The New York herald., 1878-03-03
PARIS FASHIONS.
HOW THE COMING EXPOSITION WILL CATER TO
THE FOLLOWERS OF FAsHIoN-NEw coLoRs
AND PATTERNS.

HOW THE COMING EXPOSITION WILL CATER TO
THE FOLLOWERS OF FAsHIoN-NEw coLoRs
AND PATTERNS.
PARis. Fob. 10, 1878.
OF all the different branches OF Industry in which
France excsls there Is that interests alike both
men and women. This branch will comprehend divers
casses at the Exposition under Group 3 and Group
4. They embrace furniture, tapestry crystal ware.
ceramics, carpets. paper hanging', cutlery, clock
work, )cwslry, periumery, leather and morocco
manufaturc, basket work; ivory, shell and pearl
work; cottons, linens, silks, shawls, iaces, gimp,
clothing for both sexes, precious stones, pocket
wspons toys and portable accessories for the adorn-
meat OF tho person. Objects OF the same interest viii
be found In Group under Class Class 10 and Class
H. They ohromos. visiting cards, menus. drawing
room frames for photos, water coors and Bristol
knck.knacks.
FASHION.
glance over tho above list will show that tho
dustries mentioned are the nerve and sinsw Of
fashion, tnat tho exiscncies Of this ruling power re-
qnire the services OF all the manufactures specified.
They, therefore, fall under the province OF the Paris
fashions writer, and, ~ would be difficult to 20
through the gwen programme In the space OF time al
ioed for tho duration OF the Exposition, the task OF
reviewing them commences with this letter:
Readers forewarned, by way Of introductory that
the Information will not be orudite Charles Dickens
said in familiar that thing sufices
to make man un,ntcllgiblc, namely, learning, and
that three things essential to reader him eloquent
Fret no should look well at tho things before him;
second, he should find out their worth; third, he
should make up his own mind about them.
srEAKiNG oxy's MIND
This is very much 10 tho point. A writer should
make up his own mind, neither undergoing foreign
influence enforcing hts individual appreciaons.
Every attempt at display Is out OF place, but nowhere
more supcrlattvsIy obnoxious as at u worlds fair,
where national ties should have iu play. L'Anga,s
examine, pAHep,and runias, le Francdis depine-the
American "gucsscs' likewise Now and then
Bit OF satire Is sure 10 fall from this
pen, because Fashion dictates, and wnen IN
a good humor tho versatile lady must have
her apartts Then she goes or enhuslams, kind Of
spasnod,c ufl,cion she has always been addicted to-
or she Will be oppressively minute or If tue retro
spoc,ivs ague be upon her she will in regretu
spirit lead to tho and rctrace the origins
or styles she admired all the blonde daughters Of
the dark ages. have known her 80 down into cata-
combs The clue OF a ring and under vesuvap lava,
among tho secretions Of crocades FOR the maupula.
ton Of cosmetic and POKE about mosses for rouge.
EXPOSITION
The coming Exposition is be campaign rather
crusade tor the tissues and work manshp OF sump-
tuary trades leads buck TO the chvairic period.
few skrmshes have already taken place between the
press and exposants. Wnen Alfred the Great, dis
guissd harper, stood before The Dano Guthram he
had 10 play him tune. No tunes OF avail with
Par,san szposan They jealousIy hide their products
and keep their own secrets man may harp on all
the old strings aud woman only one all the time
IL is only harp,ng Ny plan TO leave that alone and
to touch an eSposans feelings when he has any. Tns
tender chord may be by allusion 10 Ia mode
for Parisan's faith 10 that la mode Frdncdise being
inimtabIe reproductions must be failures and oompe.
tition an impossibiity.
This persuasion has sottened many souls and sig.
nAy procured the benefit OF an Introduction 10
tho renaissance gupures, Partisan damass6s. surat
aiamantes, gauze guipuros, the mosaiquos on olive
grounds, the medimval panel grounds the wooens
called livery the imitation knitted Tissues called
boucher ana tho stones and arabs called cocher. l
have likewise bowed TO tho prodigious man who has
revived the shades Henry Of France and Navarro
loved, and which "Espagnol malado," "faos
gra,tee," "vcntre-de-biche" "zinzotin," so. &c
/ can forthwith say that ''face grattee" looks like
smashed strawberries. II Is color be mixed with
bullion and ramiAcating twigs OF 6ois, salmon and
turquoise. "Espagnol malaie'' Is more saow than
hope 10 be any person having Saxon blood In
their veins AS to ventre II is pink not pale
dun, because biche In French IL not always quad
ruped, and--bul-' ''ventrcJieu!" as Henry w. would
have said '.t Is not possible to be more precise"
THE PArTERxs
The patterns quite MS interesting the colors.
Thoy tiuy, neat, diminulive; they are dots,
specks ireokies, close basket work there is yellow
sand and brown snun, nedlar.coorod thorns, wasp
hives, ribs tBuonapar.os) and curious opon worked
ladders such as Romsos alone could ascend so airy
and unsafe they look Bits Of down fly over woo.eus
as II blown from the dandehou bail; bits OF floss
whirl about the yuipures like chaf-mcn won't ike
II. Clouds roll over all coorcd grounds, some curl
like smoke from ogar but the real nude is rothy,
and seen glowing foundations mucn like those
viewed on the sky at sunset.