The Osceola times., 1881-04-02
The New Society Craze.
London Hour.

Most amusing accounts are given OF
/ the new craze which has seized os a GER
/ tain section of London society. II seems,
| for some time past, sundry young men
and women have betaken themselves to
/ the showing of their shapes" as Jack
[ Tar calls it, in the most fantastical cos
tunes of the medieval ages, and playing
| such trick before high heaven as make
the angels weep. The women exhibit
/ themselves in tight fitting garments, de-
/ void Of all shape and color, Clinging to
the form and showing the contour of the
| figure with quite as much precision as
the iieshings of the ballet girl; the hair
cut short and irizzed over the eyes and
died OF a deep orange brown; the throat
encercled 10y double row of large am
Der beads, from which depends med
ieval ornament; and lookingglass hang
/ ing TO the side, as in the pictures of the
Venetian ladies by Paul Veronese. Tie
female aesthetic is in general sallow and
half-staryed, wo-begone in expression.
dry-lipped, and always looking thirsty
and exhausted. She affects the color
| less raiment, as beheld in the pre- Raph-
aelite pictures, olive-green skirt, long
and trailing on the ground, but so tight
as to show the angles of the knee-ioint.
when she is seated; the bodice is of
deep, dull, orange color laced with the
/ palest blue; the sleeves, tight-fitting to
/ the elbow, hang to the feet and are made
of different color and material to the
I rest of the attire. A pale, dim fawn color
/ is in general most patronized and is lined
with the Palest brownish-green seldom
/ beheld in Eature save on the back of a
toad.
The beautiful aesthetic has in general &
/ dingy look, which is attributed TO the
efforts made to attain to tn at dullness OF
coloring in which alon1 resides perfec.
/ ton, according to her ideas, and which
in some cases has 10 be procured by ar
tticial means. She sighs and looks va.
cantly around from beneath the shock ol
stifI,fizzled hair,dyed ofa reddish brown
according to the law she has made unto
herself of having no defined color on any
portion Of her frame. She can scarce
open her lips TO speak, so tightly are
they pressed together, and never smiles
save when the male aesthetic approaches
and then they whisper together, and
sometimes disappear locked arm in arm
toward the supper-room, where they are
| Hol llpTt DiNkNhT'l llliu lile NulHur nero
in their enioyments Of the creature com
forts provided.
But while the female aesthetic is sim,
ply ridiculous, the male of the species
is absolutely offensive. He lisps and
ambles; his locks flow uncombed over
his collar, but, when no one is by, he j,
not above investigating the contents of ;
tankard of Bass ale, of which he par
takes freely. He generally carries al
artificial lily in his hand, at which he
shifts pathetically now and then. He ha,
been caricatured numerically in the
illustrated papers and even on the stage
but well aware that his new method in
getting into notice and emerging from
the ranks of obscurity to which his own
incapacity has hitherto confined him i,
the easiest and cheapest of all. To show
the extent 10 which the aesthetic have
encroached upon the domains of com
mon sense and propriety, it is only ne
cessary to mention one or two Of the
vagaries to which they have given ven
of late.