Gentlemen Formerly Dressed
“At the recent London Exhibition of Men’s and Women’s Fashions, the lay figures were quite as remarkable as the designs of the clothes themselves. Wooden and immobile, they yet contrived to look more expressive than the most alluring mannequin. Art, with its uncanny power of embodying abstract ideas, has given them the authentic air of modern youth—sophisticated, intelligent, and unexpectedly wistful.
Of another age again are those old fashioned blondes with diminutive waists which were once the... pride of drapers’ windows. Their bust measurements would fill a prima donna with envy, and their painted smiles have an unabashed coquetry which is almost alarming. Perhaps the type of the “New Woman” which “Punch” once delighted in, was a reaction from this ideal of the nation’s shop window. Impossible to imagine them wearing shorts or displaying tennis frocks, these simpering and elegant damsels of plaster.
The Advertiser, 1933 Rowland scrambled to his feet. A boy of about fourteen helped him steady himself.MoreLess
Of another age again are those old fashioned blondes with diminutive waists which were once the... pride of drapers’ windows. Their bust measurements would fill a prima donna with envy, and their painted smiles have an unabashed coquetry which is almost alarming. Perhaps the type of the “New Woman” which “Punch” once delighted in, was a reaction from this ideal of the nation’s shop window. Impossible to imagine them wearing shorts or displaying tennis frocks, these simpering and elegant damsels of plaster.
The Advertiser, 1933 Rowland scrambled to his feet. A boy of about fourteen helped him steady himself.MoreLess
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