BEAUTY OF ENGLISHWOMEN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 49, 6 December 1890, Page 7

BEAUTY OF ENGLISHWOMEN.

’To-day the English girl, says Max O’Rell, must be acknow - ledged, without reserve, to take the palm for beauty. I say . to-day, because she has only lately learned to dress and set off her natural advantages properly. In this art she is fast becoming an adept. Go into any fashionable evening assembly in London, and you will see such a dazzling crowd of lovely women as can be matched in no other city in the world Ml types are represented, from the Greek goddess to the piquant fairy. The English woman who excited the mirth of the foreigner by her ill-chosen, ill fitting and ill-worn raiment, has disappeared, and in her place we have a fair creature attired in dress which she has chosen to suit her face and figure, and is learning to wear with grace and ease. Dress has done such wonders that the plain women look comely, and the beauties are visions of loveliness. And what an improvement it has effected in the English .woman s figure. The modern dressmaker has brought to light the graceful incurving of the back, which is such a noticeable feature in most English women, and in the case of slight ones sometimes the only curve worth speaking of. By astutely managed seams, she gives a waist to her who never had one, and by clever draping gives roundness to a meagre bosom ; in fact, comes in various ways to the rescue of the obese and the scraggy. When a woman is looking her best, she is apt to be at'her best and brightest in other respects, and this reform in dress is, I think, a great factor in the in- - creased brilliancy of each succeeding London season.