The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-08-19
ARP ON STYLES.
BALLOON SLEEVES STRIKE HLH is
An UNG1INLY FASHION.
He Appreciates a Good FiGure-opposed TO
Mother Hubbard, ON the One Hand
and Too Tight LacinS on the Other.

seems TO be Duilt mat way ana 1 RECKON
she can't help it. The men have been fuss
ing about it for ages. but 1t don't DO any
good. Some say that the devil is at the bot
tom of il, and that fashion IS woman
besetting sin and is the devils trap thal he
sets to catch them. but I don't believe IT,
I've noticed my female folks making these
big sleeves and / know they have had no
bad effect on them. They 50 20 church al
the same, and to tho missionary meeting
and the Sunday school and sing in the
choir, and are just as kind aud Industrious
at home as they ever were. Now the Big
sleeves We're really right pretty and becoh-
ing until they swelled them out Of all rea-
son, and now they are horrid. For about
year the style of woman's dress has been
prettier than for many years pe-ofe. AZ
fit her person and showed the grace 81 her
form and movement. but this balloon
sleeve business is deforming her Some
don't think It will last long. Bat I viii
compromise on most any fashion except
hoop skirts. / never was reconciied 10
them and never viii be. remember Avn h
they came into fashion, and they were
quite decent and well behaved. htt III
course OF time they got bigger ana more
wider and spreadier until 70 tm3n diieht
have much showing on a sidewalks or the
street cars, and a woman with full-eros
filter on couldeut get into a church re"
with any grace. She couldent ie@h ID
against the counter in n store. but hSi 10
stand eff a. foot or so 10 keep the iilef
from Tizing from horizontal! to ltil'H-
dicular That was away back before The
war When George d. Prentice was running
The Louisville Journal and he wrote SUCH
a sarcastic poem about them that the ladies
got ashamed and reduced their circun1-
ference. But they came back again a few
years ago, though not TO sUch an
extravaganza extent was
md q
rage was 50 infectious ana universal that
poor folks who couldent buy them got the
boys to make them Of white oak splits
like they made the cotton baskets But
they were right cool in summer time, l
reckon. They looked very cool when there
was a breeze.
This balloon sleeve is no new thing,
though l don't think they were ever quite
SO large as they are now. The prophet
Ezekiel took "A dislike to them about 2,vo3
/ years ago. for he Saws, "Wo to the women
who sew pillows to their armhOles." They
were stuffed. 4 reckon. But Isaiah made
clear sweep Of ali kinds of fashions that
prevailed among those Hebrew women
He proclaimed "a curse upon the tinkling
ornaments about their feet and their cauis
and round-tires like the MOON and the
chains and bracelets ana muiilers and BON
nets and head bands and tablets and ear
rings and ChauseablC suits Of apparel
anu Dis yAildliltilLS anu llio anu A-oaN
els and nantes and wimplcs and curling
pins and glasses and hoods and wells.
Pretty haIu on them, wasn't it, The
poor creatures dideut have much left, not
even a dress to change in when company
Came-not rims nor nOscsay.
l remember those "rOund-tires like the
moon." like the new moon when il Is
about three days Old. l wore one when
/ was sweet sixteen. 1 was as trim and
pretty a girl ana had to act girls
part in play on the stage on commence
ment night. / was to be n fashionable
young lady and Biu Maltbie or Jim Alex
| snder, I've forgotten wnlch one. was the
| dude. Some OF the girls made me a round
| tire. which was then called hustle. All
the women wore them, but j. think mime
| was tribe larger uAan the average. II
| held halt peck OF bran and made my
hindgear stick out foot. As ! wrIgs+u
| about with my long train dress a rude
boy slipped up behind me ana dropped a
Quid of tobacco on the hustle, which caused
much laughter. That hustle was as bis
as a big mans arm and tapereu down ut
both ends, like the horns Of the moon. Some
women wore them nearly as large ana the
| hump behind would have made a comfort
able seat for small boy. Sometimes the
stuiiins leaked ana you could track the siri
all around town by the bran she droppcL
town hog would keep fat On IL: some
times they came united anG dronpel sI.
which was very mortifyius. One asy
picked UP one in the store where / was
Cierking. l hung it up in sight, bur never
could ind the owner. But in c6urse o.
time bustles went out and when the humps
came back again they We're not made Dr.
! that kind of round-fires. bat made Of a s-ilf
grass cloth that Was crimpcd up au4 save
more graceful slope to the dress ...5. 4,
was a kind of dorsdl epauictte and a-e
sometimes made OF religious neWspaHers.
such as The Christian at Work OF 1He
Evangelist.
don't believe that tho ladies lace as
much as they used 10. i haven't seen .t
one sirl in a long time VINO excited ut,
fears. ami am stun concerned for fear soc
viii break In two, right at the couples.
or become uncoupled some OF these an s..
y good healthy sized waist is absolutely
necessary 10 a healtny Wlfr. and no body
but an idiot Would marry woman with %
dirt-aauber body. Nevertheless / like t. s..
women liked up nicely With cUrsets on. i5.
fact. with any Trims on save Mother Hub
bards.
Speaking about these old-time writer's who
We're SO hard upon women reminds me o- j.
philippe OF Nathaniel Ward, the author II
the first code OF Masse ChUsctt- law. ~
was preacher. too. ana ridiIad the far1-
ionable women Of that time after this t-sn-
ion:
when l hear a nugiperous dame Inquire
what dress the queen is in this w..A er
what IS the Eudiastertian fashion ~ tra
court with the desire to be in it al aH
haste. look upon her as the vcry
of a trifie the product OF quarter of "a ..-
pher, the cpitOue OF notl4r-,. NOR Htt.r
to be kicked than houoreI or Hufrsrar
Some of these women have so littts wiz or
virtue that they disfCu~e them elves v-.;-
exotic garbs that dismanue their native
! lgSter and trausclCuts them Into. giant r--
geese or illshapen. ilishotttn eE % Hs1 w.
Egyptian hierOglyphicS or french h4rtS 3.
the pastery. They wear dfaile= uu tre
hinder part OF their heads. having lothu~
on the forepart. I can make myself s5e.
comparing the splcndor in which our sem
tcWomeu used to lie dressed Wtth ta- el.t-
rod t1fsr. .r'f fAH.r- pa
VOW surcingled. When 1 see any OF them
accidentally | cannot cleans. my fancy
OF them for a month after. { have hasl q
widover for twelve years and r1fuo~e3 to
look around for a yoke fellow. hrt when Z
consider how these women have trpeaitvt
themselves with their cloimcrts a. works
sorely upon my stomach. TIL tailors ou- lt
not to he led about by such mimic Alars1a-
SCts-nOr make fiddle cases for lUtttuus
women'S fancieS-the pettitOas ~ .uHrmity
the giblets OF perquisq ALLAN toys. { point
not my pen at those women who follow
fashions slowly-a flight shot OF but az
those light-hceled beagles that lead tle
chasc-these ape-he3ded puiiets which iu-
vent antique fool fanSles merely FOR fash
ions sake
This is only sample % his spleen. No
wonder he cCuldent nn3 another woman
who would marry him. NO wonder his
wife died young bur Ii anybody wants 10
shoot some more small shot .t WomaR's
fads and fashions ana can't tina language
enough IN the dtef5uusrN. lrf rll read