Abstract
It was a happy notion on the part of the Costume Society to devote a symposium to La Belle Epoque. The phrase is now generally accepted as covering a period of about twenty-five years, from 1890 to the outbreak of World War I, and although it was by no means "belle" in some of its aspects, it does appear, from many points of view, to have been one of those "enchanted islands in the sea of Time" to which we look back with nostalgia. It has been called the triumph of "High Life", the last good time of the upper classes, the "Garden Party and Casino Period" when English summers were without a cloud and when winter came — well! there was always "Monty".
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