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The Fashions In Richmond

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
April
Year
1863
Copyright
Public Domain
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The wil'e of a rebel officer writes in a letter recently interoepted, concerning drefis aud parties in the robel capital : " A calicó dress costa thirty-six dol lar, that is three dollars per yard. - White cottons, three dollars per yard ; lawns and ginghams tho same. The most ordinary merino or silk, one hundred dollars. A simple bonnet, tifty dollars. A pair of ordinary three dollar gaitera, twenty dollars. Notwithstunding these prices, partiej vvure very numerous iinlii Leut began. There was a wedding next door to us, which live huiidred peopjo attended, and whsrs all liqnors were abundant, and champagne and other wines flowed like water. (Tlion followed a description of' tho bride'a underclothes - the finest the writer ever saw.) Ëv erything elegant. ïliu oranges at the wedding cost ono dollar and fifty cents a piece, and everything was as plentifni as of' old. The whole of the wedding paraphernulia and snpper must; cost some twonty thousaüd dollars or i more." 1

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Old News
Michigan Argus