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 249
of country idylls. But thefashionable classes would have none of it. In conclusion, it may be said that the smartsociety of 1840 had adopted a sort of cant, what isnow known in Paris as snohisme, which was nothingmore than an exaggerated parody of a certain class of English habits,rendered all the… … II4 FASHION IN PARIS the pattern of a garment. But nothing is so wearisome as the perpetualplaying of a part, nothing more cruelly exhausting than the eternalwearing of a mask. The Lions and Lionnes were but a feeble reflec-tion of British dandyism. They laid themselves open to caricature,…
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