OUR PARIS LETTER.
Paris, October 3. Ihe re-appearance of chimney-sweeps and y elv «t bonnets announces that summer is over. i Politicians, milliners, and dresamakr* are still i buried in pmfound meditation. We are promised new laws and new fashions, if we will i only wait a little longer. Fashionable Paris - has left its favorite resoit on the Norman co.ist » ; where, ow ng to the wet weather during the i early pa* tof summer, the season has been very ; short. Any place more uninviting than Ti ons vilie, the Queen—or since we are in •L-public, the President—of French watering-placi a this • season can scai cely be imagined. It trulv was ■ a small edition of the great desert—sand every - ; where. A total absence of amusements as c tmi pared with fo met years ; a dirty little e Hß ino, 1 where a melancholy plays waits att-r polka without inspiring its hearers with the faintest desire for dancing; a card room, known among the inhabitants as the ‘"little Toulon,” to which no gentleman paid a second visit; hotels, having nothing to recommend them save the excessively high price asked for temhrate i.coommodation. Lining the lace week the town becomes uninhabitable for any one lens than a millionaire. Fashion has declared I ronville—in English, a hole of a town all that can be desired, and when fashion has spoken remonstrance is usele s. Calais, Dieppe Eonlogne-sur-Mer, which have nothing to recommend them except good bathing, charming walks and diives, hotels where there is a t os-i----bility of living a month without! spending a small fortune, are given uo to English and Americans. Active preparations are being made in »ili the chateaux f r the hunting sety ■im: hunting break'asts, dinners, carpet dances, private thear.iicds, are announced on every side. Cook’s tourist tickets have led to an English invasion -a reply perhaps to the recent inauguration at Caen, of a statue to William the Conqueror. An attempt h«s been made to induce the French to return the many visits pan) them by their English fiiends, but I
do not, th nk n at. it will prove successful. 'I he !> renclt middle class have an insurmountable horror ol the sea V Frenchman will cheerfully supi ort a journey «.f two bundled miles in a third class railway carriage, and in the night, but two hours’ misery on the sea—nCV u r 'a i, lf , by , A ? extraordinary effort ho reached Kngland, the idea that there was no possibility ot returning to France without recrossing that dreadful channel would render h/e a burden while i* ptrfidc. Albion. ibe very important question, “ .hat will be worn this winter ?” is not y t quite d-cided a lew variations on last summer's fashions, but nothing ically new. We have the usual autumn repoit that e egant simplicity will reign supreme ; that the Princesse robe, or a raoilihcition of it, will be worn by a 1! I‘arisi <-niies However, admireis of tunics, flounces, in.ls, and b>ws m>y find consolation in remem"ering that the same thing has been said during the last seven yeais. It i- lumoied, also, that enn hue will be taken into favor this prove true, it wi 1 he too cruel of Dame hasbion. I he Jeanne o’ Arc chain, iu silver ''eel. or gilt, worn around the waist, falling on the left, side with a fan, s . all iniirov, handkercluel or smelling bottle attached, has proved a complete failure. It has only been worn by a certain class, of which in th© eighteenth ce®«
tury a cohlen lirdle was the distinguishing sign, giving rise to the proverb, “a good r*qux tation is bett r than a golden girdle.” Dark green, blue, and black doth dresses, trimmed with innumerable rows of gold or silver gabion, will be much worn thi- wintei. (taloon ot every kind wil also be mu hj employed in the tiimining of bonnets and hats. The shape of the new bonnets . iffers greatly from those actually worn. It is a n ixt.ure of the Style Worn during the Diiectory and the old coal-scutt e bonnet of the beginning of Louis Philippe's reign. r th- crown is very idgh, slightly sloping in front, the brim is peifecoly stiaight, ’t has a bavolrt at the back, and strings fastening under the chin. I particulatly noticed a black velvet bonnet, of which the brim and bavolct were trimmed with a galoon of gold network; a pretty velvet bow with loops of gold network, and an aigrette of black feathers Was placed on one side and fastened by a gold buckle, This style of trimming will render the winter toilettes very gorgeous, and (fathers and husbands are requested not to listen) more expensive than ever.
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Evening Star, Issue 3976, 22 November 1875, Page 2
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787OUR PARIS LETTER. Evening Star, Issue 3976, 22 November 1875, Page 2
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