. Another fashion epoch for 1909 . e Pompadour ^ Mane-Antoinette, Made Immortal by tlie Paintings of Nattier, are Modernized for Spring, 1909. [O the great artists whose brushes have keptin the Louvre & the Palace of Versaillesso wonderful a record of the Court daysof France, we owe the real inspiration forthe picture gowns that are being createdtoday. Is it Callot or Drecoll, Cheruit orBadin, who has made a fashion? Where, please, didthese artists in dress turn for their lines, their colors, theirfacts? Without the canvases of Nattier, Watteau, Fragon-ard, Chardin & Le Brun, they could never
. Another fashion epoch for 1909 . e Pompadour ^ Mane-Antoinette, Made Immortal by tlie Paintings of Nattier, are Modernized for Spring, 1909. [O the great artists whose brushes have keptin the Louvre & the Palace of Versaillesso wonderful a record of the Court daysof France, we owe the real inspiration forthe picture gowns that are being createdtoday. Is it Callot or Drecoll, Cheruit orBadin, who has made a fashion? Where, please, didthese artists in dress turn for their lines, their colors, theirfacts? Without the canvases of Nattier, Watteau, Fragon-ard, Chardin & Le Brun, they could never have reproducedso exquisitely the fashions of the eighteenth century. O artist cutter!the Goncourts wroteof Watteau; fromyour playful scissorsthere have come to us,both the sweet neg-lect & the bravery ofattire, the morningseasy carelessness, theafternoons fine rai-ment. Oh! fairy scis-sors! you dower thetimes to come withpatterns from theArabian Nights. Ma-dame de Pompadourowes you the negligee Dame Inconnue—Xafticr.
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