A FASHIONABLE CRAZE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1951, 28 March 1885, Page 2

A FASHIONABLE CRAZE

The world of fashion could probably not jog • along at all without periodical ' 'crazes." Something novel and startling at stated intervals is absolutely necessary as a kind of nourishment to restore the tissue wasted in a dull round of pleasure. A recent "craze" was for aristocrats of both sexes to curiously and aimlessly promenade the slums of London, without, so far as appeared, any intention of putting a shoulder to the wheel and endeavouring to cleanse these vile spots. Tins diversion died out. It was too grim to command lasting popularity.: It has been succeeded (as we read'in a recent journal) by a photographic.;braze, of a harmless idiotic character. -This may be briefly described rs a mahia'for photographing the human fornii" divided in sections. Hands ore protruded through holes in a dark screen and photographed clasped, others are taken singly, holding a flower, others again exhibit"! the palm in such a way that a fortune teller could "read the lines." There are also bars feet—only shapely feet of course—sections of shoulders, riapeß of necks, and occasionally an ear—just one detached which makes its appearance through a slit in a piece of velvet. This is a very queer fashion indeed, but still it is easy to imagine that an album thus filled with the fragments of innumerable friends would have its attraction, a nose, an ear, ora great toe would sometimes be infinitely preferable to a whole and recognisable acquaintance of disagreeable memory. The possessors of these mementoes, could, in imagination tweak the nose, .pull the ear, and tread upon the toe perpetually, and wouldnot be confronted with the hated countenance of the man himself, Certainly the new system will have its advantages.