The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-06-18
Turkish Dress Movement.

1hcse is new fashion OF dress among
the ladies which appears to be gaining
favor daily with the fair, and as we are
anxious to publish all matters of interest
TO them, we clip from our exchange the
latest paragraphs thereto. We do not
know whether any of our ladies have yet
caught the infection so rapidly spreading.
but judging from the following article
which we clip from the Louisville Jour
nal, we think it is not far distant:
Several ladies Of this city. who are YER
y warm in favor of the movement, have
spoken to us and begged us to come out
In our paper in favor of It. We assure
them that we are very favorbly inclined
TO the qualification of their wishes. but
our mind is not fully made up on the
subject. We are open to conviction and
ready to go into the cause with zeal when
convinced We do not exactly know
how the ladies would appear in the pro-
posed short dresses. We have only
vauge idea in the matter. Now, if some
of the most finely formed of them will put
on the dresses they so much crave and in
wife us to private exhibition, we have
no doubt that we would arrive at con-
clusion as TO our duties in the matter as
a public editor. If we cannot decide
from one exhibitin two or three will fix
the matter to certainty
OF course the ladies who are so enthu-
siastic in favor of the new order of things
cannot refuse so reasonable a request as
that made by the Journal.
The Cincinnati Nomparriel saws that
several ladies' of the first respectabiity
In that city have sent to Mrs. Bloomer
for patterns Of the style of dresses, and
that. as soon as they are received, and
the garments can be made. they will.
from day TO day. parade the streets in
company, Tin order to keep one another
in countenance, we suppose.) by which
they expect to put to flight the last rem
nant Of modesty or shame in those WHO
at first refuse 10 don the new attire.
We have already published a para
graph given an account Of the entrance
of the wife and daughter of the peot
Burleigh into the abolition convention
Of Syracuse, New York, all attired In
the shore dresses and Turkish trowsers.
The New York Herald says that seve-
raj ladies were seen promenading Broad
way IN the improved style of dress.
We find the following in the Boston
Traveller:
A New York house has recently trans
mltted an order to Paris for an invoice of
dress goods. with deep border on the
side. These goods are intended for la
dies short dresses, and the width of the
cloth will comprise the length of the skirt.
A writer in the Philadelphia Ledger is
quite proselyte TO .he new fashion, and
abuses the costume hitherto in vogue be-
cause, for sooth, it came from Europe.
On this, the Cincinnati Enquirer very
sedately remarks:
History, corroberated by few instan-
ces of sight SCENIC, IL our own time.
makes ii certain that the costome which
was natire TO this country. found on the
landing of De Soto in the South ana the
Pilgrims, some time after, in the North,
was anything but "long trains"-it was
shorter and more simple even than Mrs
Boomers. Some of these "ndtiuc" fash
ions are still in vogue; in fact. out on
the Colorado, the Gila, and some of the
Rocky Mountains. they are all the mode
with the Upper Tens"
The Boston Times man has seen spec
linen OF the lew costome, and in his de-
scription he speaks very slightingly, He
says:
hbout two O'Clock, yesterday afternoon
al the carmen. porterdom, mankind pre-
sent, and others, in Federal street at that
hour was amused. shocked and ashamed,
or otherwise affected, at seeing a strap
ping young lady of some seventeen sum-
mers moving under double reefed canvass.
She might have felt the singnlarity of her
position but she certainly looked as if
she didn't.
The editor Of the Springfield Mass
Republican figures for the "reform in la
dies dresses" as he calls it, Hear him:
We plant ourselves On this reforW.-
Sink or Swim. live or die, smiles or no
smiles, boomsticks or parasols. fly. point
or punch, as they may. we give our hand
and heart to the reform. Short dresses
or no pin-money;' let this be he rally
ing cry of Denediction. Let Bachelor
dom take up the cry and shout ''Short
dresses or no husbands. Stand firm,
brothers. and a glorious victory will be
ours!
The New York Tribune, which is en-
gagged in every kind of reform, of course
has something TO say about this. In re-
ply to correspondent who asked for a
particular description Of the new dress,
the Tribune says:
We have never seen one of the dresses
allnded tn We understand that If con-