Salmagundi; or, The whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, esq. [pseud.] and others. By William Irving, James Kirke Paulding and Washington Irving. Printed from the original ed., with a preface and notes by Evert A. Duyckinck.

5 8 SALMAGUNDT.
FASHIONS.
BY ANTHONY EVERGREEN, GENT.
TiLe following article is furnished me by a young lady of unque.tionable
taste, and who is the oracle of fashion aud frippery. Being deepl/
initiated into all the mysteries of the toilet, she has promised me, from
time to time, a similar detail.
M. RS. TOOLE has for some time reigned unrivalled in the
fashionable world, and had the supreme direction of caps,
bonnets, feathers, flowers, and tinsel. She has dressed and
undressed our ladies just as she pleased; now loading them
with velvet and wadding, now turning them adrift upon the
world to run shivering through the streets with scarcely a
covering to their backs; and now obliging them to drag a
long train at their heels, like the tail of a paper kite. Her
despotic sway, however, threatens to be limited. A dangerous
rival has sprung up in the person of Madame BOUCHARD, an
intrepid little woman, fresh from the head-quarters of fashion
and folly, and who has burst like a second Bonaparte upon the
fashionable world. Mrs. Toole, notwithstanding, seems determined to dispute her ground bravely for the honor of old
England. The ladies have begun to arrange themselves under
the banner of one or other of these heroines of the needle, and
everything portends open war. Madame Bouchard marches
gallantly to the field, flourishing a flaming red robe for a
standard, "flouting the skies;" and Mrs. Toole, no wise
dismayed, sallies out under cover of a forest of artificial flowers,
like Malcolm's host. Both parties possess great merit, and both
deserve the victory. Mrs. Toole charges the highest, but