| Show 4 a FOLLIES OF FASHION aaste A late fashion letter from paris states that there Wr 1 is som of the old fashion of powdering g heair being revived inythe in arthe upper circles of til att 4 g ay city rhe the r eason reason 1 assigned assignee is that the empress Eu uge genies hiles files hair is becoming streaked with grey this ia hi as good a reason for the tho introduction of a new fashio fashion fashioner nor or the revival of an old one as the absurd reasons that have prompted many of the fashions now in vogue should dit it bacomo fashionable to powder hair in paris how long will we have to wait before the fashion is introduced into salt lake city judging by the past readiness of our people to adopt the ridiculous di styles of dress in fashion elsewhere only a very brief space will elapse before hair powder will be used that is if it should go into use at a paris london and an d new hew york com communication munica between the atlantic seaboard and our territory is so rapid through the construction of the railroad thad that little time need be lostin lost in starting the fashion here and why should powder not be used leta let a few would be fashionable ladies with powdered hair pass through our city or stay here a few days and some one would be found ready to imitate them regardless of their character whether whether they were honest women or ladies of easy virtue hair powder would soon bein be in demand A few sears years ago a nine fine head of natural hair was viewed as the crowning beauty beamut v of woman in those days if a lady had to wear false hair she accepted it aa as a painful necessity and took measures to conceal the fact she felt that bhe ehe had bad lost an attraction handshe and she did not wish it known but how has it been oblate of late why our young oung ladies have seemed anxious to despoil themselves of their locks and their beads heads have been shorn as closely as possible it has haa been amusing to hear those who have submitted to this bhear shear shearing ing process s set forth the advantages which they had discovered in the new style and all these because it was thought to be fashionable to have the head bead thus cropped but to put the climax to the absurdity either the owners hair or somebody alses hair had to be made up into curls ac and worn as though it were the natural growth in this way many of our ladies have bowed to the barbarous edicts of fashion I 1 and robbed themselves of one of their thein r chief adornments As all with the fashion of wearing 9 the hair so with other thing our space will not permit asto touch upon the many points connected with this subject therease there Ther eare are none of our readers whose attention has not been called to the numerous absurdities in dress ac into which the devotees of fashion are drawn it is strange that ina society like ours fashion should have such sway that it has a wonderful influence all who vilo reside here must know we are comparatively isolated at present and we have but little means with which to gratify fashionable tastes yet they prevail if they have such influence upon our people under our present circumstances what will be their power when we cease to be isolated and wealth ine inc increases among us no man in this community with ordinary means of living can without running into debt maintain a family who comply with the requirements of fashion there is no income in the country that can sustain such a drain very long but even if we had wealth sufficient to enable us to follow the lead of fashion it would be extreme folly in us to do so we pride ourselves upon our independence of thought and action in religion in politics in our institutions and mode of life etc etc we boldly tread our own path without deferring to others and why should we ohp are otherwise so independent truckle to fashion and become its wil glaves lin why should our men and women for the men are equally as subservient servi a as the tho women in this respect conform 10 q the changing styles of dress prescribed prescribe 1 be by jy the fashionable and the lewd it is well known that many of the popular fashions originated with a class whose chief aim was to display their charms in a manner that would make them the most attractive and sale able we should be as independent in our styles of dress and fashions aa as in in anything else ebbe the victory would be but half halo won if while free in everything else we and blindly yielded to the dictates of fashion and burned incense at the shrine ota ofia goddess whose authority we knew to be self assumed we can not withhold admiration our from the quakers for the persistent steadfastness with which they cling to their own styles of dress despite the examples of change which they have had on every overy hand their example is worthy of imitation they have been in the world yet they have not acknowledged its ita it fashion a but sut hu hut havea maintained lna intal ed their distinctive dress we are better situated to have halve ofir our own owl i fashions ish ions lons and maintain them then than the they y ever were and we should take steps to adopt them variety is not objectionable indeed it is pleasing but let this variety have its origin with ourselves let it be the result of our bur own taste and aul aud and not the imported fancy of a french modiste or member of the demimonde demi monde we trust such an impulse has been given to our manufactures that we will soon have all the materials butof out of which to make our own clothing and that the time is not far distant when mah utah will be beas as famous for the superior quality of the fabrics manufactured here as t the he people now are for their industry and economy wb when en this day shall co come me our fashions of dress ought ough t to be so appropriate prop and yet so chaste and elegant e fe that instead of the human forin being distorted and made a fit subject for fon caricature and burlesque as it is now through the grotesque fashions which prevail it will appear beautiful and to the best of advantage in the eyes of every person of taste |
