The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-04-26
THE TILTING HOOP SKIRTS.

Since the new invention of false calves
nv which shrunken shanks are given all the
plnmpness and beauty of youth, another in
vention has followed, called the ''tilting
skirt" which, ostensibly, is designed to
raise the dress of q lady as she passes over
muddy crossing, hut which some mean, cros-
ty fellow says is really designed to expose
the pretty understandings of the ladies.
The Chicago Post, of Tuesday, has the fol-
lowing, on this subject:
Too Much T1Lr.-This morning lady fit
ted up in the highest style of the dress max
,ng art, met with q melan ,holy accident
She was proceeding along Dearborn street,
her hoops fitting after the most approved
fashion. On reaching the corner of Wash
inston street she thought it advisable to dis
pIay her charms, and the skill of the maker
of false oalves to the gaze of an sdmiring
crowd of well-dressed blackguards who were
lettering near by. just she gave her Grim
cline tilt to produce the necessary eleva-
ton. q gust of wind swept around the corner
snddeniy and turned the filters" wrong side
mn. Two or three ladies who were passing
at the time ran to her assistance, surrounded
her and placed the refractory hoops 10 proper
posisiou. The lady of the Filters" looked
rather upset by the occurrence, and nobody
seemed TO pity her, even when the well-dress-
cd blackguards joined and laughed at her
misfortune. She disappeared in the nearest
millinery store to repair damages prior to at
tempting another trip.
The fashion, however. is quite the rage,
though ID provokes severe comment from the
press.
The New York Commercial Gays:
1.-The hoop skirts now worn By fashiona BILE
females are burning shame to society, and
the wearers ought to De indicted by ths civil
authorities for wiilfully and knowingly ex-
posing their pers MS. There is an extreme
in everything, but of oil the extremes this
hoop skirt surpasses, and Is one that has its
penalty, which the indulgers will have to pa1
sooner or later. How any female. with any
kind of pretension to modesty, can indulge in
the scandalous exhibition, We do not see, and.
what is still more wicked. many young girls
of IL to Ia years of age are initiating to their
destruction, those followers of the fashion"
The Freeman's Journal also, of the same
city, says: oo
'On last Sunday, while walking home
from church through several fashionable
streets we noticed women walking with tilt.
ing skirts from where they had been pretend i.
ing 70 say 'neiI prayers and, on all the cor.
ners, and hotel fronts, We saw rows ot wi
dressed blackguards standing obssrv;n. WEI" sas
laughing, and commenting on vhs. .ha1 anu
men were exhibiting. snese Wo-
Out on this indecency that would d;..,...
honest pagansi Let every mods.. sgface
who has been tricked into getting tho woman
of theharlots as the latest fashion uap,
them OF and burn them Let every pa pai
see to it that his guileless daughter Is 'e On
diseracsd by following this fashion, ~
masters of households do the charity to a 40,
ant maid who has kept up with the fashion
to provide her with such as are modest an
forbid her, while in his house, to play Il
airs Of tho wanton fssa -. .esa
s'Why, even in Pagan times, when a
mon Abandoned themselves to the most VI
pract,ess, they tried to keep their women u
corrupt. What are We coming to? It il =