Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1895 — One of Fashion’s Tyrannies. [ARTICLE]

One of Fashion’s Tyrannies.

One of the tyrannies of fashion, from which there is a prospect of speedy relief, is the heavy interlined widely distended skirt. The weight of this abomination varies according to the quality and quantity of haircloth necessary to line it; but four hands are hardly enough to manipulate the folds in such a way as to keep the skirt out of the dust, and when a woman tries to accomplish the task with two her gown is soon forgotten in her cramped fingers and she gives it up in despair. How anything so totally unfit to be worn in the street ever became a fashion is a mystery to everyone except those who manufacture the haircloth, and they must have reaped a harvest of riches. But physicians have denounced the heavy linings as injurious to health, and this, with the good sense of long suffering and heroic women who have patiently tried to endure the burden for fashion's sake, has brought about a decided reaction against them, and the heavy skirt must go.