Mr. Raymond :Mortimer has excelled himself in " An Essay
on Clothes." which is the introduction to Modern Nymphs (Etehells :old Macdonald, £3 3s.), being, as the sub- title tells us, a series of fourteen fashion plates. He discuss, the use and importance of clothes from "the ape who wound a creeper round his body" (Adam), to the ladies of the future, who, perusing these pictures, will expostulate " Could anything be more delightfully George the Fifth ! " Mr. Thomas Lowinsky's fashion plates are extremely entertaining, and sometimes deistratiVai He envisages some- Of the beauties of the past in a present-day setting, for instance; Proserpine returning to a favourite grove, a • sporting Eton-cropped, pleated-skirted young woman wandering among the chimneys of the Black Country: or equally clever; Datum waiting for the weather report on the wireless (presumably for the arrival of Zeus), standing in severe • taillera with-her portable wireless set. A witty and exquisitely produced book.
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