Show Crinoline Dressmakers are not omnipotent t Even as a libertyloving people living in a monarchy when their grievances pass endurance arise and make their power felt so the women of Paris usually moelc In the hands of Worth and Pa quin have refused to take their latest orders They will not go back to crinoline crino-line I Their dressmakers not possessing genius to give the modern woman iai I ment suited to her character and life tried their dull old game of exhuming a fashion after a certain Interval of death and for perhaps the first time in history they realized the limits of their swrty Womans advancement is genuine gen-uine She has not only loll behind the feeble and artificial ideas of modesty which crinoline expressed but she has taken up many new activities with winch il is I inconsistent Her intelligence intelli-gence her Independence her equality her need of free motion for the pleasures pleas-ures ant business of her life all make a bulwark too strong for the traditional stupidity of the modiste I one is skeptical skep-tical about the reality of progress lot I him reflect upon the Impossibility of crinoline today or probably even bustles while time sacred corset gradually loses in rigidity Oh fair undress best dress it chocks no I Vtiill But every Mowing limb In pleasure drowns Ami heightens case with grace Our women may never go in raiment so fal toward beauty as the Greeks but they have made rapid strides of late toward to-ward the simplicity which frees and expresses ex-presses the actual human tOm This is a subject which is sometimes taken frivolously friv-olously as In Lady Mary Wortley Mon tagues famous lines EG plain in dress and notion In your diet In short my clear hint me and be quiet We are inclined however to Lake It seriously and to rejoice with t earnestness earnest-ness In this latest victory in France Colliers Weekly |