The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-04

"Jsnnie June" in her fashion letter for Au-
gust, gives the following interesting hints to
the ladies':
THE pREsshAKERs' RARyasr.
The past few years has been harvest for
made the most in putting mp prices to almost
prohibitory rates. The modes "suits" ia q
very complicated aaair, and Il ia not uncnna-
mon for the making to cost twice and three
times as much as the m aterial. A simple street
costume, which has cost fifteen dollars or less,
will come up to fifty or more by the time it has
left the dressmaker's hands. This may supply
only required margin for the heavy expen-
ses STA large city dressmaking establishment
-butther are few ladies Who can afford TO
draw on their resources to that extent for any
considerable length Of time, 80 the number OF
such establishments must always remain limi-
ted. For the past two or thres years the
changes in costumes have been 80 great,
and 80 rapid, that very many have employed
irst.rate dressmakers IN order to obtain mo-
dcs from which they could fashion their own
wardrobes, or get their seamstress, or less ex-
pensive artistes, to do 80 for them. The style
Of goring. OF making two skirts, OF changing
sashes into bows, and adding bows to pan
niers, is now pretty well understood-and tie
fashionable dressmaker finds her occupation
not exactly gone, but less eagerly sought and
paid for.
FREEDOM AND SIMPLICITY.
"Jenkius" to the contrary notwithstan ding,
I assert there never was q time when it Was
possible to dress fashionably with 30 much
freedom and simplicity as at present. Sensa-
ton paragraphists talk OF false figures and
false faces, OF q thousand dollars spent in en-
amelline, as il every woman practlced these
arts and was but painted and .bedizsned
COPY OF her real life. 1t is like generalizng
over the cholerl until everybody is supposed
to have it, when the real truth IS that only one
case was reported, and that doubtful whether
il was real cholera or not. So long as women
can wear plain linen suits, and be ready for the
streets as quickly as man can put on his hat
and coat. there cannot be much fault on the
score ofsimpllcity. The fault ls IN charging upon
all women the sins OF 8 few, aud IN taking II
for granted that an extrayagauce committed
BY one person who can afford it. is repeated by
Thousand who cannot sfford 1t.
-. - AS THEY ARE.
The truth is written, fashions tell not 90
much what is worn as what is not. 1t is an
axiom in fashions, that as soon as style is
popularly worp, it ceases to he fashionable; The
aim, therefore, OF The fashion writer is not &c
much what is, as that is not generally worn:
In this way readers of fashion magazines and
periodicals. are kept in paroxysm OF tear and
anxiety. The style Of to-day is discarded on
paper tomorrow. almost perhaps before it has
been worn, ard the admirlng copyist secs
something else described in glowing terms and
lmaeiLes her pretty dress, cloak or bonnet
passe and out OF date already. Practical wo
men, even those who like to dress tashionably
and who ran afford to do 60. are tired OF being
swayed by SUCH paltry notions. They do NOT
see why Garment that commences with
being pretty, tasteful and Convenient should
not remain 80 as long as it ls desirable
to wear it. They discover in themselves
an individuality which can be as vel
expressed by dressing as they please as
in any o:her way. The folly OF discardipe
handsome dresses, that have been once or
twice worn, unless they have been ruined by al
accident, is now very nearly obsolete. In Eng.
land, the Queen set the excellent example oil
wearing her dresses until they are a. least par.
tally worn out; the Princess OF Wales has
been heard to remark that she rarely buys o
material that will not cut over for the children
and even Empress Eugene. IN e1travagani
Paris, appears IN the same costume at differ.
ent court balls. To cite examples here, two
of the most admired suits at recent recep
tion were ''m"de over" from dresses Of cere.
mony thre, years old; and IN the workroom oi
O fashionable dressmaker I saw, the other day
four or five dresses that we're being remodelled,
and to show their antiquity will mentiou
that the modern pdnnier OF one was made out
OF the old-fashioned fo wing sleeves, and the
new COAt ble6f6S Cuu thOui ShS hoASS soaSh Wv
OF the skirt.
ONLY SOMETHING TO WEAR.
With freedom to wear what we have got We
shall get rid of the necessity OF obtaining wha,
we don't want, thus saving the accumulations
OF clothing that are The bsne OF many Women's
lives. A secret inspection Of any modern
house would reveal Blk or eight closets, and
perhaps as many bureaux and wardrobes
nearly all filled with cIothiug Of the female part
Of the family. II the nominal master OF the
house has single drawer or Shelf, or corner
of closet reserved to his own private use he
thinks himself very we'll of. and does not ven
ture o complaint. He wonders. to be sure,
what the nv Sstery is about women's clothing
that they require 80 much room, but remarl
to that effect would bring down upon him such
an avalanche Of reasons, and denial, and e1-
PLANTATION. that after he has tried it oncs he il
too happy to be allowed to keep quiet for the
remainder Of his life.
| FASHIONS FOB COUNTRY WEAR.
All the new dresses in preparation are To-
the seaside or for country wear, and are o.
| or rnns1ip for morning. OF linen fOI