Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-02-27
reform in ladies presses.

Reform in Ladies presses.
The Baltimore Sun makes the follow
ing sensible remarks in regard to certain
changes in ladies dresses
A cotemporary ia another city sneering-
iy cally those ladies fast" who wear
long boots Id winter. But no fashion is
more sensible. and we are glad 10 hear
that during the late sloppy weather in
New York nearly every lady who was out
walking wore the water proof long boots.
We say no fashion is more sensible, be-
cause wet feet are fertile source of con-
sumption, and because it is almost impos-
sible for women to keep their feet dry in.
wet weather without, long bootsS The
thin, paper-seled shoegof course. will not
ldolit. The ,eorkssoled CATER. though il
saves the bottom of the foot, fails to pros,
tect the ankle from the Tapping of the
wet skirt, and as no female can walk the
streets when they are muddy without
getting wet skirts, it follows that even
the waterproof gaiter falls short of the
Requirements of the case. d Nothing. in
fact, but long boot. keeping the limb as
well as the foot dry, is perfectly etfectual.
What gentleman would dareAthe slop and
mire of q thaw, or even the penetrating
dampness of deep snow, in low shoes
or summer CATERS And is woman more
robust than man Certainly, if ever q
fashion deserves to be encouraged it is
this. And pretty made boot, we say,
i as man, is quite stylish finish TO a
winter walking dress, if the ladies did but
know it. "a, @
We hear good deal in private circles
as we'll as newspapers, about what is call
ed the "absurdity of ladies' fashions!''-
But let the ladies start really sensible
fashion, and 10 some Ounce of dandy
cries out, with sneer and a shrug, "fast.
very fast" A gentleman from another
city tells us that, more than ten years
ago, he persuaded his wife to have a pair
oil long boots made; and as no ladies'
shoemaker at that time manufactured
such articles, he had great difficulty in
getting what he wished. The very first
day his wife wore the boots she happen
ed TO pass a celebrated medical college
at the hour when the classes were being
dismissed. and as the walking was bad.
she raised her skirts slightly at the cross.
ing, but sufficiently to show that she had
: on long boots. Will it be believed that
the students, whose medical knowledge
ought to have taught them to encourage
rather than boot at such fashion, imme.
diately set up shout of dersion Yet
such conduct on the part of half fedged
, physicians was hardly worse ten years
ago than to call the wearing Of long boots
now Cast" Ladies are peculiarly sus-
> ceptible TO ridicu!e on such points nc
we'll bred woman likes to make herself
notorious, and the feeling is proper one.
u But ought our sex TO laugh in such cases?
Who but Ounce or a simpleton would
call such fashion I" fast p
Another fashion which many try 10
laugh down is TIE wearing Of hoops. We
y do not recommend carrying this mode to
g extravagant excess; but certainly it is
vastly more healthful than accommodating
half ton Of skirts about the body as was
the custom only a year or two ago. Any
: frank physician will confess that princi.
F. pal cause Of disease among females was
= this enormous weight depending from the
waist. Let man go without braces for
few years. and his digestive organs are
> certain TO become impaired because of the
2 is forced TO wear his pantaloons. Yet
"SNdSH " a years WulGu
, was far more injurious to them, and now
that they have started better one, silly
boys or silly men endeaver to laugh il
down. AS one Of our best medical Jour-
nails has said. "hoops. hygienically con,
sidered, are reform in dress" II is me-
cessary, indeed, 10 wear large quantity
: OF under clothing in winter when hoops
are worn; for otherwise the wearer is lia>
: BILE to take cold, but with this precaution,
hoops are blessing second only to what
the abolition Of tight lacing was.
1t is quite time that common sense
made itself heard on subjects like this
On no question does so much prejudice
exist, or is such silly stuff written and
spoken. as on those relating to female at
tire. Generally, as we all know, ladies'
fashions are absurd enough. There is
the more need. therefore. when sensi-
BILE fashion is introduced to protect it from
the sneers of fools.
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