Panic was, on the other hand, caused by the recent Governmental measures against the but not in France. Wha ced States newspapers sot into. their heads nobody knows, but steamship bookings were enncelled, French hotel-keepers revived wires saying leman wore kimonos for dressing: gown and tea-gown, and mandarin [coats for opera-croaks.
Russian Bs The arrival of the Russian ballet would have moved influence westward, had it not been that the Russian ballet itself was strongly} Since then it has been Jone new item*after another in the changing of French taste, in which, of course, Britain has profoundly participated. When the Tsarist re-fagees arrived the movement took shape, and has gone on increasing until to-day, in Paris, there are 40 Russian restaurants, 40 or 60 Russian dressmakers or dressmaking houses with Russian women, somctimes of very high rank, directing or playing " chief part in them; and hardly a night restaurant in Mont-maitre which does not have Ru doing juggling with their feet, and knives, ina skilful manner slightly dizzying: to habitues of such resorts.
French dress shows very strongly this Russian influence. Russian Tine ix obvious, Russian colouring, general; even" the Tutankhamen touch has hee zed; bu! there is nearly always a leaning. to Chinese colouring and outline,
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