she wore at the end of a girdle two enormous tassels with almost square tops, like the Victorian ones that used to adorn the curtain cords. They were made of jade and crystal beads. Silver brocade shoes with jade-green heels went with this. Another frock had the ever-popular mother-o'-pearl pail lettes on the bodice and lines of silver sequins led to a scroll paé- tern of the same at the bottom of the skirt. This was worn over two or three thicknesses of flesh coloured chiffon. None of the frocks were very short and nearly all of them had the waist-band bodice.
The kind of lady usually met in a farce is not, perhaps, a very safe guide where fashions are concerned, yet Dorothy Minto's white crepe-de-Chine frock in ''Nightie Night" was a very enviable one, although Parisian in its length. It had a long bodice allied to accordion-pleated skirt, and its embroideries were an admixture of
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