DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE BLOOMER COSTUME. [Delivered without Prejudice to the Real Merits of the Question.] [From Punch.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 715, 9 June 1852, Page 4

DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE BLOOMER COSTUME. [Delivered without Prejudice to the Real Merits of the Question.] [From Punch.]

Don t a lady's dress of the present day take so many lengths to make rsp — according to the taste of the wearer ? — but, with the Bloomer costume, I should be sorry to say to what lengths the lady who wears it might feel inclined to go to." — An Indignant Milliner. "Should the Bloomer costume be adopted, petticoats will go out ; and petticoats going out, there may be an end, at last, to all petticoat government] — of which no one will be more heartily rejoiced than " — The Henpecked Husband. " 'Ere's the jolly good health of the Bloomer costume ! For I tell you what Bill, our 'bus, with all the shaking in the world, WQn't carry more than sixteen ladies, pack 'em as tight as you will ; but I find that it will take- Twenty ' Bloomers comfurtably, and allow each on 'em a Bloomer baby on the lap ! It's the dress, my boy, vot makes the difference." — The 'Bus Conductor. " Oh, dear, how delightful it will be for jumping over the stiles." — The Fast Young Lady. " I'm in favour of the new costume ; because if my wife bothers me for a new dress, I shall refer her to the tailor, and^l can make out a tailor's^ bill, and I know all his prices ; whereas, I defy any man to understand a milliner's." — The Mean Husband. " This new d.ress will take all opposition off the road — for, really, the long dresses of the ladies swept everything so clean that there was nothing left for us to clear away after them. In short, 1 look upon the Bloomer as the very best friend to the Broomer. — The Street Ordo-ly, ■ " I don't care how my gills dress, as long as they dress decently ; but I am sure — as sure as quarter-day — that they will hang on to the skirts of this new Bloomer costume — that is to say — if it has any skirts — if it is only for the sake of getting a new dress; for I never knew a girl of mine let a new dress slip, through her 'fingers when she had a chance of getting one."— The Good-natured Papa.