The Langtry Jersey.
Eli Perkins, writing from Saratoga, thus gushes over it :— The Langtry Jersey waißt has appeared here, and is pronounced by all the ladies to be 'too sweet for anything — perfectly divine.' The garment is Bimply a ready-made dreas-waist, without seams, buttons, or lappels. It is knitted like a silk glove. In fact, the whole waist is a sort of gigantic glove drawn over the bust instead of over the hands. Its beauty and simplicity consist in its destroying all the old seams and wrinkles. It fits around the arm like a Bilk glove fits around the thumb. It preserves the outlines of the plump female form, and gives a voluptuous look that ruffles, wrinkleß, and seams destroy. A woman with a Jersey waist looks like a walking statue. Whitewash a beautiful woman in a Jersey and you would have the Venuß de Medici. The garment is pulled on over the head like a gentleman's merino shirt— the hole in the top for the head being very small.'
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Otago Witness, Issue 1522, 8 January 1881, Page 26
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170The Langtry Jersey. Otago Witness, Issue 1522, 8 January 1881, Page 26
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