds. As muslin, tuile and
lace are the most distinguished and elegant stuiis Tor
| the Summer season, likewise is considered oy the
refined in Europe the not wearing of any heavy jew
| elry above a Of diams nds, which wholly belong TO
the Winter or ball toilet. These are TO he sure mere
conyeDtionales in the abstract, the one az good "
| the other. Without, therefore, claiming supremacy
of the one over the other bring them only into Juxa
position. If truly refined woman IN Europe wears
iewery in the country or in waterng-place, 1t VIII be
something very light, very transparent, SO TO say IN
artistieal workmanship ard taste. Above all, such
genuine egantes never under any circumstances, IN
! Winter or Summer, will cover all their fingers with
rings, with big diamonds and then display their un
elovcd hands. In Europe, it is considered by arato
cratic fashionabes tastees in the highest degree, to
wear rings or diamonds on the forefnger. Some call
it even vulgar. Very seldom and only in case of the
utmost necessity, will woman-or tit be said alady-
| in Europe unglove her hand in the open air, OF
during call, or at an evening party, in ballroom or
in the tteater. Here, in America the contrary pre-
walls to certain extent. observe American ladies',
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| est ton, ,fipement and position, either not wear
gloves at ALL or scarcely seated in their opera box,
VI glove their hands and make as much show as pos
sible of the bejeweed fingers. Nay, more The
weaIer of single, the smallest, jewel or diamond,
loses DO time in showing it to the public amazemen..
Generally, gloves seem rot to be general favorites.
Often persons be dancing, both of them IN
| goyed sin judged objectionable by European fss-
| tidousIefs. There young girls would refuse an I'M
eoved cavalier and the mammas would interfere aud
prevent them from accepting an invitation.
Fashions ard dances, all Of them show how rapidly
| our epoch runs into democracy Not precisely 10
America but in Europe, where all these things
| are created, and therefrom imported. Arstocracy
may turn up its nose but it initiates it borrows from
the people, the masses from what many call the subur
ban mobs. Polkas redOwas, with all their varieties,
are danced from time immemoral in the suburbs IF
Prague, Vienna, and therefrom they became danced
into the fastiCiOus salons. Many of the movements
and turns Of those dances, well of the waltz,
for long time exclusively practiced 10 village
inns or on the meadows. So with the coiures of the
hair, the tresses with the dress worn on the heads
For half century, saw the peasant women the
girls of various European countries, from Rus
ria to Italy, their hair in way nov considered
very fashionable. The black, broad velvet stripes,
| or many colored ribbons, pinned into the back Of
| the head were worn as hair.dr by French,
German, Russian and Polish village fair
| Any one travelling in Italy has the
heavy golden or coral pins stuck in the hair
Of the country girls from end to the other Of the
regina del monde, as the Italians justly call their Pc
nnsula. As far back recollect, have pres
ent in memory peasantry women of Poland, Germany,
France, wearIg the oasaqain casaque forming
| d part Of the most fastidious toilette.
Even the form, If not the matter, Of which the
hoops made easily be traced to very old
| tom in the costume Of the pessantry The hoops,
| whatever may be the outcry against them, are in
Themselves very rational, and must be healthy and
comfortable; objection is only to be made to their
travagant dimensions. The coquettish, small, charm
irg-loUkipg ION handsome head kind of headdress,
worn by married women, originated in the fashion
called I'm yfeha IA paysanw Northumberland in
| the peasant-wom fashion. What will they say to
this origin Of their various fashion,, the American
| peexdo.Duchesses The well heralded Europeao
ones do not blush, but cheerully confess tina. often
their masters in taete are the simple village girls
For the rest it is here as everywhere, fuss aud re.
atty, assumption and Daturalness. For people
respectable by their own deeds, by their active we'll
speIt and useful life, feel always genuine and deep
deiereLtia consideration. But there Others full
of EMAIL narrow notions, stickng in the mud Of false
pretepsion to arsocratic descen-coming as they do,
from honest hard-wOrking salt fish mongers, agri-
cuturists peddlers thinkers and other like laborous,
| in their days, unassuming founders of American
ciety-men Who to be sure never ina gned that their
grandsons would sink 60 low to play the peacock
among their equals. But-cosi "a IL nondo-I see
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