MISS ANGLINS FROCKS.
■ Miss Margaret Anglin, who is to visit New Zealand about Christmas time, , had a great reception, on' lier first appearance in Sydney in The Thief."; - The heroine of this play becomes a thief in order to pay . her dress-, maker's enormous bills, and when one reads the description of her frocks one is not surprised that the bills were'huge. Tho one that she wears in;the last act, which takes place in; the morning, is an empire dress of grey chiffon,, with satin shoulder, drapery, with long 'fringed* ends to' the' hom of the skirt, ombroidered i£s ; cntiro;lengtli in white and blue-silk iaMd-gold thread. .It is well that colonial playgoers should seo tho sad results of a ; too great expenditure in dress, but frocks on this scale will he rather apt to' make' average woman ; feel that slio does not spend quite enough. Miss Anglin has brought with' her to Australia thirty, boxos filled with marvellous frocks, and she has been the first to wear in Sydney the "Merry Widow" hat which has been 'preached against- in America.,. ' TJiis ,is one of those largo sailorfshaped affairs jvith.ia hugo'bunch of feathers towering at the.side, and trimmed'all'round with ribbon.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 246, 10 July 1908, Page 5
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199MISS ANGLINS FROCKS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 246, 10 July 1908, Page 5
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