Venetian Dandies

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 400, 7 September 1889, Page 6

Venetian Dandies

Ose thing in particular about the modern Venetian dandies perplexes nae. Why, in the name of proportion, do they wear such absurdly wide boots, and with toes ending in an awkwird curve like the bro\v of the gondola ? Heaven knows their coats are ill-h'tting enough, but that is relatively a minor defect. They seem to borrow the prints of their fashion book from two or three continents. For while their collars aie high and obnoxious as our own at present, and their boots suggestive of China and Japan, they cut their hair as the French or a New Yorker. It is indeed a fearfully comic sight to see a young Venetian nobleman on parade, leading a bulldog or a shorn poodle by a string, smoking a long cigar called a Virginia, and twirling a cane with the primrose kidcovered fingers of his left hand. This, however, must be said in praiseof him, that, thus weighted with personal cares, Jib yet contrives to acknowledge a hundred salutations in an hour with due elaborateness and dexterity. Nor is the Venetian lady of our day more contenting: than the man. Not one feminine face in fifty delays a passing stranger. Their gait, too, is mincing and self-conscious, as if they still had a touch of the discomfort their granddams must have felt when they wore heels twelve inches high to their boots, and could not move without a brace of crutches One looks to find in them, as a common and bewitching characteristic, that Ifeht redgolden hair which is currently called Venetian, and which Titian gives his ' Bella * in the Pitti Gallery. It is in fact rarer in Venice than in London, and much rarer than in the United States. Indeed, as the earlier Venetians gained the fame of it' by artificial means, its is but natural that, unless they continue to practise these means, they should fail to confirm their ancient reputation.

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