Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-11
How FASHION IN Women Change.

! The fashions in women are varying,
! Ike the shape Of bonnets, and the coiors
| of them, and the coming and going OF
| flowers and feathers and ribbons. we
! used 10 be contented with the simple
| fashion of dark or fair women, each OF
whom had their particular season OF
suecess: but the world has become more
exscting in its tastes, and now demands
that the women in fashion at the moment
shall be not only Of the fashlonaois com
plexion, but shall also have the known
| fashionable features. Just at this time
the stvle seems to be Of women with
large mouths, style quite as unaccount-
able as anything ever devised by dress
maker or milliner. Who invented this
fashion of big mouths il is impossible 10
state officially, but it probably has It's
advantages, il anybody could tell what
they are. The large mouth IS pretty
generally accompanied by a generous ex-
panse OF lips, and woman's lips are
thing OF such actual delight that the IN
ventor of the fashion OF large mouths
doubtless supposed there could not be
too much OF them. II they were de.
lightiul and sweet according to their
size this would completely account Tor
the fashion, hut as they are not always
so, and as fashions are quite often popu-
lar because they are actually hideous,
the present style is not fully accounted
for, aud the confusion is made still
greater by the ever present probability
than in a week or month the fashion
may demand small mouths. All the
arguments and reasons in behalf OF large
mouths would then seem ridiculous
There is but one conclusion: The
mouth is large because il is the fashion,
and that is all the reason that any one
who follows the fashion wants.
The suddenness with which fashions
OF all sorts change must lead to particu-
lar embarrassment in the matter OF
fashions i'm women. Nobody can make
over big mouth to suit the caprice OF
fashion as bOnnets are made over in new
shapes aud sizes. The blue eye in style
to-day cannot be made over into gray
eve or black to meet the fashionable
requirements of tomorrow. The dim
pie cannot be taken from the chin when
dimples 90 out of style, and the pug
nose will remain a pug III spite oil the
fact that the fashion may demand
any other sort of nose but that. 1t is
going to make it very troublesome for
the man who wants to get married. III
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 q dreadful drawback to hap |
piness to discover that large ears were
no longer acceptable, but the fashion re-
quires the very smallest thing in ears.
When the girls come to consider dis
passionately the peculiarities OF this
branch OF fashion they will feel like dls-
couraging it and allow the world to 20
on rs has been done in other years.
when all sizes o. mouths and feet and
ears were in demand according to the
multiiarious tastes of men, Getting
married will be more popular when the
fashions in women are less rigid.-Phd,-
delDhid Times.