They don't know anything.

They can't appreciate a party's efforts.
A FASHION ITEM--[Written about 1867.] At General G----'s reception the other night, the most fashionably dressed lady was Mrs.G.C.She wore a pink satin dress, plain in front but with a good deal of rake to it--to the train, I mean; it was said to be two or three yards long.

One could see it creeping along the floor some little time after the woman was gone.

Mrs.C.wore also a white bodice, cut bias, with Pompadour sleeves, flounced with ruches; low neck, with the inside handkerchief not visible, with white kid gloves.

She had on a pearl necklace, which glinted lonely, high up the midst of that barren waste of neck and shoulders.