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“Men, alas! cannot dress prettily nowadays — at one time they had the best of it there, too — and that is certainly a source of diversion and consolation in a troublesome world. To many women, new dresses form the chief novelty of their existence; and well do the arbiters of fashion take care that variety shall be provided for us in that direction. — 1902 Illustrated London News


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