The Grace of Fragility: a dress of heliotrope , 1909. '...which has over it a tunic coat of guipure lace with yoke and sleeves of finer lace. The straw hat is wreathed with flowers. Parasols are rather at a discount this season, owing to the huge hats worn. No countenance needs more protection than a thoroughly fashionable (that is to say, a perfectly monstrous) chapeau will afford just now'. From "Illustrated London News", 1909.

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