Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-07

IneTe Is not green-rO0m IN the country
where you can see more powder and
patches, more postiches and pads, than in
the parlors at Long Branch. The preva-
lence Of
POsTICHEs
is especially marked. The mass of hair
which it was formerly the fashion to
wear piled upon the back of the head
and on the apex of the brain has now
disappeared. Ladies whose types of
visage denote any nationality except
that of Greece now persist in adjoining the
base of the skull with the tightly twisted
Greek knOt-Of any size from an English
walnut to a new ball Of darning cotton.
But the great system Of averages prevails in
wigs as in I'll things, and the discarded
false hai- Of the chignOn finds its counter
pOise in the slow forehead piece" For
know all men by these presents that if the
Long Branch lady know herself, and she
think she do, she means to have a low fore
head in this year Of grace, whatever shape
she may in future decide upon as the best
wear for that feature. The youth Of the
BOwery who was
Bound to be butcher boy, by Hockey, or die!'
was not more set in his opinions than is
the lady Of to-day. She talks learnedly Of
the Greek statues, armless Milo in the
Louvre, the n, dician Venus, and others;
they have all low fOreheads, and are beau
tiful. No precedent could be clearer,
And yet these masterpieces have calmly
stood with their low fOreheads through the
decades-egen through that one in which
those women who were born with low
fOreheads wTenChed out their hairs that
their fronts might be intellectually high.
"All things come round 20 him who will
but wat" The Greek statues have waited,
and low foTehesds are now riding the crest
of the fashionable wave.
The FASHIONS CRITICISED,
Are there any Greek-Or Irish-statues
with their dresses pinned back? Here again
is an excellent and sensible idea carried to
an extreme that is really tying-I mean
trying. The full gathered skirt which
flOUrished "before the war; was q terrible
nuisance. To hang a skirt, with its volu-
minous gathers or plaits, was a more diff
cult mechanical performance than hanging
a man. \ lady was never sure her petit
coat wasn't hanging below, and the multi
tudinOus plaits bad an unpleasant peculiar
ity called "hiking up" When a skirt didn't
hike up in front itswas so long that its
wearer was constantly stumbling over it.
The present skirt is admirable in this re-
spect. 1t may be so long that naught but
the faintest tipo the shoe is ever disclosed,
yet, being tied back, it cannot trip its
Wearer up.
Nevertheless, moderation should prevail
in this fashion, as in others. A skirt tied
back too tightly is subject to serious draw
backs. The story of the lady who has been
deprived Of the enjoyment Of a good,
square sit-dOwn, for a year has run the
round Of the dTawing-rOOEss in all the great
capitals.
Discretion, too, should be used in the
quantity Of tOurnure worn with tied-baCk
skirt. A ''bishOp" is the current modiste's |
word for the more unfamiliar "tOurnure," |
and while little bishop may be of advan- |
tage, used as an adOrnment to the spinal |
column, too many bishops are not in favor !
among the orthodox. When the observing |
critics sees not only bishops Of thc most |
pOFtly dimensions, but even what one |
would imagine by their proportions to be |
cathedrals and spires, and these piled on |
and on till the effect is mOnOtOnOus, while |
in front the shacIled limbs has not so much |
as frill of adOrnment, be deplores the alb |
sence Of that equilibrium which should be /
preserved in matter as we'll as mind.
The girl from st. Louis went to church /
last Sunday, dressed prettily in her favorite /
color, blue. She got the hotel cashier to /
change her a s. bill before she left, because
she wanted to contribute to the collection /
plate. But Misericordei Awake if you
can a fellow-feeliDg for her. At the fatal
moment when the vestryman stood before
her presenting the plate, and, as she asserts,
every eve in the church was riveted on her,
she discovered that the big pin which she
had at the last moment skewered into her
skirt to make it sufficiently tight-ftting
held her pocket in its why grasp, and with
it the purse containing the S. in small cur
rency. She was obliged to say no to the
box. and her cheeks burned
painfully.