The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-05-22
Dolly Warden qnd The hadies.-What orc
Dolly Eardens?

FIFTH AVENUE HoTEL, April IL
Pm sick Of Dolly Vardcns | :.
i Thqt Is, l could stand it to hay,
! Mrs. Perkins live In Dolly Varde,
morning Wrappers, Wear OCCASIONAL, !,
Dolly Vardeus afternoon costume
and indulge in Dolly Vardens opera
dresses now and then but when Mrs
ferkins--asks me-to W.e.ar Doll,
vests, Dolly Warden shirt oollars-and
asks nc to change off my Bon
Marche oambrio handkevchiefd with
tho big mopograms on them, for q
square ofexaggerated window curtain
II say when she asks mo to wear
Dolly Warden clothes myself, sleep on
Dolly Warden sheets, and wipe on
Dolly Vardeu towels, then I say, like
poor persocuted Toodles, "hang Dolly
Warden aforesaid !
sWhat are Dolly Vardens 2"
"This ishow they came about; "In
the spring of 1870. whilo Napoleon was
fussing with Benedict up ut Ems,
md fusslpg with old King William
TO drive him into tho big war, the
Empress Eugenie vas making up q
oarty to 60 to the 1ougohamp races.
The crazy ladies Of the court had ex.
hausted all the recent fnshiofis, and
so the Empress set about getting up
a style for tho races which should be
Just about is crazy in fashion as old
Nip, her husband was crazy in war.
Eugenie sent for Worth, the man
milIinsr, and together thcy planned
those roso and suniflower spangled
Cretonnt suits, and got up leg horn
"shoe fly" hat, with velvet aud daisos
and dandclions, and my and every.
thing which should look like Mrs.
Flapagan's weedy; holly llyhook.botdered
back yard.
"They succeeded: The dress wus
the most insane specimen of window
curtain, and the huts looked-woll,
looked just as codhettish MS our Dolly
Warden hats do now. 1t looked as if
it had been struck with whirlwind
behind-or, in a word, it was cock.
ed hat just ready to f,y, but anchored
down by velvet. strings.
"WeIl; the Empress and tho court
Indies went up to the Longchamp races
and were these window curtain suits.
OF course Paris was crazy about it
but just thou old Sing William slapp.
ed half million Dutchmen over into
Alsace and Lorraine, which mnde the
Empress quit the races and run back
to Paris to look after the hospital,
which wcro full Of wounded French-
men,"
"Who revived tho crazy fashion Z"
"Well, Mrs. P, Of Fifth
Avenue, and several of our ladies
brought back the window curtain dress
from Paris in tho fall of 1870, and
wore it at the jerome races-a very
proper place for it. Last spring it
began to creep up at Saratoga.
Pretty Mrs. P-so the envy of
all the ladies, Tor she had ono right
from Wotth's. They were '.just the
cheese" for the races, and did we'll
for Saratoga graveyard flirtations and
morning breakfast gown at Moons's,
but now the ladies nre becoming as
crazy as the fashion. They insis,
on wearing the hop vine, su'nhower
pattern, all the time.
"They are cutting up their window
cur'ains,to make what they call now
"Dolly Warden" dresses, and the lit
tie forty cent palmetto hats made by
the darkies in Florida are brought up
here, cooked up OF ono side, balrasted
with so worth of Paris pansies, pop
pies end and botchelors' buttons and
sold for $26., But don't they make
a sensation 7 It's all right-Dolly
Warden was a crazy woman she did
all sorts ofqueor things but if Dolly
should walk out Of her crazy English
grave and drop down on Broadway.
and see thirty.avo thousand insane
American women adopting her luna.
tic dress patterns and "cutting up
generally judt as Dickens said she
used to "cut up" Dolly would imme.
diatcly gct'up q grand fair to raise
funds to build gigantic Dolly Var
den insane asylum.
These Window curtain Cyttonne
suits are only to be worn at the raoes.
They are not for morning nor after
noon but now every Biddy on four
dollars per week is talking about
Dolly Warden for morning, Dolly Var.
den for. evening" and Dolly-crazy
Dolly Warden for funeral and we'd
diDgs:-for the pail bearers and brides
maids | sez Eli"
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