The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1867-03-02
From The Cleveland Plain Dealer ]
Hoop Skirts Va. Hoopless Skirts.

= bound 70 celebrate it--newspBper "uiill,
',lmsn"ss we sfe-ss would poet laurss,
- Iennyson great national event in Ena
land Hoops sre said % have rrceiYr
0itheir death sentence. II a person work
HE way into The very pink OF fashionsb
society. he will find that hoops have beei
! discarded sliogeiher. BY the leaders Of ton
ana young adies, and even nslroui,
mothsrs, are frequently seen IN the pic,ur
esque costume u Josephine and Marie An
sV'ne'ie The costume of those sweet wo
men - net exscii, reproduced, bu, the cop,
! iis very suggestive thereof The skifls hanp
llwpiy tbont The form. without The shsdow
lo' hoop % give them uIlness. General
! " The sleeves are short, with the neck cut
low. Perhaps i viii be noticed thai the
isdes who frs, adopt The new hsnion N
Ihovps. are those who are blessed win busts
|" IKE PePisn marble varnished." as Caarle.
hrsde hath is, with plump. luscious arms,
md with seserai torn that would 4 stsndp
any smount of disfobng. Women with
oeautiful forms look well without hoop.
besldes discarding the latter, the new ia-h-
ION - con'ent with . mesgre supply D. pet
iicosis, 50 tbst the skirts, in their careless
s.eeP show every lovely curve aud srtis
nc outline, There il a eisss Uf the gentierl
rex. however. who vii; hang beck loagl
~hiie Before hey ssy good BYE 20 hoops.
fhiz Glass deal iargeiy 10 pipe-stcm an.u
iarny. Beautiful arms, Osely outlines u
form, and Tie busis ihai Chsr!es Reads vi
orsinsly y refers 10. they have 90 PERSONAL
acquaintance viib. Hang night shirt OIL
q rsnrod, and yov hs,e one ci these is,ss.I
sisnsls attirsd 10 the new hoeplsss COS.
tome. Hence the universal prevalence Di
tlie latter i question Of time bst i'll
Fashion really decided lha, 1, mus, cone ~
vogue, The matter 10 settled. Neither .seie,
nor gentlemen, care how ridiculous = COS /
'ume makes ineM appear, or how many a.
tlficsi pens sud pencils he adoption ms,
se, pointing 81 them, 80 long a. il 10 The
fashion.
This alternating between hoo? skirts sndi,
hooPiess skir's isno new thing in The sesIm
q Fashion. Our gr>si. grand mothers we're
nocps much larger than sny that have ap.i
pfafed Of late years. They were Jsrxerl
md much more cumbersome. Ther dsush
lets, ho~eser--our grsndmoi moihers--kickrd
ne cumbreus hoops contAmp,uvusly from
hem, - well % good portion or their
inderclolhng. and such Of them as hal
rely iorms came out in a costume thsil
made male eyes--sn1 male mouths, too, iorI
hat maiser--wa,er al The eight OF loyeb
'ess 90 slightly enchsined. Before ronpl
an evesiug psry, u was no racommonI
hing for our grsndmothers--,aoy we're
oune nirls shsn--io dsmpen their skirts. sol
hs, BY clrring more closely to the FORM
hey siarply set oC lie beauties. ThisI
half revealing. half concesling" sranc.
'eni vas very effective. We would sugi
est 70 those bellies, who wear hoops nol
'neer, that they ~ H..
We well remember when hoops 6rs,l
cane round" We sre not certain whe,h 4
Eugenie wss The 6rsi 70 cay they should
9 worn; bni we think she wss their 81
nor. What monslrosiiies they seemed !,
he broadsldes 81 satire, recently aimed al
sterfslIs and fs!se calves. were like ropl
% explosions. In comparison with The
e~s2aper bombardment Of hoops. Saiir.
Al writer's were DOT alone in their denun.I !,
suon Of the fashion. Sstiricsi srtlssIiu ~
Srs their sIliee and even members OF The
syal Academy lent willing hsnd 10 The
o'k of defamation. And how every body !,
The man who rode in the ON !,
pus--'he nsn who 40 expected 10 lock IN,
ms with HE wife in going home from
uvch--iLe man who had seat in the
iddie o. The row. on opera neht--the dog \.
= msn, who aiwsys put his hai in the sisel Z,
church. 10 fnd Il after service, down by n
= pulpi'--aii Of these individusls were
wn on hoops. because they were the cause \.
al their troubles. I
BIZ, satire and grumbling had no o,he,
scl on hoops. than 20 accelerate thert
'idr 'owsrdr pcpuis ri'y and finally v, soi
v them IN every s,yle,' sad Everybody tel
. wearing them. Nov. however. sfts,
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