An Evening Dance, Party Scene: Foreign Frills but Still the High Collar: Chinese Adaptation of Western Modes An occasional query is voiced on a Shanghai evening at a dancing place as to whether ChineSe girls are not becoming more and more foreignized in their dress. Only the other evening the writer saw three Chinese girls of good family enter an out-of-door ballroom with a large party, Their appearance was ravishing, mainly through the novelty, of "full fledged" foreign dress. ° Other ladies in the party wore the conven tional light coloured and figured ik, straight-lined, bell-sleeved and high-<collared. But the three young ladies who burst upon the admiring view of a group of foreigners near at hand, wore tulle frocks, with skirts composed of layers' of filmy frills, such as are the secret desire and joy of every woman ju Shanghai at the current season, One was in black wit touches" of silver, another in pale flesh-colour shading to tones of mauve., @eep rose and still another in
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