WANT OF TASTE IN THE DRESS OF ENGLISHWOMEN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3223, 28 October 1881, Page 4

WANT OF TASTE IN THE DRESS OF ENGLISHWOMEN.

"I feel that I am aaying very little in dispraise of Englishwomen -when I say that in general they are the worst dressed human creatures that I ever saw, except, perhaps, the female half of a certain class of Germans. The reputation that they have ip this respect among Frenchwomen anc 7 *Amerioane' is richly deserved. Goo' 1 tnste ie simply absent. The notion of fitness, , congruity, and ' concatenation accor dingly,' does not exist. In form tlu Englishwoman's drees is too often dowel v. in color frightful. If not color-blind, sTif seems generally blind to the effect of color either singly or in combination. At a morning concert, I saw a ]vAy in a rich, redpurple (plum-color) silk—high round t' r neck, of course—and over this swept a net-V lace of enormous coral beads ! It marl: one's eyes ache to look at. her. This wa hot an uncommon, but a characteristic if stance. Such combinations may be regarded as the rule in Englishwomen's dress." —W1 Grant White's "England, "Without an.' Within."