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Suzette arrived in an entirely new set of garments the "geste" had altered, she said, one had to have a different look, and she was sure the autumn fashions would be even more pronounced. "As you can readily understand, my friend, one cannot be démodé, dans le metier, especially in war time! Naturally I agreed with her .
"I don't often write to you about gentlemen's fashions, because, as a rule, they are monstrously dull, but this season the stronger sex seem really to be developing some originality. Here are a few notes taken on the troopship Montfort, where of course you know every one is smart. (Tout ce qu'il y a de plus Montfort has become quite a proverb, dear.) Generally speaking, piquancy and coolness are the main features. For instance, a neat costume for stables is a pair of strong boots. To make this rather more dressy for the dinner-table, a pair of close-fitting pants may be added, but this is optional. Shirts, if worn, are neutral in tint; white ones are quite démodé. Vests are cut low in the neck and with merely a suggestion of sleeve. Trousers (I blush to write it, dear) are worn baggy at the knee and very varied in pattern and colour, according to the tastes and occupation of the wearer. Caps
The following "acceptance" is decidedly demode: DEAR MRS. ASTOR: Will I be at your ball? Say, can a duck swim? Count on me sure. It is also incorrect and somewhat boorish to write "accepted" across the face of the invitation and return it signed to the hostess.
To the side of this bare place, with its canvases which had become rather demode or at least had long ceased to interest lay two bed-chambers: Foster's own, and one adjoining, which was classed as a spare room. It was sometimes given over to visiting luminaries of lesser magnitudes. Real celebrities those of national or international fame were entertained in a sumptuous suite on the floor below.
The yokel himself, however, and particularly herself, seems determined to deny all poetic and picturesque relations, by clothing himself and herself in coarse, shop-made rubbish, in battered, démodé town-hats and flounced gowns from Petticoat Lane.
Nothing could be pulled up to anything else and there was not a single good place to rest one’s elbows anywhere. The only saving grace in the situation was that after five minutes or so Mrs. Rosscott invariably suggested removal to the library which lay beyond—a very different species of apartment where no mode at all prevailed except the terrible démodé thing known as comfort.
But they were intended for proper, gentlemanly warfare, with the opposing sides set out in straight lines, a convenient distance apart. In the hand-to-hand butchery which calls itself war to-day, the rifle is rapidly becoming démodé. For long ranges you require machine-guns; for short, bombs and hand-grenades. Can you empty a cottage by firing a single rifle-shot in at the door?
What was considered "good form" in this pastime among our forefathers now decidedly demode, and the correct drinker of 1910 is as obsolete and out of date in the present decade as the "frock-coat."
Every box was full, and the parquet, as Lola told me, contained the haute volee of the town; the open balconies were sacred to the middle-class, while in the upper gallery were the nobodies, with their children, poor things! decked out with flowers and trying to keep awake through the very tiresome and demode performance of "Macbeth." Tamberlik sang. What a glorious voice he has!
By Jove, give that girl a year in civilization and she'd do! Who was the young fire-eater?" "Fire-eater! He's a lot more decent than you or I." "But that's saying so little, dear boy!" "Seriously, Beverly." "Oh, hang it with your 'seriously'! Well, then, seriously, melodrama was the correct ticket and all that in 1840, but we've outgrown it; it's devilish demode to chuck things in people's faces.
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