Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Dress in the height of the fashion...
...whistles airs from Offenbach's latest, and takes pleasure in adding that it "has n't got here yet." He is delighted at your observing any of the many "points" noticeable about his clothes, remarking in a condescending tone that this cut or that fashion will become common in this country in a few years. Even his room shows many hints of his character. Le Journal Amusant and European guide-books lie on his table. Embouchoirs stand in the corner. German pipes and schlagers adorn his mantel. Standing before you, in front of the fire, in a French plaid breakfast...
...respectable contemporary, the Boston Advertiser, condemns a French sentence in the Danbury News, and says, Qu'est que cela, Mons. Danbury Newsman? It is with reason that the Advertiser dislikes the practice of using French so common among fashion reporters...
...fashion, how to write...
...ribbon, and some old faded magenta cravats made by the chaffers might possibly be found in forgotten boxes. It is highly probable that the oarsmen of about '60 have preserved as trophies their handkerchiefs so often worn to victory, and although the shade might not be exactly the same fashion to-day calls magenta, it would be found to be substantially the same, and evidence enough could be procured that it was at that time called magenta...