Note 17 — Chapter XII · A GERMAN BASE
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Since writing the above, the following account has been found of dress at Tahiti in 1877: “All the women, without exception, have their dresses cut on the pattern of the old English sacques worn by our grandmothers.... It is a matter of deep congratulation that the dress in fashion in Europe at the period when Tahiti adopted foreign garments should have been one so suitable.”
“We may be thankful that Prince Alfred’s strong commendation of the graceful sacque has caused it to triumph over all other varieties of changeful and unbecoming fashion which for a while found favour here.”—Cruise in a French Man-of-war, Miss Gordon Cumming, pp. 299 and 284.