Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1883 — How Montreal Girls Dress. [ARTICLE]

How Montreal Girls Dress.

The New York Sim’s Montreal correspondent relates this: “I must tell you how these girls dress,” said a New York woman to her husband. “First, they start with flannel from head to foot —and such flannel! Why, it’s an eighth of an inch thick. Then they go on like other women, except that they pat on more skirts, and usually a quilted one that’s as warm as a wood fire. Then they put on a dress, and ■ iver that a chamois jacket that fits like a shoe in the mud. Then they put ribbed woolen stockings over their stockings and arctics over their shoes. They don’t care any more abont the looks of their feet than the St. Louis women do. Then they put on knit wristlets, then gloves, then a for or cloth dolman, then a fur cap, and finally a coil of worsted oomfortera When they are dressed, if they are hurled at a speed of a mile a minute from a toboggan they are unhurt. If they fall through the ice they are not wet. If the thermometer drops to fifteen below they read of it next day and wish they had known it at the time.”