The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-02-17
ALAS! IT'S HERE.
The Hoop Skirt is Now on Sale in New
York City.

The HOOP SklrI Is No" ou SdIe III New
York City.
The hoopskirt has arrived, says the
New York Advertiser, and the bellies:
are almost falling over each other in
their haste to get into them. There,
is no chance whatever for any mis-
take about it, as three, all labeled
"the latest" have been hanging in a
Fifth avenue window for week past.
The sales already give assurance that
the church promenade Sunday will
bring out enough to attract attention.
The first issues Of the hoopskirt are.
very modest in size, being only 54 to
5s inches in circumference, but they
are Enthusiastically hoopskirts, and
these three on display have been the
leading attraction to women on the
avenue.
There seem to be no improvements
over the old time cage of wire and
tapes. There is the "apron 'front.'
where the wires only extend three
quarters of the way around, wide
tapes forming the front. So far this
has the call and is the favorite with
the younger women, who have been
the heaviest buyers.
The regular hoop with wires all the
way around is the one modistes and
dealers will recommend, but the third
style provokes most concern. 1t has
hustle attachment, and the first
question every woman asks is, "Have
we got to come to hustle, too?" Not
yet. The hustle is to wear with the
very heaviest ball gowns and recep-
tion costumes, or where the new
slight draping of back breadths is
seen. There must be several women
who are tickled at the new turn of
fashion, for, Gas great secret" said
the presiding genius of the shop, dis
playing this advance hoop guard, Il
don't mind telling you that quite q
number of New York women have
never quit wearing the hoopskirt.
and it has been parading Fifth ave-
nue. and attending the Patriarchs
without any suspicion arising. We
have had some hoopskirt customers
right along for years. That is how
we happened to be prepared for this
rush.
Just now great many Paris
dresses are being received by regular
customers of French dressmakers,
and when they arrive here the owners
find they call for hoopskirts. We
have sold a number already in that
way. For two months past hoop
skirts have had good sale, but in
the last week all the Fifth avenue
dressmakers have been sending in
for numbers of them, to be used in
fitting gowns and sold with the frocks.
The new styles absolutely compel
hoops, and the most prominent
women in New York have already
added them to their wardrobes or
have ordered them this week. Most
of the new ball gowns are worn over
hoops, but already they are on the
street also.
Mrs. Flower is one of the women
who have never left off hoops. She is
very fond of heavy brocades, that are
fatiguing unless held up by hoop
skirts"
The hoop shown seems all right,
and it's adherents, for it already has
them, insist that walking is made
easy by it. The only fear is that
hoops will increase to the ridiculous,
and this is fear that seems likely
to be realized. New styles in hoops
are announced by manufacturers, and
in another week an improved hoop in
stiff net, both black and white, will
be out, and the next move will be in
colOrs.
If there is going to be an anti-hoop
skirt crusade, now is the time for it's
BIRTH .s
For The Juvenile Exhibit.