[1521]
THE SIMPLIFICATION OF
PRESENTATION AT THEIR
MAJESTIES’ COURTS.
A SOCIAL PILOT.
The latest scheme devised by Harrods to pilot their patrons through the quicksand of social existence will certainly come as a boon and a blessing to a great many people who realise the endless perplexities, anxieties, and those thousand and one worrying details which are attendant upon the honour of presentation at their Majesties’ Court.
Indeed, more than half the pleasure of such a command is marred for a great many people owing to the trouble of getting ready. This is especially true in the case of first presentations or the attendance of Americans or Colonials, who, returning home after many years’ sojourn abroad, are utterly perplexed as to all those unwritten laws that hedge about the ceremony of making their bow to their Sovereign. For explicit and precise as the rules and regulations issued by the Lord Chamberlain are, they by no means relieve the novice of all trouble, responsibility, and care in the matter.
THE SARTORIAL PICK OF EUROPE.
This, however, is exactly what Harrods is prepared to do. Not only do they undertake to supply all the necessary outfit, from a Court dress and regulation train to the necessary feathers and veil, but they are further prepared to save one all trouble concerning those maddening minor details that entail more care and anxiety than everything else put together. With the new system there are no more distracted pursuits of gloves that must be of exactly the correct tint, no more wearying discussions as to the type of shoe to be worn. Under Harrods’ management all is thought out and considered, weighed and decided; one’s own taste being consulted in the first instance when every possible alternative is placed before one. Indeed, with one interview it is quite possible to end all further discussion and trouble. So it is with everything else; for here not only is everything supplied at a moderate cost, but one can take one’s choice from a stock that is larger than any other in London, and one that literally does represent the sartorial pick of Europe gathered together and displayed under one roof.
THE ALL-IMPORTANT COURT COIFFURE.
Even in the matter of coiffure one is equally well catered for. For Harrods have an expert staff of hairdressers who are thoroughly versed in the mysteries of Court coiffure and who know to a nicety all that there is to be known concerning the manipulation of hair to suit the latest style of arranging the regulation plumes and veil—a detail of utmost importance that may, and often does, make or mar the whole general effect of many a Court toilette, for a badly-dressed head is even more damaging than a badly-fitting dress on such occasions.
Court coiffures are dressed at Harrods at 7/6 per head.