Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-06
W0MAN'S FINERIES.
"Bab" Discusses the Dress Re-
form Movement.
MY LADYS VENUS FIGURE.
Women Exploiting MISUNDERSTANDING
Frocks-Sympathy Rests on Mans
Broad Notwithstanding Women
Like Bits of Rare China.

Special Correspondence OF the Gazette.
New YORK. Sent If the things in the
shop windows are any indication OF what
the women in New GOrI. are buying, one
would have 10 conclude that ali their GucatS
We're spent in getting what is commonly
known as underwear" but more elegantly
as lingerie" Whether it IS that the dress
reform movement has brought abOminably
shaped garments to the fore or whether it
IS that the shop-keepers feel that there IS
going to be d reaction set in and they had
better get rid of the old stuff nobody
knows. but this IS quite true, the white gar
ments that our gr&uuIuOtherS knew are be-
ing sold at oue-third the cost of making TO a
public that doesn't seem TO ycarn for them.
II may be regarded as due entirely 10 the
influence of man-lovely man, faithful man,
athletic man. He has talked and preached,
and he has had pictures printed in the
newspapers of what woman should wear
under her dress, and the pictures repre-
scented nine of the most diaDolICal garments
upon which even the eye of the printers
devil ever rested. Now l am Il reformer,
but in the course of a long and varied cX
periencc l have never met any woman who
wore nine pieces of underwear at one time.
The rcformerS are little of there. OF else
il wasn't the women they meant. ii was the
bargain counter.
CHAUTATQTA DRESS REFORMEES
Like every body else, nave little theory
of my own. and | think il will be the one
that viii get ahead Of the ladies At Chautau-
qua, who are so very kind as TO instruct US
as to what we shall wear, and how we shall
put it on. Starting with the fact that ones
Skirt has q firm foundation, as firm Is Ply
mouth Rock. and much better shaped, the
average woman who IS in good health needs
only to assume the somewhat long silk I'M
ill., If
stays matching the silk vest in color. long
pair of stockings and the proper kind Of
shoes. When / say proper, ! mean proper
TO the hour of the day. | am not gong
about advocating fiat heels and broad shoes.
because, personally, | am addicted 10 the
vice of wearing narrow ones with high
heels. I have bat one question TO ask Of
my brother man. and that is this: Can any
dress rcforrner in the world put fewer,
prettier. or more useful underwear on wO-
nan than that | have described 1t IS what
half the women OF any sense wear during
the summer, ana i IS commended not only
by the women themselves, but By the doc
tors who are not cranks woman walks
well and easily when she hasn't got lot Of
starch stuck about her, and the line that
the Chautauqua people are fond Of talking
ABOUT shows to much better advantage than
when she IS uncomfortable III muslin. has
strings cutting her because she has no stays
on, and IS altogether Hurried and iiat-lOOk-
ing
THE HUMAN FORM DIVINE.
especially the feminine edition of IT, came
in for SO much discussion. They talk
about the line OF 4 woman figure with the
uuction Of Dumas, and they print the pic
ture Of the Venus, and call on every woman
10 look like that. | think the first one
that looked like that on the streets Of New
York would be run into the station 10 spend
the night there. Fancy wearing such dra-
pcrieS. Why, you would have 10 put heavy
iron weights in them, ana then they would
bang against your knees. and you would sit
on them, and You would wish that Venus
had STAYED down IN the SEA and been com
Portable. Then, 100. isn't it i little queer
for people who are supposed 10 cultivate
the mind, OF the soul orche BRAIN OF what
ever the thinking part of people-sOme-
times it IS the stOmach-to take up such Il
question IS this, Would you or YOUR
husband 90 there and let lot Of
cranky women exploit underwear unto
them, No, of course you wOuldu't. Us
much safer to let him so out and look into
the shop windows. because then you can 90
along and tell him what really IS and really
is not pretty, ard You can educate him By
adding to the dry goods bill
INFATUATED WITH DELSAETE.
Apropos of net being hampered when
in walking, between wearing the proper
sort OF lingerie and being drunk with De-
sartc it Is possible that during the next
winter New York viii exceed New Orleans
in the walk Of its women. just now the
New York women are a little too emphatic
she places her foot on the ground as if
She owned it. and she has got Il nasty way
OF planting her heel first. But when she
Is thoroughly uecompoScd, AFTER DelSaFlS'
not after the undertaker's idea OF il. she
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