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Show DAYS OF EXTRAVAGANT DRESS Empress Eugenie, Who Boasted She Never Wore the Same Costume Twice, Has Many Imitators. It Is true flint tlie cost of woman's dress has so Inerensed that It is not Riven to the nuiiiy to lie ns truly elegant ele-gant ns tlieir grandmothers were able to be at comparatively small cost. But then, those were the days when an elaborate ball gown consisted of yards of flounces of tarlatan or some oilier light and uncostly material. Empress Eugenie, it Is said, never wore the same gown twice. She it was, by the way, who made Worth, the renowned re-nowned Paris couturier, famous. The great luxury in those days was to weal-several weal-several ball gowns during the course of a single ball. Dressing rooms were provided and the ladies retired, to reappear re-appear resplendent and as fresh as at the beginning of the evening. The. gowns of the day, which were flimsy of train, and spread by crinolines, suffered suffer-ed much from an evening's wear; hence these wasteful ways. There Is a tale of the lovely Empress Elizabeth of Austria which recounts her appearing at a function in a white tulle gown, flounced and ample, decorated deco-rated with garlands of real camellias, and changing both gown and camellias every now and Then, to preserve the impression of absolute and uncrumpled freshness. Vogue Magazine. |