THE CRINOLINE.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 192, 7 April 1893, Page 6

THE CRINOLINE.

Lady Jenne in advocating the re-intro-duction of crinolines says :—“ There are the very thin lanky women without testhetic tendencies, who have looked miserably ugly, and who have been conscious of the fact, in the clinging garments of the last few years. There arothe women with sloping shoulders, who have been for many years unable to ahow to advantage what is considered a Strong point of female b auty, and which has been entirely hidden under the wide, broad sleeves we shall discard with the adoption of crinoline, for we shall not have breadth above as well as below. There are the little vermeil with short legs, to whom tuc V* tutu <-'i aklti, a lid the length whk-ll jyill coins with it, will be most welcome ami

becoming ; and there are, last and not least, the fat women, who will gladly hope to lose the sense of their large proportions in the debateable space which may be crinoline or something more substantial, but which at any rate, conceals from the public eye that increasing volume of person of which only tat women know the bitterness.’