Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Arbor friends upon the sins of sectional prejudice and local conceit. That same native vigor and rude energy of style which we found so remarkable in the case of the Review, is equally striking in the case of the Chronicle: therefore we have been led to connect, after the fashion of cause and effect, this mental malady (so characterized by illusion and belligerency), with the spasmodic intensity of style which pervades these articles...
Speaking of Bouguereau, one of his pupils, De Quivieres, a rising young Parisian, has one of the most striking pictures in the exhibition. A more clever combination of drawing and coloring is seldom seen. The idea, too, is pleasing: A young girl resting in most careless fashion on a bank of deep green grass, glancing seaward over a stretch of lighter green water, so natural that one longs for summer to come again that he may experience the reality. The pose of the figure is most graceful, being relieved by a light airy summer dress, dainty gloves a la Bernhardt...
...should we have known, again, that to look like a light green caterpillar was the duty of every devotee at the shrine of Fashion, were it not that Y - kindly reminds us of the fact three times...
...Langtry has won not her spurs exactly but her ribbons already on the stage. All the women of fashion in London are wearing caps modelled on one worn by her as Kate Hardcastle, with a quaint full border of lace. The last dramatic furor in caps was created by Ellen Terry when she played Olivia...
...States and Territories in our Union, and Canada and Nova Scotia outside. But whether they come from Wyoming or Texas, California or Florida, they are as like as peas when they march to church in procession on Sundays, in their sealskins and great Gainsborough hats with flowing plumes. Dame Fashion has regulated the outer woman, and it must be Mother Nature who has taken care that the nobler part shall not vary too much from the accepted standard for young maidenhood in the nineteenth century, so much alike and so thoroughly "schoolgirlish" are the daughters she has sent us from...