Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1881 — A “Peculiar” Costume. [ARTICLE]

A “Peculiar” Costume.

A New York correspondent says ;For real wildness in dress' bne must go to the music gardens. One of the largest of these was raided by the police last Sunday night, ostensibly for a fracture of the Sunday law, but in feet because it r had lately become a rendezvous of impropriety. A ‘few hot evenings ago a girl appeared there in a wonderful dress—not wonderful in itself.as it was merely white gauze of a single thickness, but for what it revealed. The wretch had arrayed herself in the most elaborate of underclothes. There was a brand-new corset, faced with a satin cord. Above this, extended half way to her throat, the top of a daintily-em-broidered chemise, with ruffling a little way .down her arms. A quilted white satin peticoat was worn under her corset, mark you, instead of over it. Over these things was the single thickness of the gauze dress, so that the whole of the perfectly-shaped corset was in clear view, as well as the other fijungs, It was a bewitching revelation tothe young chaps who hung about the garden, but the manager wouldn’t have it, and the girl was compelled to keep her shawl ou.