FASHION’S LATEST FREAK.

Western Star, Issue 930, 14 March 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

FASHION’S LATEST FREAK.

A New York paper furnishes some interesting particulars relating to the latest freak in the world of fashion:— By bleeding persons naturally become a little pale, and this gives them a kind of aristocratic or distinguished appearance. For instance, if a young man has been rejected by a lady who has upset his reason, he can play up her sympathies by having himself bled. The loss of blood would make him pale and interesting, and be could lounge around home for a few days, and send out a report that he was dying of a broken heart. His paleness would show that something was the matter with him, and it might excite the lady’s sympathy, if she had that element in her icy, fashionable composition. The facecou’d not be powdered or painted so as to represent illness. The ladies understand that artifice too well j“and a great many are adopting the bleeding process. It is not that they wish to carry the impression that they are dying by inches from grief. They don’t do that now. But occae* ional bleedings make them naturally pale, and their pretty faces more easily coloured in consequence. With a white background, or, rather, face, the lace is coloured without the preliminary trouble of washing it with a white compound before colouring is put on The colours stick better, the paint does not show so plainly, does not close the pores of the skin so hermetically, has a smoother appearance generally. Then again, it is not the correct thing in fashionable society to appear too rosy and healthful. It would look as ia they followed some occupation for f living. School-girls you know, eat pickles and slate pencils under the impression that it will make them thin by drying up the blood. Bleaching is the latest device in fashionable society, and it is to resorted by both sexesforoppositepurposes. Durlngthe summer ladies are bleached, or bled, Under the impression that the reduction ot blood prevents an excess of perspiration—and nothing is considered more unfashionable than to perspire. That is why so many ladies look so cold and icy chilling in red hot months of summer. Ido not know that the young men drink salt water after being bled like the other calves that are bleached for the market by cruel butchers, but no doubt salt water will soon become a fashionable craze in coxy unction with the bleeding process,