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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9130, 11 August 1888, Page 5

There is certainly a revolution in dress this year. Those who follow the fashions select garments cut on different principles and in altogether a different form from those they chose a year ago, or, indeed, during any year of their lives. For a long time the so-called artistic dressmakers have been introducing in a quiet way models not arranged on the old conventional lines, but after the most approved styles of art, as derived from old pictures and traditions. What they have thus brought to light the general class of fashionable dressmakers have now made their own, and a modern ballroom or reception often nowadays makes one think that some of the family portraits have stepped down from their frames and been imbued with life.

Polo is going rather out of favour in India, owing to the expense of the amusement. So much of the players' success depends on their ponies' training that they pay very high prices for the animals, and, thanks to keen competition, a good polo pony costs thrice as much as it did three years ago.