Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-27
AGAIN THE BUSTLE.
Mrs. Potter Tells 4 Reporter why She win Not
Wear One

Mrs. Potter Tells Reporter Why She viii Not
Wear One.
! Just what shall be done with the hustle
will be hard to decide now that Mrs
! Cleveland and Mrs Harrison have disa-
/ greed A New York correspondent in
/ terviewed Mrs James Brown Potter on
the subject and says: At her apartments
at the Brevoort house Mrs. Potter was
found taking sun bath She reclined
on a couch that had rolled pillows at
either end, but no back, and wore a
white silk lounge coat cut low in the
throat and lined with pomegranate She
I lay face downward, "a Ia Marcia - in
the CommOdian bath, by Wegulin, with
her mOnse-brown hair falling about her
shoulders and the warm December sun
light streaming about her.
'Bustle? Why, | don't wear any
Haven f for two years. Worth did me
the honor to say that had a good back
a back in a million, TO use his own words
and he went 10 work and designed me
a lot of dresses from the antique. Ma
nette, bring out some of my dresses
won I you?
Nahette not only brought the dresses
but wheeled in n TALL narrow trunk
trays and all, and began TO lay out street
and house gowns by the dozen Between
every basque and skirt was a sachet of
India silk, yard long and eighteen
inches wide, filed with violet
81 am very fond of sweet odors, but I
don t like to wear perfumes, and so I
have these sachet cushions made by the
dozen and packed away with all nv
ri I no of
titled in the poet vase, violet hangs
around my dresses while there is shred
left.
II was interesting to note that all Mrs.
Potter waists are made short, with old
fashioned sleeves, tight from wrist TO ell
bow and leg-of-mutton shape above. She
hash Z q linen collar to her name and
none of ner dresses are cut higher than
the collar bone line. About some of the
neckS she had metallic gimp
Of copper and silver threads.
and others were finished with
q two-inch plated ruffle of eoloTed
silk crepe, yellow in brown suit white
in gray, magenta in navy-blue and a
leman shade in light mahogany. Instead
of q skirt lining she had a silk petticoat
cut in battlements, and falling over this
20 the very edge was the full skirt,
signify gored, but gathered to the band
with most of the fullness in the back.
Not reed of any sort married the straight
lines Of the gathers. The waists fitted
close-that is, basque fashion in the
back-but were loose in front and nearly
all finished with the Russian belt, which
was, like Bernhardt 5, a gift from some
royal parsonage across the Baltic
Mrs Potter continued:
81 enjoy perfect freedom in all nv
dresses and eouldn t be induced to return
to the hustle and reeds. 1t is a mistaken
idea that the tournuFe beauties toilet,
for in all my observation do not recall a
single 4rtist who has added fame to his
name by the production of an extensively
BUSTED figure. The Penelope gowns, the
peasant dresses from Spain, France and
Germany, Russia and Italy, the
gypsy garb and the gracefully
elinging gowns Of the aesthetic, have all
been immortaIiZed. but not a single bus
tle-frocked ideal that I earn remember
has created any sort of a stir efrher
abroad or in New York, where ali
womanSind outside of The nunneries and
Castle Gatden are enslayed. 1t is my