Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1891 — NO CHANGE IN FASHIONS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NO CHANGE IN FASHIONS.

Men and Women in Lapland Have Dresset the Same for a Thousand Years. The costume of the Lapps has not altered very much for the last thousand years, ' says Demoresfs Magazine. Their summer garment is usually of coarse woolen goods, and has something the cut of a shirt with a high collar. Among the sea Lapps it is for the most part undyed; among the other Lapps usually blue, sometimesgreen or brawn, and even black smockfrocks have been seen. Around the wristbands, along the seam in the back, and on the edgesthis smock is ornamented with strips of red and yellow cloth. Under thisgarment is a similar one, either plainer, or older, worn next the body, for the Lapp never wears lineSf underclothing. The trousers, or drawers, are of white woolen goods, rather narrow and reaching to the ankles, where they are tied inside the shoes with long, slender, shoestrings. Over these drawers are usually worn leggins of thin, tanned skins, reaching from the ankles to the knees. Stockings the Lapp never wears. He fills the upward-curving tip of his shoes with a sort of grass, which is gathered in summer and beaten tomake it soft and pliable. The winter costume only differs from that worn in summer in every piece is made of reindeer skin with the hair on.

The dress of the women differs very slightly from that worn by the men. The smock is somewhat longer and is made without the big, standing collar, instead of which a kerchief or cape is worn ahout the neck. To the woven and often silver ornamented girdle hang a knife, scissors, key, and needle and thread. The head-covering is not only different in the two sexes but also differs according to the locality.

DRESSED FOR THE THEATER.