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NYGWPB.761.021
19 Feb 1761:13,21 (946)
A Letter from Lien Chi Altangi a Chinese in London to Fum
Hoam, first President of the Ceremonial Academy at Pekin, in
China. . . [long essay on women's fashions] The writers of
Europe have sometimes inveigh'd against the absurdity of
this fashion [of trains or "tails" on dresses], but perhaps
it has never been ridiculed so well as upon the Italian
theatre, where Pasquarielo being engaged to attend on the
Countess, having one of his hands employed in carrying her
muff, and the other her lapdog, he bears her train
majestically along by sticking it into the waistband of his
breeches. Adieu.
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