Show AND FASHION the edict vis pronounced some time ago i that the bio big sleeve had bad to go we dont as a rule pay par particular t ic ular attention to feminine styles but we notice that the big sleeve still hangs on and some ionic of 01 them are worth banging onto it however that depends on the wearer the big sleeve is a curious invention it requires more cloth than a waist and gives ives to woman a general pugilistic pugilism ti c appearance pe arance that was at first rather startling the puritans forbade them and pi pissed sed a law in which reads and be it further farther enacted that hereafter no person whatsoever shall dball make a garment for vi omen aomen or any other sex with sleeves more than half an ell wide in the widest idest part and so proportionate for bigger or smaller persons persona and for present reformation of immoderate big i sleeves and some other superfluities N which i aich may emily easily be redressed without much n uch prejudice or r spoil of garments it is is ordered etc an ell in those days was a yard and a quarter and half an ell was therefore twenty two and one half inches the scotch ell was only thirty seven beven inches and the flemish ell but twenty severi seven the ell meant no doubt was the english ell of forty five inches half of of which was made the maximum width of sleeves from the wording of the statute it will be seen that thern the makers akers rather than the wearers bearers of big sleeves were threatened with the vengeance of the la law persons were not allowed to make such sleeves for women or any other sex the records of that day do not explain how many mady sexes there were in the colonies but we feel safe in saying sayid there must have been at least two the aim of the statute was to strike at the root of all the trouble big sleeves were known to be the work of des designing inin 0 dressmakers in league with abe be cloth factories there could have been but bu one ode motive which lead bicaj to the cintr introduction adue of such angelic deformities and that was to create a market for cloth it is bate to say that modern legislators will leave bim big 0 sleeve alone and only touch upon them with permission from the wearer |