Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-05-12
How Fashions in Women Change.
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From the Philadelphia Times
The fashions in women are varying, like
the shapes of bonnets, and the colors OF
them, and the coming and going OF flowers
and feathers and ribbons. We used to be
contented with the simple fashion of dark
and fair women, each OF whom had their
particular seasons of success but the world
has become more exacting in its tastes, and
now demands that the women in fashion at
the moment shall not be only of the fashion
able complexion, but shall also have the
| known fashionable features. just at this
| time the style seems to be of women with
| large mouths, a style quite is unaccountable
as anything ever devised by dressmaker or
milliner. Who invented this fashion of
big mouths it is impossible to state officially,
| but it probably has it's advantages, if any
body could tell what they are. The large
mouth is pretty generally accompanied by
a generous eXpanse of lips, and womans
| lips are a thing of such actual delight that
| the inventor of the fashion of large mouths
| doubtless supposed there could not be too
much of them. If they were delightful and
sweet according to their size this would
completely account for the fashion, but as
they are not always SO, and as fashions are
quite often popular because they are actu-
ally hideous, the present style is not fully
accounted for and the confusion is made
still greater by the ever present probability
! that in week or month the fashion may
demand small mouths. All the arguments
and reasons in behalf of a large mouth
would then seem ridiculous. There is but
ono conclusion: The mouth is large because
it is the fashion, and that is all the reason
that any one who follows the fashion wants.
The suddeness with which fashions of
all sorts change must lead to particular en-
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women. Nobody can make over big
mouth to suit the caprice of fashion as
bonnets are made over into new shapes and
sizes. The blue eye in stvle to day can
not be made over into grey or black to
meet the fashienablc requirements of to-
morrow. The dimple cannot be taken from
the chin when di1nples 90 out of style, and
the pug nose will remain pug i'll spite Of
the fact that the fashion may demand any
other sort of nose but thai. 1t is going to
make it very troublesome for the man who
wants to get married. If he cares any
thing about the styles and every man
cares more for such things than he is
willing to have thOught-he is likely at any
moment to discover that his wife is alto
| gether out of fashion. If he married her
because her big ears were in the very
height of fashion it would be dreadful
drawback to his happiness to discover thai
large ears were no longer acceptable, but
that fashion requires the very smallest
thing in ears. When the girls come to
consider dispassionately the peculiarities of
this branch of fashion they will feel ike
discouraging it and allow the world 10 go
on as it has done in ether years, when all
sizes of mouths, feet and ears were in de-
mand according TO the multifarious tastes
of men. Getting married will be more
popular when the fashions in women are
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