FREAKS OF FASHION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 240, 16 February 1911, Page 5

FREAKS OF FASHION

WOMEX MOBBED L\ PARLS. By Cable—Presa Association—Copyright. Paris, February 14. Two women appeared on the boulevards in the so-called harem skirt, including Turkish trousers. The crowd forced them to take refuge in a cloakroom, whence the police rescued them. PETTICOATS PASSING. ORIENTAL-TURKISH TROUSERS. New \ork, December 25. No more radical change in the dress of women has even been heard of than that cabled from Paris to-day declaring that one of the biggest houses has declared that petticoats will go to the attic and that the smartly dressed woman of the moment will wear a modified Oriental Turkish trouser costume. The short-lived hobble skirt, in other words, lasted just long enough to give the dressmakers and moulders of women's fashions time to invent a garment a little more outre and extraordinary. "When Mary Garden, the singer, arrived here a few weeks ago she had in her wardrobe one of these new Turkish trouser gowns. She declared at the time that it was not made specially for her, but was the mode. The reporters lauglicd and would not believe the merry Mary. "But Doucet will bring this trouser dress out and every smart woman will be wearing it in Paris before the month s out," Miss Garden said: And the prima donna was right, even if she was radical, for the. cable .from Paris .says that the loose-fitting pantaloon skirts are the very latest, and all women who would be in the mode must wear them. Tt will surely simplify the suffragette question, for now woman will get the trousers before she gets the ballot, and it will probably settle her status as a citizen more quickly than amendments .ti the Constitution. "The petticoat brigade" can no longer be used as an opprobrious epithet. Some are wondering if "Turkish Delimits" and "Pall Malls" will go with this innovation in woman's auire, and if she will have side pockets.