GAY YOUNG GIRLS OF SEVENTY.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 98, 22 October 1904, Page 13

GAY YOUNG GIRLS OF SEVENTY.

♦ Every time I have been in London (writes an American lady) I have been struck with amazement by the numbers of old women who are dressed as if they were still in their rosy teens. I am of the opinion that these are the most astonishing old women in the world. There is nothing like them in our country, and I never saw anything of the kind in France. They appear to be well supplied with, this world's goods, lor they are always to be seen in sumptuous carriages, or trailing back and forth, in and out, of the best Bond-street shops. They reach their highest and most flamboyant point at about seventy years of age. Their faces are covered with paint, laid on over a network of wrinkles and the flabby softness of aged cheeks. Their heads are [ encused in entire wigs, 'generally a rich auburn, much onduled and coiled. A youthful hat of the palest hues crowns the wig, and over all a thin white veil is tied, subduing the vivid tints of the rose-coloured cheeks and carmine lips. A dress of virginal muslin or chiffon, inset with cobweb laces, clothes the form which the best corsetieres cannot make slender and girlish. High heeled slippers and semi-transparent silk stockings are on the feet that the coquettishly raised skirts permit one to see for an admiring moment. — St. James's Budget.