Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 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 qn 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, isinghams, nuns, bag and gulixall shirtings, huckabacks, quilted hum-hums, turkettes, grassefts. single allopeens, children’s jumps and bodice, whalebone and Iron busks, men’s Newmarket caps, allibanies, dickmansoy, cushloes, chuchloes, cuttanees, crimson dannador, chained soosees, lemonees, byrampauts, moree, maffermany, saxlinghdm, prunelloe, barragons,” etc. Humhuins was a sort of towel madr of coarse Indian cotton cloth; cuttanee a kin<f of piece goods of silk and cotton, also imported from India; barragon is the barracan of today, a fabric made of camel’s hair, used widely in the Levant for robes and mantles; but for the most part the articles named in the advertisement have long become obsolete.