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BEP(F.755.022
10 Nov 1755:11,12 (1054)
From the Publick Advertiser, September 2. 1755.
It is a very strange thing, that nothing now will go down
with us, but French fashions in every thing that can be
named: French clothes, French wines, French cooks, French
dishes, friseurs, valets, decently a la mode de Paris, to
tend our modest ladies, as well as fine bred gentlemen, in
their dressing-rooms. O what a delightful thing for a lady
of fashion and taste, to have a lubberly French fellow toss
a fine cambrick smock on her snow-white neck and shoulders
in a morning, or just before she goes to Ranelagh, or the
play ! It would be so unpolite to have her English-woman
perform the office, she would swoon away at the very
mention. 'Here dear Maodemiselle ! bring my fan and
gloves: don't let that awkward Puss Betty, touch them ! I
hate the sight of such clumsy creatures !'. . . [5 more
paras.]
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