American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-01-23

| flounccS of the same color, edged with
narrow oxidiZed silver lace, with wide
oXidized silver lace above each gauzc
flouncc and half yelling it. The laces
are also made of gold and silver and used
to trim silk dresses, the fabric of which
itself is woven with silver and gold.
Nothing can be more beautiful by gas
| light. This fashion at present is only be-
| ginning; in three months it will impose
| itself on all women who love richness
| and elegance and who wish to be certain
| that what they wear will not be worn by
| everyone else.
g As laces are made of all colors, SO
| leaves of all tints are manufactured for
ball dresses and coiffeurs. Flowers are
much used, even on high-necked fichus,
in bows for the corsage and in the hair.
This fashion, which was somewhat ex-
ceptional last winter, is now universal.
"Another fashion which consists in
suspending all sorts of articles about the
person continues on the increase; during
the day the watch and umbrella are hung
from the belt, and at evening the cassO-
lette with perfumes, the vinaigrette with
smelling salts, and, lastly, a miniature
| oval mirror with beveled edge, set in a
richly wrought metal frame, and often
adorned with precious stones. Street
dresses, those which are worn in the day
time for walking, are as simple,
modest and humble, in appearance,
at least, as drawing room toilets are
brilliant, luxurious and costly; wool
en- over velvet or softest vel
veteen-such is the uniform this winter.
Very dark colors, when black is not
chosen, is the universal rule. These
wooden fabrics are trimmed with feath
ers, fur, or light curled silk fringe
called marabout. Feathers are divided
INTO cocks feathers, bristling, and dyed
of the same color as the stuff, and fiat
feathers of the peacock or some other
bird. Fur-who can enumerate all the
kinds of fur that are manufactured and
worn? We see it of all colors and lengths,
to suit all tastes and especially all purses.
l suspect Paris of turning her cats and
rabbits to good account, and of dyeing
and making up the furs of those domes-
tic quadrupeds and elevating them to the
dignity of trimmings for the toilet.
Dresses even of cloth and wool often
have the corsage laced behind like cor
set, or like the waists our mothers wore
some forty years ago. instead of being
buttoned in front. Gauze woven of
metal, steel, silver and oxidiZed silver is
now manufactured, and of this gauZe are
made coats of mail with the corsage and
skirt in one piece) or cuirasses and
tabliers these are worn over silk or vel
cording to the occasion on which the
dress is to be worn. The effect produced
is dazzling. These corsages are always
laced behind and stretched smoothly
over the bust. Nothing is lacking but
the sword at the side to complete the cos
tune of knight of the Middle Ages.
But if we have not as yet the sword, we
have the revolver; a black leather pistol
with steel lock is hung from the belt, and
on pressing the spring fan shoots from
the barrel.
AT home high-heeled slippers are worn
very ornate, and often TT immed with
bunch of flowers to match those with
which the light gray stockings are en-
broidered that accompany the slippers.
The bunch of flowers is often replaced
by large and handsome buckle of metal
set with precious stones.
81 will sum up by saying that the
fashion this winter demands at home a
luxury the like of which has never been
seen, and out of doors the greatest sim
plicity of which the toilet is capable"