A London letter says:—“ The musical profession must indeed be lucrative when Madame Patti, as a letter from Paris informs me, is able to give L 2,500 for a fur cloak! As if fur was not expensive enough in itself, it seems that the last fashion in Pans is to have fur cloaks with jewelled button. The Princess Dolgorouki made a sensation in the Bois lately by appearing in an ermine oloak with turquoise and .diamond buttons. The Princess Wittgenstein— also a Russian -goes in for large sapphire buttons. Humbler people have to be content with .curiously enamelled buttons. This year the Pansiennes have given in to the English fasluon of wearing fur outside ; hitherto they had always worn it merely as a lining to cloaks of silk cloth or satin/’ 9
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Evening Star, Issue 4063, 4 March 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)
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132Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Issue 4063, 4 March 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)
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