New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-17
AMERICANS IN ENGLAND.
HOW THEY SET FASHIONS.
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From The san Francesca -hboh""''
Although town is empty"-to use the common TO
al cXpIrssive of the absence Of fashi0naDe people
rom the West End region london Is fali o. i Win
o tbcr way home The hotels are fairly awe WIN
Oh on tu0 and every Cunarl. White star and lhndh
tcamer sailing from Liverpool. and the NOrth ~
So + Iovds from southampton. Is crowded. as ydcni
man Gd Of mine who affects the nautical in spcech
e veil as I'm dress, says, from truck 70 k'esoi; S
d. w. near so easy to tell Americans abroad as IL seu
- To- Cnnstaut visits to and travel IN Europe haSo
I1cra,ed many of tn old familiar ear marks ana Re
oont,r 81 y /ankeep has become task only within
tuIt1 ~ a studied expert. The returned European
,nurIss whom Mark Twain so clevery ucser.p,c
some years ago are quite gres' been IN Europe now
Itla,st and whether people have grown more unUo-
pslvely selfaSserng than they uSou i 10 o and IU
hnteIs might be English for all that appears 10 In
contrary. In short the American az a. be dodo
" * curious that while in 50 many other ulrec,,UiS
England nothing 10th to initiate hotes bmS
pap roiI,vay engines theatres, yachts, AGRICULTURAL
geni Clements steam laundries and dozens OF Quaer
uiup,,i ",rbicb at This moment cannot call 10 mind
thlss o,Je will not initiate Americans, or, indeed,
ner itizens of any other nation under the sun AZ
gI mnersona Individual conservatism among men
II is worth noticing that their - dSeSs better than OF
on re and I'm doing they unconsciousy arr 'ahlS
Hint, from American Wome1 NM to admit are The
E;t dr,ssed women In the world Ever since ionuoi
society has been graced Dy lne 9 nroiDencs
sea'oH Wealth the proverbal dowdlness In English
TS"men's dress has been dsappt,a,ine rrc,sh Iodv
"VnaaL,nr of the Countess OF Alrlc an Elglsh l~ly
speaihsiins said. the other day She dresses 50
w .,i inst like an American woman. -, nh.
wei American ladies' do know how to dress. There
"a, Le no doubt about that" -, A., - ,.,
can Observation-Disclosures mean-aways dress So beautl-
,,,, such expressions are very common or course,
luii3 nentions American men. There IS no distinctly
Ilo UiT stye about their dress different from any
Deauhe They dress like Engllshmen, ard that Is all
on on, Is about It. The Countess OF Alrile who Is
l,clo ia o dress so like American lazy. was. ny
,hohS daughter of the Earl of Arran' the rather
inc Altman who some time ago was reported To
ageI ,hn eye of marriage with Mrs Hicks Lord, but
DG o s,rce consoed himself for the loss OF the hand
WhI " accompllshed and fair American lady by marry
OF ma he non Mrs <topfo, the widow OF one OF Lord
lhs.t t sons and lady waiting or Princess
Ioup 'o who married Prince Christian Of Schleswg-
IIOlscln. !, -. roticed English women's drcss
~ thn last quarter Of a century cannot fall to
durIn6 Tho alteration which has taken place. Why,
opso' na, sec n H. Punch" compare me women OF
you C Tb With those of Oh Maurer. Where else can
Jon" ohonge have come from but American IL can.
NC Sua I'm France Paris fashions were as well
hh oovn twenty-five years ago as now ana were as
hiuM n ,ol,oue1 by the world al large. why did not
I TnciIsb women follow Pars fashion, them Oh no
he innovation has come rom AcT' AMI the nUnage
Unconscious iir 1t is neverthele.S Tribute Of the
cans.