In this part of town, on the better streets, I sometimes study the fashions as I see them in the shops and I compare them with those of uptown stores.

Now within Garthlaxton be divers ways and means, quaint fashions and devices strange and rare, messire.

But besides the man's visible employment, he may be connected in devious fashions with a score of enterprises the public knows nothing about.

Congratulatory speeches, endorsin' these last resolutions, was made by the wimmen, and I gess they would have kept talkin' ontil doomsday, if the chokin-off committee hadn't been sent around with copies of Harper's Bazaar, full of pictures of the new fall fashions.

(Between you and I, Mister PUNCHINELLO, the only thing which our wives goes heavier on than their rites, so called, is fashions.)

* THE WINTER FASHIONS.

Owing to the war in France, which has deprived this country of the usual Paris fashions, it has been feared that no clothes would be worn by the fashionable world this winter; but, fortunately, Mr. PUNCHINELLO is enabled to announce that such will not be the case.

During the reign of the other Carlovingian kings, in the midst of political troubles, of internal wars, and of social disturbances, they had neither time nor inclination for inventing new fashions.

They more and more discarded Roman fashions, and assumed similar costumes to those made in France at the same period.

Two centuries later, a terrible social agitation took place all over Europe, after which male attire became mean, ungraceful, plain and more paltry than ever; whereas female dress, the fashions of which were perpetually changing from day to day, became graceful and elegant, though too often approaching to the extravagant and absurd.

With her iron and coal, she fashions and propels the winged Mercuries of her commerce; with these and the clay that underlies her soil, she erects her factories and workshops; these form the Briarean arms by which she fabricates her tissues.

[Footnote F: Falstaff, for instance, speaks of "the wearing out of six fashions, which is four terms or two actions."] Here, then, is Shakespeare using the technical language of conveyancers in his earliest works, and before he had had much opportunity to haunt the courts of law in London, even could he have made such legal acquirements in those schools.

So long as ladies had to choose between Paris fashions and those of Piccadilly Hall, they would, he felt sure, choose the former.

Ladies' Fashions, 133.

Now, it is obviously, so far as taste is concerned, as unjust to judge a book written in the style and manner of one age by the merely arbitrary and conventional rules established in another, as to judge the dress of our ancestors by the fashions of the present day.

40 Would you but change, for serious plot and verse, This motley garniture of fool and farce, Nor scorn a mode, because 'tis taught at home, Which does, like vests, our gravity become, Our poet yields you should this play refuse: As tradesmen, by the change of fashions, lose, With some content, their fripperies of France, In hope it may their staple trade advance.

The fashions, the vanities and the pleasures of life, held no despotic sway in their breasts.

There are certain absolute limits on both sides; and fashions have to manage between the two.

(The Duchess of Abrantes, in her recently published Memoirs, gives a striking picture of the difference in the fashions and habits of living which has resulted from the old French Revolution.)

My opinion is daily receiving confirmation, for every thing belonging to the last age is daily coming again into fashion, and I hope soon to see totally expelled all those fashions of Greece and Rome, which did admirably well under the climate of Rome or Messina, but are ill adapted for our vent du bize and cloudy atmosphere.

Before that hard-bitten crew whom Burke ridiculedthe "calculators and economists"he will talk airily of golf and ladies' fashions; and ladies he will seek to impress by the Praise of Vivisection or the Defence of Philosophic Doubt.

At any rate I see that I shall have to content myself with my own quiet fashions.

SEE Martin, Hugh E., ed. GRESS, EDMUND G. Fashions in American typography, 1780-1930.

Mary Agnes Hamilton (A); 4May59; R236372. HAMMERSLEY, EVELYN M. Fashions in American typography, 1780-1930.

They were painted in different fashions; some of them painted the whole body except the face, others only a part.