Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-07-24
OUR FASHION LETTER.
nILLINERY VERSUS poLIrIcs.

In my last letter | wrote of the perlls
which at present beset.the hat, or hats,
worn by fashionable young lady, but
/ am free to confess that carried away
by my feelings of surprise at the adroit-
ness with which our bellies are won't to
poise their ivory chips at the back Of
their heads neglected the extraordina-
ry skill with which they plant their
round hats of black straw down over
their eyes in front. Both are equally
remarkable, and serve to impress me
with increasing ideas of respect for crea-
lures who can with such facility adapt
themselves to whatever may be demand
ed of them. Nor should the above fac
ulty of the feminine mind be overlooked
by our statesmen in this crisis of nation
al excitement, and l venture to predict
that when the time shall have arrived
for the fair sex to take hand in poll
tics; the tergiversations of our Toms,
Dicks, Harrys of the present will be
completely outdone by those of the Bet
seys. Marias and James of the future.
We can judge of the future only by the
past, and we may safely conclude that
the ease with which woman may be
transformed from Democrat to Re-
publican, and Uice UerSd, as circumstan-
ces may demand, will cause men in gen.
eral to blush for shame, and confess
their inferiority to women. For this
summer at least, however, there is no
danger of competition from women on
national questions, since they will have
employment enough in dressing them
selves For what in the world is so
troublesome as dress
BUTToNED AT THE BACK,
and that is just what they are now spend
ing their best energies upon. To speak
more accurately, what strength remains
to them after cruel and prolonged COM
bats with their bonnets, is exhausted in
settling the vexed question of the proper
arrangement of long lines of buttons
which are placed carefully out of the
proper range either of touch or vision.
If there is anything tantalizing in the
world it is the necessity of fastening on
button which is beyond your reach.
On this point, however, if on none 9TH
er, the two sexes may sympathize with
each other, since all and singly know
how it is themselves. There is no civ
ilized man who does not understand the
peculiar suferings which are endured
by reason Of buttons, and I must here
remark that married man who refuses
to lend hand in helping his wife to
manage her new basque or polonaise is
certainly unfit for the special blessing of
a wife.
THREE ROWS
of very small buttons are also placed
. with jaunty effect down the fronts or
backs of basques or polonaises. The idea
is at once new and pretty, and has there
fore been seized upon with avldity, the
only danger to its continued popularity
being that adopted by everybody, it will
become wearisome in consequence of too
oft repetition, and may thus remain
pleasing to nobody.
cannot too strongly insist upon sim
plicity IN the corsage. Nothing is so
fashionable as those which fit with Sc
verify of plainness to the hips, while as
if in compensation, or for effect of con-
trast, the drapery below hangs in a va
/ riety of conYolution, which is fantastic
beyond measure, and absolutely inde-
, scribable since every idea, either posi-
bic or impossible, seems to find represen-
; tation.
WORD TO THE WISE.
Do not invest too largely in cream
, color, whether it be in the millinery or
any other department of attire. Buy no
more than will last you during this sea-
son, for the signs of the times indicate
that all the pale yellow shades for which
; there has been such an unexampled fu-
rore, are even now upon the wane. Pure
white is gaining upon them, and already
is regarded as more elegant, by the fas-
tidious, who view with adherence any.
thing which has become common. Fol
the remainder of the summer. however
the ivory tints will be patronized. and
this | add for the consolation Of those
: who have made their purchases.
LACE GARMENTS.
There is something truly feminine
about lace. and | note with pleasure tba
. garments of such texture are presentec
this season in as great numbers a. the
have ever been. But the present fame,
= is for French lace. and We see the ma
jority Of new sacques and circulars n
this style. which, in reality. are imita
- ton Of the real thread. has been given
better something appcllation. DuriBI
the winter French lace was In unasua
l. favor as a garniture at present 1t is th
: fayorite trimming for grenadines. gauz
. es, etc. and that there is 10 diminutiol
Il in the popularity accorded to it. Is aE
parent from Its reproduction IN 80 man
out door garments All this 70 the dii
ge advantage Of Llama lace. which. alths