People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1896 — The X Ray Shirt Waist. [ARTICLE]

The X Ray Shirt Waist.

Of all the devices yet invented by woman for the ensnaring and destruction of a man’s soul the X my shirt waist is the most diabolically efficacious. I call them X ray shirt waists because they have somewhat the effect of the Roentgen photographs, in that they disclose most bounteously the feminine framework through a warp and woof transparent. They are the most solicitous things. The sleeves are but substantial lures for the eye to the ivory arm. Through these sleeves one can note even a vaccination mark so plainly as to feel a very distinct hatred for the leaving it there as a sign manual of scientific privilege. You can note the dimples and the little elevations that by their particular deviations emphasize the general roundness of the arm. Fastened closely around the Wrist with a little band, the expansion of the ballooning sleeve is imparted to the wri6t and makes the effect of its plumpness more insistent.—St. Louis Mirror.