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Show Distressingly Distorted. The more approved girls of New York are going rapidly toward distortion, and away from those fundamental principles of art which the recent mania for culture ought to have instilled in their minds. The bustle is bound to develop. It is already al-ready present, palpably, and every day enlarges it. No longer do the female promenaders remind us of draped goddesses god-desses quite superior to their envelopes, and in outlines corresponding to human beings. They are humped rearward distressingly dis-tressingly by means of bustles, and already al-ready a sympathetic distention of skirts implies a return to the hoops of twenty years ago. It is all a great pity. There is no help for it, however, and we can only possess our souls in patient waiting for a cycle of fashion to once more bring round a reign, of symmetry. New York Cor. Inter Ocean. |