FASHIONABLE FOOTWOMEN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 925, 12 March 1881, Page 2

FASHIONABLE FOOTWOMEN.

Footmen are going out and footwomen are taking their place.; During the other night in Eaton place the door was opened by one of the latter in the most charming and becoming livery. Black and white mobeap .or head-dress, stand-up collar with white cravat and small pin in it, rich brown cloth coat, with livery buttons, but somewhat like a man’s hunting coat, and a buff waistcoat with a high church collar —such was the uniform. I was so struck with the upp’fcr portion- of the dress that I never thought of looking at the extremities ; but I fancy my eye once caught a glimpse, going upstairs, of red stockings and shoes with silver buckles. During dinner four winsome lassies, all similarly attired, waited on the head and foot, and certainly never was a dinner more deftly handled and served. Why not ? Women are, by their nature, much better suited to this sort of work than men. The latter think nothing of eating onions or smoking vile tobacco before serving the soup, or putting their thumbs in the gravy of one’s mutton, or breathing stertoriously at your ear, or perceptibly on your cranium if it lacks a covering. Besides, there is a decided economy; footwomen are not taxed, nor do they eat so much.—Loudon World.