RIOT OF FASHION.
A riot of fashions and prejudices, embracing all the arts and the freakish in particular ; in dancing, from the old-time Lancers to the Tango and Maxixe, in dresses, from courtly trains to split skirts, with their dash of futurism and even cubism in design and colour. These were some of the forces in the Three Arts Ball at Covent Garden. The ball had many novelties — for artists can only exist under a perpetual craving for new sensations. Ladies wore green hair — these were the futurists Others wore dresses cut after the- predilections of cubists — to the uninitiated eye they looked as if they were wrapped in a patchwork quilt. And the majority favoured a new colour for the trimmings of their costvmes — a colour which for want of a better name has been christened "Tango." The colour was already greatly worn in aigrettes and ribbons, but its real debut was made at the ball. It combines "the pinkiness of a boiled salmon with the yellowness of a sunflower "" — to quote tho description of an organising member of the ball at the Three Arts Club.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 56, 7 March 1914, Page 10
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187RIOT OF FASHION. Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 56, 7 March 1914, Page 10
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