THE QUEEN OF FRENCH FASHIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 09, 11 January 1908, Page 15

THE QUEEN OF FRENCH FASHIONS.

According to Mademoiselle Cecile Sorei, who is called tl;s Queen of French fashions, and v, hose dictates arc followed closely and obsequiously 'obeyed all oyer Europe and America, tha well-dressed woman of the day is well maintaining hfr lepucation for extravagance. f;iho wants thrse gowns nowadays tv the one she would have ordered tv.enty years ago. It seoms also (cays an exchange) thut every artirle of attire of c. really smact wo;nan mu&t havo the stamp of individuality. Hats, of cnurss, gne moi in cachet to tho toilette than a gown, ,so their importance takes fust place. The £3 which was ones thought au <<rnplo price for a )vA > j» held np to ridicule by Mdllc. fetors I, who, by -the bye, invented the "cloche" or mushroom shape which wt alt aro wearing at the present moment, with more or les;. success. Forty pounds ,sho regards as v, lair price fcr a hat, ancf jn&u now she is busy in' pl-i,r.-ning a new shape, which is, to make the world of ]'JO3 forget that tho "clochs" was ever fashionable. "The- Sorel," as site h called, is nn actress, not ,1 dress designer, and she has Die sanic ideils on the subject that great artists have on the draping of thsiv iigurej. They first j draw the figure in the nnd«s, and then paint the draperies Itfdlle fiorel says that, to bo really elegant, a woman must lmvr» an elegant mind, and shov/ it by wearing next iier skin the very fiiicst 'and rr.uM, d»li' i ate textures, and fiom that f,Uc builds the oute> framewoil:. fihe says. further, that no woman can 'be teally olecant o\ery day from tha top of lit h?a"d to the 5r,1,5 of her feet for [peo than JJ6OOO a .-"far, anil then &he would have to be caieiui.