The Portland daily press., 1874-08-27
Miss Kellogg ON the Symphonies OF
Fashion.

The Sun publishes Saratoga letter from
"Eli Perkins"-which purports to give the
views of distinguished prima donna upon
the aesthetics of dress. As these views are
interesting to the ladies, at all events, we give
the letter as follows:
Last evening had long talk with the
belle of the states about good clothes. As
the young lady is pretty well known in Amer
lea, suppose that it is not indelicate to tell
you that her name is Miss Clara Louisa Kel-
logg, Miss Kellogg is famous for being one
of the most correctly dressed young ladies in
America. So as the thousands Of young la
dies promenaded in their ceaseless tramp up
and down the balcony and through the broad
halls, we held a running talk on the subject
ofladies' dresses.
The 6rst young lady to pass was Miss -
of Philadelphia, short, blonde young lady,
dressed in black dress, with low neck and
short sleeves.
"There, Miss Kellogg, how about that tot
letT I asked. pointing TO the short, thin,
pale young lady in black.
sA"That toilet is all wrong," replied Miss Kel-
logg. ''In the first place short young lady
should never wear a low neck, especially with
black dress. The low neck only cuts the
body in pieces. 1t breaks the line. Now look
at her there" continued Miss Kellogg, "as
she stands away across the room against the
white wall. You can see the dress but no
neck or arms. In fact the effect is an empty
dress hung up against the wall. Now, if she
stood against dark wall you would see what
would look like big dolps head and arms
hung on nail. The dress would disappear.
If a person wears a low neck, she should have
her dress nearly the color of the neck, doing
away with this terrible contrast. and prevent
ing the sharp line around the neck. Then
the neck should be filled in with white illu-
sion or pale gauze to soften the line between
| the skin and the dress. Gauze or lace shades
| the white of the neck and brown of the dress
| and makes an accord, not harsh note"
s'But we are talking about colors, Miss Kel-
logg, and not music" suggested.
Eyes, but the relations between colors and
music-between the eight notes of the scale
and the eight cOlors of the rainbow II call
white color) are wonderful. We have the
eight notes arranged in octaves above and be-
low. We have the eight colors arranged in
| octaves above and below. White in color cor
responds to the highest note in music, and
black to the low bass. We raise an octave in
music by putting in more vibratiOn-by dilut-
| ing the sound. We raise an octave in color
| by putting in more white that is by diluting)
| and when we have raised several octaves the
l red becomes pink, the yellow straw color, and
i the dark green becomes pea-green.
THE SYMPHONIES.
sBut how about the symphonies in music
| and cOlOrP'' ! asked.
"Ah! there we have my idea beautifully L.
lustrated," exclaimed Miss Kellogg enthusias-
tically. 'sWhen l mix several crude notes
from different octaves / produce symphony
or harmony When you mix several crude
| colors you have symphony OF one color.
Mix blue and red and you have symphony
you have maroon; mix blue and yellow and
| you have symphOny-green; mix red and
1 vuhtfo and havo a evrnnbnnu-niplr -
Just then a young lady from Louisville, KY,
passed by all dressed in red and blue and yel-
low and white. The Louisville young ladies
all run to bright colors.
'Therep' continued Miss Kellogg, "that
young lady is wearing the crude notes of the
natural scale. No symphony-no harmony
not even a chord. How much more agreea-
BILE to the cultivated eye all these colors wocld
be if they were mixed together. Mix the red
portions and she could have the lovely pom
gee, or slate, or dove color, or Bismarck
brown or sage green-all lovely sympho.
Mes"
A little child now struck few notes on the
piano.
"See that child Is playing red and blue and
| yellowp' exclaimed the prilna donna, s'chil-
| dren and savages like the crude eight notes
| and the crude eight colors unmixed and dis.
1 GlQcC. EuuCdtc tucui, duu tLey like SymDlO-
| nies in music and color. Sharp lines disap.
| pear as they do in the rainbow, or as they dc
in the coloring Of the marble, each melting
into the other, and stealing little of the
other. Trees grow thin at the edge. anc
melt into the sky, and even the sharp edge:
of crag or house steal little of the gray
ness from nature"
A tall lady from Portland now passed by
with little short man from Boston.
A DIsCoRD.
"That isia discord," continued Miss Kel
logg, fixing her eyes on the Illuminated pair
"Why will tall women forever get with lttl,
men like Parepa and Rosa? Why will vel
low-haired girl wear blue dress? Why will
sandy old man dye his moustache black
Why will the ashy pale woman wear red
Why will the red-faced woman wear white
Why-whyl why Mr.. Perkins,"
II will give it up" Miss Kellogg, l said, ''l
| never could answer a conundrum.'
5 sI know" continued the prima donna: ssi
, is because they have no eyes or ears. Th
| golden-hared girl should wear golden comb
: She of the raven hair, black, and she OF tb
, silver hair, white. Let there be no discord
, and if there is a bony neck like a few badI
. written notes in piece of music, cover it M
! Cover up the bones: and II you weigh ton
don't wear low-necked dress and look as
you weighed ton and halfn
"Weil, What shall tell all the young ladie