The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-08-19
THE sHIoNS.
our PARIS SPECIAL FASHIONS CORRESPONDENCE.


our PARIS SPECIAL FASHIONS CORRESPONDENCE.
Great Revelation in the Shape of Skirts
Contraction, not Expansion The Result -
History About TO Repeat Itself-The Cache
Traines or New Crinoline = The NeapoIitau
Catalan -"Oubli" Bonnets Jockey Co.'S
tume-The Transition Age In Toilette-A Key
TO the Fashions Terms.
PARIS. August q, 1868.
am afraid your readers will think am taking great
liberty with their emotions when announce the coming
fashions; but wherever = dire event Is anticipated
have thought It satisfactory to know the worst
than live In suspense Moreover Ia universally true that
III travels FAST that any we'll meant delicacy Of
fsslng on my part would be superabundant and
fastidious
Readers, therefore impress you the necessity Of
keeping calm while you learn that we all before
autumn TO 60 about In skirts as narrow and tight
can conveniently walk In and that next winter
TO look like Mesdames Recamer, Tallien, Abrantas &C.
crowd OF historical associations and absurd ouvenis
somewhat confuse my brain while these names drop
from my pom on paper. phantasmagoria Of female
figures arise In white satin skirts cut umbrella shape
with the handle downwards and not fold TO hide the
anatomy Of humanity I fancy ! see some In leg-of.
mutton Sleeves others with their waists encrcled by
belts just under their arm-ps and the heads Of ali
surmounted by turbans volaminous enough to
content the elevated ideas Of a Mussulman
All these ladies side up and down q well lit
drawing room; the thin all angles, II their men,
bers hung wires the fat intent on defeat
Ing spontaneous combusuon They stand up In circle,
each led to the dance by cavalier In yellow Logging,
sky blue and brass buttons with his head only just
percepblo under the two towering points Of ncreu
BILE shirt COLLAR.
Both lad es and gentlemen bow low as tho sconve.
niances and the nature of their upper clothing allow
after which preminares two guests advance alone and
slide through minuet the lady courseying great deal
and performing the feat Of bending her gracefully
over her head without splitting gloves the elbows
The gentleman, meanwhile has to do the smiling part
and vast amount OF pantomine with threecornered
hat blue tails do not flap till tho end. when the
accelerated motion Of tho dance demands a certain dis
play OF energy When these two have sufficiently edited
the bysanders, either seated or standing ring to ad
ire their evolutons others volunteer and gapos fol-
lows each party dancing 10 cad snce, turbans and ALL
Bon bons then circulate, with glasses of sugar and
water and at this point without the help Of stronger
refreshments, my dcrum increases. see Robesperre
and Narat rush in Roche and Charlotte Corday follow
all Join in an anachronsm which is nothing less than the
widest The absurdity Of Robesperrcs action
startcs mo; awake to reality, and discover that the
future fashions have carried me 30 Tar back that am
forgetting the present. though have ample matter for
earnest discourse. must make an effort 70 recall my
scattered senses
The cache.trane crinolne, which described in
my last has week been introduced TO the Parisan
public by one Of their fashion posters This leads
to say that the real fashions have other occasions
a ben conveyed 70 Mew .ne
of their existence. II with the Neap0tan caa-
Ian. Ihad been worn here In high quarters and kept
by milln In for the ete OF society long be
fore any mention msde OF II in the bos publications
on I" Jes mod" This catalan has been much improved;
beads with few rows Of the under the chin and
over the chignon Strings arc discarded from all the
shapes circular falls OF blonde and lace are worn
The new bonnet Is called "owlr' tits verv dmin-
utlve chapeau indeed nothing but round OF goiered
straw edged with vioets, lilac hearseases any other
flower suing the toilet Il Is with II tied under
tho chgnop, and has boon named ob' because Il as
light and thin that fiat biscuit which We call wafer
and which generally discuss over ices.
The Jockey costume is another new favorite y Is
undcr pecoat erkn be blue the overskirt and
have noticed several very Iadyke fourreasx which
were mot Hoped up over under pecoa,s One Of them
made OF black and white striped taeta with white
cuny black ribbon round tho bottom up the seam:
and the shoulders An nther was made OF emerald
green MORE, trimmed with thick white silk cord up
each These full dress robes, In scanty proper
TONS do mot look singular those which have soen
| In muslin and light materala
We arc now In an age Of transition, which means
anarchy Shephcrdesses In Vatican costumes fit BY
one on the Bots open carriages and recall Boucher's
paintings Ladies' In powder and aco revive al our
stoquos'' remind OF Francis l. Hair Is In great de-
mand Lot mono who are called bald complaaa -
Of sS.s shiny surface which they concesedy call Their
These three struggling hai1 constitute capital
They WIN fetch any price some day. and must b s0axsd
Before Gloss my letter must sntor into TOW expla
nations Of terms used In Paris foe certain articles Of dres
the dark ceintare taen talon belt h nothing but
long broad plaid chino ash. Tho ceinurc russs
or rather as, on each sds roseste behind and Rus
sian clasp 10 front csntare espagnole Spanish oen
0oEin mr. hmm GhouId ha