London at the End of the Century:A Book of Gossip
a Beckett, Arthur William
1900
EASY, EFFECTIVE, AND NOT EXPENSIVE.
And now I feel that, after all, I have not said very much about the best costume that a man can adopt for a fancy dress ball. All that is required are a few yards of gold lace, a theatrical star, and a fez. Get into your evening dress, and exchange your tail coat for a frock. Next pin or tack a strip of gold lace to the outer seams of your trousers. Turn up your collar, and put more gold lace on the inside, which will now become the outside. Put gold lace round the cuffs and at the back, and (if you like) bind with the same material. Put on your star on the left breast and assume your fez. Having done this, wear a pair of blue spectacles, and you may safely call yourself the late Khedive. If you want to be add a white cotton umbrella lined with green, and the assumption will be | |
So I may sum up my advice to those about to go to a fancy dress ball, with the recommendation, when in doubt about the choice of a costume-spoil the Egyptian! | |