LATEST LONDON FASHIONS.
From Oar London Correspondent. Regent Street, December 2/3. Very many ladies took advantage of the lovely long autumn to go out with the guns, and a shooting dress is almost as much the sine qua non of a lady of fashion’s wardrobe as her dinner or ball dress. This feature of the modern woman is far from a pleasant one. In a man’s nature there is a natural element of cruelty, but it is not natural to the ordinary woman to be cruel; it is certainly not a desirable at tribute to cultivate, and to shoot and wit ness the deaths of the quivering birds does not seem a suitable pleasure for those who are supposed to supply the refining element of society. Whether the present-day un wholesome craving for a new sensation, or the absurd hankering after mannishness, has to answer for this increase in lady “guns," it is a disagreeable fact.
