Smyrna times., 1870-03-23
Love and Fashion,

There is no real affinity between love and
fashion. One comes from Heaven, and the
other comes from France. One is born Of
truth and beauty and pure affection, the other
Is the offspring OF pride and vanity. Fashion
has grown from a fg-leaf in the garden Of
Eden, to a wardrobe of such vast extent that
its manufacture is one Of the chief occupations
or mankind. Not few consider the bridal
dress Of more value than the bride. Vast
numbers of young men remain single because
they consider their small income insufficient to
support a tashi nabe wife
Many who are married are made bankrupts
| by the extravagant demands of the despot fash
ion. The man who loves his betterhalf, thinks
nothing is too good for her, and she is willing
to appear attractive as possible in the eyes
of her husband, and she dreams that costly raj
ment and fine gold and diamonds will add to her
| beauty If Mrs. > can afford to wear upon
! her head a soup plate of silk adorned with
| feathers and vegetation, why should not Mrs
} wear duck of bonnet? If it be proper
to pour red Goals upon the heads of our enc
mics how can it be unchrlstian to heap red
roses and white lilies and ostrish plumes and
little birds upon the heads Of our wives and
dauch ers?
There are persons who prefer the trimming II,
the head rather han omit, but that is a ter OF
taste. Perhaps the horticultural display repre-
1nts the ideas of the weareTs and the fine flow
ers are tie emblemS Of the poetic thoughts and
/ fances of the fashionable ladies Of our day
There is but short space between the bonnet
and the brain, and that may account for the
} rhetorical ribbons; mathematical mantillas
: philosophical petticOats and astronomical zone,
for the heavenly bodies.
1t must be conceded that woman has alwav.
} shown better taste than man in matters o
t DRESS while she undoubtedly impedes the
, healthy circulation of the blood by wearing 81
J many igaments about her person, pinching he
feet number threes into shoes number twoS
pnchng her waist with wire and whalebone t
0 make it OF the shape and symmetry of al
r hour glass mot thinking that the sands of lii
o are running out more rapidly than they should
r because OF the form, tor the smaller the wais
J. OF the body the greater the waste of life tn
r tighter the physiological knot the swifter hov
), the sands which brings on immature age an
untmey death.
o The present fashion of dress tries the temper
'e and a spoiled temper is not conclusive to love
$ Let the following suffice as anillustration |
is Philadelphia Court of Quarter Sessions
re a young man was charged with assault an
Sc battery in treading on a wOman's dress. Sf
Mt testified that he was on a curbstOne, and aftC
al she had passed he trod upon her dress AN
- placed his hands upon her shoulders. 81
n turned, expecting an apology, and found hi
ne laughing. Counsel for accused stated that II
e. treadng on the dress was an accident, when
d, placed his hand on the shoulder of the pros
v cutrix to ave himself from falling. He smile
n and apolOgized, but the prosecutrix was ang
el- aud did not notice his apology. Judge Bre'
ster, in charging the jury, said the questi,
re, seemed not to be one of extent. If it was Il
5" fault Of the proseautrx, the faults of the Dire
a or the fault of the fashion, then the detenda
to would not be to blame. If he intentional
ar trod upon the dress, with desire to do injur
he would be guilty of assault and battery,
,ut that offense might be committed by pulling
lat mans coat the coat being part Of the maj
person. The jury unhesitatlngly returned
is verdict of not guilty.
y" What shall we say of dresses that are I
gh- short at one end and two long at the othe
The Are they wore for use or ornament? Are th
lp useful or ornamental? Do they make mot
ac- ers, wives, sisters and swect-hearts more lO
Ove ly? DO love and fashion meet and embri
i've each other in the snOw-drift of bare busts a
or arms? Does not chill fall upon u senst
he, heart when the nude drama of fashion is ac
IN in the public street, in the church, and III
ty; drawing room?
mt What shall we say of men? They have
hat invention and less taste than women in matt
DIS ; of dress, while they have as much pride
,me vanity, and more need OF ornamentatiOn. L.
ems at the present style of hat 1t is conn
be- mise between the stoye-pipe and dinner-b
bet Som ,timcs there is a brick in it; sOmetli