Show LONGAGO FASHIONS Interesting Matter in Old Magazines Maga-zines DeIlneatoo First The Delineator First Illustrations Pictured Women Who Wore Hoop skirtsFeminine Finery Expensive Ex-pensive Then as Now It was to Illustrate the fashions of 40 years ago that the Delineator was started Wo may turn tho yellowed pages of musty magazines ana find pictured there the women for whom these first Delineators were made Tho promenade of tho day was along Broadway above Canal street Hero ultrafashionable femininity walked with tho mincing gait that was styled tho Grecian bend They wore green gloves and carried green sun shades Metternlch green because the Princess Prin-cess Metternlch had appeared at a hall at tho Tullleries In a dress of this hue Little girls In gabrlllo dresses and whlto Marseilles sun hats went by with their nurses And among thorn tho little girls who had come from the country were still wearing pantalettes Matrons woro bonnets tied beneath their chins and modestly folded their shawls about them Black laco shawls they had for summer and paisley and cashmere shawls for colder weather They paid for these all tho way from 60 to several hundred or a thousand An Imported point laco shawl was even quoted at 3000 Oh feminine finery could bo expensive expen-sive In thoso days as now I It Is interesting In-teresting to note tho Items which on old Delineator gives as tho cost of a gill of the period Boots 10 stockings stock-ings 2 garters 60 cents silk underwear under-wear 20 satin corset 20 corset cover 12 chemise 20 cambric and stool hoops 20 puffed haircloth pannier pan-nier 4 flannel underskirt 10 cambric cam-bric underskirt 18 walking skirt next to hoop 8 over walking skirt 10 gloves 226 sun and snow shade In lace 125 velvet walking suit lace and sable trimmed 1000 hat 75 total 139025 But those undoubtedly were very high society figures and higher because be-cause of the paper money of tho day Anyhow tho majority of tho throng moving up and down lower Broadway bought their steel bustles at a dollar or less and their hoopsklrts ranged In price from 1 up to 12 Their alpacas al-pacas cost from 40 cents to 125 a yard English wlnsoys from 37 cents to 75 cents and French poplins 276 a yard For their black silks they could pay from 3 to as high as 20 a yard But a black silk did as a best dress for a lifetime Delineator Delinea-tor |