These, it must be confessed, look far less attractive in the latest Paris fashion, unless white as the whites themselves: on the other hand, few white girls could look well in douillette and mouchoir,-not merely because of color contrast, but because they have not that amplitude of limb and particular Cambering of the torso peculiar to the half-breed race, with its large bulk and stature.
"Two Years in the French West Indies"
Lafcadio Hearn