FASHION CHANGES.
Everyone knows Sir John Suckling’s “Ballad on a Wedding,” one verse of which runs : “Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice peeped in and out, And oh! she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day .la half sp fair a sight.” A cynical critic has adapted the idea, to modern fashions thus: "Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice peeped in and out, So sang the poet of that day, When long and ample skirts held sway; But now the cult of shorter frocks Brings in its train transparent socks ; And little mice don’t peep out half So much as doth the fatted calf.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4361, 4 January 1922, Page 4
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111FASHION CHANGES. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4361, 4 January 1922, Page 4
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