"C'est distingue," says Madame La Mode, <br />'Tis a fabric of subtle distinction. <br />For street wear it is superb. <br />The chic of the Rue de la Paix-- <br />The style of Fifth Avenue-- <br />The character of Regent Street-- <br />All are expressed in this new fabric creation. <br />Leather-like, but feather-light-- <br />It drapes and folds and distends to perfection. <br />And it may be had in dull or glazed, <br />Plain or grained, basket weave or moiréd surfaces! <br /> <br />--Advertisement of Pontine, in Vanity Fair. <br /> <br /> <br />"C'est distingue," says Madame La Mode. <br />Subtly distinctive as a fabric fair; <br />Nor Keats nor Shelley in his loftiest ode <br />Could thrum the line to tell how it will wear. <br /> <br /> <br />The flair, the chic, that is Rue de la Paix, <br />The style that is Fifth Avenue, New York. <br />The character of Regent Street in May-- <br />As leather strong, yet light as any cork. <br />All these for her in this fair fabric clad. <br />(Light of my life, O thou my Genevieve!) <br />In surface dull or glazed it may be had-- <br />In plain or grained, moiréd or basket weave.<br /><br />Franklin P. Adams<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-the-advertising-man-had-been-praed-or-locker/
