People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1895 — A Skirt Dancer’s Gown. [ARTICLE]

A Skirt Dancer’s Gown.

A costume for a skirt dancer costs Yom $259 to $490. It has to be renewe 1 ’requently. for yards of thin lace and lengths of gauzy silk' are not calcuated to withstand constant and vigor:us use. Slippers wear out rapidly, as (heir soles must be of paper and the treasure on them severe. But to offset these extravagances, jhe salary of such a nightly perform.nce is very fine. Women like Amelia Plover and Lole Fuller reap a perfect harvest of shekels by appearing thirty ninutes during the evening, and even in artistic young beginner, like Miss St. Tel, commands a salary a woman ftho has served years in another profession would be glad to earn.