Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1889 — An “Odd” Fashion. [ARTICLE]
An “Odd” Fashion.
The greatest novelty since the introduction of the fingerless gloves is the wearing of odd ones. As is usual with such caprices, this one is said to have arisen through mistake. A lady, a leader of the haut ton, in a hurry to meet an appointment, caught up hastily a pair of gloves which chanced to be of different colors. With the courage born of surety of position, she donned the odd pair, and set a fashion that all Paris is following greedily.— Table Talk.
