The morning times., 1896-04-30
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TssstsNfs u TIL lll6SIEl, Seventh and SITS.

from Paris. I may appear in them here
during Easter week, when all the world
Is out 10 admire. They are made upon
the most original plan.
The front of these bloomers," said the
merry bloomeriie, bringing out a conven-
ttonai serge skirt, docs not look ike q
bioomer, does 1t? No, IT. doesn't In
reality 1t is a skirt. 1t comes to my shoe
tops, and is very full and comfortable
But seel'
While Lila was talking she had slipped on
the skirt and fastened it, STOPPING down,
she took hold OF the front OF the skirt near
the hem and gave IL an awful - yank' In
a trice the skirt unbuttoned TO tie waist,
A similar yank with The left hand pulled
the skirt open in the back. With the
ntnlb!eSt fingers Lila caught cord near
the hem of the skirt and pulled it, The
cord lay inside the hem of The skirt, and
by pulling 1t the leg OF bIoomer waS
made Another cord transformed the other
leg into a bloonler leg.
Now" said Lila, complacentIy. fastsn-
ing hook or two inside the leg. you see
am dressed in bloomers. This is what
do when set out TO wheel iu London dur
Ing the season. / shall start out in skirts
and come home in bloomers. The trick is
to wear tue skirts until you are IN the
country around London and then make
your bloomers. You can dismount, stoop
In all the freedom OF the divided skirt,
which is such d boon to bicyclists if ouly
they can once get beyond the city with
them; beyond the ken of the small TO WINS
boy.
'Bloomers should, think, be popular
In London this year, for Maude or Wales,
who marries Carl of Denmark, has several
sets in her trousSeau. Both cycle q great
deal.
For Paris" said Lila. ~ shall be mu ch
more conservative, 1 am going to wear
boomers there. But short boomers re the
special property OF Bohemian Paris only,
and l must taboo them. These are my
Partisan boomers"
The "PariSian boomers were to the
shoe tops and were abuudantly trimmed
In way that made them look like the
skirt of dress. The separation between
the feet was only as far up as the knees and
was actually invisible to the pasSer- by.
They give me freedom with the feet in
outdoor exercise" said Lila, land in
Paris l shall have TO content myself with
| them, rs French etiquette is so strict.
But l have these for indoor wear in the
cycle schools and when visit the gardens
OF friends who own wheel tracks.
The ones for indoor wear or garden use
are boomers that are near kin to the knick-
erDockers. They are close fitting and
| differ from the knickerbockers in coming
| over the knee. They are untrimmed are
OF a pale shade of pink, and are very full
| where the knee bcisds. TINS fuiInesS Is IN,
troduced by the cunning of the bloomer art
1.-The Ccntral Park bicycle girl will be q
| very bonny sight at Easter, for she has been
| preparing for her easter bloomers all winter
There are several kinds to he seen. One
bicycle club, band of young women who
! ride every other day, will come out In white
| riaunelbioomsrs, made very full and trimmed
| with gold. Their Jackets will be stuffed
warm, aud their hats the broad brims neees
| sary to keep the sun from binding the eyes
"a very pretty pair of Easter boomers
| are Of brown with black lcggings. A Ger
tain large gathering of bicycle bioomer girl.
will come out with coats cut off at the wais
line, and great skirt with divided legs
each leg six yards around, to make q grace
! full bloomer skirt.
NOW you know more about Easte1
bloomers than you ever believed ex
isted,' laughed Lila, sitting down upoI
pile Of wooden things she had hauled
out or steamer trunk, "but you haven
seen the best bloomer set OF all. 1t is [,
| wear shipboard, and l am not going tt
get off this bundle to show them to yo'
unless you say you will view them wit
unprejudiced eyes.
we'll look, since you are so fai
| toward new things. Are these no
beautifuf?''
Proudly, with eyes flashing with mis-
chief, Lila flung out the bundle of thing
and revealed her sbipboard bloomers
They were OF the heaviest gray, mad
| from a steamer rug, she told me. Thei
length was to the boot top, whcr
CATERS met them. The color was a deel
gray with red stripes, and the trimminI
was u deep fringe that fell from tn