“A PERFECT DRESS ”

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 19, Issue 99, 15 December 1908, Page 2

“A PERFECT DRESS ”

BUT FEW WOMEN WILL IMITATE THE COSTUME OF THE BURMESE.

“There Is in the world one mutter of taUte/' says Sir Frederick Treves, “upon which unanimity of opinion can nevei be obtained, and that # is on the subject of woman's dress.

“It may as well be stated, therefore, without the least hope of carrying conviction, that the dress oi the Burmese woman is ae nearly perfect as any fetnab costume can be.

“Its chic* claim to perfection is that it is jxquisitely, divinely simple. It '.onstats of a white linen jacket of the plainest possible cype. without collars, tics or cuds, and a skirt )f unstudied silk wrapped closely round the body down to the feet./ This robe is maned neither by flounce ror nil, and, so far as the initiated can tell, it nus, escaped jven the touen of the needle or thread.

“Sandals to the feet and gold bangles to the wrist jompieti Che costume. ATiatevor may oe the artistic value of this attire, it can at cast i.aim to be perfect from the standpoint at health. •The Burmese woman does her hail with equal simplicity in a neat coil, which displays the outline of the head with perfection and no haii arrangement of th* classical Greeks could be niort classical.’ A fresh flower. Ji, possibly, a comb, it fla* sole ornament.

“Tbcrt is no attempt to contort the human bail fluffs jr /oils, o» to make 4t a grotesque, meaningless structure, held up by pirn, and cords, and undermined by frowsy I ads."—"Stray Stories,"