RETURN OF THE FAN.
pans are said to be coming into favour again. In the reign of Richard 11. youth benig at the prow and pleasure at the helm, every new foreign frivolity was tried. Among them were fans. • , , But English ladies never learned to use* fans, so gracefully v as the French. In the hands of the Pompadours and the Mainhands the fan did really display the royalty of woman. It made the plain beautiful, and lent additional charm to the beautiful. Great painters deemed fans worthy of being made into works of art. Some are of beautiful old lace, others of ivory, elaborately carved. In many cases the sticks are of mother-o'-pearl or are studded with gems It is only during comparatively recent years that feather fans have come into vogue; wonderful specimens have been made from peacock and ostrich feathers There are several other collections
of fang in England, most of them dating from the time of the refugees from th e French Revolution
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Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17386, 26 March 1928, Page 6
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