Show A origin for th stays will ba banished london arih are stays a necessity french peasant women hardly ever wear stays and what nice figures they lavet the peasant girla wear them at village and religious groces but for fashions sake only the corset of the aff aas woman is merely a bodice not stays A parisian elegante ele ginte goes to s world of and no small expense to have bhays which will not violently interfere with natural outlines mothers as careful care fil about the stays of their daughters when they are full grown girls a they are of their own when they can at all aired it they take them to the best the java dancing girls at the exhibition have put the public out of conceit with corsets even made as they are here after seeing their lithe figures and easy the female form cor and bustled with abruptly swelling hips and bosom and gathered high at the shoulders is an eyesore the chief garment is a short armed and short legged combination of the gingerbread or yellow bronza tinge of the girla laces t solutions of continuity at the neck and upper arm are concealed with bracelets and necklaces diglia with enamel and precious stones the garment is a skin fit above the hips it is the sole vesture the rest of the dress is a drapery of some rich eastern cloth many colored but reposeful to the eye that of each girl diners from the other the drapery of one was pinned in front across the hips and fringed all round the begs from the calves down are seen warriors are BO draped but were not so statuesque sandals arc fastened on ing strings above which are danklets anklets an klets the drapery of each of the others is fastened across at the left hip with a strong and finely jeweled brooch you see in profile on the earne side the leg from the knee down superadded Super added to the assyrian like piece of drapery but not rising higher on the body are long flaps of silk theeo are held up in gently twirled about by the wearer and follow her gyrations as she dancea the acme uee is fiade of the green lap pets already boken of the dances are the very poetry of motion and of a hieratic character there should be an idol borne across thee tage and the girls should dance round it the music ia monotonous no but the gestures are varied graceful seductive I 1 dont know what of religious BO that often does not pra elude a vein to return to the stays that vesture is a remnant of feminine servitude if I 1 bad to lecture about its origin I 1 should say that roman ladies in the decadence kept loose outlines in form with a corset to which aa we see in the bust of clytie a fancil ul resemblance to a flower was given but the parent of the whalebone armor of our grandmothers was the strong leather slay covering the whole trunk and reaching up to the neck which we find in the cluny museum and which were worn in the good old times when the thai elain went abroad and hunted game or wild beasts while the chaplain kept company with the lady or she brewed simples with the leech I 1 dare say that the eye through custom jot to see beauty in the imprisoned waists and the vulgar to associate them with quality and so to wish to copy them when the money lenders who had mortgages on the estates of crusading lords foreclosed be as that their wives not only got into the castles of the ladies but into their corselets cor as well As time went on the corselet was made the ladies of italy where the climate ia hot setting the fashion to show the chest with a load of petticoats stays are indispensable as they prevent the belt strings of those garments from cutting into the flech but why not wear in winter a few light in point of weight and yet warm garments such aa a flannel dread under a pelisse lined with quilted down A load of skirts spoils the gait why is the creole bady so much more graceful than the dutch because she when at home limits heiselt herselt when dressing to a chemise and a light cooee whenever the class of women who are a fortune to the mantua maker have to walk often and fast instead of going in carriages her form is insensibly set in by the fashions the part grand ladies took in parliamentary politics when the assembly was at versailles obliged them to race from the railway station to the pal ace and back again those who were not quick of foot got the bad places or no places so trailing skirts for street wear went out the exhibition has visibly changed the I 1 modes duchesses aal copper queens bad to stand everybody like alae in ane interminable queues at the entrance to the grounds of the iehl tower the trocadero concert rooms railway station and many other places 80 every vestige of the bustle has disappeared with skirt tr illings and most other trimming high heels were pared down and iq short impediments were got rid 0 in all directions |