DRESSING UP DOGS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1647, 29 March 1884, Page 4

DRESSING UP DOGS.

■ ■ • —■ Do you not think it wicked to dress lip dogs as the Purisiennes do 1 Lily has paid a visit to Madame Ledoubli the famous dog modiste in the Palais Eojal, All day long a series of pugs and smooth-haired terriers arrive at her saloons to try oil their garments and have their paletots fitted. As tliey have occasionally like their owners/to await their turn, small mats and rugs are scattered over the waxed floors, so that the little dogs may be comfortable while anticipating their interview with thoir modiste, They have several changes of dress in their wardrobes, which they wear according to the hour or the temperature of the day. When they take their morning walk in the Bois with their mistress, the " correct thing" is a paletot of dark blue cloth, warmly lined with red flannel and a military gorget coming up high under the leather collar, which is lmng with bells. The monogram of the do»'s mistress is no longer embroidered on one corner of the paletot. That is out of date, and why should a liitle dog be out of the fashion? So mortifying, yon know, vlien it sees other doggies ' carrying their monograms in the middle of the back the "correct" 1 place. To complete this morning toilet ' ut hunch of violets is fastened on the i left shoulder. Un mild days the little creatures have '• Excelsior" paletots in 1 dark green cloth, lined with bright l yellow silk, and embroidered in silk of I the color of the lining, The monogram is worked in similar silk. The collar i i • black velvet, with gilt bells pendent j irom it. _On very cold days the paletot 1 is seidskin, with handsome buttons, and ■ I ' • jumpered little things wear fur < collars mounted in silver, For travel- '

ling a tartan paletot is "de vigueur," with harness of red leather, having detachable reins. What do yon think of itl How humiliated the dogs must feel when they aro first dressed up.— " Madge," in ' Truth.'