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In Vanity Fair: A Tale of Frocks and Femininity
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Title: In Vanity Fair
A Tale of Frocks and Femininity
Author: Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
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IN VANITY FAIR
The Return from the Grand Prix
IN
VANITY FAIR
A TALE OF FROCKS
AND FEMININITY
BY
ELEANOR HOYT BRAINERD
Author of "The Misdemeanors of Nancy"
NEW YORK
MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY
1906
Copyright, 1906, by
MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY
New York
Published, March, 1906
The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
PREFACE
The Parisienne, in her subtler phases, is a theme for a feminist of genius; and this little book does not venture upon the psychological deep seas.
Grave issues are tangled in the game of fashion-making; but the world through which My Lady of the Chiffons dances lightly to gay music reeks of frivolity, and 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, best told, perhaps, by snap-shots of the inner courts of Vanity Fair.
The Author.
CONTENTS
IN VANITY FAIR
| CHAPTER I | |
| Page | |
| Frocks and Femininity | 15 |
The Frenchwoman's creed; the science of being gay; feminine types in French society; the demi-monde of Paris; Parisian salons.
| CHAPTER II | |
| The Tyrants of the Rue de la Paix | 28 |
Paris and the art of dress; Worth and the old masters; Paquin and the new school; the clientèles of the great men.
| CHAPTER III | |
| The Famous Ateliers | 47 |
How the work is done; the saleswomen; the mannequins; the ouvrières; the system; the launching of the modes.
| CHAPTER IV | |
| Fifi and the Duchess on the Turf | 64 |
Racing near Paris; round the braziers of Auteuil; the day of the Grand Prix.
| CHAPTER V | |
| Le Sport in Paris | 78 |
Motor mania; Parisian golf and French golfers; fashion and tennis at Puteaux; the motor-boat fad.
| CHAPTER VI | |
| The Fine Art of Dining | 97 |
Al fresco dining in the Bois; with le Roi galant at the Henri Quatre; where the Pompadour held sway; the restaurants of the town; Frederic, "King of the Ducks."
| CHAPTER VII | |
| In Normandy with Madame | 118 |
Gay Trouville and chic Deauville; at the tables of the Hôtel de Paris; in the Casino; some inns and the motor.
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| The Merry-go-Round | |