Styles are just about as stable as the mercury in a Shanghai thermometer. Shifting sands of the sea are firm compared to this fickle and variable quality. We go to sleep serene in the possession of enough clothes to see the season. through with a decent regard for the dictates of fashion; we awake to find that most of, them ought to be given honorable retirement and the rest should be extensively revised.
It, would be an interesting thing, had we attics enough, to keep the as good as new but hopelessly archaic frocks and note how long it takes a style to come back into favour again. Followers of the Higher Mathematics might well work out a sliding scale of Permutations of the Petticoat, Sequences of the Sequin, and the Square Root of Rufiles.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.