THE MYSTERIES OF THE FEMALE TOILETTE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 303, 1 September 1875, Page 2

THE MYSTERIES OF THE FEMALE TOILETTE.

The latest novelty in woman’s attire does not sound comfortable. She has, it seems, adopted a garment in which it is almost impossible to walk or sit down, or to enter a carriage, and which can only be worn by throwing the body into the most powerful contortions, according to the instructions specially given by the dressmakers who manufacture it. The Paris correspondent of the Queen gives the following account of this new article of dress : “Demi-trnins,” says the correspondent, “are inconvenient for the street, and even for getting into a carriage, and they go so tied back and banded with elastic that walking, and, above all, sitting down, are not the easy careless movements of yore. Some dressmakers give instructions as to the management of these demi-trains. The best means of gathering up the train is to turn it to the right, bending slightly backward, and to take hold of the dress as low down as possible with the right hand. When you straighten and stand upright again, the skirt will be slightly lifted, and thus become no longer than a short costume. When you wish to let the skirt trail again you must throw it back with a sweep of the right hand. This will be found a much more graceful way of preserving the train from contact with the street than by lifting it on each side with both hands. Man dressed in a coat or pair of trousers involving so much trouble and agony would hardly feel up to performing those duties which woman kindly proposes to take on her own hands! She is, however, very strongminded, and delights in a life of active occupation.— Pall Mall Gazette.