CYCLING.
Cycling is ever with us ; even during the winter months the tinkle of the bell is heard, women riders as well as men refusing to be deterred by the weather. One must dress, however, according to the season. Furs are being much worn in Paris, says the French correspondent of that excellent paper, the Cycle tend Motor World. Oneof the smartest and prettiest riders in the Bois on one fine day recently was dressed in a nice shade of blue cloth with silver fox trimmings. The coat was a tight-fitting one, the sleeves also being tight from above the elbows to the wrist, and the shoulder poufs of the moderate amplitude now so fashionable. The collar of ivy-leaf shape stood up close round the neck, and the revers were of the same pattern, edged with the fur. Large buttons of blue enamel a shade lighter than the cloth. The coat had beautifully cut skirts just covering the hips when seated on the machine. Knickers, of course, and leggings fastened by innumerable small enamel buttons. This correspondent, who is a lady by the way, pronounces against the skirt, which several of the larger houses have unsuccessfully tried to introduce. Parisiennes decline to be beguiled into a desertion of (the knickerbockers which they find so comfortable, especially in muddy weather. Whether they are wise or not is not for me to discuss here, as each fair woman must have her way and decide according to her own taste and inclination. If the knickerbocker is to come out here my fervent prayer is that we may be spared a perpetra tion of the atrocities now called rational. Be rational if you please, but be smart at the same time.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XVII, 24 April 1897, Page 526
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287CYCLING. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XVII, 24 April 1897, Page 526
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