The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-05
FROM ONE WHO WEARS THEM
4 BREEZY LETTER ABOUT SHORT
SKIRTS FOR WOMEN.
The New Costume should Be Worn in
the House for a Few Days First
The Work OF the Creator, and His

The article in the acknowledgement of
November Il, regarding short skirts. has
evidently been read and discussed by the
fair sex. The movement for a reform in
dress among the women has at least one
strong champion in the writer of the fol-
lowing, directed 10 the women of Seattle:
Ladies. did your heart beat just lit
tie faster at the contemplation of the real
comfort you would experience IL the dry
goods hnns would really handle reform
storm dress? If you have desire 10 pur-
chase one and try IL for few days. the
ease and grace of your movements will
well repay you for a little ridicule you may
receive from those who are too young or
ignorant 10 know comfort. That does not
half express 1t. Yea, tired and weary
m Inc mnG are very y apt 70 forget fss ss
Of self?
Women. when you first wear these new
costumes you will feel queer You are so
accustomed 10 sweeping the dust and dirt
and germs OF disease. CARRYING a pound or
SO into Your homes. and 10 feeling the cold
most sensitive to cold; so accustomed TO
having your hand full of skirt and your
mind on mud puddNes and mud holes. that
will be exquisite joy. It viii fairly intoxi-
cate YOU. Your first thought will be Oh.
how do | looke' You will soon forget all
vanity, however, when you find you can
look toward the beautiful sky, regardless
of the skirts.
Il have two suggestions to make First,
that you wear the skirts about the house
Tor the first week. until brother and hus-
band approve, and. second. that Immediate
ly upon entering the house In rainy wealth
en. you remove or change the leggings.
This IL very important. Our reform must
be one In every sense of the word. No
damp garment must remain upon our per-
sons When the women stop to think of
TINS common :, sense dress, the undertaken
ana doctor will have less to do
w hen woman once realizes that she Is
working for a noble end principle. she
mas the courage Of a genera.
The men who Endorsed the short skirt
movement in Portland are dear souls. The
men are all right on this subject. but as
me san Francisco people have learned,
these people are the most 10 seattle WY
any city OF its size In IT, rrnited Sta.~e
Any, philosophy. religion or reform
day Is retrogression. Thus. / say. Seattle
women are up to date On with this move
ment. girls. Do not let Los Angeles take
me lead. but let 1t be said that Seattle has
the rosiest women in the West. Let us see
real roses, like those which the fashion
piate would rob us of. not those the mirror
ire, IRE, TO duplicate The writer is one of
Few Few who have worn the short re-
public and private. summer and nd
m Sorse astr up td hin av.r and down dale
cial dress occasions in the house wore the
Grecian robe. Half of us have flown or
foated or Skated to the KIondike hut there
are are enough enough remaining to affirm that we
our dresses to just below the knees the
heshy ones just below the calves and we
VIII never, no. never. don a long dress
again
centuries ago. invented trousers. Men
wore the robes. The men. who always did
fringed upon our patent and insisted upon
our takiE.CC the dresses or robes, while
they en- I'D the freedom of our invention
We go further and say word about
the Father. Creator and Sustainer of man
kind. He created man first. He looked at
him. Horrors! He was ashamed of his
him loose alone as the first of His creation
so He made the beautiful woman. He
gaZed at her in wonderment She was the
most beautiful of all His creation. His
reputation as an artist was secure. He
has never made anything since
1T He was SO good Judge of the beau
tiful. we bow to His superior taste and see
no reason why women should have to apol-
ogiZe for their sex. We believe that upon
the street the less there Is in the garb to
indicate sex, the better. Then dress would
ers are still more graceful than the skirt.
We say the bicycle has done more TO bring
the two sexes to a common level. ,han I'll
the Bibles, be they Christian or Oriental.
have ever done. IT has taught woman
that she has a natural right to breathe
pure air. oxygen, ozone: as much ,igut as
the sterner sex.
I'VE had the pleasure of seeing the Cal
ifornia state normal school girls play has
ket ball dressed in navy blue boomers or
knickerhockers It was such a pretty
sight IT was a real picture. Our delight
and enthusiasm was unbounded. mid
dle-aged lady from the backwoods came
along. on. horrors Isn't that AWFUL
she remarked. Never mind my dear ma
dame / replied you can get false ones
In Chicago cheap and I drove away.
Yours for freedom IN dress.
"ADDJE SWAMI