Modes and Moods. Country Life

Modes and Moods.
“Dress does make a difference, David”
Bob Acres
[Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals]
Saturday night on 13 December 1913 saw a turning point in the history of women’s progress, when a woman — Mrs. Carruthers — presided at a ceremonial dinner at the Institute of Journalists in the Cecil Hotel. In brief, her speech concerned the effectiveness of the work of editors and journalists who thoroughly and carefully cover the topic of international policy. Dr. Page hopes that in the near future, some of our best editors will be going to America — not for a few weeks, but for a year and even more, exchanging their places with their peers, who, for their part, will be coming to our country to study the internal processes of our work.
While praising the French fashion creators, year after year, we are becoming less and less dependent on their efforts.
Moreover — and I am speaking about something that is an absolute fact —we are currently having a great many designers, whose works get to Paris and Vienna via agents and they come back to us with the “continental” label on them and sell at a much higher price.
Monsieur Léon Bakst has expressed a sane opinion in one interesting interview with a weekly publication, when he said that the British silhouette requires a statelier and calmer line than the one generally accepted in Paris. This great truth coming from Monsieur Bakst — arguably the supreme authority that has ever existed in the world of fashion — cannot be disregarded. [Caption under the picture]
A manteau for the Rieviera