London, Jan. 28, Among the more important duties awaiting the King and Queen when they get back to London next week ig that of choosing four designs as models for thio year's Court dresses Out of. some 30 drawings submitted. When chosen the models will be sent the dressmakers for the guidance of the young. Last year, as you may remember, some scandal was caused by the lowness of back and neck lines; a whispered order went out, and in the day between one Court and the next all sorts of hasty contrivanees were patched in to make dresses suitable for the Royal eye, Tt will not be popular with debutantes to have to wear a dress exactly dozens of others (as if it were a schoolgirl's uniform) but if you must be a debutante, as pointed out it, a recent letter, you must put up with a lot of things.
It is said that although the Queen will give wher views, the King will make' the final decision about the and it is in no way surprising that' the young Indian civilian fell love with Mary, or that she was to take so high a place in. Indian society. Not only was she a most lovely girl, of @ very unusual type of beauty," but with both sweetness and wit in her expression. Mrs. Cameron has loft us seven or eight studies of Mary, most of them nearly Ufe-size, mot so much portraits expressions of Mrs, Cameron's Ideas of historic' characters, Mary as models. The ex-German. Emperor nce: boasted that he always chose his Empress's clothes. But that was only for one woman. Our King's task suggests something - positively oriental. Solomon would have sympathized with him.
'Apropos of dress designing, Dame Laura Knight, RA., has undertaken to design new uniforms for those exceedingly comfortable waitresses at Burlington House whom T happened to mention last week. It seems that the Scottish art' exhibition Is the cause. The ladies of Allen Ramsay and Raeburn were no believers in Boylsh Agures, nor were their hand: maids who appear in some pictures, and the waitresses, seeing the pletures, felt that more justice might by done to their own "curves per-voding all the figure" Dame Laura Knight has borrowed from Raeburn, with some ideas from Wheatley's "Cries of London," and has produced white-spotted leaf green dresses with rather full skirts (as you will gather they should be), turn-down frilled collars, white muslin aprons with goffered frills, and high mob caps with black ribbon bows. The effect will be worth a visit to Burlington House for the waitresses alone.
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