THE SINCEREST FLATTERY.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 38, 16 December 1893, Page 10

THE SINCEREST FLATTERY.

“ Some weeks ago,” says the St. James’s Gazette, “ a New York journal of fashion gravely announced that the Princess of Wales wears during the course of a year only 12 pairs of gloves—one pair per month. As soon as this novel item of news had been duly propagated throughout the country and digested by la belle Americaine, r seiious depression overtook the trade.in ladies’ gloves, and great numbers of America’s fair sex appeared in the haunts of fashion wearing gants de Suede that looked as if o O their owners had taken the places of the striking coal miners. True, however, to the instinctss of transatlantic tradesmen, the dealers in gloves soon started an enquiry into the cause of the depression in their business, and found it; the result being that an announcement appeared in the papers all over the country to the effect that it was the Prince of Wales, and not the Princess, who wore only one pair of gloves a month, and that her royal highness never drew on the same pair of gloves a second time. Then came a reaction and a boom in ladies’ gants de Stiede., The men’s glovers, however, have yet to be heard from.”