Comment was rife, "Are Chiese girls beginning to succumb to the frivolities of the foreign mode" "Is the foreign type of dress as becoming to them as their own?"
Eyes were again turned on the trio, and it had to be confessed that their slender figures lent themselves well to the _bouffant frilliness of tulle which seemed to float about them like shadows as they danced. Scrutiny brought out the further fact that these bright young things wore exceedingly high-heeled shoes, and that their slim silk-stockinged legs were visible to the knee through sheer net in layers which decreased in thickness as it rippled towards the floor.
Then someone drew attention to the fact that the sleek closely clipped heads, well-groomed as only Chinese girls are able to keep them on a windy evening, were sot, straightforward and erect, on the end of a slender neck completely encased in the stiff high collar which the average Chinese lady is loath to part with. "Until the high neck goes nobody can say that Chinese "girls are—coun pletely foreignized", volunteered the observing one.
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