Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-04-29
ATTITUDES FOR WOMEN.
Ihey Have Their Fashions just Like Hat
and Wraps and Bonnets.

They Have Their Fashions just Like Han
and Wraps and Bonnets.
Correspondence Of The Evening Star
OLD PoISr COMFORT, April "a. 1893
Have you noticed the latest fad?" said gay
girl with laughing blue eyes this afternoon.
The man with whom she was talking followed
the direction Of her glance and saw a group of
half dozen fashionably dressed young
women talking with a single naval officer whom
they had got all to themselves
You mean"
The attitudes. Of course. Don't YOU see
that every one of those girls is standing with
her arms akimbo?''
| "why, so they are"
| well. that is the very newest thing. In or
DER 10 make the balloon sleeves look as big as
possible the proper fashion is to put the
hands on the hips. Observe the effect now
when l do it,
Il shouldn't think that was necessary"
IN. that Is because you don't understand
Everything is necessary that is the fashion. Ii
Is even done at meals.
II don't think I've observed it,
"of course not Men have no ewes. But
when you go into dinner presently take notice
| and you will that the accepted form ia for n
woman to hold her left arm akimbo, the hand
on the hip, while she eats with her right hand
All the SWEETEST girls do it,
You don't. SUPPOSE
81 haven't adopted it at meals Just vet, but
am trying to learn. You sec. il is rather I'M
comfortable at first But dare say it comes
| easy after awhile"
Il never heard Of anything more absurd"
| every new fashion is absurd until one gets
used TO It, L have been practicing lately at
standing with my arms akimbo. The first
time mamma saw me do it she was startled
She called me to her and asked me If was trv-
| Ing TO look like a mi!kmaid.'
The attitude is certainly not a graceful
| one"
That doesn't make the slightest difference
so long as it is the accepted form. II YOU pos
sessed any powers of observation YOU would
have noticed long ago that attitudes for women
alter from time TO time like any other STYLES
Mamma says that when she a girl she was
| taught that the only correct way for lady TO
SIT was with her knees and feet close together
such thing as crossing the legs was cousid-
! cred altogether impossible. Even gentlemen
avoided that position because il was too degage'
Certainly no such ideas govern now
lhey are out OF date, of course. / can nv
self remember when divans came into fashion
and suppose that it was account of them
to some extent that women got into the way of
lolling when they sat. At all events of late
years 1t has been considered entirely proper
FOR ladies to cross their knees in public and,
when was in Boston two or three years ago
came across something quite new to me then in
Tue way OF tau III was practlced exclusively
by the women who thought they had pretty
ankles"
What was it?''
Why, it was simply to cross the legs and
lift the skirt in such manner when sitting
down as TO display liberal bit of ankle. Could
anyt thing be more absurd?''
Il should think not considering the fact that
they were Boston ankles. said the young man.
~ on are horrid. sarcastic creature" re-
sponded the girl with the blue eyes.