The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-02-17
IS ORINOLINE OOMING7
HOW SOME FASHION AUTHORITIES
VIEW THE POSSIBILITY.

| HOW SOME FASHION AUTHOR1T1E!
VIEW THE POSSIBILITY.
The engrossing question among
women continues to be, Are we tC
have crinoline1 Ernest Redfern, 0
the well known firm, when the ques
ton was asked him, said "I've seen n,
crinoline. It's all newspaper talk
The agitation about it over here come!
of you Americans looking head ant
anticipating coming fashions. The
English don't do that; if the crinoline
does come it will not be adopted ir
England til it has become firmly
established in France and America
The English take fashions as the,
come, and they will take crinoline
if it comes with exceptional slownes:
because the princess Of Wales ha:
pronounced against it.
"1here is no doubt, however, tina,
radical change in the fashion oi
women's clothes is at hand. I'm
sorry, too, for thirk the fashions o
the last three or four years have been
the prettiest in the century. But the
change has come and it will be a
marked one. All costumers ap
preciate this. Ordinarily old stock i:
available in some way, but next Fall
the gowns Of last Fall will be alb.
solutely unusable.
"The stiff skirts being the change
Last Fall we put a few inches Of horse.
hair cloth in the bottom Of skirts: nov
we use it from the knee down, and by
Easter the whole skirt will be lined
with it. 1t is these stiffened skirts
that have raised the hue and cry
about crinoline. They have grown
fuller, too. and they are taking tc
themselves frills. A founce below
the knee is now fashionable. In the
Spring more founces will be added,
perhaps, and it is possible that by mex,
Fall something like crinoline will be
needed to keep this ample skirt in
place.
"My customers regard the suggest
ion of crinoline variously. Some of
the young women are inclined to wei
come it as new cnd strange device
one wholly untried by them, and con
sequently to be desired. They have
heard so much about it, their curiosity
is whetted, and they would not mind
trying the fashion for awhile. Their
mothers and other matrons, who
know what the crinolne is, are
horrlhed when it is mentioned. They
think it ugly and lnconvenient, and
dread its being forced upon them.
at is, in fact, not adapted tc
present condition of existence. Wher
it was popular before there were nc
elevated railroads, fewer street cars
no hanson cabs. The cities were
less jostle and confusion, and fewel
crowds. The hoop skirt was an in
cident in slow age, when womer
were less independent, took life more
leisurely, and went about much les
than they do to-day. Take the on,
impediment hanson cabs. Persons
in London do most of their travelling
about the city in these vehicles.
hoop skirt in one would be an i'm
possibility. There is dangerou
feature, too, in the adoption of thes,
cages particularly in England, wher'
open fires prevail. More than onewomal
has been fatally injured from her dis
tended skirts sweeping into an ope
fire as she passed it.
Sand would the great army of bus
ness women wear crinoline | don
believe they would, at least while q
their occupations. You don't fin
the women of business adopting an
of the pronounced, exaggerated fash
ions for her Office use. She doesn
affect big sleeves or anything of tha
sort in her work gowns. At least on
actress is wholly opposed to the crinc
line, and that is Eleanor Duse. w
got her up a magnificent gown latel,
put the finest silk in it to make
stand out in the most approved styl'
and sent it home. Duse was DISCUS
ed. She would have none of i
Clinging drapery was what she wan
5 ed, and we had to make the gov
over for her. And now. to conclud
6 we are going to have full skirts, al,
stiff skirts, and slowly, about ne,
Fall, something like the crinoline, "
! surprise in that it will not resemb'
the old hoop skirt. That will not |
revived"
Lord & Taylor affirm the return
the old wire cage, so little change