THE LATENT NOVELTY IN FEMI. NINE ATTIRE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 736, 26 May 1876, Page 2

THE LATENT NOVELTY IN FEMI. NINE ATTIRE.

—o— One of the most pleasing novelties in what are termed “female fashions”that has been introduced for many years has lately, it is stated, been “ brought into mode by some of our first dressmakers and adopted by Parisian ehq'intes." It consists of a deerskin bodice clinging closely to the body and made in the same way as an ordinary bodice. It is dyed the same shade as the dress, and the sleeves are made of “ fallie with deerskin parements.” The more costly bodices of this description are embroidered with silver. It is not surprising that ladies, who must have suffered intensely from , cold, owing to the deficiency of their garments, should have taken to clothing themselves in the skins of animals of the chase, after the fashion of their ancestresses ; and if these deerskin bodices are made ample enough to cover their throats, the cost of embroidering them with silver will no doubt be saved in doctor’s bills. It will, however, be a graceful act of condescension on their part if, while utilising the beasts of the field for ornamental purposes, they will take the opnortunity of sparing the birds of the air. A lady with a deerskin thrown over her shoulders may dispense with a cock-robin in her hat. The body of the deer may be cooked and eaten, and the appropriation of its skin is under these circumstances excusable ; but nobody eats cock-robins, whose harmlessness, moreover, renders their destruction uncalled for. Woman should direct her attention to beasts and four-footed animals rather than to birds. Bv using rats or mice, for instance, as a headdress, she will assist in extirpating disagreeable vermin, and confer a real boon on society.—Pall Mall Gazette.