Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-21

A PERUVIAN SARATOGA.
How tina Ladies' Dress and Rehnye,
The Brunette style of Beaufv.


How tina Ladies' Dress and ssehnve..
The Brunette style of Beauty.
Chorrillos, the great watering
place Of Peru, whose summer sea-
son is now drawing to q close, is
seven miles outside of Lima. A Ia
dy correspondent of the N. Y. Mail
discloses some of her impressions
received at this fashionable resort.
Chorrlllos, we are told, has no ho-
tel, although there is q very humble
restaurant and saloon dignified by
that name, but accommodating on
ly a very few families. Ali the
wealthy Peruyians either buy or
build residences in ChorriIloS, re-
moving thence their entire families,
servants and all, as soon as the
summer season begins; unlike our
wealthy families in New York,
however, who shut up their houses
on going to the seaside, only TO find
that burglars have been occupying
and desolating them on their return
home. The houses are well locked
and secured in Lima and CaIlao,
and left without a servant, and all
ways found unmolested at the end
of three or four months soiourn.
Nearly every one lives from Fon-
das, or eating houses, having their
meals sent to them by the Fonda
servants all ready cooked at so
much a month. During the day
the long linen curtains are down,
and the fair creatures who occupy
the houses are never seen, being
always en- dishabille, # not really
in bed and asleep all day, except at
six or eleven A. NJ, when they
emerge, in white wrappers and Gov
cred by the inevitable black mantle,
for the sea bath.
HOW THEY BATTLE.
The hair is braided in two long
switches and hangs down the back;
stays, hoops, rings and earrings are
laid aside, The black manta en-
tirely covers the head and face, and
all but the eyes, and the fair dam
sci goes in coach or on foot to her
bath, with one servant and without
any adornment. But the tiny little
feet, as they peep out in the embroi-
dered slipper, and the pretty little
ungloved hand holding the manta
up to the face and under the chin,
and the very sweep of the long
skirt, which must on no account be
raised to expose the feet, all prom
Use that the Limanian has not been
uDjustly noted for grace and beau
ty and for fine figure (although
always short, stout and inclined to
enbonpoint) and as we see these
beautiful women in the early morn
ing, and without establishment,
they are, to my thinking, far hand
somer than when the four o'clock
toilette has sent them out ribbons
and satins, laces and diamonds,
walking dresses, paint and powder,
and all the paraphernalia of art
complete. The fashionable life OF
belle at Chorrillos, although she
may possess millions, is as simple
as possible.
| In Newport she must be up all
night dancing, and early at morn
to battle in the most elaborate
morning toilette. Then she rides
or drives, and dresses as often, av-
eraging six dresses per day. No
wonder she is jsded and worn.
But our Lima beauty is not visible
before 4 P. NJ, and then only to go
to her bath in the most simple and
neglige of wrappers, her hair I'M
bound, her dress a plain loose
white pique, and no ornament
whatever. Then she returns to her
siesta, 10 lie in bed and smoke her
cigarette and sleep, and no one
dreams of intruding upon the pri-
vacy of family in Chorrillos un-
til after 4 Pm.
At 6 P. NJ. dinner is announced,
and every one appears in full dress
and adornment. AS soon as the
dinner is removed the balcony is
cleared and the curtain rolled up
to the ceiling. Now begins the
gossip, the shopping, visiting and
life.
As the Limanians are all dark
(albeit they use so much POWDER
and have, all of them, such mag
nificent black hair and lustrous
black eyes, they are very fond of
all high colors-wear great deal
OF scarlet, orange, corn color, pink,
and green, and not often too many
colors at once. But they look bet
ter in white, with some bright COL
or in their hair, although they are
very snowy women. Any person
who has fair skin, light hair and
blue eyes, if with any pretentions
to good looks, is considered beauti-
full, and blondes are in great de-
mand. The Peruvians are very
fond of powdering their black hair
and wearing the very whitest of
wigs, thus adding a startling effect
to their cleaning black eyes. The
life of a Chorrillos belle, like that
of any other fashionable votary, is
one long round of dress and dissi-
patton, yet having the long unbro-
ken slestas in the day they can
more easily endure the night fes-
tivities, and it is certain tn 1t they |
return to Lima after q season of |
bathing with clearer olive CON-
plexion, and fresher, ruddier bloom
on the dark cheek.