| Show s some sonic fashions in gowns varying styles that have found favor with my lady artistic and inartistic ways in which to lift the skirt r tl e tw 0 really good styles cf holding up the skir shir at present one is to giamp the folds with he right hand st pt the bad I 1 t a litolf to the left and ther to pull tl ei en i ro ind idd tc the right I 1 ip and raise them a atle ao that the edge of the skirt clears clear the ground all igind the other way which has th anan ta tase e of cot not g the figini quil rim EO so much is to told fold a little h p eat in the kirt hirt at the left 1 41 aid wid 4 46 t F the modern way lay it up tie belt drawing it a I 1 we to A ard the back by h means it Is quite raised fro 1 the ground at the left side and back and only needs to be held i p a b t at the right this 1 ii by tai far the easier way vay for the arm also woman as a necessary adjunct to each quiel ly changing fashion in skirts has had to discover for her self and learn to practice the smartest or most convenient way of I 1 beeping her garment from contact with the ground once in a while ahe bhe has reb rebelled olIed out r lo 10 4 I 1 1 4 an E century idea right and has dragged velvet and silk n and lace through dust and mire with nith a right royal disregard for tle consequences it is difficult to tell from the ilium illum grated manuscripts which with the effigies were almost the only source of li ii formation as to early costume whether up to 1087 the skirts were raised from the at all or not but at that date the rage tor for length ening every part of the dress passed all bounds with both men and women ahe wom ns sleeves and veils were so long that they had to be tied in loots klots and the s sl arts of the robes lay in great rolls on the ground the cynical illuminator made a ape p c ture of the devil in female garments with the skirts as well Y ell as the sleeves trotted up the authors of the roman de la rose describe the dress of the late tl thirteenth and early fourteenth cen and are particularly severe on the length d 0 the train of the N thrifty wives of merchants tunic or advising the la dies it if their legs are not handsome or their feet small to wear long robes ti ailing on the pavement but it if they have pretty feet to raise the robe as it for air and convenience that all who pass may see and admire them the exterior garment was sometimes oes so long as to be gathered up and car ned ried over oner the arm and a tract waa was written by a divine at that time en titled contra caldab Domi narum A norman some hundred bears ears later made a great many unkind remarks about the prevailing bashi ns for the benefit of his daughters he was particularly harsh on the custom of putting fur on the tho bottom of their sl arts which fell about the r heels and are daubed with the mire but these satirical effusions seem to have had their usual effect when flung at lovely woman she continued to trail her long robes wherever she willed and to 1001 charming in them until fashion decreed that there should be no more trains to drag which ap pears to have been in the early part of the sixteenth century fhe wheel far dingle introduced with queen eliza beth ai d tb the e hoop of N various arlous sizes and shapes in tl e e e century made hold bold ng rig p tl e sl arts unnecessary or in possible in charles 11 II s t n e the court ladles allo ned the r vo volu lumino raino is skirts to drag except in tl e dance when they N ere frankly laisee above the garter the merchants merc merel lants ant s tidy and thrifty wives N ives 0 the satie same period pinned or gathered up their gowns from the muddy streets with the pleasant effect ot of slowing sl owing their lace petticoats and nd smart shoes and stockings in the e century hoopskirt dys the flowered skirts were some t mes drawn up all around through the pocket holes and with a red capuchin above and a gay petticoat and pair of slim feet in black buckled shoes be low made a very bewitching picture 41 ay in charles it 11 s court in the latter part of the eighteenth century fashions rushed from yard long waists and petticoats to t very high waists and very long slim skirts according to the times in 1796 the measurement of a petticoat for a middling sized woman was 5 feet and 1 inch and it also bays that among prudent fathers the favorite toast was the present fashion of our wives and daughters viz no waste wastel these there clinging sl ir arte lef left very little of the th ar e the D recto re style form to the imagination but 5 ut as if that little were too much the fashion in holding them up was to draw them as tightly as possible around the figure ard laise raise them as high as the knee in the nineteenth century there was an interesting procession of clinging sl arts short skirts with small hoops hoops which brought back the good old mediaeval fashion ot of raising the skirts a bit in front while they swept the ground at the back those hoops bustles with long trains which nobody made the leas tir pretense etense at raising bustles with short skirts slim trained flirts sl arts which were sometimes raised and sometimes sometime not skirts so volum arous that chev had kad to be carried cai in both hands and tight sl si arts which I 1 were raised in a most ungainly fash ion at the back new york sun |
