. Another fashion epoch for 1909 . s& 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
. Another fashion epoch for 1909 . s& 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 brilliant court of Louis XVIwith its entourage of noble ladies who hurried into theirQueens follies & extravagances, whether it was to live likerustics or in royal splendor. ^x* PICTURE DRESSES. of tlie Days of tKe 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
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