The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-08-10
TRE CMANGE IN FASHIONS.
L General Statement = What Gle
Beau Monde" Says.

Beau MOnde" Says.
The July number of. lie Beau
Monde discourses of the prevailing
fashions as follows
IF a lady were asked to express IN a
couple of words what changes have
taken place in the fashions during
the past month, she should reply
even if she did not, Shorter and
skimpier." Crinoline had such a
rage, and became 20 unbounded, that
it was only natural to expect a very
violent reaction. But nobody could
have anticipated such a state o.
things as now exists. A little more
and a long step will not be a possibil-
ity Again, ladies blessed with a pro.
fusion OF hair, having dressed it in
the prevailing STYLE, and having
adopted the extreme of fashion, pre-.
sent a very unpleasant appearance.
Some Judgment should be used in
these matters.
For our parts, we believe the want
OF proportion now evident in all the
fashions will compensate by the abso-
lutte introduction of the farthlngale
itself, and the abandonment of the
many shapes of imitation of that adj
juuct which the last two months have
been industriously Matching, and
which have this month taken some
thing like decision of shape.
" Assuredly the hips must be draped
In some manner. Its quite impos-
sible that the totally narrow skirt
utterly unrelieved, can prevail. Of
the eight figures with. which we pre-
sent our readers this month, scarcely
Que is plain at the hips.
The hair is still worn at the sum
NIT of the head in Paris, but this
style has not been adoptedin Englan d
BY the very best people.
The short dress ball has had the
effect of reducing the length of the
trains, while, at the same time, they
are somewhat filled out behind.
The proper length of an out door
dress IS certainly not more than three
inches from the ground, while these
skirts are nOw relieved somewhat from
their meanness of appearance either
by Hat friIIs-s1metimes two, one
r. above the othsr-ruchings, or fiat
ffutiugs.
"Of the extraordinary and chaotic
shapes of what may be called over
skirts we can scarcely venture to say
p. anything. They sometimes take the
shape of rounded aprons in front,
squaring off into a line behind, the
whole completed with long wide knot
ted ends. Again, a sort of George
III. period, halt square, In the mate
rial of the dress, is combined with a
half-lOose bodice, which is completed
with falling ends behind. In other
eases, a sort of curtain diapeTed skirt
IN gauze, black or white, is draped
over the under-skirt, swept about the
dress, raised behind at the waist,
and completed by falling ends. In
other eases, from a cuirasse girdle
flows a loose drapery of the material
Of the dress, which, being looped
underneath to the waist again after
falling a few inches, gives the idea of
an antique Grecian bodice, an effect.
enhanced by the sweeping and crossed
drapery flowing over the skirt.
In other eases, to the skirt of the
dress is given the exact semblance of
a pe%tticoat, because the material is
not used at all in the upper skirt,
which is looped up all the way round,
while over the back falls the long
bowed ends of q Marie Ant0inette
hCAfus 0uAn 81 AOH UNCA tnC DOQtCC Us
to give at it's upper line the outline of
r evening dress. In these cases the
whole of the upper skirt, the fichu,
and the bow is made Of the same POM.
padour silk, always a diaper Of bou-
queis upon a dark ground, frequently
blacks The petticoat, being generally
made of light colored material. the
contrast is most marked and DELHI
w. GRnEa- col
Sometimes the rounded apron
style is so managed that it reminds
one of the leather apron of the sapper
and miner.
Sleeves fer outdoor dress remain
quite plain in cut. They are general
~ trimmed with epaulettes and wrist
bands in character with the fiat trim
mings of the skirt.
For evening dress, sometimes the
half square, of the material of the,
dress, az it passes over the shoulder,
forms the sleeve. In other cases,
when the bodice is cut square in,
front, the sleeve Is fiat and almost
angular, while, in other cases, actual
ly something like a melon sleeve ia to
be seen.
Jet Is not to be seen, and gold,
however, IS gradually creeping into
popularity"