MILITARY DANDIES
BORROWING WOMEN’S WHALE BONES.
[’Frisco Mail.]
London, Jan. 30.
A writer in Vanity Fair thus describes tho luxurious effeminacy among tho British officers :
“ Some of our golden youth wore not above borrowing women’s whalebones to enable their West End tailors to lit their khaki tunics without crease or wrinkle.
“ 111 some of the sumptuous war-kits wore snugly packed dainty brocade corsets of the most-approved manly torso shapes, cunningly wrought with devices of unfadablo Bowers, and laced with bright, strong stay-laces of gaily-dyed silks.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 60, 12 March 1901, Page 3
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