The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-04-01
From the New YORK Rouud Tsble.
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Among the extravagances which GER
tainiy entiue our country and period to
some distinction, the present fashion Of
child's attire is very conspicuous. not 10
say glaring. Whether Paris Is answer
able for the extraordinary figures Of
child-life that meet the eye at every
turn, or whether the thing Is of the
native mushroom growth and OF shoddy
born, We are unable positively to affirm.
At any rate the subject is a 7acy u
for the pencil Of tne caricaturist only,
alasl We have no frst-class comic paper
as q medium Cor disseminating the gro
tesoue record. Besides, color has SO
much 20 do with the cherished chi6ons
of the juveniles now that nothing snort
Of chromolithography could do justice
to the subject which would fall far short
Of the reality, even IN the black and
white treatment Of Punchs corps du
crayon
Not many daysa go ne took the liberty
ofcompiling an inventory ofthe clothing
and accessories sported by a young lady
Of the mature age six OF theTeabouts,
who dispensed much local color 10 the
scenery of a fashionable avenue, accom-
panied BY her bonlc. The shorlness and
expansive character of the skirt worn
By this young person impaired to her
the general appearance of a ballet
dancer, as one OF those evolutionary ar
tistes appears when executing a PiroUetS
The expensive lace frill OF the pant1-
lettee descended no lower than just 10
kiss the Top Of the long white stocking
somewhere in the region Of the knee.
The skirt, which was white, was adorned
with much elaborate huting in blue RIB
bon. Over this was worn a little cloak
/ of black velvet, which must have cost
ever so much a yard, and all the mar
gins OF this were studded thicklY with
small silver buttons. On the fair head
of the young person under notice there
sat, iauntily, q white jockeyhat trimmed
with streamers Of blue ribbon and sur
mounted with a white ostrich plume
Boots Ct q bright vermilion hue encased
the feet of this favored child. Her para
sol wal Of white silk, lined and tagged
with the same in scarlet, and she was
provided with a little pocket-handker-
chief, of which the lace might have been
worth about $40. The hair Of the child
was haxen. and would have been beau
| tiful had it not been cTimped painfully
over cushions or VadF. She had jeWeled
rings in her little white ears, and, as
she drew of one tiny, tan-colored Jouvin
glove, we could see that her little white
fingers were bejeweled, also. This is a
correct description of the article under
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1t is not an exceptional instance. We
have taken its al random, and its repeti-
tons are 10 be seen on all our fashion
able avenues-all different, perhaps,
but all marked by the same extraya-
gance of cut and color in their gaFb.
Viewing such objects a ~these-and
the little boys are, if possible, worse than
the little girls in their extrsVagant be
diEanines-the grave question arises as
20 how the mind of the rising generation
is hkley 10 be Influenced by the idiotic
frippery on which it is taught to dwell.
In the matter of taste, even, the con
sideration is a very serious one. 1t is
by early associations that taste is, for
the most part, formed The spangled
juvenile OF the circus grows up TO be a
spangled clown. Simplicity has been
reekoned as an element iRseparable
from republics; but that is an idea of
the past, and, in the extravaganza that
has taken its place, there is a vista of
much future trouble. We sometimes
think that there may be such a case as
too much civilization, and, really, at
this period, the extremes appear rs if
they were about 10 meet
The turn for frippery is a marked
characteristic of man in a savage state;
and we really seem TO be coming round
10 that point OF the circle when tattoo
ing our little children and putting
rings in their noses, and bars of hgnuDl-
gitG through their under lips, Will be
quite the thing, and when Tom Fool
will be king, and shall have his own
again.