Paris at the End of the World by John Baxter

Author:John Baxter
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

Uniform chic

Meanwhile, in Paris, shrewd designers suggested to their all-too-suggestible clients that it was their duty to dress well, so long as their clothes included some acknowledgment of the war. In a Baïonnette cartoon, a dowager asks a couturier if selling expensive clothes in wartime is unpatriotic. “Are you saying I’m not a patriot, Baroness?” he replies indignantly. “But who created the gown in Pekin taffeta called ‘Croix de Guerre,’ and the ‘Where Will It End?’ evening coat?” Proust noticed that

young women were wearing cylindrical turbans on their heads and straight Egyptian tunics, dark and very “warlike.” They were shod in sandals, or puttees like those of our beloved combatants. Their rings and bracelets were made from fragments of shell casings from the 75s, and they carried cigarette lighters consisting of two English half-pennies to which a soldier in his dug-out had succeeded in giving a patina so beautiful that the profile of Queen Victoria might have been traced by Pisanello.

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