Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1890 — The Philadelphia Girl. [ARTICLE]

The Philadelphia Girl.

The Philadelphia maiden is sui generis. She is as unlike her New York sister as a pretty dove or a blackbird is unlike a gorgeous eockatoO. She is nothing if not demure, correct, ladylike. In her street costume particularly she is simplicity itself -the touch of the Quaker har.gs round her still. She has a penchant for black at all times and in all seasons, but this season the penchant has developed into a positive craze. It amounts to a livery or to tlte habit of an order covering the entire area of fashion’s quarter. Straight black skirt, with long loosely tied silk sasn, black fur shoulder cape, black hat.’with bladk wings or blackbird entire. There she is, every mother's daughter of h :r, and very pretty, graceful and stylish she is, too 1 ittie monotonous perhaps, but, que voulez-vous? -New York Herald.