NEW FASHIONS.
No paper is so curious in fashions as the Chronicle, and it is at laud- able pains to illuminate its columns with the most brilliant borrowed lights on this important subject. The "additional novelties" are monthly copied by our judicious contemporary, to whose diseming scissors they have been indebted for their fame. We must—indulge ourselves with a curiosity or two from this exquisite performance. PETER PINDAR has commemorated the puzzle of GEORGE the Third, who could by no means comprehend how the apple got into the dumpling. We are in a similar perplexity to understand how a person of fashion gets into a shirt, the opening of which, for his head, is only large enough for the passage of his hand. "The shirt of a fashionable is apparently closed before by gold buttons ; the opening is, however, behind, and only large enough to pass the hand through." Here is a revelation :— "The crowns of hats have decidedly a conic shape, and the brims are small and turned up at the sides."
The crowns of hats are indeed shaped on the model of a vessel, the sight of which incommodes modesty in an earthen-ware-shop. The precieuses would pronounce the fashion furiously indecent, and some apothecary must certainly have set it. Such a crown-piece would seem so fashioned for the toss-up, heads or tails. "Anew style of clothes-brush is come into use, the backs of which are del gaudy paintecl..",
We suspect this worthy chronicler of fashions is on vastly familiar terms with the clothes-brush. He should be either a gentleman's gentleman in uniform, or the author of a "fashionable novel."
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