Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-30
Paris Fashions.

Paris Cor. N. Y. Journal Commerce.
The summer is waning, but the holi
| day time for the seaside and watering
places is still in its first period. The va
cations in France, not only for schools
and colleges, but for the university, the
tribunals, the institute and the minis
teries,' begin in August, to end with Oc
tober; so that the coming three months
are those in which hotsl-keepers, guides
and others garner in the harvest which
must last them till the New Year brings
them round another vacation.
This year the grand monde has been
forced to linger even longer than usua
in the capital. The extra session of the
newly-elected legislative corps, and the
calling together of the Senate to sane.
ton the first revolution which France
has ever effected without guns and bar
ricades, force the political world to re-
main at it's post, and consequently the
diplomatic body and public functionaries
are still imprisoned. 1t is many long
year since Paris, in the month of August,
has presented such an animated and
aristocratic spectacle. Generally speak
ing, it is taken possession of by strangers
aud provincisls, gaping about in out
landish costumes, and furnished with an
array of guide books and charts, while
the Parisians are making little Parises
of the small towns at the seaside.
If the fair sex would only make rev.
olution in vanity fair; if our empress
could only send senatus consultunl,
containing dose of common sense upon
the article of dress, into the brains of her
womaukind, it would be q better augury
for the future of France than the intro
duction of responsible ministers or the
right of Interpolation. But, as the men
grow wiser, the women seem to wax sillier
and more extravsgsnt. We hear of
well-known fine lady who, for scjourn
of fifteen days at Vichy, carried with her
sixty new toilets, all of fabulous elegance,
and consequently Of fabulous prices.
At this moment, the modistes are
making style Of costume adapted for
the srriere saison of the month of Sep
tember, when the heat of the lingering
summer will be tempered by the freshness
of the coming fall. Robes of white chais
are fashioned with puffed skirts, each puff
being separated by several rows of narrow
velvet, either black, or blue, or velvet,
according to the fancy of the wesrer, with
wide Vatican velvet sash around the
waist. A vislet taffets silk hat, deep
plated flounces, ornamented with blue
guipure lace; the tusic as in the apron
style, and the pouf MetterRich very
yoluminous. For evening toilet sheer
white muslins are decorated with white
silk Aounoes, and Scottish plaid sashes
with bows coleoptere (the big word mean.
ing to pucker up the ribbon as you will).
A charming morning costume may be
composed with u tunic OF ecrue colored
batiste, with an apron of small plated
white batiste ruff IS trimmed with Valen-
ciennes lace; the skirt 10 also Of plated
white batiste. the body, in the shawl
style, is open in front snd decorated with
small founces and Vslenciennes lace.
The mantua-msker who devised this mix
ture of white and neutral tinted batistes,
little hounces and puffings. exclaimed in
an ecslacy Of delight, 20, madame is
it not OF sersphic simplicity and of an
adorable elegance
Many costumes are composed of fine
white woolen poplin, with eolored satin
stripes q deep hounce on the skirt is
bordered with velvet Of the color of the
stripes; above the founce there are four
rows of hollow plaits, bordered likewise
with velvet.
The rsdingoies Of white or yellow
flounces worn for wrsppings at the sea
side, have a jauuty, boyish air, which
suits we'll with the round aud very pointed
Japanese straw hats the hs, is lined with
blue or pink, or sherry oolored silk, and
fastens behind under the chiguon with a
large black velvet bow.