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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3359, 27 October 1911, Page 8

The artists of Paris intend to show women how to dress, by holding an exhibition. They are shocked at the present fashions. “Never before,’’ (says the London Daily Telegraph’s Paris correspondent) “were hats so disproportionate in size, so ugly'in conception. so inartistic in form, so absurdly inappropriate as at present. Dresses no longer drape the human body, they hold it up to ridicule.” The exhibition is to be held in November. Six hundred dolls, half a yard high, will be marshalled in rows. They will wear a now design of fashion, and each will he an artistic creation, not of the Rue de la Paix, but of the famous painters, sculptors, and draughtsmen. Professional dressmakers will be rigidly excluded from contributing. Each artist will draw and execute an original design of - his own, according to which his doll will bo dressed. The design will be artistic, natural, and in good taste. There will be no extravagance, no aping of the Directoiye, the Empire, and other nonsensical styles. The style in eacli case will simply be artistic, proper, and ornamental. ' Artists will for once show what they can do, and will tonohj the costumiers a lesson. Nothing eccentric will be tolerated, but every suggestion that will help to enhance the human form l will be welcomed.