New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-20
THE WORLD OF CRINOLINE.
Mythology OF TIE TERN.

ETYMoLoGY OF THE TERN.
Crinoline though a term only properly applied to
cloth made of crin-hair-and lin-thread, and hence
to expansive skirts made of that MATERIAL is now by
common usage the name given to oil expansive skirts
worn by women and among all classes the desired de-
gree of expansveness is now obtained by hoops, and
no matter how much they are rallied against, we think
that all who read the facts and figures of the business
of making hoped skirts will be ready to acknowledge
that an attempt to drive them out with gray
goossquill, or a steelpen, however sharp its neb,
would be akin to an attempt to drive the flies in
August out of butchers shop with the same weapon.
First, then, we proclaim that there are
THOUSANDS OF MILES OF HOOPS!
What think you, you who pretend to assert that the
fashion Of wearing hoops is an ephemeral one, that
you can put down, of this one fact to begin with
There is now in operation in the City Of New-York
one mandatory of hoped skirts, that will use in the
wear 1858 over TWO THOUSAND TWO HUSDRED MILES
OF HOOPS.
If you intend to save the world from being over
whemed encrcled girt about with steel bands or If
yen intend to save all the women from being eDcased
in unapproachabe steel armor, you must Cup and at
EN- again. or it will be too late for the business
of manufacturing crnoline is expansive as the thing
manufactured
The BEGINNING OF MAKING HOPED SKIRTS.
Listen! There is a good lesson in our story OF the
energy and perseverance of American character, that
brings about great results.
Some eight or ten years ago, we remember couple
of young dry goods clerks in the great OF
Cathane street and in Canal street where theymght
have been plodding yet but for the fact that nature
never designed them for such unintcectua business
nra IS Al borp in fiya
of machinery and it was great mistake Of his parents
or guardians or whoever il that set him TO meas
uring calico. He should have been educated ma
chinst. But bred TO dry goods we found the TWO
yourg men, about half dozen years ago, IN q iittie
store Of their own, established upon what they had
saved, while their fellow clerks spending o. last
as they earned The profits and Flooding OF business
in ills store were too slow. Ii required no machinery
So they looked about for something to MANUFACTURE,
end they found suggestion in the growing den'ahd
for cinOlne. The real French article was TOO eApen
sive; ten, twenty, aud even fifty dollars tor STU
gle lair skirt was too much for woman oi 7hiai'
means and all sorts of substitutes were conri'ed-
some toerabe and some ntolerable-so ih'oietao.e
that there are now slowed away III ioits Vi 'n,'
city wagon loads of those great, unwieidy' coiu'
ed, bagwoyen cotton petiicoats, all entirely
AT inst our lnclplent heroes OF the ho'P'
fey sewing women to work corded cotton anu e,as9
cloth into wearable forms, and tlmdy eApo'eu 'heh
skirts for sale in their store, greatly 70 'he
Of offending some of then customers. Fmaiy' 'hey
ventured upon one sewing machine Then they set
loom at work weaving hair-cloth, using cotton IN
place of linen or six for warp, so as to make their
err oine cheaper than it could be imported Tbs
plan succeeded and more sewing gnis' ana other
machines and looms, were started, and they began to
sell skits by the dozen. 1t was new ana eApan"i'S
trade. Still there was want. The aftlee was 100
dear for the great mass of wearers, ana where great
expansion was desired still required too great weight
Of cloth. And 90 we come to
The FIRST sKEIEIos.
To I'll this want, the mechsnesi partner coh'I''ea
the y eleon skrbelieved to D. the n.s syHlins1''
cs,,v so,u,d ore. expanded by series of hccp' ever
made n M. city. and tia, rot six years ago. The