Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1881 — Dressy Women at Saratoga. [ARTICLE]

Dressy Women at Saratoga.

Saratoga Letter. The lady at Cougress Hall with 139 dresses is still astonishing the natives and strangers two or three times a day and finds her path a pleasant one. There is one prodigy here in the person of a dame who lies not repeated a toilet once in three weeks, although arraying herself in two or three different dresses daily, and yet aunounces to her admiring satellites .that she has no maid; that she would not trust one of them. The tales of her sixteen trunks and one room full of wardrobes and racks of her finery are not half so astonishing as the fact of her having no neat-handed Phyllis to sort out and take care of the innumerable bonnets and boots, gloves, fans, flowers and furbelows that match with and accompany each toilet. It must be that my lady lies awake nights to plan the spectacle of the coming day, and toils when others rest, that she may surpass the rivals of her chosen cult. A Mrs. Greenway, of Baltimore, now reigns as the “diamond princess” of the season, setting herself ablaze from crown to girdle with her dazzling jewels, and making all the other diamond wearers in a ball room pale and green with their lax admiration. Mrs. Astor’s regalia is the only famous one that surpasses this Baltimore collection, and it would seem as if the lady had been in Sin bad’s cave or in a snewer es diamonds, so thickly do they cover her neck, arms and every finger. Besides all this glitter of precious stones, the gossips credit her with possessing 395 dresses, a fact that is intensely mournful and truly heart-rending when it is known that a watering-place season hardly lasts over sixty days, and that three dresses a day for all that time will leave ninety-five gowns not worn.