The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-09-21
LADIES' READING.
Dress and its Eccentricities.

Dress and its Eccentricities.
London Society thinks that it would
be we'll for humanity If some one
would, in the relation of fashion, keep
a record illustrated by photographs OF
the changes in lady's dress from year
TO year. = After mentioningsthe origin
of crinofine as a disguise for the con-
dition Of the Empress Eugene, pre-
yieus to the birth Of. the Prince Impe-
rial, it says:
g q Is it not .singulss that fashion 50
universally adopted by women OF all
ages and condition. married and SIN.
gle, should have had such an origin?
Surely one would have predicted Of It
beforehand that it would have been
rejected with disgust and scorii. In
stead of which it has been welcomed,
is universally adopted, and tenacious
" retained, in spite Of the remon-
STRANGE, jeers, sneerS and dislike which
it has continually provoked, and not.
withstanding the attempts made from
time to time to lay it aside or bring it
into ldisrepute. Our eyes have be-
come so accustomed to it that, when
we meet with any OF those limp,
straight-down figures which" are the
result ofits disuse, we are, startled and
shocked, as If some of the corps de
ballet were walking abroad in the
MONDAY. We are disposed to exclaim
against them as an Infringement of the
laws of decay. We are indeed strange,
mortals to gbeso much the creatures Of
habit that, if our eyes are accustomed
to one state of things we are intolerant
of any particular regard to the fitness
and propriety and decorum of thatlto
which we have suffered ourselves to
become habituated.. In time we might
get used to any costume, however
short and scanty. It is dangerous
state Of things, and we think that
| modern society shows that it is so.
Some curious detaileA are given of
how rounded" figures are supplied to
whom Nature has granted. only apgp-
larity Of outline. To accomplish this
supplied aud supplemented with a
sub-dorsal protuberance to preserve
the balance Of symmetry. Ladies OBJ
jected to these attachments at first,
but they subsequently submitted to
them. The first of these attachments
was styled centre. A lady calling on
the male dress maker, who is common
in Paris, to try on grown, caused that
artist to raise his hand in horror.
/ Madame, you have no Ucsstre.' Y The
lady, being young and unsophisticated,
| would not believe. that her figure
needed any such artificial aids. i But
at last the artist called OUT 1Ap-
porter MOI le ventre de Madame, Ia
Princesse de--et de Madame la Mar
ouise de-" She was overwhelmed
and silence6. She submitted. The
continuance was fixed on, the dress
was strained over it, and she walked
forth a plump and comedy dame, and
the rotundity OF her form, almost put
her to shame 1t was then that she
had to sit down, stand up, walk here
and there before the dressmak er :
critical eye, that he might detect any
flaw there happened to be in the COS
tune which he had prepared for her
So the story runs. Sc non e zero be,
tropat0.
+ "A COSMETIC CATAsTRoPHE. "a
We remember an instance of !;
4 young lady, of considerable persona
attractions, whose only fault had beer
a certain pallor. which,. after all
thOuGA EOOuAAnAf - ~ 0S~NeAtiy
becoming, but which had recently dis
appeared. She asked a friend upol
whom she was calling to lend her
s vail, which when she returned it, wa
all covered with rouge and paint /
had been noticed that she had Of lat
a beautiful bloom upon her cheeks
:. which had taken the place of her for
mer pallor, and il was hoped, by thos
who were kindlydisposed towards he,
that the change was owing to reno
waited health rather than to art but
turned out that she was mass @
paint and rouge. Eyebrows and eye
r. lids we're darkened; paint and roug
q were literally used; and she had be
come nothing better than painte
doll. Her skin and complexion 500
resented this treatment. and becam
so injured by the constant use of COS
= metics that,it was no longer matte
of option, but became necessity
her to use fictitious and mereticiou
arts. Her fixed brilliant coiorin,
|. dark eyebrows and glittering eyes be
came actually repulsive.
The Countess OF Waldegraye; on VIZ
alg~h mans Dress.
It The Newcastle I'm claud1 D0iJ