Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1911 — STRIFE OVER HOBBLE SKIRT [ARTICLE]

STRIFE OVER HOBBLE SKIRT

Connecticut Girls Who Wear Garment Give Dance and Bcore Against Matrons. South Norwalk, Conn.—The hobble skirt is putting up an awful fight for favor in this town. On tbe one side all the matrons are arrayed against It, while all the misses are for It The latter gave a hobble skirt dance tbe other evening in Red Men’a haO, one of the essentials to participation being the wearing of one of the toplike sldrta. As tbe function was a decided success, the present indications are the misses will win out in the strife with the matrons over the acceptance of the fad.