A Droadful Rumour.
Our French neighbours are about to intro , duce black silk underwear. It is to be hoped so objectionable a fashion will not find favour on this side of the Channel. Of late under* , clothing of silk, hitherto white alone, has been very popular in this country, and is most luxurious, the chief objection to it being that, subjected to the needful operation of washing, its beauty, or rather that of the elaborate trimming, is very much impaired. It is too dreadful to suppose the substitution of a shadier hue is intended to conceal inconvenient demonstra* tion, and so render the operation of washing .unnecessary, except from a sanitary view. These are days of luxury, not of asceticism. We cannot, therefore, put the charitable interpretation on the fashion. We would not try to believe elegant women, like the saints of old, consider unchanged garments, with their in* evitable accumulations, any proof of the greater 1 sanctity of the wearer.— Cardiff Mail.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1602, 5 August 1882, Page 27
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163A Droadful Rumour. Otago Witness, Issue 1602, 5 August 1882, Page 27
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