Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-14

How Fashions In Women Changes
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
or fair women, each Of whom had their par
ticular seasons Of success; but the world
has become more exacting in It's tastes, and
now demands that the women in fashion at
the moment shall be not only OF the
fashionable complexion, but shall also
have the known fashionable features. just
at this time the style seems to be OF
women with large mouths, style quite
os unaccountable as ANYTHING ever de-
vised by dressmaker or milliner. Who in
vented this fashion of big mouths 1t Is i'm
possible to state officially, but 1t probably
has its advantages, II anybody could tell
what they are. The large mouth Is pretty
generally accompanied by generous ex-
panse of lips, and woman's lips are tnlng
of such actual delight that the inventor OF
the fashion of large mouths dou1uess sup
posed there could not be too much OF them.
II they were delightful and sweet accord
ing to their size, this would completely
account for the fashion, but as they
are not always so, and as Iasn'ons
are quite often popular because they
are actually hideous, the present style IS not
fully accounted for, and the CONFUSION is
made still greater by the ever-present pro-
liability that in a week or a month the fash
ion NAV demand small mouths. All the ar
puraents and reasons in behalf OF large
mouths would then seem ridiculous. There
is but one 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 audiences with which fashions Of
all sorts change must lead to particular en-
barrassment IN the matter OF fashions In
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 style to-day cannot
be made over into gray eye or black to
meet the fashionable requirements OF to-
morrow. The dimple cannot be taken
from the chin when dimples go out of
style, snd the pug nose will remain pug
in spite of the fact that the fashion
may demand any other sort OF nose but
that. 1t is going to make 1t very trouble
some for the man who wants to get married
II he cares anything 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
altogether out of fashion. If he had
married her because her big ears
were in the very height of the fashion
It would be a dreadful drawback to
happiness to discover that large ears
were no longer acceptable, but the fashion
requires the very smallest thing In ears.
When the girls come to consider dlspassion.
ately the peculiarities of this branch of
fashion they will feel like discouraging 1t
aud allow the world to go on as has been
done in other yeare, when all sizes OF
mouths and feet and ears were In demand
according to the multifarious tastes of men.
Getting married will be more popular when
the fashions in women are less rigid. -PhI-
ddelphia Times.