FREAKS OF FASHION.
FIFTEENTH CENTURY DRESSES. LADIES IS" TROUSERS. Paris, December U. In op|uisitiou to the barbaric furs and ornaments of fashionable I'arisieiincs, simplicity of a bizarre kind is now the mode aiiiong French ladies of literary distinction, Trousered authoresses are becoming a common spectacle on the boulevards. Chief aiming them is Mine. Dieuiafoy, who adopted masculine dress for Its convenience when accompanying her husband on his archaeological travels, and has retained it ever since. Then there is lime, de Montifaut, who is a familiar Ib'iirc in the newspaper world of Paris, w7th her bowler bat and short box-coat, below which appear the tails of an undercoat. Prominent among Parisian ladies oi letters who dress fir'the modes of by<rono davs is Mine. Georgette Leblanc (Mine Maeterlinck), who has before now appeared at the theatre in Louis XVL costume—a gown of (lowered silK with pointed bodice, p-imiicr-. and voluminous coiffure. As a nil", however. Mine. Leblanc affects a "Byzantine fashion. She shares fhi„ taste with Mine. Edmnnd Rostand, the wife, of the Ycademician and herself a poet, whose velvet gowns falling in straight lines from shoulder to hem, with antique girdles, have inspired more than one painter. , Another authoress who affects Byzantine dress is the Bnronne Deslandes (first wife of the Prince de P.roglie, who appeared not long ago at a London m.isic-lialli. who always attends balls with her hair hangh." m unconhue, masse* down her back. The Corniest de Noailles. whose charming verse ins ■aught the antique spirit, follows the 'ivzantiiie fashion. 'inothcr woman poet of note. _M.ni. , M ,. h , Delarue Mardrus. wear, princess „own, of fifteenth-century iashio.l. while in direct contrast. Mine. foM.;_ ,WillV; author of "Dialogues de Betes is alwavs attired like a sehoolgiil, uc.u in* a loose jacket suit, a skirt we I above the shoe-tops, a turned-down coljar and short half tied up onones.de.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 17, 13 February 1909, Page 3
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308FREAKS OF FASHION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 17, 13 February 1909, Page 3
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