Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1866-11-23
Pdri.( October 2e) Correspondent London Morn
"a CR1No11Nr OUT OF FASHION.

ing Post:
IS CRINoL1NE OUT OF FASHION.
I meet IN the streets of Paris, and some.
times at an evening reception, toilette of
the period Of the first Empire; short,wais
ted, and certainly there can be no crino-
line OF iron.hooped anything under some
what scapty robe, such as Lady Jersey
danced in at Almack's in the days Of
George ". You can see the pretty feet,
and some idea may be arrived at as 10 how
nature has sculptured the whole of the
graceful female form. It is surely pleas.
ant thing to contemplate ladies' feet again.
For the last ten years. if one writes history
correctly, we mus. confess we have seen
littlo OF that pretty feature Of female love-
illness. This has been decided loss, for
nature has wisely provided that young peo.
pie should fall in love with others feet and
ankles as we'll as their eyes. At the prom
enade IN the Bois you meet with ladies
whose dresses gracefully respond to the
movements of the frame; and certainly
there cannot be any cunning'y conceived
substructure OF steel and textile substances
under that empire style of costume. I
therefore conclude that there are ladies o:
fashion moving about in the most refined
society honestly without crinolne; but
they are not yet majority. You find
most ladies, OH the contrary, wearing dress
es which spread out at the bottom, and
show u train which begius to be as long as
those worn al court. From the waist
downwards this ever-spreading trailing
robe must be supported by some material.
Is it crinoliuea Is it jube in another shape,
or is it a mass Of clustering underclothing
Of cotton or linen How am to find out
that7 You cannot with propriety ask a
lady what she wears under the external
silk or satin (such was ever intended to be
jealous secret),
And take upon us the mystery of things.
AS if we were Code spies.
MS said King Lear on similar courtly
question. 1t wouI! be exclusively mean
TO ask the lady's maid privately and con-
hdentially Of what underneath material her
mistress is composed. How arc you to
find out? / have watched sublmeIy grand
ladies get out:of a carriage, under the i'm
preston that the accident of events might
enable one TO form pretty good opiuion
about the presence OF crinoline. But no
jupes-cages ever turned up; the robe falls
into monotonous spread, trails On the
ground, and is as irritating to surrounding e
human nature as the OLD criuolne nuisance
Gentlemen have to dodge about in the
drawing room, and on the pathway of
gardens and parks. These dresses like the
old crinoline, 10 my Knowledge have Caused
some men to come out with wicked oaths
in French, and I do not SEQ why this fash
ion should also cause ladies to. burn to
death as in the earlier days Of cr;aoline.
In the streets Of Paris some ladies wear a
dress which appears to be crinolineess, in.
til it suddenly and abruptly spreads out at
the bottom As if single hoop were en-
ployed. What is.this? A windy day at
the seaside might relieve ones doubling
mind. I strongly susp ect this, is the last
ring-a hoIrid cage. TT crinolins is expit.
ing, it dies bard in. Paris. The ladies. a.
the markets still wear crnoIine, and so do
the ladies. of The Kitchen, therefote 1 sus-
pect criDoline is ,hoyeLng still about in all
classea of society. Now, those interested
in this ,nomentous question will say, Why
don't you 60 to the fashion books fo+ iufor-
nation Ask an audience Of NJ M----:- - -: !
VT 10 the Rue de la Paix. Do you,
think you eau say anything positive, after
all'thfs4 One magazine :of the. fashions
tells us- "Tsking Our impressions from
certain high indications, we think we go so
far as to deefareth that q gradual abandon
:meut Of crinoliusis 10 taking place ia all class.
.es Of society,"" You then turn to the col.
ored plates, and there you fni drees worn
by lovely crsatuss, iiss bottom, of which
is occupying nsasly:the*wHnls, width OF
the plate. What keeps on. it's vast spread.
ing preportipnss AS when you think ef.:
time and ssernity, OF ANY, other sublime
'sutject, tho mind wendefs into dim soepfu2
sion. Let psses what La Toilette de Paris
says-that q an authority. It would %
absurd 10 tsanslste tsDenx gestss sbtoh