The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-02
WICHITA WOMEN AND THE COMING FAD.

Say our merchants, the price Of hair
cloth has doubled, haircloth is what our
women are now putting into the skirts of
! their dresses. preparatory to appearing IN
hoops. 1t will soon be gooi bye to the
/ clinging skirt with all its beautifully re-
vealed lines and suggestive and artistic
angles. Women are destined to take on
the balloon shape; the girls say TO keep the
| boys ut a more respectful distance; the old
! maids say because the bsll-shape Is more
! beautiful; the lily aud the rose aud all
! the flowers are bell-iike and look like they
| had been modelled over delicate crinoline.
| Stuffy old women say they want hoops
because they keep their skirts and stock
| inys clean and that there will be no
psweeping up CT the sidewalks, more
probably however because they want to
hide posty ankles. Think of picture OF
Eve in the Garden of Eden trigged out
in set of hoopshirts; Adam
in his modest fig-leaf trousers would have
lit out and been running yet. They say
that women only desire to appear attract
i've TO the opposite sex. Pshaw! They
only are thinking of themselves and how
much more dry goods they can get on their
backs than can the other woman. just as
though it WAS dry goods rather than wo-
| man herself that man admIres and loves.
! Hoopskirts-big, monstrous balloons-in a
Kansas wind, for instance, and then talk
about the exposures OF the clinging skirt.
OF course the Josephines and the Grecian
/ cuts cling pretty closely. but the hoopskirt
IN wind does snyt. ing else but cling-it
wants to take the form and chute OF the
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hoops and huge Empire sleeves aud where
is your woman? Nowhere, except
in imagination, and it takes very
| lively Imagination &c that. They
may contain a Venus de Medica, only a
SQUAD or but kEock-kneed skeleton, who
will know, but either OF which would
prove farmors attractive, either as delight,
as a rounded plumpness or as graceful
/ sylph, In neatly. swestly clinging skirt.
Hoops ought to be good grounds for
divorce Hoops are woman's fad. voting
woman's folly; but we would rather try
/ beating the folly than the fad. II women
are TO vote IN hoops il viii take a ten acre
/ field for polling place. Woman's sweet
| ness is only more than eQuslled by her
! perversity. For this fashion there is for
I Us but one similitude-a naked toad sus-
| pended in bottomless bird cage covered
with sunny sack. You can even see it
| kick. In fact 1t may not be a kicker after
| all, or only spring frog. Ia short the
/ the editor of the EAGLE is more panied over
! this muddle of hoops and polls than he
/ can we'll express and he expects to be
/ worse panied when the bills come in for
! thirty yards where formerly he WAS
| charged for but ten yards Of dry goods
with extra for hoops. If it was dry goods
/ that man wants, the stores are full OF
/ them, and dirt cheap. He can stand and
! look at whole store full all day and it
wont cost him cent with show window
/ full OF hoop skirts thrown in. No; its the
woman for whom the dry goods are made
/ that leads him such a lively dance through d
/ this vale of tears, and the more dry goods
the liveier the dance But after all its
/ the woman inside OF them, aud the more
! there is of her and the less there is Of hoops
and dry goods the happier ne is, and all
our men readers would agree with Us II
they dared. Maybe 1.-THE Wichita wo-
men were not the most beautifully formed
women in the world we wouldn't feel SO
about hoops, and maybe we won't afte T
next Tuesday, anyway. fo- il all the
! women vote who registered, and we ex-
pecs they viii, we dou's expect 80 have
any feeling left on the hoop question or
the voting scheme or any other subject