Salt Lake Times | 1891-11-14 | Page 2 | Senseless Fashions must Go.

SENSELESS FASHIONS MUST GO. - - The memory of the middle-aged man runneth back to the hoop skirt age. The craze swept over fhe entire country, coun-try, and women vied with each other in the e:f pansivencss of their crinoline. Every city had hoop-skirt factories that did immense business. After the limit in size had been reached the skeleton took an artistic turn, and from that day until its cteatn it grew smaller ana more snapely. Then came the reaction. Skirts were made so narrow at the bottom that they actually prevented their wearers from taking an ordinary step. This style was shorter-lived than the former. It was let down by the pull-back and pannier, which dwindled into bustles and then went into nothing. The present style of dress for ladies 13 about the right thing apparently. The corset is abused to a considerable extent, ex-tent, and the head and ears are needlessly need-lessly exposed, but generally speaking, women and children are very neatly and becomingly dressed. The fact is that our women are becoming more sensible, and more practical. Possibly they are beginning to realize that faulty dressing is the cause of many of the ills that render their lives miserable. Fashions Fash-ions will change no doubt, but they will be modified to correspond with the style of the individual. This is noticeable now in any company of ladies, which means that there will be no more crazes in the mafter of fashion.