EUROPE’S BEST DRESSED QUEEN.

Northland Age, Volume V, Issue 7, 5 October 1908, Page 8

EUROPE’S BEST DRESSED QUEEN.

Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain is credited with the feminine ambition of being considered the best-dressed Queen in Europe. She is too Engr lish in tastes to wear anything but the most severe and serviceable garments for such outdoor pastimes as golf, yachting, and motoring, but in the evenings and at all great public functions her costumes are magnificent, rich with laces, soft with chiffon, heavy with embroideries, and sparkling with jewels. Her figure has improved greatly since she was a girl, and she is exceedingly particular as to the cut of her dresses. The beauty-loving and colour-loving Spaniards are delighted, for they had their fill of sombre garments at Court before the King’s marriage. The distinction of being the best-dressed Queen in Europe has lately been held by Queen Amelie of Portugal, and Queen Maud of Norway probably next. The Queen of Italy dresses richly, but with no special distinction, the Czarina of Russia has lost interest in clothes, and the German Empress and Queen Wilhelmina of Holland! never had much, and are given to quiet garbing, although on occasion they can appear in splendour, The Queens of Denmark and Greece dress nicely, but not better than do hundreds of husband’s subjects. Queen Alexandra used to be considered a. model of elegant dressing, and she always manages to look supremely well, but nowadays she is too much of an individualist in the matter of her wear to come into competition with women who pride themsejves on being up-tp-date.—“P.T.O."