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Title: Costume: fanciful, historical, and theatrical
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Aria, Eliza (Davis) 1866-
Subjects: Costume
Publisher: London Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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in different attire, andwould yet do well to consider the advisability ofrehearsing in their frocks on more than one occa-sion before they permit these to accompany themin their histrionic duties. The stage has oftentimes had the privilege ofintroducing new fashions, and the most apatheticpatron of the playhouse may be lured to theauditorium by the report of something new inpetticoats, an ideal coiffure, or the latest modishmandate obeyed to the letter in a belt. MissViolet Vanbrugh may have the credit of bringingto notice the elegant charms of the corselet, andthe trim fascinations of the stock collar, worn withthe right sort of cravat. To Miss Mary Moore Tattribute a revived popularity of the broad blackAlsatian bow ; she w^ore this in velvet in herclever impersonation in Mrs. Gorringes Neck-lace., and all the world of women flocked to seeand to copy ; while her little short-waisted whitemuslin frock, with broad ribbons and puffed sleeves,in Rosemary made that heroine an inevitable
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JULIAN L ESTRANGE AS HERMES. 248 COSTUME CHAP. XX figure at fancy-dress balls for months after theproduction of this dainty little play. Miss LettyLind, Miss Kate Vaughan, and Miss Jessie Mil-ward—I take my examples at random—may allbe counted pioneers. To Kate Vaughan we owethe lace-frilled petticoat, beneath the influence ofwhich she daintily danced her way into publicfavour. Miss Letty Lind first wore the accordion-pleated dancing skirt, and Miss Jessie Milwardpopularised the lawn-embroidered collars and cuffs.I forget which Adelphi melodrama she graced withthese trifles, but I am safe in asserting that she wasthe heroine of the drama, and was made happy bywedding bells as the curtain fell. It is easy for me to let my pictures in thischapter give me my cues for dilating on speciallysplendid productions which it has been my privilegeto enjoy, for Mr. Anderson has been responsible forthe majority of these, and his pencil has illuminatedthe various centuries with experience, infin

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