Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1881 — The Clothes of the Period. [ARTICLE]

The Clothes of the Period.

Tbs Bpeetator. .» 2 fl The oplcgs of teie clothes of &e piriod exercise the male mind as severely as do the <mt. Why do woipen with redi or yellowish hair wear “dead" gold,! ana greens that remind., the behoUtel of badly-oooked vegetables'? Why SgrfSS&z •an only wfth.lhe xjlllre and pomegranat tints, and the blue-Mack qf the Sopttf? JNho Ss ole for the teftlbre"fMTfrcdltagarments la which some otherwise harmless maidens prevade fashionable crowds. fct^u?m^^^admi^ttslender girls arrayed in shapeless clothes, made apparently of slices of the wall of the new natural history

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