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Title: In Vanity Fair; a tale of frocks and femininity
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt, Mrs., 1868-
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Publisher: New York, Moffat
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urniture of which he is an enthusiastic collector.Flowers are everywhere throughout the rooms, and inthe spring all of the many windows of the great palaceare abloom with blossoms growing in window-boxes.Beers mannequins, too, are vastly decorative, and thisestablishment is typical of the luxury and extravaganceamid which the game of fashion-making is played. La Ferriere has the most exclusive English trade aswell as Parisian vogue, and is Paris dressmaker, by royalwarrant, to Queen Alexandra. Madame Havet, BlancheLebouvier, Sara Meyer, Mademoiselle Corne, are famousand wealthy. RoufF belongs near the head of the listand is a lineal descendant of the old school. In hisestablishment many of the traditions of the great oldmen survive. M. Rouff is not always in evidence asare the meteoric young men. To have an interview withhim is an honour, and he will refuse to see even the mostillustrious if his whim prompts him to do so. The ordi-nary customer meets only his representatives. Perhaps,
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Doeuillet passes Judgment TYRANTS OF THE RUE DE LA PAIX 41 during the interview, the curtains of the door will part.A thin, dark, rather wild-eyed face will appear for aninstant and vanish. That is RouflF. Worth has a splendid trade^ but it is largely a seriousone. The great English and French dowagers go there;and Jean Worth, the present active head of the house,wears, more or less comfortably, the halo of his illustri-ous grandfather. The dowager calls him a charming boy and says tohim, Msieu Jean, when your famous grandpapa wasalive, he made for me a light blue brocade that was mostbecoming. I would like something of that kind —and Msieu Jean repeats for age the light blue brocadeof youth. He creates an extremely beautiful light bluebrocade too, and he charges for it a price that wouldhave surprised his famous grandpapa. He is old schoolby heredity, but he has modern commercial instincts, thischarming boy. The prices of the average French frock have gone upunder the new regime, t

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