The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-11-13
NOW, LADIES!
You Have the Linked Sweetness
Of the Fashions Long
Drawn Out,
The Latest Ideas in Ladies Coats,
Jackets, Hats, Buttons,
Trimmings, Etc.
special Cor. of the Courier-JOurual. !

evidences of the periodical revolu
ton in the fashion of women
clothes. which always occurs within
the cycle of certain number o
years, hut so gradually that unit
the final Indianapolis takes plac,
we are unaware of the actual goa
toward which our steps have beer
tending.
With the short dresses have come
in trimmed skirts, and all sorts O
lndiscriminate attempts at "dis
play" which means useless bunch
ing and wrinkling and worrying tC
the majority, and with the revival
figures in fabric and color in every.
thing, general confusion which is
to dress what the ancient Babel was
to sound. Taste and refinement de-
mand an appearance of simplicity
even from elaboration. Vulgarity
demands an elaboration from the
utmost poverty of means and mate
rial. This distinction marks the
great difference between the we'll
dressed and the addressed woman
of to day-one endeavors to con-
ceal the artificial in her clothing;
the other exhibits it as Its chief
claim to admiration.
Popular dressing which two years
ago was simple, neat and dignified
in its best forms and little cut up
into pieces, is now patch-worky and
trivial. Ricn fabrics are employed,
beautiful in design and wonderful
i'll blending and shaded color, but
they are pitilessly divided into bits
and shreds, square, triangular, long,
short or understandable, because ut
terly meaningless, as the case may
be. With this waste of material
come attempts to revive such obso
lete absurdities as long pointed
stays, springs for the enlargement
of the hips and for the production
Of an unnatural appearance of de-
preston in the back. The idea, of
course gets muddled IN passing
through many hands and heads. and
so we have at the same time an
loancements that hoops have re
vived, that bustles are in demand,
and very many persons, living away
rom metropolitan centers, or unac- |
iuainted with what really consti
utes fashion In good society, are |
nisled by false statements, and even |
lgainst their will submit to the ex
Ictions imposed, as they imagine, !
" arbitrary fashion.
- fov. h. IL,
O suppose the Bouffant styles have
eappeared, or been adopted to any
xtent, in really good, or fashiona-
lie, society. The draperies which
re used over the hips are either
crossed and laid closely, or they are
on either side, leaving
fall over the hips,
which is sometimes repeated lower
Ipon the skirt. To emphasize this
feet of display by a hip tournure,
hough there are such things, would
lot be considered good style, or
God taste, by persons of any dis
inction, VIII lie at the back the nat
raj depression is ali the more APP
aren't from the effect of the draper
IS, no matter how closely they fol-
DIV the outline of the figure. Mel
her are short draperies, short over
kirts, or anything short, save short
ostumes for the street, much af-
ected; the artistic still holds sway
DO strongly for that, and though
umplness may be tolerated when
ONE significance of character, ex
ression OIL nationality is attached
D it, yet, as rule, fashion objects
D dumpiness, almost as strongly as
ord Byron. In fact, these unnat-
raj and abortive attempts at de-
troying symmetry and regulating
ne whole tribe of denominations in
ne adoption of "dress springs"
hoops" "bustles," empowers"
nd "tournures' ought to be dis
outraged and discountenanced by
very woman of taste and intelli
ence. Whatever the form may be
is not improved by such lndis-
animate appliances, while the ap-
lication of such machinery to the !
and easily disordered por- {
on of the body, as the lower part {
f the spine. renders them frequent I
? instruments OF actual torture and {
ways more or less injurious.
One thing the "infinite variety" in
ress is doing for women, it Is max {
e it impossible for them to follow '
at their own ideas, or at least ad 6
are tn soma sansihlo rulas- If they {
, not do this it is now their own s
ult. Let those who can, who have {
othing else to do with time or j
oney, make business of more or '
IS fine or absurd dressing; but t
ose who have other uses to which {
put their lives sre bound by no q
W to such slavery in dress, and I
led not wait for proclamation of d
,neral emancipation to tree them v
Ives from it's chains. 1t has been S
uly said that women stamp them a
Ives with the badge of inferiority a
: their ever changing, capricious. v
"a too often absurd. manner of o
'essing. Ii men change il is ever IL
the essentials to comfort, health
ut convenience. Let those women v
ldge themselves who will, but c
omen of thought have reached a a
place where. if they choose, they +
ay exclude for the rest of their 2
ltural lives what is injurious, i'm a
Oldest or inconvenient in their C
othing. They need not all wear c
Iort dresses or dresses of a color. t
hat Is inconvenient to one is not b
another, but they can adhere to v
few sound rules, and make them
e basis of permanent dressing q
lthout putting themselves in uni I
rm. e
The consideration of color has r
zen lifted into higher place in ?
e general question of dress by the q
lportance which has of lats at Il
ched TO it, artistically and even +
.ientifcally; still it is too broad d
ID too nice a subject to be dealt T
it'll in a paragraph, except by Il
.ose who add to the time and
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