The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-27
LACE GOSSIP,
One Of the Fashionable FoIlies Of the Last
Century.

Une OF the kashl0nable foilles or the Last
Century.
Pictures and engravings Of the time Of
Louis the Fourteenth bear witness to-
the proIuse employment of lace. Weep
ing ruffies, and the jabOt, or breast frill, !,
MonaTque. Ruffies, like all new FASH
ions, we're laughed at by the satirists,
who explained tnat they were worn by
sharpers to facilitate the manipulation
OF cards and dice, and pretended that.
many wearers OF gay ruffles ere actual
ly shirtless. There appears 10 have"
been some foundation Tor the latter
sneer.
The Marechal de Richelieu-who, all
warrior, astronomer, and lady-kIller as
ne was, could not spell-Lhus wittily ex.
planned his mental condition.: "rhey
supplied me with no shirts, but have
bought me some ruffies." There were
variOus kinds OF rutfles for grande and
demi-toilette, for night and day, and
many OF them cost large sums. the
Archbishop Of Cambray possessed toul
dozen pairs of the costliest kind, and
poor Louis the Sixteenth, the year be-
| lore his death by the guiIlOtine, owned
fifty-nine eight OF point,
twenty-one Of Valenciennes, and ten
described as Angieterre. Everybody
| had ruM ss-nObles, sharpers, and lack
eys-eyen Monsieur de Paris, the exc
cutiOner, mounted the scaffold in vel
vet suit provided with pOint-lace jabOt
and ruffias.
| Madame de Crequy, describing her
| visit to the DOwager Duchess de la
| FerIe, says that when that lady received
| her, she was lying IN a state bed under
/ a cOFerlet Of Venice point made in one
4 H1 10 nhA
"that the trimmings OF her sheets, wnicn
were OF point d'Argenlan, We're worth
at least ~ 00 crowns" To such pftcn
had the taste tOr lace trimmed linen
reached that, in 1873, when the eldest
daughter of Louis the Fifteenth MA.
married to the Prince of Spain, the bill
IOr these articles alone amounted Il
f25, 600, 10 the horror of Cardinal Fleury
Nearly hall century Iaier SwInburne
writes from Paris: "The trOusseau OF
MAIDEN Oiselle de MatignOn will cost a
hundred thCuzand crowns. The expense
mere OF rigging out bride is equal to q
handsome portion of England, Five
thousand pounds worth oil lace and linen
is common thing among them"
Toward the latter part of the reign o.
Louis the well-beioved, French poin
was riyaled by the Flemish laces, gen
orally termed Ang gleterre IN France, ant
: Mecniin in England. Argentan and AL
enson were pronounced winter laces
the lighter piilow-lace being deemed
mole appropriate Ior h0E weather
Madame Dubarry's lace accounts give
grand idea Of her consumption OF Angle
teTre and Malines. Mnen the star O
Marie AntOinette rose on the murky at
mosphere OF the French court, a tre
mendOus reaction set III in favor OF sim
pIIcILy. Indian muslin supp.anted til,
tine point of the old schOoi, anu The lace
makers of AlensOn actually set them
selves TO work TO initiate the inferio
laces made on tine pillow. At this pc
riOd the rich garni ures snrank to mar
row edgings-seIle dc pOfS-the only al
iicle OF lace wnIcu escaped degradation
being the lappeJs worn on occasions G
ceremony. Whether of point or pillow
. lace, these were always rich and hand
: some, and their arrangement was rIgidl
l prescribed by the etiquette lOr yariOu
2 occasions.