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Show Belts and Collars. By her belt and her collar must you know her this fin de siecle young woman of fashion. To order of one's own modest coutn-riere coutn-riere a small belt and collar seems a simple affair, but only the victim knows the pathetic hopelessness of ever attaining attain-ing just that bias, just that stretch, height or depth, which mark "artiste" on the gowns of the initiate. Observe them well as you walk on the avenue, and Bee how insensibly you fali to judging the girl by her belt. They become a fascinating study. Here an aristocratic belt, fitting to the svelte form as if to the manner horn. There the nouveau riche. It came from the same establishment, but how uneasy and awry it seems! Then the "would-be-but-can'ts." They send a shiver down your back. And then come the prim, the neat, the lazy or the wishy washy belts of the countless and commonplace army of the "no name series." The belt and collar of the present styles can only come from two sources the maison de nouveautes of high degree de-gree or from one's own unerring taste and judgment. Harper's Bazar. |
