Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1878 — Off with Hie Old. [ARTICLE]

Off with Hie Old.

The Mikado of Japan, having decreed that all his subjects holding official situations shall dress like Europeans, they and their wives, the Japanese milliners, who had not seen fashions change for a thousand years, have consigned to Paris the thousands and thousands of native dresses which they had in stock, and Parisian ladies are now wearing them as dressing-gowns. They are said to be very becoming, and the bright dyes in them—a secret wo ought to learn—will stand any amount of washing. Chinese silken skirts, so fine that you can pass them through a wedding ring, are also being sold in quantities; but the attempt to introduce Chinese peaked straw hats into fashion has failed hitherto.