PIN-BACKS IN ENGLAND.

Dunstan Times, Issue 759, 3 November 1876, Page 3

PIN-BACKS IN ENGLAND.

A writer in the London Sporting Gazette says : Never have I seen the hideousness and 'absurdity of the present fashion of tight costumes to greater advantage than at Lord’s cricket ground. Many ladies were rash enough to recline on the green sward, and their frantic efforts to rise from their recumbent position were a source of great amusement to the bystanders The spectacle appeared to afford as much fun as a sack race, to which indeed, it bore some resemblance. A certain Duchess, I am told, behaved with the greatest self possession under these somewhat humiliating circumstances. Finding she could not rise in the ordinary way, she flung herself on all fours, and by throwing her weight alternately to right and left finally succeeded in gaining her perpendicular. These costumes are the joke of the season Crowds of gamins gather round the carriages in Regent street in order to watch the swathed and swaddled mummies of fashion struggle to mount their carriage step ; and latelv I was the witness of a very funny scene in Trafalgar. A lady thus bandaged made no less than six ineffectual "attempts to get into a ’bus. The passengers grew absolutely apoplectic with suppressed lahghter, and even the gillant conductor, who was doing his best to help beauty in distress, could hardly strangle his cacehinatory inclination. I am sure that the street boys, at any rate, will be disconsolate when this amusing freak of fashion dies out.