Fashion in Paris; the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from 1797 to 1897 (1898)
Uzanne, Octave, 1852-1931, Loyd, Mary Sophia Hely-Hutchinson, 1853-1936, Courboin, François, 1865-1926 · London, W. Heinemann · leaf 201
literally crammed. The wide pathwaywas much more like a crowded indoor gallery, thanlike an open-air resort whither the townsfolk repair tolounge at their ease, and inhale great draughts ofoxygen. Hither came bands of dandies, talking ofpolitics and revolution, of women and of wine, to idleaway the… … 94 FASHION IN PARIS swains, to show off their gowns, take a couple of turns round the Alleedes Orangers, and then settle down in circles, and chatter first of somenew play and then of yesterdays riot, or to-morrows, and so on to thelast new bonnet, to some newspaper discussion, to the scandal…
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