Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-02-15
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE
AND VIRGINIA ADV VERTIS E r
(F0R THE COUNTRY
"a published regularly on MONDAYS, WEDNEs-
DAYS and FRIDAYS at SIX DOLLARS PER AN
num-paya5le in advance.
Fashions. Any one who studied the MILL

FASHIONS. ANY one who studied the mili-
ners' shops in Paris during the past few
months, when the Parisians themselves were
absent from the capital, could not help observ-
ing how boldly all the fashions Of the past
spring were obtruded on the public gaze.-
Foreigners and provincials, struck with these
excesses the Partisan modiste perpetrated
while endeavoring to hit upon some happy
invention that should take the citadel Of fash
whom they had been submitted, had refused to
countenance secured ,hem as though they
we're the choice novelties of the season. Hence
many foreign dame, and many an English
one, ambitious of following closely in the steps
of fashion, will have reason to regret her Paris
purchases during the present winter. Tar
parenthese, one may here remark that it is not
the g1ondes danes, or leaders of fashion, as
they are styled, who really introduce the
changes in the mode when these are particu-
larly abrupt or striking. This is left to the
actresses at the more fashionable theatres
whose toilettes in modern comedies outstrip in
marked degree those of the grand personages
they are supposed to repre- esent--to certain
classes of women who are allowed large dis
counts on their purchases, in consideration OF
their being the means of introducing particular
novelties, with the view of rendering the public
familiar with them, and drawing on the more
luke-warm and timid Of their sex to follow the
example they set. Indeed, it is matter of no.
toriety than many Of the large Partisan houses
not only provide ladies OF graceful figure and
elegant bearing with toilettes with which
to exhibit themselves at the afternoon
promenade, between the lakes in the Bois de
Boulogue, during the Paris season, and there
byadvertise the particular robe or mantle which
it is desired to introduce, but pay fixed daily
sum for thus displaying themselves. A single
robe or q singe mantle of some precise form
and shade of color would, unless very striking,
fail in attracting any particular attention:
several examples, therefore, have to be exhibi-
ted at the same time. and the display goes on
day by day until hit is made or failure becomes
evident Tfnsley's Magazine.
Talking Of tins nakedness of fashionable
women in London, a correspondent says: 81
learn more about human anatomy in five min
utes at West End drawing room than | had
acquired before in all my life, but at sacrifice
of all the respect had hitherto felt for the
circle in which 1 found myself" And he adds,
1t has always struck me as a curious matter
Of introVersion, that those who, on such occa-
sions, expose their persons the most, inVaria-
bly, have the least,to show worth looking at. "
A New York letter says the ladies are all
ordering Celadon dresses and coral ieWelry.
Celadon is a dull sea green-a mixture Of pea
green and orange-sometbing like the tint. of
brown kittens eye in coal cellar. 1t is
pretty color for those who like it, and as Miss
McFimsey, of Madison Square, affects it, it
must perforce become popular.
The immense plate of French glass, measur-
ing 200 by 240 inches, ordered through Messrs.
Williams & Everett by Messrs. Jarrett 4
Palmer, for the 'Rising Bath" in the great
spectacle of the ''White Fawn," arrived safely
in New York Saturday morning The plate
cost $1,000, and $3.50 was paid to insure its
safe arrival