THE VICTORIAN VOGUE
The revived enthusiasm for the fashions of the Victorian age is curious. We no longer care for its aspirations or ideals. Mr Carlyle, Lord Tennyson, and Darwin grow_ dusty on our bookshelves, but the trimmings of the periods, the checks, and pork-pie hats, the wool-work, head-work, wax-work, and shell-work send us into elegant ecstacies (says the ‘ Daily Telegraph ’). Up-to-date revues are incomplete without a Victorian ballet, drawingrooms incomplete without sentimental extravagances encased in glass bells, while the slender wrists of debutantes are encirlced once more with the heavy gold bracelets of our grandmother’s day. We are continually unearthing new and charming frivolities of an age hitherto noted for its solid worth and rather pompous outlook.
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Evening Star, Issue 20313, 23 October 1929, Page 13
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118THE VICTORIAN VOGUE Evening Star, Issue 20313, 23 October 1929, Page 13
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