Beauties' Hour on Rotten Row.
London is a great centre, to which much of the female , boauty of the world gravitates. A morning on Rotten Row afc 'I beauties' hour," between breakfast and luncheon, when the suns shines brightly and society is sauntering up and down the bridle road which extends from Ansley House to Kensington Garden?, is a sight as well worth seeing before dissolution as the Bay of Naples. At first the oyc is almost dazzled by the brilliancy of the complexions wad • costumes. Here, for instance, trips along a dream of loveliness in a fawn-coloured gown, with a profusion of frills of dreamy lace, and such pink oheeks ! Another j beauty of the purest English type wears one of the prettiest dresses, of a yellowish' tint, like honeysuckle, with bows on either shoulder. Her black open- worked 'stockings and low shoes and long, black gloves contrast de lightfully with tho rest of the costun>e. These dark' ' fixings,' evon extending to black undergarments 1 , are, I am ,told, le dernier cri, or the pink of perfection, bi£(6f Parisian slang. -' Cleveland Leader,' ' l
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 328, 26 December 1888, Page 4
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184Beauties' Hour on Rotten Row. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 328, 26 December 1888, Page 4
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