Show FASHIONS or OF A cisne ti TIMES mrs helio abacus is said to have been the firby to wear a robe of pure silk the emperor one of the most unworthy and debauched of rulers who mads made his lorse horse a consul had a senate of women over whom his mother mether which prescribed all the modes and fashions the emper or aurelian is said to ave refused refuse d his wife a robe of pure silk on ac aunt i of it I 1 excess excessive iTe cost coat indeed it was not until more than five centuries after the christian ora era that silkworms were brought from the east and introduced into constanti nople by y some monks in ia the time ol 01 justinian purple was always much admire 1 by tho the ancients ancion ts the dye coming from the muied mui ex as is well inowe 1 now 11 the color was wa thou thought ht filler the dark daal or er it was under adgas augostus tu STIO violat st and bright red became V became fashionable colors as well as 68 bo arlet and oarl wore were wo re soon worn ivorn by all wl alo 0 bould t ifford to do so but nero audrai and casar afterward reserved amethyst and purple for imperial uso use exclusively bright colors wiro wire disused in in when the romaus wore black or a dark grey and matron a 0 appe appeared aredia ia public in in clothes bair and without wi hout ornaments orn amenta in the autumn respect respectably abl 16 luciw as who were at a I 1 religious dressed themselves upon a certain day in rotes roles of I 1 I 1 murrey 1 or dead leaf color in which theo madai expiatory sacrifices tho the clo cloat athing bing being afterward scrupulously destroyed the idea being that any evil which impel dad upon the worther mi might ht pass into hor her tunic and thus be earned carried off in fl 1 ime the lion if fully cully carried carrie out was laasi comfortably supposed to bo be 1 ent for a year of peccadilloes I 1 Dg |