The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-14
FASHION GOSSIP.
The Origin Of our EaVOFite Fashion,
able Practices
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at the risk OF shocking delcate
sensibilities, we propose to show
whence some of the chief features of
/ fashion have been derived. 1t is safe
to say the introduction of blonde hair
1 and the dying of raven locks to make
them blonde, were supposed Partisan
purely, approved in London, applaud
ed in Berlin, where so much dye was
not required. and desperately attempt
ed in the United States, where the
results have been ludicrous and la
mentable. But the idea came from
the Fejee Islands, where the practice
has been In vogue for many years, and
where it still prevails. Fejee bellies
do not know the seasons by any
variety of external surroundings more
striking than hurricanes and juicy
missionary. The complexion OF the
original Fejee blondes is a brown
ish yellow; they have regular
features, and their limbs are
three times the thickness of an
EpglishmaRs They have not yet
attained false calves, but supply food
to the same spirit by vigorously tattoo
ing themselves. They not only dye
their hair blonde, but vary the hue
now and then TO jet black or bright
red, and further improve the Golf
fure By variegated wigs. We re-
greet to say these ambitious women are
treacherous, cruel, and climb a tree
on all tours. Parricide is faVorite
custom. Missionaries make slow pro-
gress until after death. Polygamy
prevails for the reason that the care
of a household is too much for one
woman" The cooking of human
flesh is fine art, and has been de-
veloped by a number of Ingenious Gu.
linary processes. Thence came the
blonde notion.
The Georgians, just south of the
decliVity of the Caucasus, well pro-
portioned maidens, articles of trade
for Eastern harems, clip the hair on
the forehead like the Perdvians, and
then frizz it. The men dye their hair,
beard and finger nails, and the women
do the same to the palms of their
hands. They darken their eyebrows,
making them an unbroken line, and
coat their faces with red and white.
We grieve to add that, despite these
accomplishments, the Georgian WoIn-
en- correspond morally with class of
American women who shall be name
less herein. But thence came
the frizz idea.
The Bohemian girls float their
tresses to the winds. which perhaps
accounts for the favor this style finds
among literary women. The Bohemi-
ans, Of Bohemia, are simple and
moral in their lives, and live to an ad-
vanced age. which is not true of b.
hemians elsewhere. The Birmese
women curl their hair by excrucia-
tingly painful methods. Their chief
beauty is the fairness of their fore
heads, and, if nature, by slip of her
mind, make a Birmese forehead up
right the defect is corrected by pres
sing the temporal ridge Of the frontal
bone within leaden plates. A piece of
white cotton over the arms constitutes
full male court dress on solemn state
occasions.
THE WATERFALL STYLE
came directly from Japan. No vari-
ETY. of our ehignon has been seen in
the west which might not have been
observed tWenty-fv years ago among
tn elowest orders Of Japanese females.
Uncleanly, unsightly, hideous and
grotesque, it should have been left in
its native country. There was
no need Of its immigration; our
girls did not require any further de-
crease in health, and the only benefits
apparent, are the hair makers i'm
proved trade and the spreading of a
very correct impression that the more
a girl has On the outside of her
head, the less there is within it.
STYLES IN COSMETICS.
The thousand articles by which the
cultivated women of our temperate
zone seek to beautify what is already
beautiful, or revise into comeliness
the original edition furnished by ma
ture, are infinitely surpassed by dozens
of thieving Arabs, oily Persians, and
flying BedOuins. The women of Kan
schatka, emerging from her hovel,
smears herself with red and white.
The Circassian, of whom we shall
have something more to say, despises
face tinting, but dyes her finger nails
The delicate Greek girl darkens her
eyebrows and eyelashes, which is q
trif1e in advance of our practice of
the art of arti6ce; and the lineal de-
cendant of Scion and Lycurgus traces
a faint blue line upon the lower eyelid |
to impart an idea of her sensual fra
gility to the mind of the male behold |
ers. Unnecessary suggestion of o /
truth too basely apparent In Tur-
key, vIrtuous women never use paint, /
and powder is never known; the /
Arab stains her nails red, her hands |
and feet brown, and paints her eye
brows and eye-lashes black. The |
Bedouins have variation In favor of |
the arms, which they stain a very
original tint blue. and, leaving the
eyebrow darkening to efeminate
Greeks, they color their lips a somLre
shade, after the manner of the Arabs, |
who, however, in addition to these
charms, stain eye-lashes and broWs
either black or blue, preferriDg the
latter for Sundays and full dress.
These accomplished ladies slip a little
piece of glass through the cartilage
Of the nose, and enhance the beauty of
the device by adding thereto a metal
ring as large as that once used on cur
tains. This fascinating ornament is
so heavy, it has to be raised and sus-
tanned by the hand when food is
passed into the mouth.
But for energy and undaunted for
titude In rendering themselves pre-
seDtable, commend US to the Makooa
tribe, who dwell In the southeast of
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of Makooa commences her toilet BY
cutting stripe on her face from fore
head to chin, and another from ear to
ear, giving her face the appearance of
being sewed together In four quarters.
Then she files her teeth, each to a
point, giving the appearance of an
irregular saw. She shaves one side of
her head, and puts the locks in the
other side In curl papers, and pierces
the upper lip with a piece of ivory.
For recognition in Makooa society
these essentials are always requisite.
These sources whence our cosmet-
les and articles of countenance are
derived, are sufficiently apparent.
ORNAMENTS.
Here and there are women to the
manor born, who know that the fewer
the ornaments they wear, the greater
their adornment. The mass of Amer
lean ladies prefer, however, to get on
all they can; so do the Nubians and
the Esquimaux. The Patagonians
fasten little black patches for orna-
ment on their faces, and the Per
SLAMS, In addition to earrings, finger.
rings and bracelets innumerable, hang