Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — Feminine Extravagance in Dress. [ARTICLE]

Feminine Extravagance in Dress.

One hears a great deal about feminine extravagance in the dress and its deterrent effect upon the marriageable young men, who shrink back in terror from the altar when they consider what it costs to dress a girl according to the dictates of modern fashion. Therefore it is in.teresting to read of a certain Miss Phraser’s new gown, made in the year 1676, which cost $1,676, and Wf which it is recorded: “It frights >ir Carr Scoope, who is much in love with her, from marrying her, saying his estate will scarce maintain her in clothes. ” Verily there is nothing new under the sun. Not in centuries has there been made a gown so resplendent as that worn by the Medicis Queen, whereon were embroidered 3,200 pearls and 3,000 diamonds. And what belle in the last cycle has been arrayed so resplendently as that Mme. de Montespan, who were at a grand court festival “a gown of gold on gold, broidered in gold, bordered with gold, and over that gold frieze stitched with a gold mixed with a certain gold, which makes the most divine stuff that has ever been imagined. ”