Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1919 — Change of Fashion. [ARTICLE]

Change of Fashion.

Indeed, so completely have fashions and materials changed in a century that the articles included in the following advertisement of goods to be sold oh Fishbourne’s wharf, “back of Mrs. Fishbourne’s dwelling,” have scarcely any meaning for us. Among the numerous articles to be disposed of were: “Tandems, islnghams, nuns, bag and gulixall shirtings, huckabacks, quilted humdrums, turkettes, grassetts, single allopeens, children’s jumps and bodice,’ whalebone and iron busks, men’s Newmarket caps, allibanies, dickmansoy, cushloes, chuchloes, cub tarfees, ’ crimson dannador, chained soosees, lemonees, byrampauts, moree, maffermany, saxlingham, prUnelloe, barragons,” etc. Humhums was a sort of towel made of coarse Indian cotton cloth; cuttanee .a kind of piece goods of silk and cotton, also imported from India; barra’gon is the barracan of today, a fabric made of camel’s hair, used widely ip the Levant for robes and mantles; but for the most part the ’articles named in the advertisement have long/ become obsolete.