The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1851-06-25
The New Costume.

The prOpriety Ofthe ladies adopting the
new costume is being largely discussed in
the public journals. Like all great reforms
it meets, in some places, with bitter OPpOsi'
ton, and some assert that its success viii
involve resort to the FIRST principles by
which the millinary and mantua-making
bills Of our common mother Eve were gov
erned. This in our opinion is all mistake
Mrs. BloOmer, who took in her pretty head
to adopt this costume, and thereby "enlarg'
the liberty" of her sex, has immortalized hel
name, and we have no doubt that that it vii
yet become as famous as the Mary Stuar
cap, or the Elizabethan ruff.
But independent of thetbeauty and COZ
venience of This new dress, there is one 9th
er matter which should entitle it to favora
bic consideration-its importance to he0fh.-
An intelligent physician; in the Boston Jour
nal, who is competent to speak from book a
well as observation, comes out strongly il
favor of the change. His remarks are quit
judicious, and he begs those ladies, who in
tend becoming pioneers in this reform, to b.
deliberate, and not to injure what is good
and prejudice many against their cause, b.
carclessncss of dress or taste, or by going int
unnecessary extremes. He says that is de
cidedly the most convenient and healthy
''particularly if the reforms were carried |
step farther, and dress for The waist adopt
ed, in which lady could pick cherries with
out splitting a sleeve off, and play at battle
door without an expenditure of hooks ant
ewes. The material could be better adapt
ed to the season. 1t could therefore b
made cooler in summer, and warmer in win
ter, than at present. The trousers would b
the essential part of the habitual dress; tn
skirt in addition for grace and propriety.-
Comfort therefore wouldnot require chang
of the latter as is now necessary; while tn
former at little trouble, land therefore, nc
SO liable to be neglected as now, musli
might give way to merino, or this to cassime
to suit momentary demand of outdoor ex
ercise, or change in the weather. Dam
skirts hanging, as is often the case, for tn
hour, about the feet and ankles, would b
done away with; whilst the latter, clad in a
appropriate boot, would be as independan
of the weather as those of the men.
A still further and possibly more impor
tant consideration under this head, is this
Either to obtain the necessary warmth, or t
attain greater elegance of form, the skirt
now worn are greatly multiplied in number
besides being made of very heavy material
All this great weight is supported by tn
hips alone, producing two serious evils.
First, the drawing strings around tn
waist have to be very tight, to prevent tn
skirts from slipping down; and thus CON
preston is produced and continually keE
up, which must embarrass the organs With
in the exercise of their functions. But be
sides this source of trouble, the weight of tn
skirts is continually operating to force down
wards the organs within, only covered b
the partially resistant but plant walls of tn
: abdomen.
The advantage technically speaking, wit
: which this weight acts, would be readily III
derstood by any having any knowledge {
J mechanics, and when understood the fre
) quency of those distressing affections pecu
liar to the sex, is perfectly explained -affeC
tons which seem to make half our wome
prematurely aged, and entail on many a
existence to which death would be prefera
bic.
This being the case, it is no wonder, tina
there should be such a demand for abdimo
nial supporters and variously contrived trus
ses, nor for the inehiciency of such contri
yances when they have to act, not simpl
against the gravity of the organ they are in
tended to support, but against the downwar
pressure of weight SO pla ed as to act me
chanicaily to the utmost advantage"
The ladies themselves must of course de
eide this question. We believe that if tn
Turkish Costume" is adopted. their will b
more rosy checked lasses in our country
than has been since the days that our Crane
mothers saw fit to chop wood, hoe corn, d.
lWhy? Stays and corsetts would be don
away with, and Fashion thus cheated out ,
Its victims.
Ladies, what say you? Shall we hav
i the "Turkish Costume" with all its beaut
and convenience, introduced in Cadiz? W
hope SO.
Tho New Costume.
| Quite sensation was created among til
; loungers on Paint atreet, yesterday afte
: noon, about sundown, says the Portsmout
] Metropolis, while discussing the result of Il