Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1896 — HOW SHE STOOD. [ARTICLE]

HOW SHE STOOD.

The Greek woman stood straight, which nroessitated her shoulders over her instep; this threw her hip line into opitosition. Women to-day do not have cm-reet hip lines because they throw the shoulders over the heels, making a continuous curve down the buck to the heels. A fashion-monger—it may have been that strange iiwougruity of harmony and absurdity. Worththought he would like to have some women with oppositions or Greek lines, so he Invented the much beloved but now discarded bustle, and inaptly called it the Grecian bend.