. Another fashion epoch for 1909 . Madame Henriette de France—Nattier WA NAM AKER ORIGINATOR. [HE fashions have changed! From theEmpire, Paris has stept back a centuryinto the days of the Louis—into the at-mosphere of grace & coquetry; the gaycentury that dances on with its shepherds& shepherdesses in silk & satin; its fairladies & gallant lovers in powder & paint; its Cupids &Hearts & Darts—all unmindful of the terrible rumblesof suffering & sorrow that finally burst in the thundercloudof the Revolution. It is once more the dainty feminine charm of the Mar-quise de Pompadour that sways the fa
. Another fashion epoch for 1909 . Madame Henriette de France—Nattier WA NAM AKER ORIGINATOR. [HE fashions have changed! From theEmpire, Paris has stept back a centuryinto the days of the Louis—into the at-mosphere of grace & coquetry; the gaycentury that dances on with its shepherds& shepherdesses in silk & satin; its fairladies & gallant lovers in powder & paint; its Cupids &Hearts & Darts—all unmindful of the terrible rumblesof suffering & sorrow that finally burst in the thundercloudof the Revolution. It is once more the dainty feminine charm of the Mar-quise de Pompadour that sways the fashions as sheswayed those of the days of Louis XV in her wilful, ex-travagant way. The spoiled beauty whose expenditurefor perfumes alone was 180,000 francs a year, bent all herarts on destroying the rigidity that bound France in thedays of Madame de Maintenon & the austere ordonnancesof Louis XIV against luxury, in clothes, in furniture, inliveries & equipages. And mingled with the Pompadours influence is thatof Marie-Antoinette & of the branotherfashionep00wana
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