The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-08
ROBES OF THE ANGELS.
THE FALL FLAT OF FEMALE
FASHION.
HeIpIessness of Those Who Have
"NOthing TO Wear''-scant Upper
Proportion of Evening Dress
es-EfectuaI Street sweep
ers-Pedicures.
Pittsburgh Telegraph.

Pittsburgh Telegraph.
There is no subject which a writer
feels so important In treating as IN crltl-
cising woman's dress. They read, laugh,
and buy all the more. Still, there is 10
knowing where little good seed sown
by the way side may take root, and there
fore the sower should not neglect TO go
forth and SOW.
There is a tide in the affairs OF women,
Which, taken at the MOOD, Ieads-uou
knows where.
The flood tide is fashion. Spring,
Summer, Autumn, Winter, it is u con-
slant ebb and flow. The fall styles are
on. summer styles have ebbed, the flow
has begun, and the woman who has not
reached the divine contamination OF the
costume e., rtgLe is poor, iorlorn, bLdSe
creature without an ambition. She can
nave no ambition aside from toggery.
She cannot even take part in the worship
o her Lord and Master unless covered
with the latest thing IN hats. But once
she is made q complete woman by the
assistance of Der mllliner and dressmaker,
the devotion inspired in her is wonder
full. Dressed la mode she can worship
a la mode. In the heavenly frame OF
mind conjured by a new hat what beau
tiful prayers are lisped rs her stately
head is bent according to the laws grace,
Lucifer only knows The dress retormer
dead, or her lips have been sealed by
the fat of fashion. The representative
dress retormer has lett the rostrum where
she was admired by millions in a robe
fine in material out PLAIN OF manufacture,
and now struts before the iOotlight
tfgilrante of the costlicst description. The
.cepLre OF the Anne DickensOns is trans
formed to the TOOLS wisp, reposing in the
hands Of the DIR. Mary Walkers, and
dress reform and womanhoed are stimuli
,aneOusly caricatured. Listen to the
voice oil the fashionable shop keeper.
If l ask how my lady shall dress of an
evening, he answers "Ah there Is
world to choose from. There is no end
In the new fabrics. Here is "Stalactite;"
aght, guazy, rich in figures OF silk, vel
vet or satin, and manufactured IN all the
pale evening shades, trimmed with point
lace and garnitured with feathers. Here
i. .peluche grenadlne OF dlaphanous sur
lace, embossed with floral designs in
plush. The "Bourrette Mousse is cost
y material resembling moss, and of this
thereIs several species. Gamers hair,
costlier than ever, Will be quite fashion
able" And 50 on. How are these nader
does some innocent ask. Well, they still
.Lied back" the trains are extended, the
crinoline little enlarged, perhaps, and
-softly-cut very low In the neck, be-
Lind and before, with no sleeves but
sloulder-straps! Ye shades OF modestyl
1t is An eIaggeration even OF the seven
tee lth century, when the cavalier SerU-
ante was more To be desired than Il hus-
band; when libeltines were courted; when
conversation was most lmmodestly BROAD
when libidinous expires, ons where the
lie OF tAe stage, and no play successful
without them. At that time book was
uublishec called. "a Just and SeasJnable
Rpprebension of Naked Breasts and
Shoulders" but in this decoLLette day even
more plentiful lack OF dress is affected
unreproved.
Pass from the drswing-room to the
street Here immodesty Is transformed
10 slovenliuess Walking dresses are
shortened before only to be extended be-
hind In SO clearly u town Us Pittsburgh
this is valuable change. 1t assists
materially in preserving the brooms OF
| sbop. keepers. II these trains do not be-
come heavy with the gathered lmpurlty
of the street they must be held up thus
keeping one hand employed constantly
and interfering cruelty with tree, healthy
action of the limbs and body. The short
ness Of these dresses in trent gives op-
porturity to catch glimpse OF the shoe
IN use narrow high-heeled, throwing
the weight of the wearer forward upon
her toes. II is a most reprehenslole
STYLE, and scarcely woman who has
adopted 1t buJ HIS corns or bunions whose
agony maniiesLs itself In the temper
! Why. in Paris, since the adoption oi the
stvle, the pedicure Is rs numerous ss the
barber. Rcgllarly as u French lady
passes from the bath she goes into the
hands of the pedicure, who, l am G lad
to say. IS almost invariably lady. OIlve
Logan recently asked one of these "coFn
doctors" if every body had troublesome
feet The reply WAS " everybody: not
ladv bather comes to these rooms wht
has not got corns-some trighttul ones.
These modern high-heeled shoes are al
sbominstion; they murder the feet OF A.
who wear them. We thank Coo for the
civilization OF the Caucasian race, while
our women abuse their feet more cruelty
than do the MoneolIans. And our Amer
can ladies are forced to b. their own pedl
cures.
Neither IS there anything to commend
in hats. The new styles are the Norman
DIV cap, which has coronet to reliev
the tace, and turned-up hat with broat
brIm, both of them having many varis
tlons. The foolshness is in the velvet
and Jets, and feathers, and bows, ant
birds. which are necessary for the trim
ming and new nonsense Is added IN tn
command that every thing must b
bronzed. Flowers, pendants, leaves
everything, must be thckly sprinkle,
, with bronze-dust. One style is garni
tured with wresths made entirely c
hummlng birds. When lady has on
., OF these nondescript things stuck on to
= of great braid or roll of hair, she Re
minds one o! the Goddess of Libert
swinging her cap on the end OF arole. Pei
! hsps the neatest o. the new things {
e the season j. tn, "D4nechere," a re'
? cloak, long and more graceful than to
dOlman. It's commendable feature is il
simplicity, and this is the stranger, as