Page 199—Funny, Foolish, and Useful Fashions

Page 198—Funny and Foolish Dress Land

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A British Lady and the Chinese Ambassador's Wife and Daughter
at the Queen's First Drawing Room, Buckingham Palace, 1893.

The Chinese ladies are dressed more rationally, but the have such fashionably small feet that they have to lean against the table to enable them to stand with safety. The European lady and the Asiatic ladies are each alike martyrs to foolish fashion, one with the waist and the other with the feet.

"Mother, do put on a shawl, please, before you go down."
"Why, Sonnie?"
"Oh, because some one's is sure to see you if you go down like that!"

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