Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-17
Foreign correspondence Free Press and Times.
From France.

THE LONG BRANCH OF FRANcE-FAsHI0Ns
IN CRoCKERY AND DRESS.
DIErPE, July 26, 1877.
| To the Editor of the Free Press and Times.
The asphalt of Paris became too much
for me as permanency, and so have come
here to cool my feet on the more humid
PLACE, to take a few notes and listen to the
gossip of the day. l am going to Trouville,
but have stopped here at the Long Branch
of France before | proceed to its Newport.
Dieppe ranks well among French sea ports.
1t has a fine casino, and superb terrace
overlooking the ocean. 1t is a city where
one can live luxuriously or economically ac-
cording to the length Of his purse It's
surrounded by pleasant country with pic
tureseue views and charming drives.
At present there are hundreds of bathers
here who are seeking health in dipping into
the sea. The soirce nmscales of Arban are
an immense success and the people crowd to
them in the same way that they did in Paris
last Winter They afford an excuse for the
most picturesque and extravagant toilettes.
The Princesse de Broglie patronizes this
place, and draws her special political clique
about her.
The latest fashionable caprice is to lay
aside linen and Bdtiste costumes, and wear
in their place white cachemire trimmed with
dead leaf, rich green or greHal-velvet. A
5eret of cachenire constitutes the head dress.
gauze veil is wound around the crown,
covers the face, eneircles the neck and Is
fastened on the breast BY small bouquet.
The gentlemen have caught the contagion
and also appear in sof; woollen fabrics, with
white kid shoes, white parasols, white cas-
tor gloves. The genuine gonlmelu or yisd
d'elephant emphasizes this by adding an
under vest of red silk, and red silk hose,
with fuehsia in his button-hole, and in
some cases casts aside his cigarette with Its
amber mouth piece for pipe. This the
French lady objects to entirely. and the
most killing of these gentlemen loses prestige
with the far sex if found with pipe in his
mouth
Social position and character are perhaps
more easily recognizable here by the mpes-
imenta of the travelling public, than IN
America even. '.Show me their luggage and
I'll tell you who they are" might replace
the old prOyerb here. If family arrive
with reasonable amount Of luggage, the
trunks not Over-large, covered with gray
Holland, strapped with light-leather, neat
and elegant, with the valises and small boxes
equally well ordered, one may easily set them
down as people to the manor born. aecus
toned to navel, and whom you will find
pleasant companions if you can obtain a
seat in the compartment with them.
II they come, however, with long cases, cr-
closing the masterpieces of some iashiona-
bic cofourTler, it is not neediul TO see the
grim look which the husband throws at these
immense portmanteaux resembling sarcopha-
gi, to realize that this is the family Of
some fnancier, the great portion of whose
fortunate speculations on the BOurse arc
found in these caskets, to be resurrected at
Deppe, Trouville or LuchOn.
Ii lady alone, or possibly accompanied
by cavalier, arrives, followed by elegant
trunks very new and without covers, and
all sorts of eOquettish cahats, railway rug,
and every sort of extrayagant mpcdimcHiG
that can be imagined, without any special care
being taken to preserve it, you may safely
set her down as a woman of that sphere,
where one amuses himself merely and a reg
ular life. reasonable and dgnifed economy,
which still admits of large, noble and worthy
expenditure, is totally wanting.
Does a man arrive with travelling bag,
especially il made of carpet, a thing yet seen
among some of the bourgeois, if he has
nothing to stamp him with that odor of sane
tity which is supposed to belong to a gen
teman, he is either borgeo'S making an
unusual journey, or a mIser. Thus you can
see that the world is pretty much the same
everywhere.
Among the new fancies is pretty d6s-
sert service in which Strawberries are
served. and the plates from which they arc
eaten are sprinkled with the pretty fruit
painted on the delicate white surface as VI
thrown carelesSly upon them. For eherri,s.
apricOts, and, indeed, all fruits, the sane
harmony is required, so that single d,
sert service is no longer sufficient. u
must have different one every week, as
season advances.
Cakes are served on flowers but thj
each dish and plate must have different d.
sign, representing n bouquet, thrown n Z
ligently into one corner, a "a idc0n SdIe.
The Duchess de Marehy and Princesse -
Ssgan are trying to revive skirts and CT
sages of the same material, and all in OF =.
the corsage made pointed and the sleev,
very close. \ scarf of embroidered CHI. -
Grape finishes these really distinguished c,
tunes of a rare simplicity.
Nnurs