Even at the first glance it was evident that women were in a great majority.
The ladies in the company of these gentlemen displayed in dress, bearing and manner alike, less emphasis and more intricacy.

Some affected a classical simplicity of robing and subtlety of fold, after the fashion of the First French Empire, and flashed conquering arms and shoulders as Graham passed.

Others had closely-fitting dresses without seam or belt at the waist, sometimes with long folds falling from the shoulders.

The delightful confidences of evening dress had not been diminished by the passage of two centuries.
Everyone's movements seemed graceful.

Graham remarked to Lincoln that he saw men as Raphael's cartoons walking, and Lincoln told him that the attainment of an appropriate set of gestures was part of every rich person's education.