The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-07
FASHIONS FREAKS.
How Defects are Hidden and Beauties
Heightened.

new IOTA oth.
Probably no human being has ever ex-
isted who at some time of his life has not felt
some anxiety to heigbten bis besuty or hide
his defects by attire. Beauty may not NEED
"!he foreign aid of ornament" but from the
poor savage with tattooed face and shell
necklace, to tho noble dame whose
charms arc enhanced by the fash of her
diamonds and soft laces, the poets adviro
has bed practically scorned and disregsrded
Every subject has its hum rous side. and
we select few amusing instances of the
ingenuity of both sexes 10 efforts to make
themselves more lovely in each others' ewes
The adoption of the fashionable ecru oolnr
in linen and laces has parallel in tba
twelfth century. Isabella, daughter Of
Philip IL, made vow not to chappe her
linen until Ostend was taken. II for.
tunately, the siege lasted three Years, A pro.
longation of time which did not possiblv
enter into the lady's head when her VOW was
made; yet her character for veracity WA, so
high that 1t was believed she kept her vow.
hence tue ladies' adopted a. a fashionable
color yellowish, oingy shade, which thew
christened plsebeau.
The ladies of Greenland paint their f,oe,
green and yellow. II IL not many wears
since that, at the French court, no lsdy w.s
considered in full dress whose color vas moi
heightened by rouge. In ancient Persia
aquiline poses were much admired; and
when there we're rivals TO the throne, other
claims being equal, he who possessed the
nandsomes! nose was proclaimed KING. CON.
sequenly noses were as much as possible
modelled by art. If the Peruvian Ia les WEAR
rings in their noses, ours do 10 their cars.
which, according to the dictates of fashion
either sweep the shoulder or diminish to tiny
pearls screwed against the ear. The tre-
mendously piledsup coifIures of Q ieen Anne
or, indeed, OF fivss ye,rs ago-are an imi-
tation, certainly cleaner one, of the head.
dress OF the inhabitants of Natal. Thew, wa
are told, wear caps or bonnets, from six to
ton inches high OF tho stuff fat of Oxen.
They snnoint the head with purer grease
which. mixed with the hair, serves to Gem, nj
on the headgear, which lasts for life.
A good excuse for wearing boards and
mustaches is given by an author in l64O
do thinks they tend,to make mel yalorous
and says: Il have favorable opinion of
that young gentleman who Is curious in flne
moustaohes. The time he employs in nd,
Justlng, dressing and curling them is not los,
Time; Tor The more he contemplates them. the
more bis mind will cherish and DO animaled
BY masculine and courageous notions" An
Old clergyman OF the time of X Y ,betb gives
US droll view of the mob esse oblige princi-
pie, when he ssys, in excuse for being o roud
OF the longest and largest beard in the coun
try round, that he lives shat no act of his
life might be- unworthy Of the gravity of his
appearance"
The wigs that used to be combed ont with
such grace by the young gallants of the last
cehtury' whether In lady's drawing room,
a. court or In church, were most expensive
adornments. Steele laments that even in his
day they cost forty guineas Mru. Tnomas
the clever friend of Pope, mentions that her
grandfather was very nice 10 the mode of
shat age. bis valet being employed some
hours every morning Ia starching his beard
and curling his whlskers' II Is recorded
that in the reign of EIizsbelh-who seems
equally to have patronized the tolhes of
fashion and tho wisdom of great men-two
lovers sitting side by side could not take
each other by the hand. The gentlemen
then wore enormously stuffed out doublets.
an the ladies immense farthingales.
When the French nation reached its heisbt
OF folly and wickedne,s, just before Inc
Revolution broke out and flooded
the land with misery and blood.
shed, all who desired to be considered
connected with the aristocracy carried
about with them at least one psnlin.
These we're small wooden dolls, when by
pulling as'ring, suddenly jerked out arms
and legs, exactly like those which NAV be
seen adjoining the hats Of 'swells" on DERBY
day. The rage for them was immense. No,
bles, gentlemen aud even grave ecclesisstics
were to be seen carrying them about and
playing with them. A somewhat similar rage
for comdls existed 10 the reign of Henry III,
OF France. When the Due de Guise wa,
found after the bstlle of Blois, he had his
comdt box In his hand
In 1856 the ladies carried hand mirrors at.
tached TO their ohatelsines, and like Nsrcis.
sus, were perpetually sdmiring their charms.
This elicised the deepest indignation of Jean
des Caures, a stern old moralist of the time,
and no emphatically mensced them with the
EXTREMIST penalties of the other world.
Who wou have believed that so late AZ
175l tho dre,s of a dandy should have con.
sisted Of black velvet coat, green and
silver waislcost, yellow velvet breecnes and
blue stocking