Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1882 — Marvelous Costume of a Paris Belle. [ARTICLE]

Marvelous Costume of a Paris Belle.

“A great diamond rose, as large as your fist, so thickly incrusted with brilliants that all trace of its gold groundwork of setting was lost, blazed from the breast of the corsage. Three strings of Cleopatran pearls, clasped with a buckle set with great diamonds surrounding a peerless ruby, encircled that snowy throat. The arms covered with long, wrinkled gloves of yellow Swedish kid, were adorned here and there with splendid bracelets, set with all manner of prescious stone ; and from her waist there hung a golden-framed looking-glass, upon whose sliding front this woman’s initials were set in splendid diamonds. In her hands she carried a muff of white satin and white lace, upon which was pinned, by means of a rubyeyed emerald and diamond-backed lizard, a small bouquet of lilies of the val ley, tuberoses and maiden hair fern, whose sweet fragrance she now and then sweetly inhaled.” And all of this magnificence was worn by a Parisian belle at an opera in Paris.