Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1912 — Fashion Note. [ARTICLE]

Fashion Note.

Lady Duff Gordon, at a tea at the Ritz-Carlton, praised the pannier skirt "Everybody likes It, it is so graceful,” she said, smiling. “Everybody likes it except crusty old fallows.” She turned to a crusty old fellow upon a Louis Seize chair beside her and continued: “I know a woman whose husband growled at her when she tried on a new pannier gown for him: '“! don’t see why you wear those ridiculous big—panniera You haven’t got the hips to fill them.’ “The woman blushed and bit her lip. Then she said quietly: “ ‘But do you fill your silk hat George?’ ”