Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-17
THE KNOXVILLE WHIG
Knoxville, Tenn, January u, 1866.
The Ladies at the Presidents New
Year Reception.
jenkins Describes their Costumes.
Interesting TO our Lady Readers.

From the Washington Chronicle.
The Blue room was tsstefully decorated with bo
guets and eIocs from the Presidential conservatory
The President was dressed in q full suit of black
and wore pair of light colored Lsle thread gloves
Mrs. Patterson wore black silk velvet dress, with
high neck and long slevees trimmed with real black
lace and bugles, jet and pearl ornaments and point
lace collar, and white kid gloves. She carried a
white fan, and handsome boquet of camelias. She
wore profusion of curls, and her hair was decora-
ted with a single white japonica Mrs. Slower wore
plain black mourning dress. Her hair was also
curled and dressed with a camela. In pleasing and
striking contrast TO the sombre hued dresses of the
ladies of the Presidential household-who are now
in deep mourning for near relatives-were two
young ladies, Misses Crsigmiles and Baxter, from
Knoxville, Ienn.-still in their teens-who appear
cd in white cashmere dresses trimmed with heavy
white cord, fitting close to the neck and with long
sleeves. Their hair was dressed with parti-coIored
Camelias. The one carried blue and the other a
pink fan, trimmed with ermine and decorated with
silver spangles. Judge Patterson, Senator elect
from Tennessee and sOn-in-law of the President
was also in attendance. Colonel Moore and Major
Long were dressed in full military uniform and
white kid gloves. The Foreign Ministers appeared
IN their court costumes heavily trimmed and en-
broidered with gold lace and their ladies presented
the same diStJlglgC and recherche appearance. At
eleven o'clock the Marine Bank performed in their
well known and excellent style Hail to the Chief"
and the ceremony commenced. In pairs and in
ed by the President in his aable genial and pleas
ant STYLE and in turn introduced to the ladies' who
preside with much dignity and grace in their new
position, members of the Cabinet and their wives
and daughters, Senators and members of Congress,
Judges of the Supreme and other Courts all assem-
bled in the Blue room, lettering for few minutes
paying the compliments OF the season, and then
passing into the East room and departing for their
homes TO hold their own receptions. There was a
considerable display Of dress although not 50 great
we have witnessed on similar occasions The in
clemency Of the weather WAS unfavorable to rich
costumes. Ladies generally wore dress bonnets-
the Normandy, the Josephine and the Empire styles
and here and there Marie Stuart although many
appeared without bonnets, with hair arranged in
all the different styles for which the present season
is so famous Violet, silver gray, Queens gray and
lavender-colored plain silks and satns trimmed in
some cases with heavy folds of black velvet pro- |
dominated, although noticed two Of the striped
silks which again rapidly coming into vogue /
the one canary-coored chcne silk with pink or rose
oolored stripes, and the other q magnificent
shade of syblue with broad black stripes on which
were stamped golden cord and tassels. In head |
lresses the bandeau was most affected; nests and |
waterfalls have almost entirely disappeared al |
hough some Of their votaries persist in using them
and their places have been supplied by the twist or
.ortuous and graceful coil, sometimes-very inele-
yantly, but nevertheless appropriately -vulgarly
}alled a snake.