The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-08-02
The PARIS FASHIONS.

Absanf,,e Green Lie Prevailing C0ior-Binrrity
Patronizes-A New Companion for Ladies'
The Most Splendid Toilets Of the Season-
Roses and Lace in the IIair-A Princes
Betting BOok-The Menken's stage Co.'S
tume-Hats and How Worn-Bonnet Trim-
nings-SnuG Taking-Scene mt st. Cyr-
Chinese Platter Hats-Long Trains and
Court MISUNDERSTANDING Up-Love ana
War. mao
Whenever new style appears on the Paris horl-
zon your readers are informed thereof by the very
first mail leaving Europe, and the gods who preside
over my destnies know what conjunction 40
suffer when my pen has to propagate certain excru-
ciating inventions. can only compare 1t to what
the executioners Of old must have felt-a green
gooseberry sensation presume-when they had to
feel If their axes were sharp enough at the edge.
This being my sensation at least three times
In month find that q considerable
part Of my existence is as nervous as
strong teatotasm and, If any other image
be necessary, my normal state is continued scratch
ing Of knives on hardware perpetual editing of
crust with lemon juiced knives. All these expert
ences have been on me since ascertalned that alb
sinthe green is to be the most fashionable shade
through the rest OF this dog day season. and 1t is to
date from Biarritz. Absinthe Is liquor may say
vapping spirit for II knocks people down or 1t turns
men into simpletons, as 1t makes them shake like
aspen leaves. Does spiritism do moreP 1t is much
approved before dinner as stimuant, and "absinth
hour is that which gathers Parisans to cafes be-
tween five and six, when the transactions OF the
day are discussed over interminabe glasses Of the
murky poo-lookng drink. 1t does not intoxicate as
mixture, it only poisons by degrees as spirit it
is the surest specific for communicating delirium
tremens.
eolor NJ 10 &c haf fYOin n IN
wear, ladies' 1t Is neither pea, grass sea nor Met
ternich green; it is yelowsh sickly looking hue,
and it is to be honored with Brussels, and it is to-
haunt about on parasOls.
Another new fashion Is for ladies to be accompa-
MED, not by dogs but small monkeys. Many Of your
perspicaciOus readers will silly say this is no
novelty, man being In their opinion, but perfected
ourang outangs. may not have studied physiology
sufficiently to be good Judge, but from the little
do know Of anatomy DO think there is slight diff
ference between the human and animal races, even
of the ape family The lady who set the new fashion
ia Mile Athae Manvoy, and the first place she ap-
peared at thus attended was the Gymnase. must
own the baboon's behavior was proper, and it
seemed to wink ut Mile. Massin with a known
appropriateness not discernible among human
monkeys behind opera glasses. It took to clapping
at the wrong part, like many lord Of the creation,
OF course.
The most splendid dresses at the theatres this
week were Mile. Germa's in the new piece, "Boheme
dArgent" O modern kind O. Bohemia In the style
OF POuson du Terrail's novels. The dresses worn by
Mile. Germa cost fifteen thousand francs, and Of the
five will give two, which are the types Of the grand
genre in society.
A gray costume. Louis XIV, made Of rich silk,
much ruched round the over tunic, which Is lOOped
Ia P0mpadour over panniers, and trimmed round.
et and cost Of eoudor and coury attire Lace
In the hair and blue velvet round the neck.
The second Is white muslin, much inserted with
Cluny and very snowy; 1t Is worn over rose tafeta
the bodice is crossed over the bosom as II it were
rose is faint and pale, moss rose In the hair among
ripping bandeauX, with q cluster OF buds, q rose
fan under lace The toilet was like zephyr, q
bushing one.
The new mantelet called a la vtetue, is much
worn In light fabrics. 1t is tppeted If the word ia
Girls used to think grannys tippets very countried.
| They are now very much the contrary and follow
Prince Ache Murats betting book has been wait
Ing for description since was favored with view
OF 1t; but abundance OF matter has prevented me
from honoring 1t with special mention. The cover
bears the Princes stripes on both Sides the leaves
and back are gill; the snap is golden saddle, the
In the centre is monkey hanging by Its tail from
the branch Of tree, and designed by honorable
| Hugh ROwley. The book was made, like everything
else the Prince uses, by an English manufacturer.
Celebrities remind me that Baron Schckler's horse
aw Also man Miss arS pear
| is at COnstantinople. The place is very hot; only
Paris was by her eccentricities made much hotter
| too torrid, In fact, to hold her.
Miss Menken, too, has been taking the cool. ana
reappears this week In the most reduced OF toilets
Miss Hdah MenSens Clothes escape Criticism: they
are neither long below nor high above; they are q
| centre-a centre OF which there being no ends
/ wrangers cannot argue that they meet.
Since lady let her pink hat fall or the tip Of her
| nose at the Assemble while she was IN the act of
looking for M. Theirs, In lavender pants, hats have
mounted good many inches higher in the crown.
| The pink offender tumbed just over members bald
| pate, and its ridiculous effect can be imagined.
There the orator sat, and its small dimensions be-
| came subject OF parliamentary mockery. We are
| now to have hats with crowns high as orators
years ago. with short pettcoats, fchus and leg OF
| mutton sleeves May the shadows of future events
not cast premature gloom, as the future state is only
well, yes the crowns grow daily, about one inch
in twentyfour hours, and on the top comes flower
crown which Is again topped by butterfly; IL would
| be criminal TO call the whole top heavy, where a
butterfly fingers; II an extnguisher were placed on
the summit the idea could be put out but have not
| seen any extnguishers yet.
In the same order of ideas may mention SNUFF. IL
is getting very polite TO offer pnches and snuff boxes;
all sorts Of empire contrivances both jeweled and
| inlaid are seen In ladies' hands, and on reception
days all the family snun boxes are laid out on small
| tables.
IL is rather too Louis XIV. We have had a tourna-
ment at ST. Cyr the school for officers and IL
| splendid affair. Vatican toilets In foulard and a
|
streaked silks we're looped up Tor the satisfaction vi
! the young ST. Cyrens.
| A new style OF black appeared this occasion
| IL il grenadine or barege on black taieta. The
barege Ia made up I'm iOunces, sashes and high
fchus all the rest IL silk. the bodices low. narrow
| satin roll IL sewn under the heading OF the frills
and 1ounces. Hats with these covered with
black lace and made oval rather much pitched over
tho nose. very plain, inexpensive and fresh toilet
was made OF coarse and white striped muslin with a
| founce on the cross round the underskirt, and a
rounded short skirt above the narrower stripes, also
| fried on the cross. The fichu had ends behind Of
| the wide stripes cut on the cross.
The hat was a Chinese platter, kept on by velvet
strings crossed over the chgnOn behind, where a
bunch OF cerse flowers with grass formed Southern
headiress ut for painter.
| Long trains perfectly supernuous and are not
even at evening court receptions 10y ladies' uI-
der thirty. They oficial, cumbersome and lntoi-
cradle In the heat OF summer. The following are the
only acceptable train robes and toilets OF TINS KIND
must be very rich that the cite alone VIII DC apie
to wear them:- -. ii.
buttercup gros grain two yards longer than osH s
height; over this white lace skirt IN one pleSs AZ,
very long; flchu the bosom OF the ss"'' Via
\ - a..s.