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exclaim, that ever fuch acoutrements fhouici
have been deemed handfome! becoming!
ornamental ! and when the perfonal accom-
pli fh men ts of the prefent wearers of the hoop-
ed petticoat, or the exalted tete are forgot ten >
who will infure thofe inventions from the dif-
dain of future generations ?
I am very certain that in mo ft of the orna-
ments of drefs, the principles of art direct
to embellifhments greatly fuperior to many
which have often been adopted; I congratu-
late my fair hearers upon their freedom, from
the once very fafhionable abfurdity, of infert-
ing upon the dreiTes of Britifh ladies the pro-
ductions of remote climes; it was not the
beauty of their fprigs, their flowers, or their
figures, that rendered them objects of tafte,
nor was our native land deftitute of fprigs or
flowers jj were the rofe, the carnation, the jaf-
mine extinct ? No : but it required fome (kill
to imitate them, becaufe every fpectator was a
judge of their likenefs, whereas there being
no likenefs to judge of in the imitation of for-
eign devices, the blunders of ignorance efcap-
ed detection : that ignorance is now we hope
fuperfeded, and we pity the time, and induftry
it has dilTipated; farewell exotics! our own
country prefents a thoufand decorations, more
elegant,
exclaim, that ever fuch acoutrements fhouici
have been deemed handfome! becoming!
ornamental ! and when the perfonal accom-
pli fh men ts of the prefent wearers of the hoop-
ed petticoat, or the exalted tete are forgot ten >
who will infure thofe inventions from the dif-
dain of future generations ?
I am very certain that in mo ft of the orna-
ments of drefs, the principles of art direct
to embellifhments greatly fuperior to many
which have often been adopted; I congratu-
late my fair hearers upon their freedom, from
the once very fafhionable abfurdity, of infert-
ing upon the dreiTes of Britifh ladies the pro-
ductions of remote climes; it was not the
beauty of their fprigs, their flowers, or their
figures, that rendered them objects of tafte,
nor was our native land deftitute of fprigs or
flowers jj were the rofe, the carnation, the jaf-
mine extinct ? No : but it required fome (kill
to imitate them, becaufe every fpectator was a
judge of their likenefs, whereas there being
no likenefs to judge of in the imitation of for-
eign devices, the blunders of ignorance efcap-
ed detection : that ignorance is now we hope
fuperfeded, and we pity the time, and induftry
it has dilTipated; farewell exotics! our own
country prefents a thoufand decorations, more
elegant,