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Show THERE'S MODESTY IN GOTHAM New York Manufacturers Promise an Opaque Skirt Six Feet In Circumference. Cir-cumference. New York. Hurrah for Father Knickerbocker, ad'vance courier of aodest styles for women! It can not be denied that the hobble hob-ble skirts and slit skirts and X-ray skirts worn on Broadway and Forty-second Forty-second street have been and are just a trifle er well, no question but some of them are very much so. But that's because some women will wear them. New York's sartorial sins have been many, but New York has now made amends. The first response to the cry for help from those Minnesota clubwomen clubwom-en who want the patternmakers to give them skirts that "a gentlewoman can wear" is from a New York manufacturer man-ufacturer of women's clothes. It flashed over the wires. "Cheer up!" went the message received re-ceived by Mrs. Albert R. Hall of St. Paul, leading member of the fourth district of the Federation of Women's Wom-en's club, the organization that gavu the S. O. S.. call. "Cheer up! No longer need the bush of shame mantle man-tle your brows. A skirt full two yards wide, slitless, and the reverse of diaphanous, di-aphanous, will be one of the features put forth by us this fall." Now will Chicago, which thought to win the prize for virtue by arresting a woman because she went in swimming swim-ming without a skirt will Chicago please go away back and sit down? All very well to hale individual women wom-en to jail; but these Minnesota women say there are no decent styles to be had by the women who want them, and Father Knickbocker, just to heed this plaint, is best entitled to say, "What a good boy am I!" |