Judge — February 27, 1886 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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ILLUSTRATED AD. se ee + Wanted —A man of experience with horses.” THE ABSURDITIES OF FASHION. OLD TIMES AND NEW-—THE TYRANNY OF THE UNBECOMING™ BLOWN UP AND PINCHED IN Despite the laugh of the scorner, itis that liberty has been the proud boast of modern fashion. In a dim past which of conscience are told that all fema F mplexion, weight, or previous condition of taste, were rammed into the sume sorts of gowns and bonnets; like love and rel fashion was no respecter of persons, a we erved than zation. and matter whether the victim were a lean spinster or a fat do} her clavicle and som no ager, she in the first case must bare nd scapula to the cold scorn of an unsympathetic world—though it must be admitted the world probably failed to get even on its own suffer and in the second the dowager must extend her too ample flesh by ballooning her sleeves out fora half either side. ings: ard on In our boasted emancipation from the tyran- ny of the unbecoming this same matter of has been the strong hold of ancient they always have been but they ys insisted doctrine of have been mutton-legs, upon. the effe conformity blown up and we have be we have expanded and like children playing word comes that are to be not only such trifle arms, our own. g That means a terrible decline in cotton batting; for when loose and puffed sleeves and £ the average American slender arms to advant she'll denude those arms of enough wadding to set up a second General Jackson for a second battle of New Orleans. Wise merchants will begin to un- load that stock at once. ed together, “Simon says.” Now you-please, sleeves wing sleeves a woman to turn her A few fashionable women and popular ac tresses combined for reasons obvious in each case to bring in the tight sleeves. Notable allowed to call | our cons, but even our | n permit | seasons before they slight women in this coun: the fat ones call them—it is odd rally fashion favors flesh. Probably itis for th reason that T have before | mentioned as giving brunettes the inside track ; it is because it suits the French women who rule “alm, as fa such how aun and who are neralls That is why Worth in his beloved erinoline. aders here trouble, but French women are too short and broad to d thing of the sort. No wonder Worth pines for the lost support of the E ugenie, who in her perfectly poised beauty could afford to promul rite any style she liked; and EF: are better united in ¢ way b: severities of the detested tailor, re brown. would give him n ire press Ei glish we nen The hoop movement is thore howe hly on foot, and they all must finally ree it asure. It is being administered that is, the half v | in some mi first in broken doses broken, they only g they are already impe iz hoops are round, Behind ut in front they are'still undeveloped rse, evolution Inthe latest imported necessiry effect is achieved by hering the back breadths of the skirts upon whale bones or steel wires, not upon one or two only as has been done before, but upon a f the skirt, so that vat least woman again it ideal of the sex immortal village and the home-1 toan inverted ys moves forward | costumes the alv presents that ized in the Duteht | paper doll hour-glass and easiest likene The great difficulty in this compromise be- tween hoops and no hoops is the difficulty of securing any casing for said steels or whi bones sufficiently strong to insure th control. At unexpected moments their ends prod through t whereupon, with liberty, they start on prodding; they rounding draperies, into the tenderness of in offensive moles, ch on furniture, brie-a from its novel elabo ly inconvenient rest- often rin one brief outing of this sort, before being recaptured, will ac: complish as much dis turbance of the peace as bogus mad ladies of the compromise here, , means but de- J nnot always suffer the slings and ar rows of outrageous half hoops; you must, by com d them, paradox- s that mry sound; that is, complete the hoop | and end the slings and ar Better to fly to the ills of skirts tilting up in front and occasionally tripping their wearer than to bear the destructive and © covering intoxicated as it were, a career ¢ sweep rows, LaxpLapy— > was Fanny Davenport, who wore | ing how great the | the hoopless | i proper alf meas- hese possible prospective tiltings up. of skirts anything to do with the extravagance of the latest things in stockings? I choose my word when I say extravagance, extray: are litt Mr. Carlyle’s maid | telore the Raphael Madonna, one exclaims in looking at them, “How expens The fondness of feminine kind for the serpent asan ornamented figure is not so odd considering to whom they are indebted for their first notions of adorn ment; but it is not so easy to see why they should wish to their feet and ankles not to go too far in our investigations—with i c nd lizards and lobstei as snakes, Yet such hose doand will doubtless, the an alleged rat compromising accidents incident to ures, Hay CARROLL CHRISTIE. SHE COULDN'T JUDGE. They tell of a meeting betwe and Whit thereupon ensued. “Huh!” said Mr. J * Seat! said Mr. Reid. said the apple-woman who wit nessed the collision, “if thim’s what you call conservators of public opinion [feel as if 1 was a good deal conserved myself.” 1 George Jones jaw Reid and the conversation that DID IT ONLY ONCE. Tramp (after thinking a whi I refused a * Yes, boss, ell, you must have been too drunk to drink any more.” Tramp (innocently)—"T never was that You see, one of the court clerks setup th drinks for t , and when T heard his well-knowy ling me up to the bar I lit WEIGHT OF WOE. Boarpen—" I'm tired of eating cakes three times a ¢ I should think you would be. the load you do without being tired.” comicbooks.com