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Show HAJLEH SKIRT., . Amid all the entertaining and. at time, acrid discuss ton evoked bv the attempt to force the harem akirt Into popularity, ladies who reaard It as 1 dernier cH will learn, maybe with something of a ahock. that li waa Introduced Into J .on -don considerably mors than a year ago. The rulotts waa. howver. en unobtrue-Ively unobtrue-Ively and so carefully blddsn by gracefully draped aklrta that It acaped nntic. It fa only during the laat few week a. owing to tha conapicuoua way In which. In Hi vary lateat deaigna. the extetenn of the trousers la disclosed, that public foclin haa been excited. As a matter of fact, when the Dollar Prinoeaa opened at Dalr'e tn lsos this much dlscuaaod change In feminine attire at-tire waa paradfd on the at age. The ladle who wore the ruiott wer drsed In whit, but the deaigna wer not rson:-nised rson:-nised by the audience ae different from Gt undivided aklrta of th dav. and the innovation earaped notlc. further es -amolea of the harem skirt wr to be seen at the Gaiety theatre on Haturday, the opening night of tha new play, "Peg-fv "Peg-fv " The coettimaa wp designed In thla case, as in that of Th Dollar Prtnrese," bv M. Comelll. who ha Juat rotnrned from Parte, wher he conaulied with Mm. Zimmermen; the well known Parialan dressmaker. In whoa work rooma the new dreaaea war mad. "Th hrm akin." he aald on Rafurdav, "had been trtd. for a caprice, hv several Tarlatan ladies before it waa introduced hv Mr. Tolret. It Is really an old faahlon revived. Rome of the aciora who slaved In the time of the first Napoleon wore harem aklrta In taking tak-ing the roll of women In on of th plays of th period Thee skirt need not be ug'y or CTtnBpfcunua. Thoae which I have dealgned for 'Peggy' are intended for re-option. re-option. and the bifurcated nature of tha skirt la only apparent when the wearer wear-er la walking H,r th culotfa fella a long pan!. BMh My cut at the aide of tbe front and reaching to the anklea. The troueer ar long and flowing, and are gathered at the anki with elastic hands and cannot be dieiingiiiBhed from an ordinary or-dinary aklrt. except when the warT walka. From a hvgienle point of vlw I think thev are hCer than th petticoat, which collect th dual. "Chauga lu falii"n." h ddd. "are evolutionary Th akirt sie lighter and llgntr. or wider and wldr. hut 1t doea not paaa at one from on extreme to th other. The crinoline, for Instance, was at first quite narrow. It began with ttie empire ktrt -toa. narrow and ftowtng. Wtin the Ffui buna wr rtord to por tle mpir aklrt kat Ha flo ng ham tr and had a crinoline ahape at ths btMtnm. Teu I" h period of the jtn..rT n;lr ie rr'noliyf 'rjr-e rea-rye.) the evceeslv proportions mainly ueJ-a'ed ueJ-a'ed with that style 1tr th fourrai gnw n ca me Into favor. T he f ourra u a replaced by a akirt which had a band around It. and the band finally bacam the akirt the hobble skirt. The harem akirt which la ahown tn thia plav. whtt not getting too far away from th idea of the straight and narrow akirt. ia etill narrow without being too tight." art and- ' ard. Iondon. |