Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1875 — Magnificent Costumes. [ARTICLE]

Magnificent Costumes.

Writing of the dresses worn by Mdlle. Persoons as the Baroness de Cambri, in a Eerformance of “ Frou-Frou” in Paris, ucy Hooper says: “In the second act she had on a costume which must have made a serious hole in a 2,000-franc note. It was of marine-blue velvet and silk. The bodice was of velvet cut loose and square,- * and the upper part filled in with silk to make it High in the neck; the sleeves were also of silk. The front of the dress was of silk, with a broad band of velvet around the bottom. The back of the skirt, which fell in a long train, was of velvet, drawn back in the center, and confined with a large bow of gold-colored satin. The top of the bodice, the edge of the skirt, and the sleeves were bordered with a broad band of embroidery in gold-en-yellow floss silk. The bonnet was of the toque shape, of blue silk and velvet, with a single gold-yellow feather. In the . third act she w r ore a long trailing skirt of black velvet, finished with a wide-gathered flounce, and a long, loose sacquc-shaped cloak of velvet, with wide sleeves falling to the knee, and widened with fur and richly embroidered with jet. The bonnet was of black velvet, edged with fur and Adorned .with a single glistening green bird.” She was an elderly lady, and as she seated herself on ODe of the stools in W&llach’s store and asked to be shown some “ caliker,” she remarked that when she was a “gal” she was powerful lucky it she got sixteen yards in a dress, and she thought it a “sinful” waste to stuff to put in more; but she had just “heern” that Mrs. X. was agoin to hev forty-two yards in her new caliker, and she hoped that there might be a cloud burst in seventeen minutes if that air woman should stare round at her in church and make remarks about her olothes. “You kin jist cut me off forty-three yards and I’ll have it made pin-back fashion, with an overdress and a square mainsail, and a flvin’ jib and a back-action; then I’d just like to see that stuck-up Mrs. X. pat on airs over me.”— Austin (Nes.) BeveilU.