The New York herald., 1866-08-27
THE FAS HIO NJ 8.
our PARIS FASHIONS epEcIAD CORRESPONDENCE

our PARIS FASHIONS sPEclAD CORRESPONDENCE,
Little News and Different Pleas for the
Dearth-DimlcuIties Of Dressnakers and MIL.
Hners-Hair Coils and Trade in the Mnte-
rial-The C0lors Of the Hair and Dyes-CoOi
Weather and Change i'm Dress Materials
skirts and Jackeis-The World AT vichy-
The Richest styles AT she Imperial Water
'"S r'"''' PARIS, August 10, 1885,
Ono OF our most courted and prolific writer's In Paris
has lately shown unwoned melancholy In his daily pro-
aucions decided tame handling OF his pen suggestive
of moral dscouragement He has at length explained
his present difficulties. and accounts for them by
Tossing TO "dcarth of matter Ho comes before his
readers with very polite Speech and fancy see him
delivering 1t In the style Of the manager of theatre
Who with his back drawn curtain and his face to
full audience, begs to have the honor of informing the
public that the ddnlatis persona not forthcoming;
that consequently proceedings must close and the
be shut In OF this kind those who have been dis.
appointed OF an evenings entertainment have right
expect that their money will be cd and it gen.
orally s but the readers Of the particular writer
tion were sdoneI may in this circumstance say ait.
orally done''-when, glancing the columns Of
their weekly they respectfully told they do
without their usual information, there Of
any kind to be had in Paris and that their informant
had left the capital am not reader OF that respect
aUle paper myself Dut IL were no tuiHk uot
half like being thus left to my energies for the
quirement OF knowledge. should think my informant
had done very mean thing to leave me to find out by
myself all there is to be found just the provinces
coming up for the fe the 18th, and holes are
opening under ones feet the erection Of the umi-
nation scaffolding
Some excuse, however must be made for the absent,
even though he may be prolific writer and member
of that called strong An exit is perhaps less hum
bling than vain struggling emulation with those parties
Of the weaker who having nothing to say talk about
nothing have yet met who could stand
that without complete prostration Of his pen. How
much wiser he, who, knowing his weakness his
weapon from such dishonor aud shakes the dust OF his
feet at the gate Of the city in the face OF his weekly
at least know who do worse; they launch forth
into of statistics for the sake Of filling up
column which call treacherous, and hope your read
will agree with that the system is intoerable
How i. interest any to know that there are
40, ,e1e hunchbacks in France? And why should be
persecuted with fractions until comprehend that at
the above rate there is hump and quarter for a
thousand inhabitantsP How again, ask, are people,
whose mental requirements have been called into exer-
else for the promotion of phrenooGy to about other
bumps besides those already retained and what does it
signify where that bump and quarter is to CO. providing
always 1t does not fall to the lot Of lady in the
fouyreau?
That is all the interest ladies, at least take in
the matter Independently Of bumps statistics, hgnres
and especially divisions are very aggravating; they
ever reduce whole into nothing Of lace into
scarcely any funess for each width, and when first
rate dressmaker divides one's material she invariably
brings her sum down to proof that has mover
bought enough of anything.
Bonnes the only articles OF dress one has always
Init lie tha
pretty little speech they get up when quietly asked what
they charge so much for The only thing mako out Of
their logic is that they have had make something out
of nothing, and that 1t is the nothing pay for If
and reason, get into close argument,
which not even Euclid could get out Of and the up
Is that nothing is not naugh which discovery emps
one TO be wicked and disrespect the memory Of ones
first schoonisress who encrgetically taught the
contrary
Before quite leave arithmetic and logic win pass
to the table Of weights and measures which leads
chignons for Partisan ladies' false hair by the
pound, and they designate their coils, plas bags and
twists by the terms "kilo'' for one weighing two
pounds, "half kilo' for the FOUNDER. Thus should
any not natives hear read Of lady going to buy
"quarter OF ko, that simply means half pound Of
fasc hair know that in this age OF progress peoples
worth is by tho weight Of their pouches but
when consider that tho hair women glory IN is not
their own, but the produce Of stockineknitting Au
vergnate COW keeping Dauphaois, , neither overccan,
whose hair has been shoYn OH III not very glossy condl,
ton by dirty old man at sonl3 village iyr, and
exchanged for two yards Of linen, my opn5n Is That
pouch may weigh little too much tho back OF ones
own head. IL may not be interesting know that the
Rodcolored Venetian hgc Of lair be- and Is acquired
by means OF chemical preparation. Some people
bemcan themselves when they soop to arcc but lhcse
who adopt the venetian recipe win diGer thereh
from oil others; for tho fair Itallans OF the fifteenth
century, who used r. bad TO do so on their bouscop,
the climnay pOig-0ni that X n Somewhat
waited view Of the case We told by one Cesare ye-
cclliwho was other than cousin OF lie liten and
whose chronicle has been preserved in the library Of St
harl-that that peculiar warm. glossy glow on light
hair mot red) which has been irnmor,azed by Paul We
ront Sc Gorgione and Tten himself, was priye' ,,<
female arstocracy OF Vienna, as die de.,co,;sInv ,ben, @
nom Tho women OF the love- Mo ,yers scnera,v
very dal,,r, >''~s''' "''o "''o e0A''''s
lie Continues 70 say that thcy dyed their hair in the
, and freckos by means Of broad brimmcd hat
' .ihout any crown
Through this hollow they passed the hair which was
saturated with mixture and spread over the brim to
dry. This was repeatedly done, and tho steam thus
produced by damp and heat caused the raven
were in fact basted and roasted amber or gold color
according to taste. Should any maiden be curious to
try the experiment without fear Of sunstroke or
pcte among tho chmneys lot her copy the fol-
lowing ingredients, signed by curious old Ccsare vcceli
Black sulphur, SIX ounces; alum, two pounds; honey
spfinklng the head with sulphur do not advise
any OF ycur readers 10 try the experiments But snce
u
OF raw veal her cheek TO give them bloom, the same
person might be induced to do something repugnant
70 nature II Vecelits prescription should come under
her notice
The weather has been unusually cool In Paris since
the st Of August and nothing lighter than suane white
mohars alpacas and IT. ht striped silks have been
vile, whereas at the watering places the fashions
alarmngy conspicuous. No one thinks Of wearing
coored cashmere petticoats formerly; wool is much
too elementary nothing but silk satin be tolerated
and these, whether blue green, pink or maize which
are the favore colos must be eaboraiey worked and
trimmed with cluny.
White or gray overskirts and loose tight jackets
worn with them. The jockey costume which de.
scrbed in my last Is generally composed OF ccrse and
gray All tho plain basqucs which were worn with
spring casaques are cut In points and pgcd The point
behind is always longer than those on the Sides
The widths of short overskirs gored at tho top
and each into large vandyke at the bottom tho
point being the middle OF the Width so that i've widths
would offer Ave deep vandykcs TO the view.
1aeta under petticoais have high, dccp psse round
the lpftom