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In Vanity Fair, A Tale of Frocks and Femininity, is by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd. The preface says that the story of the fashionable Parisienne and of the haunts in which she obtains and displays her incomparable frocks must needs be a story of folly and extravagance. The preface says the little book does not venture upon the psychological deep seas.
The text says: where American smart society is spectacular, French smart society is chic. The text says the Parisians have reduced gaiety to a science, luxury to an art. A passage on the bathing hour says that the Trouville show is under the gay striped tents or on the promenade, where women in Paris frocks and hats chat lightly with men in informal summer attire. A passage says that in all the South American capitals one finds the woman of the French frock, and that Buenos Ayres, in particular, has a smart set remarkable for the fashion and extravagance of its women.
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- Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
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