Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-08-12
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Women and their Dress.


e1'ravagauce in costume is that women
dress for one a3other. EIugother words
they dress for eyes which can appreciate e
the maj etipl and ,sima,e the cost Of every
scperate article they have on. 1t is qni e
tue that many n en- care rs much for, and
are as competent to give an opinion on he
appearance of their wives. or siLers, or
friends, or aUy number os female acqnaint
ances but the ounds upon which The
no classes of c irics will bnse their several
j 'dgme' is will always be distinct, aud the
conclusions themselves not unfrcqnen,iy
quite opposite. Ak man and a woman
to ttl Who is the best dressed girl at ball.
anI you will ha, dly ever fnd tbeth agree b :
in their answer. Goa step further and
compare the costumes which have been
selected, aud you will discover almost 10 q
certainty hat the W, man hus singled ont
the most expensive dress in The room where
as the man has simply s.ked himself which
Is the most becoming. T. Alt = fJl-E
The one has suffered herself to be im
pressed by tichurss Of the material, the
clsborateuess Of The embroidery. the cost
illness Of The trimmings, that IN the end she
has fouud it simply imp 'ssble to leave
those things out Of The calculation. The
other, happy in his ignorance, has looked
ouly at The gene al I q c.. and has prob
ably G ven the preferen 0 Oa young lady
sho,e gown has nc OF her merits than those
Of being scrupulonsly ne,i, becomiugly cut
and perfectly 'well.made. We submit.
| he efore, that if thai Difference to the mas
4, tnline ,us'e which is SO frequently profeSsed
really existed in any appr,c;able mes sure,
it would supply au anidote TO many griev
unces under which society now laJ'rs. ,.5
A week or Two back, the correspondence
OF M evening contemporary was largely
aiken up with the sorrows Of parents who
want to zee their daugh erc look like
leople, nnd AZ the same time 10 make bu h
ends meet aud we have no doubt thai, a
soon as the elections are oyer, The columns
| I the Times will lie tlrown open t.
endless repelilions of sim'lar complaints
My daughlers' gowns must sweep the puve.
ment as they walk, c les one hesr''broken
mother, or il they do 50 far con ,ut ihei,
pockels as,o loop them up. their under
* ris must be hlunced and embroidered
untii they eeome US costly as the gown
T"ere'is no necessity in The ease in,eepose,
ass e:ner nor alist young women shoult
have no wish 10 dress beyond their mean
merely Tor The sake Of rivaling their richer
friends, l. /. here ibut our 'heory come.
IN std barmonises these opposing views
N mon ever fell nnytli ,g but irritation al
seeing a womah'S gown doing the business
of'ihe crossing sweeper or attached any
value TO the amour, Of open work displayed
ee,,eatb looped up Xxi t. rs ~r
| young ladies would hui believe it--or
rather IL they did but attach any impor.
raace 10 il when they do h.lieve ir---a man
will be perfectly satisfied with their sp
oearauce SO far as these considerations
az concerned. if their pei tcoats are spot
Irssly clean and their stockings guil'less OF
d ~riukle. We do not say that even these
charac erisiics, when added 10 the well
fitting gowns for which we hate already
Is ipnls, led, are, TO be attained Without som,
expenditure Of money; fJr5 eleaniuess. a
least in Lppdon lis pot u cheap yirI Ne, ant
it is not every dressmakor who knows how
70 make dress But. al any rate, The pro
posed standard is good deal easiec Of at
tBinmeut than the spurious 6ne ladyisn
sf,er which SO many women toll In vain
and we cannot but believe yhat.' II ghls die
but think more Of pleasing tbe sex and les
Of yyipg With their own their parents
would see reason TO bless the change ,ah'
next zine they came 10 lock over thei
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