Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1875 — Dressing Well. [ARTICLE]

Dressing Well.

A writer in the Philadelphia Times says: Well-dressed people, whose colors do not, as the French woman said, swear at one another, are a pleasant sight, but appropriately and picturesquely dressed people are pleasanter—people whose dress is not a duplicate of every other dress one sees.* A dressmaker as yet to fortune and to fame unknown was lately discovered by an observant customer to be studying a picture, notafter Demorest or the Nouvcaux Modes , and arranging the garment in hand with a skillful blending ot modern fashion and artistic'efiect. The woman would have handled the pencil or chisel effectively had not her lot been cast among silks and luces, hut she was just iii the place where she was most needed. No danger of her dresses being overloaded with trimming, or looking on the wearers as if they belonged to some one else. Comparatively few people have the air ot being on easy term's with their attire, and the lady 1 who expressed a wish that human beings could be provided with an unchanging suit of feathers, like the birds, was conscious of the difficulty’ of bccoming familiar with what is never the same. The Saxon women are credited in history with not having changed the fashion of their dreas-Jozihg space of three centuries; but pictures of this fashion do not make one stgit for its return. Tlieir (ymer-chitfn, in particular,' nwatcaling the hair as effectually as the ugly head-tireSs of the “professed” nun, "were ’as different as possible from many of the, lovely hats of the presenkoday, beneath which curls and leathers often blend in picturesque confusion. But why because of this must a woman whom we saw yesterday, whose hair didn’t curl, and upon whom cut is would have been very much out of place, tie Iter locks in a dreadful bunch, and, by some unknown process, persuade each individual hair to stand out in a different direction ? Such a result could scarcely have been attained except through power of electricity or of a terrible fright? But the woman evidently had the idea that she was in the fashion, and went on her way with a sublime disregard ot Greek Statuary or the fitness of things. “Jane Maria Holbrook went to the pasture ‘to call the cattle home’ with a black, lace mask veil strapped tight over her sharp nose. She, too, poor Child, has aspirations!” So writes the clever author of a charming little story, and in writing thus explains the mystery, of much incongruous dressing. It is “aspirations.” Voting is a poll try snow, and the victors bring out the roosters.