Identifier: invanityfairtale00brai (find matches)
Title: In Vanity Fair; a tale of frocks and femininity
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt, Mrs., 1868-
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Publisher: New York, Moffat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ineage and traditions; the beautiful Madame Letellier, who is one of the best dressed women of Paris; the blonde and chic Vicomtesse Foy, the popular Mrs. Ridgway, the wealthy Baronne Henri de Rothschild, Baronne Seilliere. These are some of the women who set the fashions, but the complete list is a long one, and Puteaux brings together all these orchids of Paris. There have been memorable evening fetes at Puteauxwhen the island was converted into a fairyland of gleaming lights and mysterious shadows of flowers and music, and all that modern luxury which is pagan in its prodigality; and cotillions are given there regularly during a part of the season. But the island is at its best when the sun is shining on it and touching to vividness the pretty frocks of the tennis players in the courts, when vivacious women in wonderful gowns and hats are gossiping over their tea in the shade or flirting under their parasols of chiffon and lace. It belongs to the open-air phase of French society, does Puteaux, for,
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b C/3 LE SPORT IN PARIS 91 oddly enough, the Parisienne of the scented boudoir and the hot-house associations has a passion for plein air. Out in the Bois there are open-air clubs and to spare,the Polo Club and the Tir au Pigeon being those most frequented by the fashionable set during spring and summer, while the club des Patineurs is the smart skating club and one of the most attractive social rendezvous of winter Paris. The Parisienne loves skating. Here is a sport that lends itself amiably to coquetry, a sport for which one may plan the most piquant of costumes. Furs are becoming and extravagant, and looking well at an extravagant cost is the fashionable Parisiennes chief aim in life. So Madame orders her skating costumes of fur and cloth and velvet, buys an assortment of skating boas more ornamental than practical, and plays in her skating as in all her sports a role vastly ornamental, impressively dramatic. Yachting, too, is dear to the heart of our Lady of the Chiffons, though heryacht

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