Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1911 — EMPIRE HOBBLE IS NEWEST [ARTICLE]

EMPIRE HOBBLE IS NEWEST

New York Man Milliner Brings News From Europe—'‘Rat” and “Puff" Are Doomed.

New York. —The "rat” Is doomed. It has gone. So has the puff. The empire gown is back, but It is an empire with a hobble. These tidings come from a Fifth avenue milliner who arrives from the other side at about this time every year with observations on women’s fashions culled from all the high places which he has hit on a winter’s trip to Europe. In newspaper language, the milliner "covered" Monte Carlo a few weeks ago, and there he got this story. “There was recently opened a new section of the gambling establishment at Monte Carlo,” said Mr. Kursman to marine reporters who met hint at the gang plank of La Provence. "It is called ‘le Circle Privee.’ Admission is limited to the most aristocratlo families of Europe and a few Americans.

"All the Riviera notables were there and it was an excellent opportunity to study the ideas of dress which the leaders of European society have adopted. The gowns were universally of empire pattern. One and all might well have been modeled on the gown of Mme. Recamier in the famous paintings in the Louvre. “The waist is high, which means that an entirely new style of corset must be worn. The skirt is tight, still suggesting the hobble skirt in its later forms. The color was almost unanimously and monotonously empire green, or, if you like, ‘vert empire.’ The whole assembly was like a picture out of old Versailles. O, 1 forgot; fhere are no trains and the skirts are short.”