FASHION.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 13, 24 June 1893, Page 10

FASHION.

(By Hurry Furuiss in St. James’s Budget.) I verily believe that fickle and frivolous dame, Fashion, is having a huge joke at present with ladies' dress. She wanted a change (it’s good for trade, you know), and in looking over her old books to refresh her memory, being a bit out of sorts and temper, she lingered over those monstrosities of the crinoline period. Some one—Mrs “John Strange V\ inter,” 1 think—happened to be passing Dame Fashion’s domicile at that moment, and paused to look. She immediately rushed home shrieking with disgust, and wrote to the papers in frantic abuse of the crinoline. Dame Fashion was doubly vexed. “ I’m not to resuscitate the crinoline, indeed—am 1 not ? Well, here goes then !” Thereupon that wicked autocrat selected all the ugly fashion plates, and took a bit out of one and a bit out of another, and we have the most inartistic and ugly fashion that ever existed ! Unfortunately there is nothing coloured in your paper, so I am unable to give you the vulgarity of colour in addition to the absurdity of design in a costume 1 saw in the park lately : a “ cinnamon brown ” skirt, a band of bright violet velvet half-way up, violet band on the sleeves, and little rosettes dotted about the bodice, a stiff satin cape, a hat covered with green bows, a chignon lowdown the neck, and a light veil. It is clever of Dame Fashion thus to heap assorted ugliness on the fair one’s back; and wo shall all, after tins, welcome the much-abused crinoline as a great relief.