A Parisian couple, passing a {tailor's window the other day, had their attention attracted by a handsome garment. Monsieur remark-led: "What a nice overcoat! I shall certainly have one made like that." His wife immediately damped his Jardour by informing him that the garment was a woman's coat, but, after another took at the taels, collar and sleeves, he felt convinced that she was wrong. 'To settle the point, they entered the shop, where they soon found that Madame was right. 'The supposed _mascalin overcoat was in reality a woman's tailor-made, so closely, in this particular line, do' masculine and feminine styles assimilate, Quite recently a clever and highly prac~ tical Parisienne, looking through some clothes which her husband had not worn for years, discovered frock coat with the usual alk lapels. She put it on, and announced that it fitted her perfectly. She rushed off to a shop, matched the material without difficulty, made a skirt, altered the- position of two buttons on the coat, took. in the sleeves slightly, and became the proud and joyful possessor of a handsome tailor-made outlay of Frs. 66, the pri material for the skirt.
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