NEW YORK SOCIETY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14566, 31 December 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)

NEW YORK SOCIETY.

ITS SPLENDOURS AND WEALTH.

Tub inauguration of the new social seaeon was celebrated recently at the New York Metropolitan Opera House, when Ginck's " Armide " vas produced for the first time in America, and at the Hocao Show, where the British officers won the McGran cup in the jumping competitions. Never before have there been such efforts 011 the part- of the newly rich to be present at these celebrated functions of the New York season.

Despite the competition of the opera house, the Horse Show attracted a record attendance of wealthy ladies, whose gowns, in the eyes of many, c •iupletely eclipsed in interest the perfon. ances of the ring. In front of vacli bo.v dressmakers promenaded, taking note-:, of the latest stvles.

It was not, however, the dresses so much as the figures of the wearers that formed the burden of feminine conversation. for since the end of last season the fashionable ladies of New York have been undergoing all kinds of exercises in the effort to make themselves thin enough for the " hobble skirt."

Every lady had a title to tell of suffering from "banting," as starvation diet is termed, but the result, all agreed, was worth the trouble. There was a dazzling assemblage of thin ladies whose appearance of malnutrition is concealed behind cheerful smiles.