Paris herself again in 1878-9 . m somany balconies, attract dining the daytime a brilliant affluence ofwhat simple-minded folk in England term carriage-people. Thegreat dames of the Noble Faubourg ; the grand ladies of the Prus-sian Colony, the Spanish Colony, the Brazilian Colony, the female illustrations of La Haute Finance and La Haute ColonieIsraelite, would never dream of purchasing their cmplettcs at theMagasins du Louvre or at the Bon Marche, unless, indeed, theyfound the conduits of credit temporarily obstructed, and were IX THE RUE DE LA PAIX. 327 anxious to make a little ready money
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . m somany balconies, attract dining the daytime a brilliant affluence ofwhat simple-minded folk in England term carriage-people. Thegreat dames of the Noble Faubourg ; the grand ladies of the Prus-sian Colony, the Spanish Colony, the Brazilian Colony, the female illustrations of La Haute Finance and La Haute ColonieIsraelite, would never dream of purchasing their cmplettcs at theMagasins du Louvre or at the Bon Marche, unless, indeed, theyfound the conduits of credit temporarily obstructed, and were IX THE RUE DE LA PAIX. 327 anxious to make a little ready money go a very long way. Simi-larly, in London, when rank and fashion finds that it has gone alittle too deep in the books of its credit-giving and long-sufferingtradesmen, rank and fashion condescends to patronise for a whilethe Cooperative Stores. But, as a rule, rank and fashion in Paiishas its fournisseurs and fournisseuses; and, equally as a rule,these purveyors of the pomps and vanities of feminine attire do notkeep open The salons and the ateliers of the Theodorics, of the Clo-rindes, the Hermiones, the Eudoxies, and the Naomis, are inthe first and second floors of houses in the Rue de la Paix or in thePlace de 1Opera—mysterious salons to which formal introductionis imperatively necessary, and where tick assumes proportionsinscrutable to the vulgar. It is in the Rue de la Paix where the 328 TARIS HERSELF AGAIN, veritable Temple of Fashion is situate, the sanctum sanctorum offeminine frivolity, over the more than Eleusinian mysteries ofwhich the great Worth presides in person. The masculine eye has cri . -T3
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