People who are apt to say that nothing good can come out in the way of dress except from Paris, and more particularly the Rue de la Paix, would be surprised were they to obtain a glimpse of the portfolios of colour prints from which the leading Mrench designers draw much of their inspiration. The British portrait painters of the 18th century, and of the early 19th century, have always had fervent admirers in France, and ihe writer well remembers hearing the most famous of French costumiers remark, "When. designing an evening dress for a beautiful woman no longer in her first youth I turn instinetively to Reynolds, Romney, and Lawrence."
In the last decade of the last! century, what were rather absurdly FUR IS A POPULAR TRIMMING FOR GOWNS AS WELL AS COATS. called picture dresses" enjoyed a great vogue. Indeec, at one time it seemed that the picture dress would never go out. But, as we all know, go out it did, and for years any woman who ventured on any form of the picturesque looked as if she were wearing a fancy dress.
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