Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-11
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A New style of Trousers for Female
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"Clara Belle" writes from New York to
the Cincinnati Enquirer as follows;
add you ever see fashion started.
You know how mysterious are the modes?
To-day you are wearing collars and cuffs,
and little while ago neither were worn.
To-day you have hat OF Il shape that no
money could buy year ago, simply be-
cause IL was not made. Who made these
changesl They are instituted IN London
and Paris, you say; very true; but how,
why, and by whOmy Some fashions are
ems ly to be traced ~ the Princess OF
Wales limp or few years ago, for IN
stance, as the present Newmarket, shaped
AFTER PEASANTS coat tue Prince put on
to shelter him from a storm one day while
hunting. but in all my experience l never
was so close upon the very starting of a
Stvle as | have Just been. You know the
tObOggan fever is new here, and 1t Is new
est at Orange. n. j. The young men n
charge of the chute did not, and d. not
now, know enough to employ men TO
stand at the end NJ the run to stop the to-
| bOggans and get them out OF toe way,
while passengers leap OIL the track and
save themselves from flyers coming after
them. The consequence was that very
often just as couple Of girls would DE
digging their heels into the snow for
purchase by which to get the mseVes into
an erect position, along would come an
other toboggRn load and send the first
ones 1ving. That was rare place for
the study OF hosiery, l can tell you, and
even the most modest young men could
have told you that plain color stockings,
especially of dark shades, are now the
IN o; indeed, more of the art aud science
Of female apparel than the mere stockings
was often harshly cOnlrasted against the
pure white snow. Well, one of the girls,
an ingenious and independent miss, was
/ ju in that position the other day, knees
/ up, heels ground in, and hand appraised
/ tor a lift from the gentleman, when, flash!
| came a swift tObOggau, and away she
| went, still seated, but flying like swal-
| low. The end OF her fight found her
with her skirts well up under her arms
and nothing between her and the ice but
a single garment. But what was that
garment? You should have seen the girls
! flock around her, pretending 20 shield her
| from the gaze OF the male tob0gganers, but
in reality all striving 10 see what on earth
| she had on. AS they lifted her 10 ner feet
and her blanket skirt fell inplace, one put
the question:
'''Where did you get themP
"'rhey're the style at Ridtau hail. she
replied.
every fifteen minutes when she was going
nome, and when she dld go home they
went with her. aud they az the gar
ment was called, was taken OF and hand
ed around for inspection. They were
! simply pair OF trousers made OF brown
toboggan blanketing, with The red border
AT the waistband and at the end Of the
legs. A pair of trousers, | say, but they
would never have been put on by man
by mistake, for two reasons: first, be-
cause there was a largeness and lOoseness
at the upper end, not at all characteristic
OF tailOr-made garments. But they W re
cute. The red border was made to orna-
ment the they at the waistband and at
the bottoms, and TO fix them on were very
cunning leather belts at the waist and leg
bottoms, each ending with three little mo-
rocco straps lifted by to silver-plated buck
les. They reached just below the knee.
That was three weeks ago, and to-day not
only have nearly all the girls who are
fond OF tObogganing at o. ange got them,
but friend belonging to the 'kingsheld
set at Albany, who keeps me posted as
to country fashions, writes me that the
case is the same there. She writes M
that the idea is Canadian; so that
is once have seen the origin of fash
ion.