HAREM SKIRTS IN PARIS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 980, 18 April 1911, Page 4

HAREM SKIRTS IN PARIS.

Two unfortunate women — dressmakers’ models—who had ventured out in trouser skirts, which were not nearly as hideous as any of those I have seen on show (says the Paris correspondent of the Express), were mobbed by an enormous crowd on the morning of February 16th on the Place de 1’ Opera. The crowd formed a circle round them, hooted, sang them songs, and generally behaved as though carnival had begun. The two girls tried to escape down the stairs of the underground railway, but the crowd prevented them. The windows of the balconies all round the Palace de I’Opera were filled with people, the traffic was stopped, and people on the tops of omnibuses and on the boxes of cabs and carriages stared as though a queen were going to the opera with her suite. At last a squad of bicycle policemen charged the crowd, and rescued the two unhappy women in the trouser skirts. But even then tney did not get away. The traffic made it quite impossible to find an empty cab for them, and eventually the police put the two women inside an open doorway of a house in a side street, and ordered the door to be closed. The two women in trouser skirts did not escape until late in the afternoon, for the crowd waited for them outside the house where they had taken refuge. They are not likely to repeat their experiment.