The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-24
FASHION NOTES CENTURY Acc
What Newspapers Hind to Say or BrnuS
mud BelIcs md EtIaurttc.

|
| and Bellies and Etiquette.
| The extracts from old newspapers which are
| occasionally reprinted are full OF quaint inter
est. In collection from the papers OF the
| year 1875 there are good many references to
| the more or less fair danes who. In those
| days. lived in such fashionable thoroughfares
| as William. Cherry. and Duke streets. or had
/ their country mansions out on the Bowery
lane. Concerning these same danes we find
the following interesting item:
Receipt for Making Modern Fashionable Lady
Two pounds OF cork five yards OF whaebono pound
OF hair. six pounds OF wool cotton. two drains OF
white lead. mud half a dram of rouge. These with
prorer quantity OF bone for the skeleton. ana little
flesh and blood for this muscles 40. with a skin OF
mouse for eyebrows, one pound OF powder and half
pound OF pomatum will complete the business.
That the editor was rather more cynical than
he should have been. is evident from the fol-
lowing paragraph Of q somewhat later date:
ono OF our female ,c correspondents observes this
10 most ccnsorious age live in. and foolish and
prejudced to womans right and fancy over her
dress that lady can scarcely appear in public in
polite dress but every coxcomb must be talking and
pointing at her asa phenomenon IN natures works
Or II they think they cannot carry their ridcule far
enough they must OF take up pen and ink and
scribble few sentences of incoherent IDEAS entirely
devoid Of sense and send them for insertion in tho
papers They by this means think they expose us to
derision but tho fact is they only expose their
shame aud importinence claiming the privil eye or
attempting the reformation OF what Is far beyond tho
sphere of their understa uding.
Still. the ladies did not come In for all the
journalistic attention. for another paper says:
a young ma who intends to become n beau about
town 10 advised &c have new coat made after tho
present fashion, and order his tailor plenty OF
buttons on It, He must have monstrous large pair
aSs hath n psty e
himself under the of barber that dresses in tho
ton.
Hero. too. are some precepts which were au-
thoritatively set forth for the guidance OF both
benuN and bellies. Some Of them are aston
ishngly like parodies on the present fads
Here they are with the original italics:
Fashions for 17S6 1t Ia all the fashion among pixie
people to play cards on Sunday evening
Cork hustles all the ton also Tor ladies' TO Btoop
much when they walk the streets.
To visit at O'Clock is the fashion Husbands should
not be seen in company with their wives II Is very
vulgar and nnfash onable.
themselves before they are seen among ladies'
temen to visit them.
fashion to leave the assemblies and concerts
II is the fashion ladies drink porter tho
ternoon-tea 10 quite out OF date among gente.l
people.
The wounded feelings OF the lady who ex-
coxcombs must have been salved by the fol-
lowing item:
correspondent compliments tho ladies for reducing
the size Of their headgear SO that they can enter
with cap. Some time ago their heads wero bigger
than those of the inhabitants Of Patagonia, whilst
their bodies resembled those OF Lput. But
features is set of by n becoming head dress
In fact. the masculine mind seems to have
been then. as now. given the contemplation
OF feminine fashions. AMI one particula rly sus-