Mimic of Modes

Two Busts of women.

 The first Woman, dressed in a violet satin gown, wears a cap à la Turque. This cap is composed in front with a sort of batiste turban, with very wide black and white stripes, designed in points, and in the back with a very thick tuft of plain white gauze whose ends hang very low as veils. Over this turban is a very fat and very wide bow of a ribbon with pink and apple green stripes which forms something like another bow in back. In the middle of the back bow is placed an aigrette in the form of a fan of wobbling and resplendent thin steel blades. And in the middle of this bow, behind the aigrette of steel blades, rises an aigrette of fifteen rooster feathers of diverse colors.

The Woman is frizzed in front all over the tapet. Six curls on each side, placed in three rows, fall on the chest. her hair, in back, is held up in a flat chignon.

On her neck, a fichu-chemise with three collars, fastened with a large-headed gold pin. In her ears, gold earrings à la Plaquette.

The second Woman, dressed in a pink satin gown, wears another cap à la Turque. This cap, which slightly resembles one of the caps à la Randan, is made of a sort of white gauze turban, surmounted by a wide blonde lace which is belted by a pink and apple green striped ribbon, rolled into a cord, and a garland of artificial roses. Behind the turban is places a very thick tuft of white gauze, whose ends hang in long veils. On the right side of the cap are attached two large plumes in three colors, green, pink, and white, and an aigrette of ten black rooster feathers, with flame-colored points.

The Woman is frizzed over her whole head in little separate curls. Four fat curls in two rows fall on either side, on the chest. In the back, her hair hangs à la Conseillère.

The Ladies should pay attention when they have very long and very thick hair, not to wear it à la Conseillère; because it is difficult to keep it all together so closely, because this scattered hair presents a disagreeable tangle, because this fashion is only done with rather short and thin hair, and because they fruitlessly spoil their whole dress.

Finally, the Woman wears, like the first and like nearly all real Ladies, a fichu-chemise with three collars, fastened with a large-headed gold pin, and gold earrings à la Plaquette.