Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — BELIEVE IN SHORT SKIRTS. [ARTICLE]

BELIEVE IN SHORT SKIRTS.

Woman Suffrage Agitators Discuss the Proposed Reform.

Missouri and Kansas woman suffrage agitators came together at Kansas City, Mo., to advocate the short-skirt reform. Many of the members came with dresses three or four inches above the ground, to see how the thing really looked, and those who had objected io the reform came into line when they saw that every inch taken from the bottom of a skirt took ten years from the woman’s age. Mrs. J. C. Merine, author of the short-skirt idea and Wife of the well-known portrait painter, made a little speech in which she deplored the fact that her shorter dresses were not completed in time for the meeting. Another woman stepped to the front and showed how nicely her dress hung when shortened and how only a few additional inches of feet were exhibited to the public. One exhibitor of the mode was accused of being a traitor because the back of her dress hung too low, but on discovering the fast she naively remarked that a hook was out of place and calmly proceeded to adjust it. No one seemed to want the resolution amended to permit of lower or higher dresses.