Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-17

most strlcmess 70 these rules.
DIAMONDS AND ROYALTY.
The wondrous exhibition of dia
monds on the part of the Empress!
Eugene at the court concert is sait
to have had its origin in the account
brought from Vienna of the splen
did parure worn by the Empress O
Austria at the great court ball al
Vienna. a little natural rivalshiI
caused the display-unusual ever
on state occasions. The lovelJ
young Empress Elizabeth-sweetly
delicate and imperially distingae--
was crowned on this occasion with
the crown of Hungary, entirely
composed of diamonds and emer.
aids; a necklace of fourteen alter
nate rows of the two descriptions OF
precious stones, reaching from
| shoulder to shoulder, fell down to
the waist. The dress, meanwhile,
being unique--no other ever having
been made. Over a deSSouS OF
white silk floated a transparent It's
sure of the finest gossamer gold
TIN cad, interviewer with the wings
of the Indian beetle. This upper
skirt, loOped at the sides with large
punches Of emeralds and diamonds,
seems to have realized the most
dazzling description ever given of
the dresses worn by the fairy prin-
cess in the children's tales. The
tissue was manufactured by the late
Chevalisr de Frise expressly for the
Empress Elizabeth. In dying, he
expressed himself happy at having
lived to finish it, but ineonsolable
at not being permitted to behold it
worn by Her Majesty.
LATEST NOVELTIES IN FASHION.
Among the last are the new
mounting steps, which, at the insti-
cation of Nine deMaternich, Baron
Haussmaun will have erected at the
entrance of the Avenue de l'Imper.
atrice, Paris, in order to enable
lady riders, on leaving their car
riages, to get on horseback without
any help. 1t seems great point
to do everything without help. This
pedestal for ladies in clocked stock.
ings, under riding unmentionables,
will be viewed with favor by those
who disapprove of the nude in pub
lie statues. Another novelty origi-
mating by the Ambassedress of
Austria, is the hat to be worn with
full evening dress. Since Princess
de Metternich wore, at her recep-
ton, a coquettish little blue satin
circular trimmed round with tea
roses, placed on one side of her
head very kl owingly, the idea has
been welcomed by milliners, who
are now extending the tOquet and
aigTette into hats to be worn under
gaslight. Nine. de Gallipet, another
authority just returned from Al
| giers, appeared at the second recep-
ton in a cooked hat, which, like
every cooked notion, even the head
of sergent-de.Vile, suggests such
pointed aggression and inquisitive
prying that we do not think it be-
coming to messengers and presery-
ers of public peace.
HEAD DRESSES.
1t is rumored that serious alterca
tons arise among gentlemen and
ladies at the opera, among those
who are seated behind towering
Marie Antoinettes occupying the
front row of dress circles. 1t will
become worse than the London
| pitch, now so distressing to the har
mony of that capital, if the Paris
| gamiRS up in the galleries should
take to orange peel instead of the
arguments used in the lower tiers.
Therefore prohibition is looked
for from the manager of the opera,
NJ. Perrin, by which it will be
edicted that no head-dress above a
certain diapason shall be admit
ted. A document of this kind is
not without precedent In 1776,
lust when head-dresses we're worn
so high that ladies had to sit in q
perpetual Grecian bend when in
their carriages for fear of crushing
their plumes above, little scenarios
used to occur in the boxes Of the
theatres which diverted the atten-
ton of the audience from the actors
whose attitudes were mild compared
with those of the female public de-
Tending top wreaths. The manager
in those days was NJ. Vismes, a
pacific man though of q bilious TEN
permanent, which prompted him to
prohibit edifices of curls in his play
house. HereupOn the fashionable
milliner Of the day, who then
"signed all her creations by the
names Of Mile ST. Quintin Ang
lice: pinned her signed bill to hel
millinery invented, out of spite, {
monumental couture on the mode
of the towers Of Notre-Dame and
called it couture la ViSmeS. lie
us ponder. Would it be wise K
keep silent and endure lest our com
= plants should give rise to cOitaT'
Perrin Just as Faust is comm!
out?
A piece of soothing news to con
clude with. Indian cashmeres ant
crepes de Chine are being in al
e haste disclosed again. A new wa
e of wearing the former without cut
: ting them has been discovered; the.
( are put on peplum style, the tw,
e sides forming long open sleeve:
2 and the body part fitting as tight
], as a bodice by means of cienturt
}, 1t can not be done unless once see
5 on some one who is already initia
ted, but the sooner the better, q
S nothing will ever rival the rich efeC
of a cashmere. The crepe de Chm
shawl is worn as a tunic and panic
! over flounced tulle or pulled under
G skirts. The bodice is q berthe {
o the same material; an infinitesim'
IF quantity alone, as every one know
b being required, and trimmed with
e fringe.
le ANlLINE DYES.
lie The English journals are warnin
d the pubIic-ladies in particular
n against Aniline colors, which the