This is for the most part true, though we are told that occasi8nally a returned student from Europe or America brings back to her native land a" complete outfit of foreign style dresses without gard to the traditional notes in Chinese dress. She will wear these on occasion, but always in her be found, also, the dress in which she confesses to feel more at home sti The well-bred Chinese girl is ing only in. spots. Her neckline continues to be conservative.
Naturally, however, the question son seeing some of the delightful, almost foreign confections in fabric worn in the evening by Chinese girls of Shanghai, where.these are made.
They rarely come from foreign shops, more rarely still from foreign dressmakers, One very well known Chinese lady, the wife of a Chinese diplomat high in official circles in the north who spent a number of years in Paris, did have her frocks made at an expensive local dressmaker while she was in Shanghai a year or 80 ago. But this lady wore foreign style entirely, with an elegance upon which a foreign lady might well cast envious eyes, nor did she hesitate to pay $200 for having a single gown made for her. But she is voted the exception and not the rule. Chinese ladies are tradition ally successful at getting good results from their tailors, but, this applies only to Chinese style of
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