Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-05-17
Unoouth Fashions.

"Her tresses, loose behind,
Play on her neck, and wanton in the
wind"
''Her glossy hair was clustered DER a
brow
Bright with intelligence, and fair and
smooth"
''With Hghtsome brow, and beaming
eyes, and bright,
Long, glorious locks, which drop upon
thy cheek,
Like gold-hued clOud-halCes on the rosy
MORN"
No such lines as the above can be
written nowadays. Poets Of the pres
ent day have no chance to receive any
ideas of beauty from the observation
of the fashionably RrraYed head and
face of a lady. We say face, because
it is disagreeably common for ladies to
dress certain features of the cOunte-
nance. There are two grand, general
styles of out-Of-dOor ornaments de-
signed for the heads Of ladies living
In the year 1867-the bonnet and the
hat. The former may be distinguish
ed from the latter by its being a little
more crooked in form, q good deal
smaller In size, aud by its occupying
any little spot on the top Of the head
which is not piled with hair. But the
hat is worn on the forehead, conceal
! ing that feature and the eyebrows, II
not the eyes themselves, while tho
brim rests affectionately upon the
bridge of the nose. A most fortunate
fashion this for those who have no
frontal development, or to whom Ma
ture has cruelty denied eyebroWs-but
positively hideous for any who have a
fine, fair, open fcrehead-One Of the
purest and most beautiful Of all the
features.
The apparentphrenological develop
ment of ladies, as they sit, tashionably
dressed, In the church, in the concert
room, at the opera, or the theatre, or
as they promenade Broadway is, to a
nice observer, fearful The entire abb
sence (to the sight of any intellectual
development, and the enormous pre-
ponderance of the animal faculties
certainly Is suggestIve-we beg pardon
but really one cannot help what comes
uncalled into his mind-of apes, mon
keys, and babOons. Did any phrenol-
Ogist ever have the curiosity to ascer-
tain the distance from the tap OF la
dy's chin, diagonally, TO the top Of her
CfLLNflUU w q WHY AIAANNN HMWA Az
would come little short Of eighteen
inches in many cases. OF course the
slant from the top Of the hair tower
to the tip of the nose gives a very Pc
culiar and exceedingly ugly shape 20
the-head, if We may so call he.
It is q thousand pities that ladies
will blindly follow fashion instead Of
| exercising cOmmOn-sense and good
taste. Some fashions are ridiculous
and unbecoming for any one TO adopt
others are pretty and charming. IN
/ themselves, but are not appropriate
/ for eusgv one. CommOn-sense should
/ lead TO the decided rejection Of the
/ first class and good taste viii enable
each individual to discriminate and
/ decide what style of dress and mate.
/ rial, what particular oOloFs, and what
/ ornamentations will be in harmony
/ with her figure, complexion, station ma
/ life. her age-and her purse. A rehned
taste ia dress is something which
/ American ladies need to cultivate. In-
/ congruities in the attire, and the blind
adoption of Tepulsiye fashions, offend
/ the eye Of taste every day. Al rich gar
ment does not cover al defects, nor 90
/ gaUdy trappings enhance beauty: AL
/ ways a woman Of tastois known by ner
dress--if that is rich, it may also De SIM
/ ple-ifit Is plain and ineLponslVe, ~ may
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