The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Extract of a letter from Paris.

"English policy is at present the reigning subject of Parisian bon ton—but we have our revolutions too—but not of ministers and senates.

"A general revolution of fashion has taken place.

Among the ladies, side curls have vanished, and as substitute, the locks are plaited & doubled up. This is called the Medusean system, from its similarity of appearance to the tresses of snakes, with which that Grecian witch is represented by painters.

The zone is totally abolished and the Persian sash has regained its former situation, and embraces the waist. Stays are exploded, and dimity bodies take up their place.

"The petticoat shortens daily for the purpose of exhibiting daily the silk shoe knot and embroidered clock, which runs half way up the leg, approaching the knee, from which a silk garter dangles to the ankle, with a silver or gold tassel.

"That things below may appear to the best advantage, the hoop is contrived to jerk up and down in continual motion, and from the elasticity of its form, promises wonders!

"But where does the wonder lie? There is nothing new under the sun—there can be nothing new under the hoop, and take away all the variety from the outside, and her ladyship of 1784 has no more to boast of than good old Eve of the year one."