The Yankee Clipper, taking American representatives of the dress trades to and fro across the Atlantic, keeps us in touch with American fashions, and vice versa. New York has taken the tea-dance idea from England and the dressy, afternoon. frock. "Indeed, the New Yorker's tea-dance frock is a much more elaborate affair than the Londoner's. has the smallest of smell wasp-waist, for it gripe a tightly corsetted figure, a double swing skirt, most likely, and it is topped by the deep-.|est Possible yoke of' contrasting transparent net or chiffon, outlined and edged with sequins.
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